wool_gather

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by wool_gather 6y ago
What does this mean? Runtime is the only time that Python's existing type system has an effect.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
It doesn't really affect your point, but the term was "enhanced", not "extended". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq...
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by wool_gather 6y ago
That comes with its own tradeoffs: increased compile time and more effort needed to create error messages that are helpful to the user.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
> > QAnon is just more fun. > Citation desperately needed! You might find this take on QAnon from a game designer's perspective interesting: https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...
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by wool_gather 6y ago
It seems to me that higher visibility is all but guaranteed to lead to an increase in belief. Simple exposure is one thing: most people aren't going to concoct new conspiracy theories on their own, but they may decide to go in for th
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Is it possible that this is just because it's a beta and the flag will be back for the release? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating one way or the other.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
That's possible; I don't remember the exact dates, just that it was at the "I really need to buy tickets" timeframe for the end of Feb.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
The U.S. has NPR and PBS, but, to put it politely, they have variable amounts of trust depending on one's position on the political spectrum. They also indeed have government officials "breathing down their neck" at least in
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by wool_gather 6y ago
It was on my radar in mid January; I know this clearly because it made me choose not to buy plane tickets for a big family celebration scheduled for the end of February.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I didn't say it shouldn't be posted; just a warning to be prepared for what you're going to see.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Yes. In many cases, the only "winning" move is to say what you have to say and then step back. You can't usually "win" the argument, just your own time.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Hey, spoiler alert for people regarding that link -- there's some very strong, graphically violent language. Don't click if you're not in a good head space at the moment.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
There's a similar organization in Eugene, OR called CAHOOTS: https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2020-07-06/eugen...
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Disregarding the hyperbole, rural areas have their own set of problems that seem outrageous in turn to city dwellers. It's easy to scorn the speck in your neighbor's eye; removing one's own is more constructive.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I will never understand why pure statements of fact get downvoted on this site. At the time I looked, 4 hours ago now, this was correct.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Full text was: > These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Good question; I just looked at OAN and there is nothing, just an earlier article about Trump's speech and one from early this morning "Citizens Gather in Washington, D.C..."
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by wool_gather 6y ago
> new hires start as a T3 This makes me curious about what T1 and T2 would mean.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Illuminatus! is deliberately a send-up of the kind of stuff that Dan Brown writes, though. He's sincerely trying to make thrillers; Wilson and Shea were (partly) making fun of authors like him.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
This may be fine, but do note that you're inserting an extra layer that you have to trust compared to inspecting the source that you know is on your local disk. Should they choose to, nothing stops the site you've linked from mask
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by wool_gather 6y ago
You're right, but it's not even really an "attitude", and it's not necessarily malicious or even stemming from a power relationship. It's just a fundamental cognitive blind spot that humans have about assuming
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Sure, but the people who are disinformed aren't the target here anyways: they don't believe anything needs to be "fixed" in the first place.
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Not a nit at all; the parent comment has the cart completely in front of the horse. Humans use vision (primarily) to drive because it's the only sense we have that's even close to being sufficient. There are certainly other sens
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by wool_gather 6y ago
There's an opportunity for them to communicate better with pedestrians than the average human driver. Drivers tend to assume that their intent to stop or not to stop is obvious and don't bother with a clear signal like flashing
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Which aspects of bcrypt are you referring to by "things like bcrypt"?
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Ah, I see, I didn't realize there was that much structure to the payload. Thanks!
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by wool_gather 6y ago
Also the book "Gambling Scams" by Darwin Ortiz. As I recall, the techniques generally involve not making normal "fair" free-tumbling rolls, but constraining the die movements somehow. Things like tossing them into a co
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by wool_gather 6y ago
I'm supportive of the co-op idea, but my bet would be that the drivers don't matter nearly as much as users. So unless it can compete on a UX level with the convenience and branding of the VC-backed options it's not going to
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by wool_gather 6y ago
How does it know that any given decryption is valid? A heuristic like "this is mostly ASCII"?
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by wool_gather 6y ago
This is not sour grapes; sour grapes is trying to get something, failing, and then pretending you didn't actually want it in the first place. It's from one of the "Aesop's Fables". A fox sees a bunch of grapes hangi

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