winstonewert

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by winstonewert 5mo ago
For anyone who might be confused about the pardoning a turkey reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_P...
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Model Collapse Ends AI Hype(youtube.com)
4 points by winstonewert 7mo ago|0 comments
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by winstonewert 9mo ago
Perhaps you could refrain from slandering Rust proponents without any evidence.
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by winstonewert 10mo ago
I think the real question has to be: how do we determine what the regulations should be. Today, regulations are typically the product of dysfunctional political processes, and, no surprise, a lot of those regulations are unhelpful and a lot
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by winstonewert 10mo ago
> but not everything is necessarily backed by the same kind of heap-allocated memory object. Do you have an example, I thought literally everything in Python did trace to a PyObject*.
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by winstonewert 1y ago
The problem is that sometimes it is not a necessary condition. Rather, the tests might have been checking implementation details or just been wrong in the first place. Now, when tests fails I have extra work to figure out if its a real brea
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by winstonewert 1y ago
Some thoughts: - It says that 3/4 of people kept working; to me, that seems like a big drop. - Data is based on a survey of people in the program; I distrust data from surveys on principle. - There seems to have been a reduction in the
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by winstonewert 1y ago
There is likely a cost to the infrastructure necessary to enable calling 911 that scales with the number of users not the number of 911 calls. Where I'm at, there is a 75 cent per month fee added to phone plans to cover the costs of ac
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by winstonewert 1y ago
Then I'm sure you're willing to donate the cash to make it happen.
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Show HN: Inkwell: book/article authoring platform exports to PDF and ePub(inkwell.net)
3 points by winstonewert 1y ago|0 comments
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by winstonewert 1y ago
Perhaps - but they could just do what Microsoft did: bundle a version of Chromium.
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by winstonewert 1y ago
It sounds to me like you are thinking something like: if they use XML, they'll have a well defined schema and will follow standardized XML types. But if they use JSON they may not have a well-defined schema at all, and may not follow a
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by winstonewert 1y ago
My specific claim was that you could represent it in JSON, so you can't claim, as the post I responded to did, that JSON "cannot be used." I'll fully grant, I don't want to write a document by hand in either of the
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by winstonewert 1y ago
I think I can see something of where you're coming from. But a question: You complain about dates in JSON (really a specific case of parsing text in JSON): > If they implement dates, sometimes it's unix-time, sometimes it'
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by winstonewert 1y ago
`{ type: "p", children: [{type: "text", text: "How would you represent "}, {type: "b", children: [{type: "i", children: [{type: "text", text: "mixed content"}]], {type: &
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by winstonewert 1y ago
What actually prevents JSON from being used in these spaces? It seems to me that any XML structure can be represented in JSON. Personally, I've yet to come across an XML document I didn't wish was JSON, but perhaps in spaces I hav
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by winstonewert 2y ago
Really? Is there no level of compensation that would make you think that getting punched was worthwhile?
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by winstonewert 2y ago
Well, if they did that, then people could expect/demand stability with regard to what scenarios get the checks/panics optimized out. This would be a bit of a burden for the Rust maintainers. It would effectively make the optimizer
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by winstonewert 2y ago
But the great thing about Rust is that the panic traces back to the exact place where I thought something couldn't be None, but it was. In Java, I frequently found it mysterious why some variable or parameter was unexpectedly null.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
I think the causation runs in the opposite direction. These exceptions for these platforms were implemented in an inefficient fashion BECAUSE they thought that exceptions should almost never be thrown.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
My wish: people stop using the dumb line that exceptions are gotos.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
To attempt a more measured response: given that the NRLB hasn't gotten involved in any company with this policy that's clearly not true.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
I'm sorry for my earlier responses. I was becoming ill, didn't realize it, and that messes with my temper. One day I'll learn not to argue with people on the internet when that happens.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
The difference is that me and others have repeatedly explained why you are wrong in this thread, and you keep repeating the same nonsense assertions.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
You are wrong. Since you show no signs of recognizing that, or providing any reason to back up your assertions, I'm done with this conversation.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
I suspect it's much easier for someone to sue on the claim of being unfairly discriminated against than on the claim that a particular company policy with a legitimate stated justification is an unfair labor practice.
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by winstonewert 2y ago
But what if you get a bad letter of recommendation and sue about it? What if the manager refuses to write you a letter of recommendation and you sue them? The easiest solution from the company is simple: don't allow any letters of reco
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by winstonewert 2y ago
The same system is in Canada, and typically the party in power tries to time the election so they have the best chance of winning. Any numbers of factors could come into this (polling numbers, expected news event during the campaign, length
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by winstonewert 3y ago
An important aspect of this is that it's not legal for most people to run a prediction market. PredictIt is allowed to operate because it is run by a university, and even that is now under question. The result is that there is little c
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by winstonewert 3y ago
It seems to me that your examples rather show the futility of trying to use a license to force good behaviour rather than a reason to change licenses.

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