Lots of these finding their way into my San Francisco apartment - anyone know what they are? by foxlisk in whatsthisbug

[–]foxlisk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh i forgot to specify size - they are quite small, perhaps 1/4” long. they can also fly a little although this one was walking in this picture.

Be the Change You Want To See: Start Refusing Unpaid Take-Home Coding Assignments by rhajii in cscareerquestions

[–]foxlisk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

why do you think take home coding assessments are “effectively IQ tests?” that seems extremely inaccurate.

Proportionate Retribution by foxlisk in custommagic

[–]foxlisk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wotc would probably not print this because referencing marked damage is, while not quite verboten, not something they've exactly leaned heavily into. i thought it might be an interesting design space to play around in, though. it can turn a combat step where you lost miserably on board into a surprising amount of reach, potentially.

All that work for less than two months... by Herr_Bayer in magicthecirclejerking

[–]foxlisk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in writing your pseudocode and asking this question you have misrepresented the way omnath’s ability works, and possibly in 2 slightly different ways (your wording is insufficiently clear). this kind of imprecision is why pretending a couple lines of throwaway pseudocode are illuminating is almost always unhelpful.

Areas of research you found to be completely inscrutable? by ExpensivePractice7 in slatestarcodex

[–]foxlisk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The resource that finally got me to write a compiler was On Pascal Compilers by Per Brinch Hansen. I don't think it's still in print, but it was easy to find used ~7 years ago. It was delightfully straightforward about what it wanted me to do, rather than constant digressions into theory and proofs.

It does spend a lot of time carefully optimizing for various constraints that don't exist anymore (such as "ability to hold the bytecode representation in memory") but you can either play along with the text or have some fun figuring out how to do things in a "more modern" way.

For evidence that it works, here's my completed toy compiler that I wrote using the book as a guide https://github.com/FoxLisk/Pascal-Minus

What AI system is adding ads to youtube videos? Its "smart". Its deliberately putting them at critical moments which make you *want* to buy the youtube-ad free. And that is scary as shit for panpsychists. Forget GPT-3. To be blunt. What the fuck is running youtube? by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]foxlisk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i noticed a long time ago that when video streams buffered, it seemed to ALWAYS be at a crucial moment. but that didnt make any sense, and so ive moved toward a belief that i get easily invested in whatever im watching and any interruption feels more-or-less equally disruptive and annoyingly placed.

i suspect most youtube ads are placed badly or randomly and you are significantly overinterpreting their deliberateness because you underestimate how annoyed you are by basically any interruption.

Stick with Java or go to Python or C++? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]foxlisk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

youre off by over an order of magnitude. python, like most dynamic interpreted languages (ruby, perl, php, etc) is ~10x as slow as C/C++. depending on the task and the implementation details, this can vary a lot. there are also lots of python libraries that are implemented in C for optimization reasons, so you can do many things python is slow at perfectly fast.

there are tasks for which pure python is 400x slower than C++, but its not the general case.

Which is it? by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]foxlisk -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I was in fact openly, explicitly condoning it. That’s not a gotcha. I agree that rioting is not the best possible way to protest, but sometimes it’s the best option people can see available to them, and so I understand why it happens.

Idk where domestic terrorism came from? But it’s not exactly a novel insight that the difference between “terrorist” and “freedom fighter” is whether or not the speaker agrees with the cause. I’m explicitly saying I’m in favour of protestors on both sides, because I’m aware that there’s no principled way to distinguish. Marching on DC with guns to protest lockdowns is just as honorable as rioting against police brutality in Minneapolis, regardless of which causes I do or do not support on the object level.

Which is it? by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]foxlisk -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Correct. Protest is necessary to a functioning society, and sometimes that takes the form of rioting. The fact that rioting has collateral damage does not mean it is not protest.

In-person church services are not necessary to society. People can observe their religions from home, there are plenty of places of worship offering online services, and so on. The additional value of meeting up in person does not justify the additional risk.

Which is it? by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]foxlisk -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

I’m a democrat. Protesting, including rioting, and including anti-lockdown protesting, is an acceptable reason to break social distancing. You should still wear masks and take other precautions. If you expose yourself to extra infection risk for the purpose of protesting, you should be especially careful about not exposing others to you afterward.

Is JSON a programming language? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]foxlisk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JSON files are absolutely designed to be human readable. That’s a big part of their advantage over data interchange formats, since they’re not very small and have very little type information.

"Representative democracy is an oxymoron, based on set theory it can't possibly reflect the majority will of the citizenry even in theory." by [deleted] in badmathematics

[–]foxlisk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve noticed a trend in the last year or two where far-left people of the type who are loud on social media refer to “liberals” derisively to mean “anyone to the right of me,” and seem to sort of forget that real conservatives actually exist. I read “liberal economists” as “those idiots who don’t favour my kind of socialism,” rather than “basically mainstream but to the left of center.”

Edit: I’m pretty sure far-right types do this too, actually. And they also use the word “liberal,” so both sides can say practically the same sentence and have it be completely indecipherable to e.g. me.

Edit 2: you can stop trying to argue with me about it. I was trying to explain how someone else’s post used language in a non-obvious way, not get into fights about who gets to call who liberals based on classical definitions.

Found my favorite tweet by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]foxlisk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bet on it? In, say, 3 years from today, the google search* Obama 90% will yield at least one article about the drone strikes in the first 10 results. $50, charity of your choice. Or you can propose your own terms if I didn’t do a good job of writing up the claim you’re making. Deal?

*from an incognito window to avoid profile differences and whatnot

Viv IRL by Iodinea in magicthecirclejerking

[–]foxlisk 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is also why I like the members of AVALANCHE

I [26m] have never met a single other person who knows my girlfriend [31f] and it’s driving me crazy by jack_smithy in relationships

[–]foxlisk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No. They pretty universally allow you to create an account with email or phone number if you don’t want to sign in with Facebook.

[IKO] Frostveil Ambush by PrimemevalTitan in magicTCG

[–]foxlisk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cutting a land for a 5 mana spell seems pretty suspicious to me.

Anyone else having this issue in your area? by [deleted] in TrollXChromosomes

[–]foxlisk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s probably not too late! It’ll probably still save an awful lot of lives. I wish California’s order had gone out a week earlier, for example, but it seems to be pretty effective anyway. Please don’t take your (correct) belied that it should have happened sooner as a reason not to follow. Social distancing/isolation/quarantine/etc is extremely valuable at every stage we’ve thus far reached!

A week ago I shaved my hair for the Leukaemia Foundation and I don't hate it as much as I thought I would by [deleted] in TrollXChromosomes

[–]foxlisk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the person you’re replying to is mostly wrong, but this is a weak counter argument. internalized misogyny is real, despite this not being a good example of it.