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  1. Hell no on Tim Kaine, though. That guy is a snake. At least with Trump you know what you are getting.

  2. Re: Are you afraid of a new vote, Brexit traitors? on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't say for sure, but from this side it looks like British parliament would be better off dissolved, seemingly filled with corruption and incompetence. Maybe it would be better to have a king?

  3. Re: Open to abuse on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if you're pro-establishment, anti-establishment, or antidisestablishmentarian. Wow!

  4. Re: Typescript has restored my job satisfaction on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, now there's some kind of false dichotomy. Any other logical fallacy you'd like to add to the list?

  5. What's in the Mueller report?

  6. the problem is that the only opposition offered for voting was Hillary Clinton.

    Who would you have chosen instead?

  7. Re:It will also soon be able to... on Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not for you, for Microsoft. But I ought to inform you that your computer has been mining bitcoin for me for a year now.

  8. Re:Redmond, start your photocopiers on Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think OSX to Linux is the only direction I've not seen happen.

    It's a little annoying at first, but absolutely worth the effort.

  9. Re:TypeScript is still crap on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Javascript would be acceptable for the backend, and Node is very pleasant in a lot of ways......if it weren't for the whole hyper-attention-starved ecosystem of programmers that it imports with it. I swear Node programmers wake up in the morning thinking, "I haven't broken anything this week.....my life is incomplete. What can I do today to make phantomfive suffer?"

  10. Re:Misleading article on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The weakness of Objective C is that it has the baggage of C still hanging around.
    The weakness of Swift is that it has the baggage of Objective C and C still hanging around.

  11. Re: Typescript has restored my job satisfaction on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Python knows exactly what types you're passing. Python is a strongly typed language, unlike, for example, C. If you pass "NULL" to a C function that expects a buffer, you're likely to get a runtime crash and/or security exploit. If you pass "None" to a similar Python routine, the Python interpreter will throw an appropriate exception instead.

    This is sophistry attempting to cover up the weakness of the Python type system. And by weakness, I mean the lousiness of it. English polymorphism, fuckers.

  12. Re:Loss in quality? on MIT Develops Algorithm To Accelerate Neural Networks By 200x (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Worth mentioning that often the difficulty with neural networks isn't the training time, it's collecting the dataset in the first place.

  13. Re:Accelerate [development of] neural networks on MIT Develops Algorithm To Accelerate Neural Networks By 200x (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    The execution speed of neural networks is not very CPU intensive, it can happen almost immediately. The training is the part that takes a long time.

  14. Re: Climate change impacts cost Trillions on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So what?

  15. Re: Either that or on Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You add files one by one, using the "git add" command, then you commit them all at once using the "git commit" command. I don't think you know how git works.

  16. Re: Either that or on Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I occasionally get "Why did you deleted Bob's code"... "I didn't, there were no merge conflicts".

    lol "I did 'git push -f' and it worked fine!

  17. Re: Either that or on Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Review? As in PR? Too late .. Or did you mean extreme programming pre-push review?

    To commit to git, you have two options: you can either commit the files one at a time, or commit them all at once without looking at what you are committing. One of those options leads to mistakes, even if the mistakes aren't as serious as committing a private key.

    No one does that

    You don't need to, but if you find yourself committing things you shouldn't, then make a chanage in your personal process so that doesn't happen.

  18. Either that or on Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be the researchers made a mistake in their regular expression that is picking up something that looks like keys but aren't keys.

    If this does happen to you it's because you aren't doing code review. If you are solo, then give yourself a quick review by doing a "git add" on each individual file before committing. That gives you a chance to double-check, and you can even do a "git diff" on each file before committing to be extra sure. There are lots of processes you can use to avoid this kind of mistake.

  19. I believe that eventually we could begin paying down the National Debt. It'd probably take 100 years to do it

    All we have to do is not keep increasing our deficit spending (do you know the difference between debt and deficit?). If we hadn't increased spending after the Clinton years, we could have paid off the Reagan debt by now (because GDP has grown so much since then).

  20. OK that's interesting, I didn't think of the idea that reducing income (and employment) tax would decrease the price of goods relative to foreign goods. Of course, the immediate result would be to increase the price of things until competition drove prices down.

    The law as proposed in HR25 in Congress now is 23% inclusive.

    How is that calculated?

  21. Re:Other treatment on First Medical Device To Treat Alzheimer's Is Up For Approval By the FDA (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You've got to be kidding.

  22. Re:Climate change impacts cost Trillions on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    What were once once a century storms and floods are now every 2-3 years.

    All you need is 100 independent regions and you'll have a once in a century event every year.

  23. Re:What higher temperatures on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The article expects temperatures to remain cooler than average across the region, but with higher than average rainfall.

  24. ok, so imagine we went over to a sales tax. In 2017, the tax revenue was $3.3 trillion. If we got rid of income tax, how high would the sales tax need to be to keep the revenue the same?

  25. Re: Science is hard on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Huh, so basically they are taking .05 and pretending it's zero. That is fascinating, I will look out for that now. I'm glad we had this conversation.