ArkyBeagle

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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
We still have a lot of different kinds of scribes. The number of people who can put together effective, performant and reasonably correct systems is not that large.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It was never very uniform, but parts of Texas were quite violent in the post-Civil War period. Parts of the culture kind of got stuck there. The documentary about Todd Willingham goes into it at some depth. So far as the Federal government
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Why would I want to build Firefox from source? I don't build things that run on thousands of machines. Last thing I ran any code on had a 2500 HP diesel; the electronics were in the noise.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
This ranged from networking equipment to phone switches to equipment control. Most of it was bare metal. I've never written a business application in my life.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It made no measurable difference. The acceptance criteria for the system were not materially affected. Since the optimization did not improve the performance by that, it was generally set one way ( mostly off ) and let that way. Teams I&#
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's true. There is a riff in "Mad Men" where they just walk off and leave picnic litter in a park. That was also true.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
In the large, no, they don't care about the 90-95% of the code base that's not performance critical. And these days, the stuff that is critical will be #ifdef and asm(...) stew. I can't tell you how many projects I have been
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Just use the parts that work unambiguously. It's a surprisingly small subset of the language.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
When unemployment drops below a nominal rate, they raise rates. We've had deflation and near-deflation since 2008. They set a 2% target and miss it more often than not.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Usury is One of Those Words. I don't know how a debt instrument needs a distinction like that. Our culture is such that we cannot make basic distinctions between rents in general and productive work. I suspect we'd have to fix tha
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Of course I mean disparity in mass :) "Walkability" is inherently political ( goes to land use ) , and it's strongly correlated at least with people's identity. Cars have been about for 100 years, but it's only rece
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Wow. That usually results in an outstanding warrant here.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It seems that money creation would be tied to new loans no matter what. A first run through the paper seems to explain the '90s S&L crisis more than it does 2008 - the S&Ls were closer to the ILF model than the FMC model. I&#x2
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It was messed up when they got to it, just like for their parents, and their grandparents before. Granted, boomers sort of went nuts with it. Housing is subsidized, and this is what subsidy looks like. It's down to folklore that subsid
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Dean Baker places this at around 1980, so more than 25 years. There was the one span of time ( late '90s ) where it was suspended, and wages grew. He has a new book, "Rigged" and flogs the book on BookTv ( my "books for
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It depends. Outside NYC/SanFran, rents are usually what you'd pay for a mortgage plus some nominal upcharge. I took a gig in Houston in 2011, knew it was a bubble going in, and rented. I probably paid $200 more per month to rent v
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Policy has been explicitly designed to suppress wages. The Humphrey-Hawkins bill of 1979 is considered in Fed moves, but a vague notion of "price stability" gets first pick.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The forces arrayed against that are considerable. In fairness, it would involve moving an awful lot of civic furniture.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Banks just provide a service. IMO, cultural norms are the problem - people have overbought housing chasing various subsidies. People are behaving as-if they can depend on rising wages when there's only been the one spot of rising wages
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The number of desirable places with good wages has declined. We're struggling with this. Dean Baker has at least the start of a theory. His BookTv is here, soon ( it was on air yesterday, so they haven't posted it yet ): https:&#
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I forget who it was, but they said "Everyone is born short on housing." You bring up cars and TVs - for new cars, the thing actually being sold is not so much the car, it is the financing. This is less true than it once was[1], bu
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I sincerely hope that you followed up and did everything you could to see that [expletive deleted] in jail.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I worked in Montreal for a while. It has a fully self-sufficient downtown, and world class public transport. But if you drove to a WalMart in a suburb, there would be 20 checkers open with ten or twenty people queued up for each.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It might be considered a sort-of subsidy, but ultimately, the people who own land fronting on a road are the main beneficiaries. I also cannot frame a disparity in mass as "taking away rights." It only gets worse if this is identi
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
But all systems - not just software - eventually hit some sort of internally derived limit. At some point, you have to go with what you know. You can't expect perfect knowledge on the part of those in the past.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The opportunity to not be obsessed with stuff is one benefit of the path we've taken. Perhaps you'd have to know Greatest/Silent generation people more to see the change.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Greed, destruction and misery are the defaults. Any system which scales at all will amplify them.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Free markets are a useful fiction that was developed around the time of Adam Smith. They are ( I think, anyway ) a demonstrable improvement over mercantilism. We more or less know how, and we more or less know why. The problem with "th
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
"The GEODE" in GPS navigation is at least a culturally significant fiction. Of course, it's obviously not very infinite. But it's something very much like a sphere that also happens to have significant practical import.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Euler held that infinities in general were nothing more than a way of reasoning about limits.

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