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It's pretty clear that he doesn't just mean Israelis

So you still have other stuff with AWS?

Lol. Def not for 5 year olds but it's about exactly what I needed How about this: Take a lot of pictures of a scene from different angles, do some crazy math, and then you can late…

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https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st... They appear experienced at navigating this confusion

If your number of AB testing combos cohorts is fewer then 100 then yeah this passes for being uniform

Well I was curious, but there's a lot there I didn't understand. Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises. Exercise left to the reader: P…

What does "DB queries" mean here? The on-device sqlite stuff?

That article is mostly about speed. The following seems like the one thing that might be relevant: > Naively, you could take the random integer and compute the remainder of the div…

The user ID is non uniform after hash and mod? How?

> Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male. There were definitely Chinese and Indian males too

I think they had been relying on lazy security by obscurity and it pretty much worked... until copilot

I do think sugar should be regulated more and probably excised taxed, but banning is a different thing altogether

So is sugar. Would you ban that? People have agency and choice

The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.

Idk much about him but stacking school busses on top of each other with a crane or driving a train into a sinkhole seem like pretty interesting things to do. Better than geeking ou…

If you really think that, then you should be all the more interested in what it means to execute on that allegedly-harmful effort well vs poorly

I have a crush on dang but it hasn't gone anywhere yet

There is another big reason not to call him "sunshine and rainbows"

Are links generated from Google apps like https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx going to continue working?

I took my parent post as meaning the app language dependencies. Pip packages or ruby gems or "must be exactly python 3.12"

Most shell-ish scripts probably use no dependencies and will not be picky about exact version

Meta also uses (nearly) this for scripting to the search index. Both at index and query time. I think it's a good for that

If you're in an abstract/general mathematical function, then sure: single letters. If you're doing more business logic kind of stuff (iterating through a list of db/orm objects or …

Snow Crash is definitely overrated. I loved Cryptpnomicon, Baroque cycle, Anathem, REAMDE, Diamond Age