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by Jach 4y ago
Finally got around to The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson ( https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda... ), I think it's my favorite this year. It's a fun psychology/
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by Jach 4y ago
Always amuses me that it's current year and people think about turning off checks, even when they're pretty much free in modern* (since 1993 Pentium, which got like 80% accuracy with its primitive branch prediction?) CPUs... &quot
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by Jach 4y ago
Both, though the latter is a bit mixed up with more wishful thinking like "why didn't I invest everything in Apple in [early year]". Life's too full of those to really regret individual ones too much though. I figured I&
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by Jach 4y ago
It is largely mentality. Both for the initial plan and execution of saving up (and trying to do it fast, e.g. in 5-10 years) and then pulling the trigger and quitting. I pulled the trigger in late 2020 based on somewhat optimistic forecasti
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by Jach 4y ago
I'm a vim user and generally dislike tools typing for me at the same time that I'm typing. I've gotten some value from https://github.com/tpope/vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-peopl... though when writing
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by Jach 4y ago
As part of a team at my last job, I worked on some core features of https://www.salesforce.com/products/experience-cloud/overvie... -- if I'm tricked into a bragging mood I like to say a book got written abou
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by Jach 4y ago
f4d4cb1c06b690f5d6ee5d9012f743c330511effdb24e55b04e602f87d38d89e I could have produced this hash at any point in the past, but after HN's edit window expires, one can be very certain I did not originally produce it at any point after
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by Jach 4y ago
Courts are generally more tech savvy than techies like to give them credit for. But it's worth mentioning that in recent years several US states have already passed legislation expressly forbidding courts from denying such evidence (ev
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by Jach 4y ago
Why not just have the device occasionally send sha256 sums of chunks to a third party service, like Twitter tweets, where it's clear you can't forge the date of the message? If you need to produce some chunks, the matching hashes
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by Jach 4y ago
(Tongue-in-cheek) #![allow(arithmetic_overflow)] fn main() { let x = 1073741823; println!("x = {}", x*3); } # cargo build && cargo run thread 'main' panicked at 'at
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by Jach 4y ago
"About 1,810,000 results (0.48 seconds)" Googling "python syntax error" "About 172,000,000 results (0.46 seconds)" ???
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by Jach 4y ago
I agree you can make arguments, I like your explanation for the final form further downthread. For the second form, another choice could be (.x foo) or (. foo x). Or if you're trying to write something like System.out.println("x&q
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by Jach 4y ago
Preferences seem to matter here, some people just seem to do better with longer cycles of feedback on more items than shorter cycles on fewer items. And some people really may need that "my code is compiling, it'll take a while an
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by Jach 4y ago
I can agree it's not the same, but what's the point? A more interesting disagreement is that I wouldn't say it's a downside (though yes, there are tradeoffs). Especially in Current Year when open source is fashionable an
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by Jach 4y ago
Fortunately doing infix math in CL has since the 90s been one small library include away: https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix
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by Jach 4y ago
You have Money types? Lucky, I still see people using floats...
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by Jach 4y ago
It's amusing that the first language with great refactoring tools had dynamic types (Smalltalk). But I think it's an underappreciated note that static type languages often create a bias for earlier coupling, less system-independen
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by Jach 4y ago
The second edition of the book Refactoring was written to use JavaScript instead of Java in part to dispel the myth that you can't confidently refactor without static types.
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by Jach 4y ago
There are also prefetch instructions. I listened to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetLtBH43_U recently (transcript: https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/ ), part of it talked about some wor
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by Jach 4y ago
It's nice that Twitter allows you to switch modes. Normally I'm in chronological mode, but I can go to the mobile.twitter.com site on desktop too, and that is in the "Algorithm" mode. So it's pretty easy to just swa
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by Jach 4y ago
I've also heard it's rather easier for a foreigner to buy than to find a willing landlord...
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by Jach 4y ago
Thanks for the additional info, I found it a rather terrible article. Even taking its numbers at face value, it makes me sad for non-Americans. The difference between the NY average of 43 sqm vs the rest is essentially an extra room.
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by Jach 4y ago
As a longtime user I thank your S/O, you're lucky to have them!
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by Jach 4y ago
I don't trust anyone's opinion, for or against, unless they've used alternatives. I've used systemd, I'll probably use it again, and I'll keep hating on it if someone gets me started. Fortunately on my own syst
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by Jach 4y ago
KYC and more broadly AML efforts are meant to detect and prevent both profit-motivated crime like fraud and terrorism. It's a shame that a 2011 report by the UN showed only 0.2% success rate (criminal enterprises kept 99.8% of illici
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by Jach 4y ago
What do you mean by push? Tesla already doesn't run ads, this would be a strange way to start.
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by Jach 4y ago
It's more polite than "webshit", but the overall comment isn't making the case that the more polite term should be used... I'd like it if people calling themselves web engineers held themselves to a higher standard.
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by Jach 4y ago
Not necessarily, but should-ing on behalf of other people is not often particularly useful unless you're already powerful. In the art of persuasion, it can also weaken your case considerably, in the same ways "I'm an atheist,
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by Jach 4y ago
Are you a Tesla shareholder?
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by Jach 4y ago
With respect to comparing oneself with other people, "Better at, not better than" -- can't remember when this was given, want to say 8th grade from some counselor interviewing me for something or another (career guidance? I r

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