JackFr

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by JackFr 1y ago
An enterprise can be financed with debt or equity. Issuing debt to buy back shares is simply changing the capital structure of the firm. It lacks a moral component.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/business/economist-pleads... And disgorge your profits, pay a fine, go to jail and agree never to work in the securities industry ever again.
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Or perhaps follows the steps correctly.
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by JackFr 1y ago
I often find myself saying please and thank you, but the inability of the LLM to pick up tone can be amusing. After one of the trashed my app in Cursor, and I pounded on my keyboard "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!!" and the model, ignori
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by JackFr 1y ago
As language tools, the anthropomorphism is kind of the point.
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by JackFr 2y ago
It’s really simple. Don't lie or cheat and don’t abide those who do. As a software development manager, I find the most important quality I need in my direct reports is honesty. If you are not honest with me it makes it very difficult
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by JackFr 2y ago
People who lie and cheat often justify themselves by asserting that everyone does. It’s easier than admitting you’re a liar and a cheat and changing your ways.
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The impotence of Congress is astonishing. Constitutionally the tariff power is exclusive to Congress, and Trump is exercising it only through emergency powers. Congress could end this easily had they a mind to. Presumably someone could m
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by JackFr 2y ago
It's a low effort way to make you consider all the necessary steps and possible contingencies for delivering the work. Creating the DB, onboarding to the API, etc., etc.
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by JackFr 2y ago
Questions are fine, unless they end up being a substitute for not preparing for class. As a professor I had once put it, "This is difficult material. I don't expect you to understand it from just one lecture. You need to read th
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by JackFr 2y ago
The authors cited a study saying just that: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38603042/
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by JackFr 2y ago
It is not interactive because the professor has demonstrated mastery of the subject matter and thoughts, ideas and suggestions of the students are an order of magnitude less of less value than that of the professors. Some subjects are condu
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by JackFr 2y ago
> I'd rather work with Scala devs on a Java codebase than Java devs on a Scala codebase. And Java devs on a Scala codebase is effectively the norm once your project enters BAU/maintenance phase.
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by JackFr 2y ago
People credit Dick Fosbury for inventing the modern high jump approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosbury_flop but it was the switch from jumping onto foam pads rather than into a pile of sawdust and sand that made
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by JackFr 2y ago
> I/O of specialized formats comes to mind quickly The classic "I'll write my own csv parser - how hard can it be?"
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by JackFr 2y ago
Presumably the corpus of news articles about "Local Dad is Unremarkable, Decent Fellow" is much, much smaller than the corpus of news articles about "Local Dad Sentenced in Shocking Child Murders". Garbage in, as they sa
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by JackFr 2y ago
Nailing the UI though is both very difficult and very important. In 2006, GIMP had a ton of features, but compared to Photoshop’s UI it was positively awful.
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by JackFr 2y ago
I'm not an academic economist, so what do I know, but I think the authors aare missing something else. I think the productivity was in some part driven by minimum wage laws. At lower wages, developing, installing and maintaining order
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by JackFr 2y ago
A 300 year old log table! What an opportunity to confirm Benford’s Law! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law “The discovery of Benford's law goes back to 1881, when the Canadian-American astronomer S
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by JackFr 2y ago
This is how I learned them in middle school — just common logs, as an aid to doing roots, powers and multiplications of big numbers. We were told in an off-hand way that logs could be to any base, even ‘e’, but not to worry about that for a
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by JackFr 2y ago
Who knows? Maybe it’ll turn out like flying and birds. Studying birds gave us some data, but mimicking them wasn’t what got us jumbo jets.
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by JackFr 2y ago
You still see some HP12Cs on bank trading floors.
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by JackFr 2y ago
"Ok Voyager, 5 things you did last week! You only have 3 instruments? Boo-hoo. You're fired!"
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by JackFr 2y ago
Love everything about Voyager, but some lazy editing in the article. It opens with them "cruising through interstellar space for more than 47 years" and then later mentions that they only reached interstellar space in 2012 and 20
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by JackFr 2y ago
The best math professor I ever had was a fantastic instructor because he had in head a catalog of wrong mental models and could nearly immediately grasp where a student might have taken a wrong turn and try to get them on the right path. (I
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by JackFr 2y ago
> To me this sentiment reads as "It sucked for me, therefore it needs to suck for you too. Feel the pain of previous generations!" I explicitly say it didn’t suck and it wasn’t painful.
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by JackFr 2y ago
When I plead with my direct reports to please comply with the company policy of in the office 3 days a week, and I am deluged with a flood of complaints, I suppose sometimes I’m less empathetic than I might be. It’s not because I’m rich.
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by JackFr 2y ago
> I'm also quite worried by the possibility to filter federal workers based on the union status Well, from a purely day-to-day, operational HR standpoint, that information is important. Like many things, in the wrong hands it’s eas
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“Selfhosed” describes a lot of my software development.
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This is a recipe for disaster the first time you break something. Getting a yes or a no indicates that your boss is aware of it. When you’re in the hot seat, and someone asks “Who approved this?”, the truthful answer is that no one approve

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