typomatic

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by typomatic 4y ago
So Facebook's point here is that their legal team is so utterly clownshoes that when receiving a warrant about burning a stillbirth they couldn't clue in that it might be about abortion. Their press release is designed to convince
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by typomatic 6y ago
> What I take away from this all is that for every article about academic misconduct and p hacking there are 100 more where the peer review process (both before and during submission to a journal) caught the issues in time. p-hacking isn
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by typomatic 6y ago
Clearly not--when there is systemic rulebreaking, the point is that it's impossible to enforce the rules in a way that is "enough".
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by typomatic 6y ago
I have used Python on OSX for years and it is and always will be a horrorshow. Using the system Python installation is a nonstarter for many reasons, chief among them is that I don't have any interest in using py2. So then you're
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by typomatic 6y ago
My parents asked me for some money the other day, but I told them to pound sand--if they wanted my help they should have made me sign something before they gave me all that free room and board. Suckers!
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by typomatic 8y ago
That was a real question, you absolute weirdo. I am just flabbergasted that you and they have such disregard for human life that they consider participation in its oppression to be an intellectual exercise. You are sick.
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by typomatic 8y ago
Oh okay! I thought you were suggesting the opposite (which is nonsense). Thanks!
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by typomatic 8y ago
The phone numbers are linked to searches. You think people searching for "Chinese government oppression" on Dragonfly are going to have long happy lives? You still think it's better to have "limited access"?
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by typomatic 8y ago
Your suggestion is that someone who did a degree specifically in machine learning at Harvard would be less likely to be defending their discipline out of a sense of ego?
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by typomatic 8y ago
> Why does WoW allow you to run scripts in your chat window? Who needs that functionality? The "chat" window in WoW is more like a shell interface/CLI than a pure chat window and it's been that way since the inception
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by typomatic 8y ago
Are you serious? There's a better way to work together to take risks and tackle problems that are too big for individuals, and it's called "government": the original corporation that won't sell your grandmother to a
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by typomatic 8y ago
Modules and functions in Python have a __name__ attribute. If you've used Python for scripts, you've probably written `if __name__ == "__main__":` at some point, which is the module name for executed scripts, whereas imp
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by typomatic 8y ago
Worth noting that the PyPy article links to a whole site devoted to the troubles and rehabilitation of the CPython API: https://pythoncapi.readthedocs.io/ . It's really exciting to see these backend concerns being addr
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by typomatic 8y ago
> This makes it seem like the tutor is teaching things to the student right before they need it for an exam On the contrary, I found it really precise. JIT processes in manufacturing are about providing the correct inputs at the time the
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by typomatic 8y ago
> Of course I know effort is probably not a valid criteria but still, it's sometimes hard not to see what appears to be low-effort generative art as barely more than the random dot/line/rectangle exercise most programmers
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by typomatic 8y ago
> I think most of the other services offered this way can really be circumvented by differentiating yourself as better than the gig workers. Do you have any evidence to back up this thought, or are you postulating that the world should b
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by typomatic 8y ago
The post isn't about "Teamwork is important". The title is about "the arrogant engineer". You've elided the thing that made someone angry and then questioned them why they're angry about it. This is not go
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by typomatic 8y ago
> Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unforgiving question: why does your company deserve more money? This is so stupid--do VCs ever ask this question in the first place? No. By the time your board is asking this question, they&#x27
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by typomatic 8y ago
In fact, they're mostly meant as a way for HR to have a paper trail to fire people. That's the only real reason for them to exist, and any good that managers do with them is incidental.
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by typomatic 8y ago
> I simply cannot even imagine having a hobby that would have me spend thousands of dollars. I would sooner switch hobbies. Your imagination needs work. Being on HN, I'd assume that you have at least one hobby that necessitates a si
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by typomatic 8y ago
I agree that American culture is the problem. The way we oppress black people every day and force them into these ugly situations where they're forced to choose between criminality and inhumanity, it's no wonder that this happened
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by typomatic 8y ago
I agree that the things you said happened, but I believe that the success of the company is incidental to who ran it. There are millions and millions of factors involved in Facebook's success and to drop all the accolades at the feet o
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by typomatic 8y ago
> At the risk of misunderstanding “eyeball planet”, you’re living on the most obvious example. You should read the articles on this website please.
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by typomatic 8y ago
Well, forgive me for being smug to someone that deserves it.
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by typomatic 8y ago
You have quite a lot of opinions on a topic which you admittedly don't know.
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by typomatic 8y ago
> the difference (and ability to describe the difference) between a Sauvingon Blanc and Chardonnay isn't difficult. I think anyone off the street can taste the difference between a chocolate stout, a hefeweizen and a pale lager. I&
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by typomatic 8y ago
> I've been asked to work for military industry companies before. And I have always declined for ethical reasons. But as I sit here and think about it, I wonder if its a good thing that a person like myself (that believes I'm o
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by typomatic 8y ago
> I want to focus solely on the thoughts, not the form. I think this is a dangerously stupid way to think about linguistics.
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by typomatic 8y ago
> A lot of the text you already read is robot-generated. More than half the words in this comment were generated via autocorrect or auto complete in some fashion. It's still useful and thoughtful though. Just to be clear, I don&#x27
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by typomatic 8y ago
> Most of the theories I've seen about the women-in-tech gap don't resonate with my experience because there was a very obvious 'women-in-tech' gap in about... 5th grade? in my (typical, I think) American elementary s

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