traderjane

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by traderjane 6y ago
It's the smallest number bigger than 0.
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by traderjane 6y ago
That's a coincidence of the particular number system you use, and many programming languages have multiple number implementations. Racket starts with arbitrary precision rationals.
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by traderjane 6y ago
You must go up to something like limits to make ... meaningful.
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by traderjane 6y ago
Professor N.J. Wildberger is probably among the most well known "ultrafinitist" on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabHm1QWVCA I mention him because I would think he sympathizes with those who have concer
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by traderjane 6y ago
What are generators for you?
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by traderjane 6y ago
Summary: 2011 OO FizzBuzz joke...
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by traderjane 6y ago
> A stateful function with effects. Your language just doesn’t have a primitive to express it. I wonder what about generator functions?
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by traderjane 6y ago
I find it somewhat comical that the governor of Maryland had his wife pull South Korean connections to buy masks. So terribly ad hoc.
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by traderjane 6y ago
So should black people stop organizing along lines of race, because that doesn't seem like an effective way to fight racism? That just means less black representation.
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by traderjane 6y ago
Plenty of people are hurt or killed through clerical errors by medical professionals, but you're not going to get anyone admitting that. Even for something simple, if you have any accusation to make in a medical context, it's prob
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by traderjane 6y ago
I think tech moved too quickly and in some ways, due to power being left on the table by government, tech became responsible; much like how businesses have taken up the responsibility of American healthcare due to the issue being under-addr
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Springer makes some texts free for Covid-19(link.springer.com)
9 points by traderjane 6y ago|0 comments
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by traderjane 6y ago
Previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931290
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by traderjane 6y ago
Supreme Court opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-5924_n6io.pdf
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by traderjane 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/820953617/the-killer-at-home-...
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by traderjane 6y ago
I'm talking about whether anecdotes of safe dogs is an argument that we might need different levels of licensing. Yes it's an argument, especially in the face of empiricism on the community burden of cats.
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by traderjane 6y ago
Of course it’s an argument because we can simply license based on predictors of burden. Small dogs which are projected to fall below a risk tolerance threshold should have less licensing burden. Similarly, different classes of vehicles get
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by traderjane 6y ago
IMO what’s important isn’t merely whether something poses proximal danger to human life (which asks for immediate and more severe solutions), but whether something poses greater community burden on a level where it’s hard to trust an indivi
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by traderjane 6y ago
That's a bit different. I can fake swipe-up on a GUI but I can't fake Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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Node.js Official Tutorial(nodejs.dev)
12 points by traderjane 6y ago|1 comments
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by traderjane 6y ago
Many reals are constructible so they are accessible in the sense that it's a theory of phenomena I can act and build upon, and the theory discusses up to an infinite number of cases even if I won't build out that far.
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by traderjane 6y ago
That’s still saying talent is awesome. A metaphorical chess player who can beat you half asleep probably has both a high minimum and maximum.
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by traderjane 6y ago
Is there consensus on the most common and advisable tooling setup for newcomers in Common Lisp?
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by traderjane 6y ago
Now that these cases are part of court and academic attention, what interval of events makes you think that gerrymandering is balanced?
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by traderjane 6y ago
The federal government also hasn’t provided the confidence that aid won’t be given on a political basis.
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by traderjane 7y ago
Intelligence organizations and other institutions handling very sensitive data likely have way better information discipline than almost any org, but even there singular individuals leak and cause outsized embarrassment. Trust is bigger tha
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by traderjane 7y ago
> Some of my worries about having kids were right, though. They definitely make you less productive. I know having kids makes some people get their act together, but if your act was already together, you're going to have less time t
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by traderjane 7y ago
People who are competitive at one game sometimes jump to another based on market trends, and although the transition can be rough, enough make it through that it becomes a visible thing. This is a mild argument for generality of competence.
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by traderjane 7y ago
Csikszentmihalyi is not respected by professionals of his field (there is no enthusiasm to followup on Flow). Of course Flow was also cargo cult executive catnip back in the day -- I suppose Mr. Fox's day.
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by traderjane 7y ago
> You are missing the point. If I say, "I support X" and you say, "I support not X," that's just a disagreement. > Why do you use the word "we"? I wasn't directing my comment to you. Indeed this

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