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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Why is this general technique worth a blog post by someone who makes his living coaching working programmers, and not taught in elementary school? (To be fair I think the first time I heard it explicitly from a teacher was Jr high shop clas
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Going back a little more, there's Zeno
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Agriculture mechanized in the 1920's, and by the 1960's US Federal ag policy was already "get big or get out". If we are seeing problems in former farm country now , a century later, it suggests people are far less flex
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ... but that's the way to bet.
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Most likely the kind of project that uses lookup tables to synthesize a decimal alu, per https://sed.sourceforge.io/grabbag/tutorials/lookup_table_co... ;-)
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Vernacular architecture here was for people to live directly over the barn, as a side effect giving them residual heating.
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
The "getting lucky once" hypothesis would suggest it's a poor idea to let oligarchs run a country, under the assumption that most oligarchs, like Rockefeller, made their pile by making poor bets that thereupon paid out big.
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Anyone have a link to the actual paper? 20k EUR is not exactly life or even circumstance changing, and 20k SEK would only be about 2k EUR. (In addition one expects lottery payouts to skew strongly)
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
Is the author just trying to say good design solutions subsume poor ones?
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
If the brits and not the yanks had taken the lead in production hw, we would still be saying "mill" instead of "ALU".
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
When people teamed up with horses in the recent past, the human partner got enhanced senses, speed, and strength; the horse partner got someone with opposable thumbs who planned for the future and could acquire food, shelter, and vet care v
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by 48864w6ui 3y ago
A log scale would have been useful for this hockey stick.