rgossiaux

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by rgossiaux 6y ago
Neovim nightly already has some tools available as plugins. I'm using tree-sitter for syntax highlighting, text objects, and folding right now. Pretty satisfied so far.
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>I had never thought about the connotations of blacklist and whitelist before it was pointed out to me. In retrospect, blacklist and whitelist are unnatural meanings of the words black and white, and blocklist and allowlist make much mor
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>Look at it done correctly: tomc1985 objects that "[he is] one of these people, and [he] most definitely exists!" You also need brackets around "exists" since the original quote had "exist". I think you&#x27
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
The option seller needs to buy the stock to deliver the shares when the option expires, so if the price continues rising their losses are unbounded (by contrast, their gains are bounded by how much they originally sold the option for).
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>objectively clearer terminology Sorry but I find this claim (which I've heard from others too) ridiculous. "Blacklist" is an actual common English word in the dictionary. "Denylist" is an incredibly awkward-soun
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>So we will probably need to recapture CO2 as well – or rather we will need to develop the necessary tech first. Maybe this is a stupid question, but isn't the necessary tech "planting trees"?
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
You could expand this category to an AI for a number of similar games (like checkers and reversi) as well. I've written a double dummy solver for bridge--a program that computes the optimal result of the play of a bridge hand--as a sid
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
Chess is a very rich and pretty well-balanced game--that's what makes it so rewarding to study and to play. Even amongst modern computers that are miles ahead of the best humans, there's nowhere close to a single dominating openin
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>I remember back in the day when we used to just ask people if they could do FizzBuzz now we're looking at if they used an interface to wrap their ORM usage. That's something that can get picked up at code review and taught. No
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
This comment thread is discussing Uber's profitability and how much they'd need to raise prices to break even independent of Prop 22.
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
If that was only in the US or other wealthy economies, maybe. But they're an international company. Some of those rides are in places where a $2 increase doubles the price of the ride. I think it would be more revealing to compare with
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>There's also the weird thing of younger people like myself avoiding proper punctuation/capitalization for the aesthetic. Mainly because a lack of proper writing can make certain messages feel more "relaxed" and casua
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
As soon as I saw the title I remembered this Julia Evans post about the same issue: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-...
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
The cheapest tool you can find is surely the sort in your programming language's standard library. Writing your own sort seems crazy to me.
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
I don't know why everyone is convinced this is satire. Satire of what? To me it reads as a straight piece on a very opinionated way to hire people.
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
I think it's best to use native speakers as oracles: you can give them a piece of language and they can tell you if it's correct/natural or how they'd phrase it. You can't expect people to go beyond that, and trying
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>Fires have health and economic impacts on people who aren't in immediate danger of being burned to death and the only way to minimize these impacts to reduce the number of fires. Reducing the number of fires isn't really a via
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
>As a buyer, I don't expect my software to need maintenance. I expect it to work out of the box (just like I expect every physical product to work out of the box) Software is far more complex than most physical products. There are o
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
A min heap is different from a min-max heap. A min-max heap supports the operations of both a min heap and a max heap (essentially by interleaving the two). A normal min heap is a standard data structure, a min-max heap less so.
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
Yes indeed. Say you're creating a new component, and this new component will contain (among other things) some existing component, but the existing component needs to be styled slightly differently in this particular context. How do yo
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
Originally one point was that you signed the back of your card and the merchant would compare the signature on your receipt to the signature on the card to verify your identity. Another point was so the merchant has proof you intended to pa
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
You're confusing two different things. Ye as a plural pronoun is a bone fide archaic English word, ultimately sharing an etymology with the still-extant "you". "Ye" as an article ("Ye olde...") has the his
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by rgossiaux 6y ago
Fun idea! I will say that the interface feels a bit mobile-first to a fault: the swiping interaction isn't very desktop friendly. It'd be nice to have some buttons to click on for those of us using mice or trackpads.
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by rgossiaux 7y ago
Well, the linked study suggests watching with foreign audio and foreign language subtitles , not merely with foreign audio alone.
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by rgossiaux 7y ago
No, because it's not scientific. There's no agreed upon definition of what counts as a unique word. Do you count every inflected form, like "dog" and "dogs"? Derivations from other words? Homonyms? Compound wor
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by rgossiaux 7y ago
>That's what open and curve mean in topology. For example, the set of x with 0 <= x <= 1 is open, whereas 0 < x < 1 would be closed. It's infamously confusing terminology, since sets can be both closed and open, or
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by rgossiaux 8y ago
Indeed, the idea of 200 points in 16 days is more or less absurd, at least beyond beginner levels. In fact, looking at the author's Lichess profile I see no evidence of any improvement at all, to be blunt. Improvement takes really a lo
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by rgossiaux 8y ago
Both of these are good points. 90 day exercise windows are both unnecessary and terrible for employees and we should move to eliminate them as quickly as possible. I think the trend is slowly in that direction, but it really should just be
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by rgossiaux 8y ago
I don't see why this follows. I said "in expectation". So some % of the time it's going to be 0 or thereabouts and some % of the time will be much higher. The best case scenario needs to be multiples in order to make the
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by rgossiaux 8y ago
For the purposes of this thought experiment we're assuming that there's no price movement after year 1. In the real world this probability of failure in the future should be priced in to the year 2 price and doesn't affect th

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