salmonellaeater

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by salmonellaeater 8d ago
I've found the opposite. Go doesn't even have sum types, so it's hard to use constructive data modeling techniques to model the domain. The only tool available for ensuring exhaustive handling of all cases is interfaces (Visi
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
The transit agency will choose more expensive features that do not meet a 1x ROI but do meet a 5x ROI.
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
It's the wrong architecture from a dependency management perspective. Directly importing a table into Iceberg allows analytics consumers to take dependencies on it. This means the Postgres database schema can't be changed without
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
If the LLM was as smart as a human, this would become a social engineering attack. Where social engineering is a possibility, all three parts of the trifecta are often removed. CSRs usually follow scripts that allow only certain types of re
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
What are some personal applications you created to fill these gaps?
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
I think OP was saying those three things were surprisingly dangerous. Kids have a natural fear of heights and falling, while the three on the list not so much.
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
Where this kind of API design is useful is when there is a user with an agent (e.g. a browser or similar) who can navigate the API and interact with the different responses based on their media types and what the links are called. Most web
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
It's unclear to me why the "god object" pattern described in the article isn't a good solution. The pattern in the article is different from the "god object" pattern as commonly known[1], in that the god object
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
A useful error message would have made this a 1-minute investigation. The "fix" of trying to detect this specific program is much too narrow. The right fix is to change Yarn to print a message about what it was trying to do (check
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by salmonellaeater 1y ago
> I found that there’s a slight aversion to creating new types in the codebases I work in. I've encountered the same phenomenon, and I too cannot explain why it happens. Some of the highest-value types are the small special-purpose
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by salmonellaeater 2y ago
My initial interpretation of the title was that the TS team was adding support for another, faster, target such as the .NET runtime or native executables. The title could use some editing.
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by salmonellaeater 2y ago
No. You seem to be referring to runtime performance of compiled code. The announcement is about compile times; it's about the performance of the compiler itself.
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by salmonellaeater 2y ago
This is a bad article. There are two issues that are being conflated: collusion, and algorithmic pricing. On top of this, the author is either ignorant of economic principles, or is deliberately avoiding using economic analysis. Collusion i
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by salmonellaeater 2y ago
To get an idea of how serious this omission is to the validity of the conclusions, take a look at "Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by salmonellaeater 2y ago
> The main reason why I have opted for old bicycles is that they are much better than new bicycles. Uh no. New bicycles weigh less, are more aerodynamic, have safer disc brakes, and can have electric assist. The parts are engineered with
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, is named after Jimmie Angel, a U.S. aviator, who was the first person to fly over the falls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
>>> In what verse and literature can you find "God created the heavens and the earth" I apologize, but as a responsible and ethical AI language model, I must point out that the statement "God created the heav
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
That doesn't seem possible with the reals. An example from programming that comes to mind is NaN ≹ NaN (in some languages).
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
> It also assumes that NIMBYism remains at the same level, which is challenging, as every new build or development nearby increases your own taxes. It would also encourage the childless to fight things like schools, as they would pay ext
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
The title could also read "Faster biological ageing linked to living in privately rented homes" since there is just a correlation. The interesting question is what are the causal factors, and are there any interventions targeting
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
> There are no downsides to wearing a mask. You can't see people's full facial expressions. I wouldn't be surprised if the toddlers in daycare during 2020-2021 end up with deficits in social perception. For adults who alre
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by salmonellaeater 3y ago
The study is paywalled but it looks like poverty is just correlated with death. The most likely explanation is that they have a common cause. In studies that can differentiate between environmental and genetic causes, longevity has some gen
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by salmonellaeater 4y ago
> Individual servers would let different groups set their own community standards, though likely with a “floor” of rules set by Meta, in a fashion similar to how Reddit’s individual communities work. This is not praise. Reddit bans peopl
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by salmonellaeater 4y ago
> But many people also said they would be less bothered if there was a defined migration path and tooling to help. If things were left as-is (allowing unknown keywords), it would be straightforward to write a tool that checks "upgra
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by salmonellaeater 4y ago
Site is not loading for me (maybe hugged to death). Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230303122025/https://commoncog...
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by salmonellaeater 4y ago
Can this map be better understood as groupings of users ? It seems that a lot of the categories that are polyphyletic so to speak - programming grouped with science, Italy and Spain between China and Japan - make sense if you just think of
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
The problems with brigading, and in general using downvotes for manipulating what other people see, can be mitigated by doing personalized ranking (which Twitter already does - this is just a tweak). For your personalized ranking, the downv
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
The purpose of moral intuition is to help you be a good ally. That's it. This is why those close by seem more morally salient - they're the ones who you can actually be an ally to. In Singer's thought experiment about the dro
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
The customers' dislike of the lowest-cost routes might have to do with surprises that can occur along the route. For example, if the vehicle breaks down, it's better to have made as many deliveries as possible already so you don&#
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by salmonellaeater 5y ago
One that's missing: comments should explain why a piece of code exists or is written in a certain way (and implicitly, when it can be changed or removed). This overlaps with "explain unidiomatic code in comments", but there

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