DalekBaldwin

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by DalekBaldwin 5mo ago
EIB?
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by DalekBaldwin 7mo ago
Jump straight to the second option. You have to presume that the content they sent you has no relation whatsoever to their actual understanding of the matter.
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by DalekBaldwin 8mo ago
Analogously to the surface of last scattering in cosmology, the dawn of the LLM era may define a surface of first scattering for our descendants.
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by DalekBaldwin 9mo ago
My org had the opposite problem in the Covid remote transition. At one point we successfully enforced meetings ending 5 minutes before the hour, but then somebody would just open the next meeting 5 minutes early.
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by DalekBaldwin 10mo ago
Right, I don't think I've ever actually seen anybody make the "nothing to hide" argument. Maybe it was used more commonly in the past, but I only ever see people pre-emptively attack it without prompting. It seems to be
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by DalekBaldwin 10mo ago
I'm assuming the lockfile should be checked into the repo itself, which presents a bootstrapping problem if you have to run an action to create the lockfile in the first place. They may need to build proper support for running actions
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by DalekBaldwin 11mo ago
> That points to a deficiency in the “composition over inheritance” aphorism: those aren’t the only two games in town. If you have procedures as first-class types (like blocks in Smalltalk, or lambdas in many languages), then you might p
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by DalekBaldwin 3y ago
High school, at least as far as it serves as a sorting mechanism for top students, follows a kind of Parkinson's law: the number of hoops to jump through increases until it reaches the natural limit of how little sleep the top students
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by DalekBaldwin 3y ago
It's difficult to relate this to modern perspectives on software design and architecture because the running example is hard to comprehend. It seems to be an interface to a data structure that may have been useful in certain applicatio
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
This is similar to how "numbers racket" lotteries in the early 20th century operated, so that players could trust that the outcome could not be rigged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game#Gameplay (The
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
> Is Casey assuming the entire commercial software industry === Uncle Bob? It's uncharitable to take Casey as making absolute blanket statements like that, but still, it would not be unreasonable for him to single out Uncle Bob in p
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
I think this trend is why they've gone all-in on sex-on-the-beach shows and true crime docuseries. One season can easily be self-contained, and if the viewer gets another, it's just a nice bonus.
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
The goal is the end product, yes. But there's joy to be had in getting there. And more importantly, I know I won't be able to achieve it without a good feedback loop for iterating on my designs, which means doing at least some mac
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
Yes, I was implying "to do stuff like the author of the article does" ( https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/rstory/ ), coming from a very similar situation as him -- as a software engineer with an already broad gener
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
As somebody trying to get into mechanical engineering while living in a small urban apartment, this has been an incredible resource... not that I've made much progress along the lines it describes though. It's tough to plan a path
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
It's not exactly an easy read -- whenever I recommend it to someone I also warn them that it contains the most passive sentence in the history of the English language: "Information obtained by a member of group A about the compile
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
A corollary: Think about all the places you've ever worked, all the organizations you've been part of, where you know how the sausage is actually made, and how that differs from the way the organization portrays itself. Now think
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
Here are some of the more practical insights for medium/large-scale software design that have stuck with me. They apply regardless of whether I'm working in a language that lets me easily express categorical-ish stuff in the type
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
Yes, a good project/module system helps, but is no panacea. As TFA said: "As a result of having only conventions, there is no strong insurance against a developer using the dependencies directly, instead of going through the ports
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
The most easily available Meccano-compatible system still in production is the Swiss brand Stokys: https://www.stokys.ch/de-ch/home/ The web site and order system is in German, but I've been able to talk to t
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
Prestige is informal and unmeasurable. Columbia's prestige will remain high even if the quality of its education declines. But people expect the top-ranked schools to be roughly the same as the top-prestige schools, which is one of the
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
I find it to be the best introduction because it draws on material from economists of different major schools of thought without requiring the student to subscribe to any school in particular. He can do that because he focuses on the struct
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
The reserve ratio is one limiting factor among several that affect to what extent commercial banks can expand the money supply. For many decades leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, banks (in the US at least) extended loans up to this l
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
In addition to the "about" page, the secret "episode zero" explains more about the philosophy behind the series. I have no idea about the science (or lack thereof) behind it, but it certainly matches my experience and my
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by DalekBaldwin 4y ago
This is the general answer to "why is there so much bad code?" in almost any context. The marginal value of a poorly-written solution compared to no solution is usually much larger than the marginal value of a well-written solutio
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by DalekBaldwin 5y ago
Interpolation is its own can of worms, but if you just want to be able to encode absolutely anything without escape characters, you just need two delimiters: "*n [stringA] "*n "*n [stringB] '*n '*n [str
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by DalekBaldwin 6y ago
"This paper seems to be saying all the math Stephen Dolan did was self-important overkill, at least in hindsight." It shows that you can implement algorithms that give the same results as MLsub without following the algebra so clo
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Interactive visualization of Kerr spherical photon orbits (2016)(duetosymmetry.com)
37 points by DalekBaldwin 7y ago|3 comments
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by DalekBaldwin 7y ago
> To add to this, that yang subreddit actively encourages people to create Twitter accounts (if you don't already have one) to participate. Not only that, Yang ran a couple of UBI-themed contests offering a chance to win money for f
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by DalekBaldwin 7y ago
And due to scale-end effects, you should expect to compute a weaker correlation from a naive calibration analysis. If you are at the zeroth percentile, you can only overestimate your performance; if you are at the hundredth, you can only

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