ambulancechaser

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Comment · 3 years ago
For sure. I didn't mean to derail the thread or tell you how you feel, just share what I think is an interesting aspect of assault as defined in common law. But your subjective experience here is exactly what the law means to recognize with assault and sounds like it was assault. But who knows. Glad the situation fizzled out (usually best case scenario)
Comment · 3 years ago
The gist of your point is 100% correct. I just want to point out that under the common law definition of assault (and i have no idea what definitions are in effect in SF), the fact that the person calmly ignored them points that this might not be assault.

> Assault is generally defined as an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. No physical injury is required, but the actor must have intended to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the victim and the victim must have thereby been put in immediate apprehension of such a contact.

Calmly ignoring the threat is evidence that the person was not "in immediate apprehension of such a contact".

I only bring this up because i think it's interesting, and the underlying point you are making is 100% correct. This kind of thing is not normal nor innocent and not to be tolerated.

Comment · 5 years ago
> Last I checked, doing cljs on Clojure Tools wasn't even possible.

I'm not sure what this is referring to here. The "Getting Started" guide for ClojureScript uses deps.edn and the clojure CLI to introduce ClojureScript. You can certainly use figwheel or shadow-cljs with clojure tools.deps and deps.edn. And since the new build.tools allows just running a program, you can of course build clojurescript from a `build.clj` build script. I cannot think of a step in this process that isn't amenable or simplified by the use of the clojure cli, tools.deps, and now build.tools.

Comment · 5 years ago
A tuple (ordered pair commonly called) is `(x,y)`. The standard set theory definition underpinning this is that `(x,y)` is shorthand for the set of two elements `{ {x}, {x, y} }`. Where the "first coordinate" is the set with one element, and the "second coordinate" is the element in the set with two items that is not in the set with one item.

It's a standard definition that means we can talk about ordered pairs but still ground it in set theory.

Comment · 6 years ago
I read the article but either missed it or perhaps it was not included, but what is the result of the violation? Just not being invited back in future years? Does it only apply if the same sponsor puts on the conference?
Comment · 6 years ago
have done this lots of times.

    (if (test) (then) (else))
    (if true #_(test) (then) (else))
    (if false #_(test) (then) (else))
makes it quite simple to leave the tests in. Also, quite easy to raise forms (structurally raise) and reevaluate the form and then undo but not reevaluate the form to have it modified.
Comment · 6 years ago
can you explain?

    ((juxt type identity) (clojure.edn/read-string "x"))
    [clojure.lang.Symbol x]

It seems that the reader returns symbols just fine.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Invention is a kind of discovery.

Presumably you would agree that not all of discovery is also invention. So doesn't that restore the original question of asking whether mathematics is an invention or discovery which is not invention?

Comment · 6 years ago
I would purchase today except there doesn't seem to be any screen options higher than 1080. I can't go back to 1080 after years of 4k monitors and mbp retina for work and x1 carbon 2k screen on personal laptop.
Comment · 6 years ago
It mentions in the article that Delta investigated the issue:

> "Our top priority continues to be the safety of our employees, which is why we invested in a rigorous toxicology study to determine if there was a universal scientific issue with the uniform," Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) said in a statement in response to the May lawsuit. "The results of the study confirm our uniforms meet the highest textile standards (OEKO-TEX) with the exception of the optional flight attendant apron, which we removed from the collection."

Delta took this seriously and commissioned a toxicology study. The results are that the clothing meets the highest textile standards. What should Delta do at this time?

Comment · 6 years ago
The article mentions that they rarely had elements, not that they were rarely used. They might have been tested for membership in lots of hot paths. There's no way to know. And I bet a lazily-instantiated set might take up even more space than a regular set anyways. And if they are often used, even if not added to, it would have made the problem even worse.
Comment · 7 years ago
How can you use hooks right now? The standard is reagent which compiles down to classes which don't work with hooks. I think reagent has given a functional react and hooks style programming for years but now is a little behind the curve.
Comment · 7 years ago
Are you reading that as you are prevented from working on the car? I took that as a promise that they would be willing to service and repair the car with the same team that originally built the car
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Why? How should we decide to spend the resources it orbit Neptune? Why not Saturn or Jupiter; why not land on a comet? Why not put a human on the moon again or perhaps spend the money or medical research or nuclear fusion. What about Neptune seems so compelling to you? I would never have thought it an important or memorable goal and just want to hear why Neptune is so alluring.

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