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  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • I agree with your assessment regarding the intention of the phrase. We're back at the silly arithmetic meme that hinges on not grouping terms explicitly and watching people yell at each other in the mistaken belief that there's one authoritative interpretation of an ambiguous string of symbols.

    Still, the actual mistake remains. Why an extra 1/6 of the pizza? 1/3 of 1/3 is 1/9, not 1/6. That's 1/2 of 1/3.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • There are two meanings being conflated here.

    "1/3 more" can mean "+ 1/3" or "* (1 + 1/3)“.

    So "1/3 more than 1/3" could be 2/3 or 4/9, but not 1/2.

    Instead 1/2 is 1/2 more than 1/3, not 1/3 more. That's the meme I've seen go around recently.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • 1/3 more than 1/3 is 4/9. What you wrote is 1/2 more than 1/3, not 1/3 more of it.

  • Are you vimming yet?

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  • Pitch me. I could switch, but it would help a great deal to understand more about why. I'm open to change, but not eager to change.

  • Are you vimming yet?

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  • I'm very happy. I had the same early experience as you, but I kept with it. I've been using it several years now. When I'm forced back to vim, my fingers remember just enough, but I have to undo pretty often.

  • Are you vimming yet?

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  • I kakoune instead.

  • Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

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  • Languages

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  • APL is Ithkuil.

  • What are the best fictional books you’ve ever read?

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  • The Handmaid's Tale

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    Nightfall

    The Terminal Experiment

  • Avoiding if-else Hell: The Functional Style

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  • The fact that the loop is doing "find first driver matching these strange criteria" seems most obviously obscured by the pattern of assigning a value, then killing the loop or not. This strikes me as the part that makes the algorithm tedious to test, since it forces us to use a collection to test the intricacies of the inner conditions.

    Once we isolate "find first driver matching condition" from computing the condition for each driver, I consider the rest a question of personal taste. Specification pattern, composition of filters, something like that. Whatever you find easier to follow.

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  • Anyone else remember when Joe Rogan was a harmless comedian?

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  • I guess it's time for a "mark this time so I can go back to it" feature, to reduce the need to pause. 🤷‍♂️

  • TIL what an Ortholinear Keyboard is

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  • Tried a Typematrix. At the time, I was a roving freelancer who frequently worked with other people at their machines, so I decided that it was safer to stick with a conventional layout.

    Having Enter on the thumb was interesting, but I never got used to it.

  • JD Vance now says Haitian immigrants are spreading HIV after bizarre pet-eating claim flops

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  • Dark side of the How to Pick Up a Duck videos, I guess.