wjmao88

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by wjmao88 2y ago
It is more like A. light absorbed by solar panels that eventually turn into heat B. light absorbed by the ground which pretty much all becomes heat I'm pretty sure B is much greater than A.
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by wjmao88 2y ago
> They make the earth extremely hot as they absorb so much heat from the sun What are you smoking? The sun is not sending more light to the places with solar panels. It just absorbs light that is already hitting earth. If anything it mak
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by wjmao88 4y ago
In the beginning everyone thought COVID is only droplet transmission and in that case regular masks work really well because it prevents someone carrying the virus from spreading dropdlets. It doesn't even have to be very tightly fitti
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by wjmao88 4y ago
we could even have generated guid on the paper records that you can look up in a database to make sure your vote is being recorded correctly, without exposing any identifying information.
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by wjmao88 4y ago
"Tao" is an old translation with (I think) the Wade-Giles system, while "Dao" uses the correct consonant that matches the Mandarin pronounciation of that word.
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by wjmao88 4y ago
What are things that are OOP specific (as in not used at all in FP) other than inheritance?
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by wjmao88 4y ago
Its Conway's Law, Your code organization is a reflection of your engineering teams organization. The number of repos you have should roughly be equal to how many autonomous engineering "groups" you can divide into that work l
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by wjmao88 5y ago
If your whole file is semantically the default export, then why not? There are advantages with default exports, e.g. you can name it at usage site the way you want without the `:` syntax. Also some things like `React.lazy` only works with d
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by wjmao88 5y ago
<! is less than or not equal right? which is a strict subset of !=, since anything < by definition is !=
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by wjmao88 5y ago
I can see where you are coming from, but all the points you made are actually still relying on the mental health of a small group of indivduals. What prevents them from picking the cult of personality for personal gain over their public res
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by wjmao88 5y ago
I think any blanket policy that just apply the same rule to everybody is just lazy policy. A less lazy approach is provide the capability (through e.g. ISP or device manufacturer) to do so to parents/guardians and let them make the cho
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by wjmao88 5y ago
I mean sure, you could blame cronyism for any ideology or systems because these ideologies were always presented, as the name implies, in an ideal situation. What is always important is the ability of that system to be fault tolerant in a n
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by wjmao88 6y ago
Ironically, that article was written in a era where there weren't really boot camps, only CS Grads from actual universities, and in that article it specifically calls out many CS grads cannot code.
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by wjmao88 6y ago
Interestingly, Baidu had been selling moderator rights for boards on its Tieba (which is kind of the same as subreddits on reddit). It got lots of backlash especially after they sold mod rights for some cancer patient support group boards t
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by wjmao88 6y ago
If the people who own the factories can make everything they want, then they have no incentive to expand their factories beyond what is necessary to give them what they want, and, unless their factories takes up all available resources, the
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by wjmao88 6y ago
Data from unknown sources should just be thoroughly checked where they enter js land to make sure they conform to type expectations. If they are, then relying on static type checking from that point on should be fine.
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by wjmao88 6y ago
> React state is scoped to the outer-most box, that way it doesn't change on every render The state (of the hooks) for individual components are still scoped to that component only, its just stored in the "outer-most box",
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by wjmao88 6y ago
This syntax might look like it require less magic, but you still have to implement everything react does for hooks that takes care of re-rendering cycles.
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by wjmao88 6y ago
I would say the issue with symbols is why I had trouble with linear algebra in college, specifically dot and cross products. The fact that they used the same symbols as scaler multiplication and are also called products confused my mind so
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by wjmao88 6y ago
This is more of a risk-reward trade off that comes with anything that is more performant but more sophisticated. The same can be said about guns, but obviously the reward of having a gun is vastly greater than the risk of it malfunctioning.
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by wjmao88 6y ago
I don't think that's the right question to ask. It should be "Would they be happier if the tax to fund UBI was not levied"
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by wjmao88 6y ago
Wouldn't you be able to job hunt while taking the furlough scheme money?
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by wjmao88 7y ago
So I don't really understand this after reading the explanations. 1. You claim to have explained the height of the sticks "later". Maybe you had it explained in one of the paragraphs, but I just don't see it. 2. In the d
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by wjmao88 7y ago
So now any space station can claim to be "moon-sized fortress"
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by wjmao88 7y ago
And that is part of the reason many people also criticizes the tipping system in US/Canada. An arguably broken system from another industry doesn't make for a good comparison.
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by wjmao88 7y ago
but its not the physician who is actuall making the decision, its the policy makers that actually made the decision that if you meet certain criterias then certain actions will be taken. The physician is only there as an advisor to assess w
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by wjmao88 7y ago
The supply system for Europa Universalis (which is part of what I referred to as "other Paradox titles") is actually very barebone, consisting almost entirely of "you can only keep a certain number of troops in a province wit
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by wjmao88 7y ago
The scale/scope of most of the RTS games is that of a battle, not that of a war. I remember there was an old game, Napolean 1813, that has some level of supply management in the form of needing to build a chain of supply stations in di
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by wjmao88 7y ago
Can you give some examples of those "pure genius"s?
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by wjmao88 7y ago
Hi Dan, this is great and I really like this. But, I think what made me appreciate this is mostly your algebraic effects blog post. My issue with the examples in the reactjs doc pages is that it compares a naive and (intentionally)buggy im

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