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by 3pt14159 4y ago
It may solve opening lines, but it doesn't really solve the general concept of mass memorization. After a few moves more than 960 possible configurations of chess exist from a normal board anyway. And you can say, "oh well but the
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
> Meaning you could absolutely suck at your job or be incredible at it and you’d get nearly the same regards in either case. Story time. There was once a junior data scientist at Shopify that had learned Python and SQL and was tasked to
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
You presume that the program is able to determine that it is wrong. One of the most annoying things moving from Ruby / Python into a language with static types that are checked at compile time is dealing with JSON from an external API.
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
All the mechanics in the world won't help you if the fundamentals are broken. At some point, when push comes to shove, someone has to take delivery of something. This comes down to a matter of efficiency and faith. Who do you have more
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Yes, I think your way of phrasing it is more correct. Lives are on the line with psychology, but the feedback loop is usually broken.
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
You say that, but the nice thing about an app is that they don't go to sleep.
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
When I was poor[0] it wasn't really the food that got to me. No, rice kept well and I'd cut up some hotdogs into it or melt some butter or oil or something. The problem was the crushing depression of thinking of every single quart
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Not going to comment on psychology directly, because I don't know enough about it, but there are some fields where there really is no replication crisis. In structural engineering we literally tore metals apart to find their physical p
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Call around 100 high net worth individuals. Tell them you're looking to build an app to help them manage all aspects off their life. Relationship with spouse, how to handle vices, deal flow, whatever. The point is that there are a lot
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Wait, graph-tool is finally on Python 3? I loved graph-tool. Even did a conference talk on it once. But for years it was Python 2.7 only, so much that I finally gave up on ever using it again. For me, NetworkX is good for exploration, but
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Right. What I'm saying is that swap vs available HD is a tradeoff the OS should be making and it's probably going too far in the "have avail HD" side of the spectrum or at least not employing enough predictive analytics
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Eh—the blame comes down to the swap. If the swap were allocated to the whole HD that wasn't used for actual files, then this hack wouldn't work. If the swap were leaner that it already is, this hack would be necessary in every pro
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
A bit off topic, but can we start straight up catching these in Low Earth Orbit? What's the hard part here? Detecting them before they're close or getting a earth orbiting satellite to the precise right place at the right time?
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Where are the fire engines this time guys?
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
In the long run this is counterproductive. First, you end up working with people that make it past recruiters that require you to lie. Second, you don't end up practicing the skills of tactfully educating someone that is a gatekeeper.
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Imagine how we would feel if we adjusted lat-long definitions instead of smearing or leaping time in order to adjust for the slowing down of the rotation of the earth. Does that sound bananas to you? Of course it is. That's what we&#x2
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
The issue doesn't go away. > more human friendly formats for display to end users. This is what's doing the very heavy lifting in your proposal. Leaving aside not knowing when future leap seconds will occur (and thus getting mi
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Eh. I see the downsides of a lot of that HFT stuff, but there are upsides too. Yes a lot of it is zero sum, but not all of it is. Lowering spreads between currencies, say, does materially help non-finance actors. There are other areas of th
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Yes, but not every logger, db, etc is going to include the timezone. What they did was the right call for the situation.
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
> Most serious philosophers would agree with the idea that scientific evidence is a good way to rule out beliefs inconsistent with reality. And how did they get to that conclusion? The answer of whether or not the mind or the senses can
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
The problem with this is that I don't want to maintain an iOS app. I've considered RSS feeds, etc. But at the end of the day holding onto a song you love that you paid for shouldn't be this hard. For subscription services, I
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
After a while the speed at which a fan turns in a circle in order to move heated air off a CPU stops being interesting and larger questions that aren't as falsifiable start to seem interesting since they have so many implications to th
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Because they lean on their axioms in such ways that leads them to put faith in them to answer harder questions. It's the same basis that most technically minded people have that leads them to reject the idea that God exists. They put t
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Well, I make no bones about the fact I loved the Queen. So take this with as much salt as you think you need, but I honestly think that there isn't really a better solution than what we have. Queen Elizebeth did not want the role of mo
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
(dmix man long time no see! Let's hang out soon!) I agree that this is a true work of art. The variation and attention to detail is delightful. I hope more people put together and share stuff like this on HN.
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I know this seems weird to outsiders, but as a Canadian I quite like it. Having PMs elected by MPs means that it is harder for a single rabble rousing politician to sweep to power and distort the use of, say, the military. Having Governers
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
People said the same thing with crypto way back. The truth is sometimes people are able to make money on something. Sometimes their returns are going to be eye watering. But you should know going in that finance is a game for sharks. If you
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
These are obviously complete trash. Waking people up in the middle of the night for some random child that was abducted half a Belgium away with no real call to action even if it were in the same very small town. What we need is political p
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
This type of thinking is how we get ants. Ants Lana. Ants. There are real humans in the loop here. They can easily put their foot down and find another job if they get fired. These are not people at the edge of feeding their families. These
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I've done serverless where it made sense: Data feeds for the Nasdaq where end of stock market day means lighting up tons of servers reactively to incoming data from data brokers. Everywhere else, I went with traditional deployment of

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