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> no one is getting dehumanized [citation needed]
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Never trust a system that seems to be working
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Also issue with golang (+ protobufs) where you can't distinguish a populated zero value from the default "not present" value.
This drives me absolutely bonkers. We had a situation in a machine learning context where we should have been treating the output of a detector as NaN (it was deliberately opting out), but instead it was falling back to zero. Last I checked (this was years ago) the way to deal with this is to wrap it in a sub-message (which are actually nullable), which is just kinda gross.
I thought proto3 has support for optional scalar fields now (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3....), and proto2 always had it
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"Life, uh, finds a way." Dr. Ian Malcolm anticipated it, but the park science lackeys dismissed his idea.
If I remember correctly, Malcom did nothing but harp endlessly about how the park was doomed to failure due to various vague non-sequiturs. All we know is that he predicted fence integrity would fail somehow. We don't know what else he predicted, maybe he just got that one right by chance. We don't know if Hammond changed the park after the paper to invalidate Malcom's reasons for predicting fence integrity failure;…
Malcolm was an author surrogate for the purpose of going on weird abstract rants which were mostly nonsensical even before they injected him full of morphine.
I vastly prefer reading books in general, but with Jurassic Park they really cleaned up a lot of rough edges in the movie. The kids are way less annoying too.
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#304Wonder why it was deleted
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#305A bit of an off-topic: I only ever saw white traffic lights in the US and Canada (specifically, pedestrian traffic lights) and they confused me a lot at first - the rest of the world uses green. The icons displayed (hands) are confusing too: the rest of the world uses an icon of a man walking or standing.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33235298.
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#306The tweet has been removed?
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I have a standard keyboard and it has no break key.
To clarify, by a “standard” keyboard I mean a (usually US) QWERTY PC keyboard with 101 to 105 keys (depending on the amount of Win/Super and Menu keys and the presence of an additional punctuation key to the left of Z). Those have three rows of three keys each above the arrows (not counting any “media keys” such as Power); the topmost one of those is PrintScreen / SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Pause / Break, though some of…
I know what you meant. I was implying that a 101-105 key keyboard has not been standard for a decade or more.
I would be willing to bet that none of the ten most popular/best-selling computers in the country for the last 5-10 years have had a key that says “break”.
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There is one subtle difference between automatic transmissions and manual ones and that is the manual one will allow a shift into a lower gear even when engine damage is likely. An automatic one will not, and will hold the current gear until car speed falls within shifting range. Ask me how I know :)
Yeah, newer ones can be too smart for your own good (but not theirs) - older ones had no problem with you slamming it into reverse or park at freeway speeds - ask me how I know!
Ahhh, the classic money shift.
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
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To clarify, by a “standard” keyboard I mean a (usually US) QWERTY PC keyboard with 101 to 105 keys (depending on the amount of Win/Super and Menu keys and the presence of an additional punctuation key to the left of Z). Those have three rows of three keys each above the arrows (not counting any “media keys” such as Power); the topmost one of those is PrintScreen / SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Pause / Break, though some of…
I know what you meant. I was implying that a 101-105 key keyboard has not been standard for a decade or more. I would be willing to bet that none of the ten most popular/best-selling computers in the country for the last 5-10 years have had a key that says “break”.
You're talking about laptops which you're right, are probably more popular than desktops, but taking a look right now at a few different laptops near me shows they have break as a function key. Take 3 data points as you will.
I'll take that bet and offer up a break key from my active keyboard if I'm wrong.
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
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To clarify, by a “standard” keyboard I mean a (usually US) QWERTY PC keyboard with 101 to 105 keys (depending on the amount of Win/Super and Menu keys and the presence of an additional punctuation key to the left of Z). Those have three rows of three keys each above the arrows (not counting any “media keys” such as Power); the topmost one of those is PrintScreen / SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Pause / Break, though some of…
I know what you meant. I was implying that a 101-105 key keyboard has not been standard for a decade or more. I would be willing to bet that none of the ten most popular/best-selling computers in the country for the last 5-10 years have had a key that says “break”.
The 10 most popular/bestselling computers in the last 10 years definitely would include the Dell optiplex line that comes standard with a full size keyboard that has a Pause/Break key.