tablarasa

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by tablarasa 2mo ago
> How does the value of LLM-produced 100% branch coverage compare to no-LLM 100% branch coverage? This is such a salient question. Sometimes (definitely not always) the test suites produced by LLMs are so trivial it's scary. Coverag
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by tablarasa 4mo ago
But the legal immigration system is broken and they did that on purpose. And how is your immigration status relevant to your contribution to taxes? It is not a false equivalence. Both legal and undocumented immigrants are net positive for o
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by tablarasa 5mo ago
There is value beyond IPO- companies continue to sell ("issue") shares on the public market as a way of generating cash. They also buy back shares when with excess cash, usually when the market value is low but sometimes, irration
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by tablarasa 6mo ago
Yes many people don’t vote because of deliberately fettered access to polling and/or a generally correct understanding that the electoral college nullifies or makes redundant their vote in their jurisdiction. Your vote for a third part
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by tablarasa 6mo ago
As my friend said of doing a PhD, “you learn more and more about less and less until sooner or later you know nothing at all”
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by tablarasa 6mo ago
IMO, speaking from the perspective of an ecology doctorate, while PhDs have much to contribute outside of academia, the training is laser focused on that route, to the detriment of students and funders (which is, generally speaking, society
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by tablarasa 6mo ago
Not a stupid question at all. But these aren't search and rescue services, they are just other sailors. I'm talking about locales that are far far outside of the realm of typical rescue services, and in no particular jurisdiction.
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by tablarasa 7mo ago
I got my license because I'm an offshore sailor. It is useful as safety and communication equipment (radio nets to keep track of other boats, their weather and fishing conditions :), and let your would-be-rescuers know your position an
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by tablarasa 7mo ago
In California it seems a lot of cities decided to try and add bike infrastructure but the design process yielded many compromises, since that infrastructure comes at the expense of car (and parking) infrastructure. As a result we got really
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by tablarasa 3y ago
Good points. It would be a productive use of all of the time those trucks spend idling too, going into and out of ports and in freeway traffic. Seems like there are times and circumstances when directing excess diesel energy to the trailer
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by tablarasa 3y ago
It is sometimes surprising to learn which organisms are more or less like us. Annelid worms like the ones you likely find in the soils where you live do have brains, for example, albeit ones with different characteristics than those of crus
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by tablarasa 3y ago
This is about water use, as opposed to land use. Land use matters, but let's try to stay focused for a second, esp. b/c some of the livestock are not local to the feed grows. The Colorado River has barely touched the Gulf of Calif
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by tablarasa 3y ago
Imperial Valley farmers are paying a trivial $20/acre-foot of water and are primarily growing hay to feed domestic and foreign livestock. Looks like 685K acre-feet per year to feed livestock out of a total water extraction of 1188K acr
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by tablarasa 3y ago
This is really cool. Can’t underestimate the power of this material to inspire future scientists. Hell I am a scientist and it inspires me too. I look forward to the launch (hehe)
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Legal battle in Pacific Northwest to leave king salmon for orcas(nytimes.com)
1 points by tablarasa 3y ago|0 comments
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by tablarasa 3y ago
100% yeah totally agree, I feel very similarly about TS (and can barely stand vanilla JS at this point)
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by tablarasa 3y ago
Sure, a little bit. It is a change in peoples' workflows after all, and a lot of developers are pretty choosy about that. But I think you can overcome that if you make a respectful case. I think you are spot on that people coming from
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by tablarasa 3y ago
Huh. In any case, I think the main point of its existence is on the inside.
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by tablarasa 3y ago
> "Since the IDE can hardly infer any type, and since even the ones it could infer can dynamically change in shape at any time, the IDE cannot provide as helpful suggestions and as powerful navigation as IDEs for other languages can
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by tablarasa 3y ago
Salmon is found in high-latitude systems around the globe in both hemispheres. Overfishing is something that occurs to populations, not species. Most of the salmon populations that I am familiar with are not over-fished, but have suffered f
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by tablarasa 3y ago
This has been tried and works pretty well. My own parent was able to get into Uni and attended solely b/c they had to accept them if they had a High School diploma [1]. They easily might not have gone to Uni at all otherwise. And here&
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by tablarasa 3y ago
Ha yeah this is all pointless speculation... I can't help but point out though that in my observations of religious people, it's not hard to believe that a majority or even a large majority might (temporarily, occasionally, whatev
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Offer a cheaper alternative and you don't have to worry about what they think
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Not to be pedantic, but the roaring 40s are by definition not the trade winds. The trade winds are easterlies- they originate from the east and blow towards the west. The "roaring 40s" are westerlies, flowing in the opposite direc
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Ooof yeah that's brutal. My friends and I held onto that for a long time though because we liked avoiding the fees but also having the hard copy classic tickets to put in scrap books and what not. I know you can still do it some places
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by tablarasa 4y ago
You can usually still go down to the venue during business hours and buy tickets without TM fees, right? What's hilarious is when I get mad at ticketmaster for charging me convenience fees when I am actively choosing not to walk, bike,
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Yeah sorry I tried to anticipate and cover this response briefly by pointing out that the population of the world simply is not going to stop eating animal protein because you told them you find it unethical. Their beliefs are not morally d
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Huh, I had considered consumption to be necessary for my own persistence. Most increase in land-based agricultural productivity in this day and age comes from intensification on existing land or removal of forested habitats. Those come at a
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Perhaps that is true if you solely interact with food after it is dead and processed. Many people live much closer to their food production. I don't view the phrase "humane slaughter" as an attempt to insulate "us";
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by tablarasa 4y ago
Slowly but surely we are seeing good traceability in seafood. It's hard though, so it's taking a while. Checkout https://legitfish.com/

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