cpdean

You play many rounds of trying to fairly divvy up piles of loot. Different pieces combine in ways to increase their overall value, as well as each piece having a base level amount of value. As a result the actual act of dividing it fairly becomes complicated, and players will try to influence the outcome in order to maximize their score at the end of the game to win.

Comment · 3 years ago

As a Firefox user, no, I cannot. I can only screenshot youtube and amazon prime video.

Comment · 3 years ago

It sounds great in theory, but the reality is that many car owners obscure their license plates or use ghost plates. NYPD has no interest in enforcing the rules against this either.

Comment · 3 years ago

Can you call it value when it's fundamentally rent-seeking? This wasn't value created, it was value extracted.

Comment · 3 years ago

I like SQL and all but I really don't care to follow ISO releases. They're hundreds of dollars and nobody actually implements the whole thing. I get way more excited about database releases.

Does anyone else find value in what's in an ISO standard?

Comment · 3 years ago

> Even if a project is not hosted on GitHub, other people have the legal right (depending on the license) to redistribute the source code. It means that they have the right to share the code of others on GitHub, as long as they respect the terms of license. This is totally legal. But then, Copilot will be able to analyze the code and violates the license terms, which isn’t.

While encouraging people to not distribute code via Github may mitigate the issue some, the actual issue is how Github has mass-automated the process of violating open source licenses. Github should pay a fine for every suggestion Copilot produces that violates a software license, plain and simple. Don't blame the people that unknowingly upload code to the training dataset.

Comment · 3 years ago

I'm a huge fan of awk but the "Python vs awk" page this links to [1] shows python code that's almost deliberately atrocious.

Take this function the author wrote for converting a list of integers (or strings) into floats

    def ints2float(integerlist):
        for n in range(0,len(integerlist)):
            integerlist[n]=float(integerlist[n])
        return integerlist

Using `range(0,len(integerlist))` immediately betrays how the author doesn't understand python. The first arg in `range` is entirely redundant. Mutating the input list like this is also just bad design. If someone has used python for longer than a month, you'd write this with just `[float(i) for i in integerlist]`.

Further down in the function `format_captured` you see this attempt at obfuscation:

    freqs=ints2float(filter(None,captured[n].split(' '))[2:5])

Why bother with a `filter`? Who hurt you?

    freqs = ints2float(captured[n].split(' ')[2:5])

That said, the author's implementation in awk does look pretty clean. I'm just peeved that they straw-manned the other language.

[1] https://pmitev.github.io/to-awk-or-not/Python_vs_awk/

Comment · 3 years ago

I get it, makes sense to want prevent grief by avoiding connection and love. And if you're meeting your needs in life, that's fine and all.

But it's because of love that grief has meaning.