A friend of mine simply forgot the term thirsty and told me he felt the urge to drink. We kept that one too.
It makes me think of the how "I have thirst" is the literal translation from the French for "I'm thirsty."
Readit Newshavermeyer commented on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs wsj.com/lifestyle/ford-mo... · Posted by u/Caiero
The Abseil time library makes time and date parsing and manipulation a lot nicer in C++: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/time
What are some fun or unusual examples of Hyrum’s Law that you’ve run into? Were you the user, inadvertently depending on some implementation detail? Or were users depending on your implementation’s details?
I reviewed a CL from Hyrum at Google where he was trying to remove a `set_timeout(float)` method in favor of `set_timeout(absl::Duration)` and changed the former to delegate to the latter. It turned out that there was some special handling of inf/nan in the legacy API, despite no mention in the documentation, and his CL broke a number of tests. It was amusing to experience Hyrum's law so directly :)
havermeyer commented on Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways mariusbancila.ro/blog/202... · Posted by u/signa11
Something else to consider is compile time versus runtime validation with formatting libraries, e.g. due to passing the wrong number or type of arguments. The Abseil str_format library does compile time validation for both when possible: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/format
havermeyer commented on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use... · Posted by u/shaklee3
Allow me to quote you back to you. "It’s also not really serverless to begin with, because at the end of the day code is being executed on a physical device that many of us might call a “server” [1]
A critical mass of people have adopted the term serverless. Therefore, the term means whatever they want it to mean, right? No sense in swimming against the tide here, correct?
Yes, words mean what people want them to mean if we're willing to shrug our shoulders and accept the new usage or terminology. That doesn't mean it's never correct to fight against sloppy or non-standard usage in the hopes that it won't be considered standard.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35811741&p=2#35812073
I wish I could find the article I read a while ago on the history, but it reminds me of how "nauseous" ended up becoming synonymous with "nauseated."
havermeyer commented on Yeah, about that active comeback... ft.com/content/c331b279-0... · Posted by u/belter
But isn't that what the "lifecycle" target date funds do? The argument is that you will know the schedule you want to rebalance on for your custom personal needs, better than the generic target-date "lifecycle" fund will?
Sorry, I didn't check comments for a while. The target date funds tend to have higher management fees and yes, worse composition of stocks versus bonds compared to holding a mix yourself, IMO, based on your goals.
havermeyer commented on Yeah, about that active comeback... ft.com/content/c331b279-0... · Posted by u/belter
If by "lifecycle funds" you mean target date funds, setting your allocation to 100% for your retirement year is the most reasonable strategy you can do.
FYI you may be better off using an index fund and then rebalancing into bonds or other fixed income options closer to retirement. See this article, for example.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/one-of-the-biggest-retiremen...
havermeyer commented on Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/carabiner
It also turns out, a lot fewer people are as into hiking as they claim on their profile.
That would also be interesting to analyze: which de facto attributes do people add because they think they're needed to pass an initial screening?
havermeyer commented on Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/carabiner
Personally, I use a 2.625% cash back card with the "catch" being that I have to have enough stock in their subsidiary brokerage to qualify for the top rewards tier. Since I just buy and hold SP500 ETFs, this is an easy requirement.