JanisL

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by JanisL 6y ago
The recovery from 2008 was very uneven, because I'm in tech I did quite well but many of the people I knew from my community that were not in tech did badly. I think this unevenness in recovery is why that narrative persists so strongl
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by JanisL 6y ago
House prices can fall in real terms even if they don't in nominal terms. I think the is exactly the situation we are likely to see in an environment where the solution to every problem is "stimulus" and "money printer go
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Most of the people I know who are struggling are stuggling because rent and utilities takes the vast majority of their post-tax income. There's a few people I know who are just terrible with their finances (people who no doubt would ha
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by JanisL 6y ago
Monetary policy is a huge factor in all this, asset holders are greatly advantaged over productive members of society at the moment. The combination of artificially low interest rates with significant inflation in particular make housing sp
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by JanisL 6y ago
Part of why PayPal got big is that at the time it was new the incumbent banks had transactions that tended to be slow and crappy and sometimes expensive on top of that. I remember when I was younger that there was this "mysterious&quot
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by JanisL 6y ago
Ah that makes more sense, thanks for clarifying.
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This is definitely not OK because it reduces the entropy of the passwords without the user knowing this has happened.
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by JanisL 6y ago
I always feel as though having the calling party cover the costs of the call is one of the most effective ways to get rid of phone spam. When the receiving party has to pay it seems to create all the wrong sorts of financial incentives for
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by JanisL 6y ago
What would you suggest as a replacement?
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There seems to be this version of “done is better than perfect” thinking where people think that aiming for quality in any form will get in the way of getting things done. Where this gets especially pathological is when people assume that t
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by JanisL 6y ago
> Firefox extensions aren't something worth working on any more. Unfortunately I now totally share this sentiment, I had an extension that delayed page loads in a realistic way to test slower connections. I started on back when XUL
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by JanisL 6y ago
In what way do you see apps being built on blockchains? What does such an implementation look like?
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If keeping my professional data safe from deletion means that I will as a result get more boring tech I think I'd make that choice most times in the course of my work. What I'm finding annoying in recent times is how I'm not
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by JanisL 6y ago
Some NIMBYs I've met just don't want any change at all if there's any amount of immediate inconvenience they would face as a direct result regardless of how small. In these worst NIMBY cases there's often no particul
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by JanisL 6y ago
I was stuck in traffic for hours and had to abandon my car but I was on a mission to like your post so I managed to crawl all the way to my keyboard one suburb over to give this comment a like! I have to say its not often that someone I don
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by JanisL 6y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Here's a man page for anyone else that was interested: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/wcwidth.3.html
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by JanisL 6y ago
But this "cognitive freedom" is an illusion because for many people in many jurisdictions the lack of explicit patent clauses in the MIT license causes potential patent issues. As a business owner I'm actually increasingly wo
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MIT licence can be community hostile(lesinskis.com)
6 points by JanisL 6y ago|2 comments
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What I'm trying to say is that it's not just some simple linear trade you can make where "less quality" implies "more features" or "more quality" implies "less features". Usually when I enco
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by JanisL 6y ago
While this is no doubt true the (ab)use of printf is really where the magic happens though
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This makes me wonder if there's some sort of Unicode equivalent for this?
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I define good code in terms of economics, the whole point of writing code is to generate some sort of benefit. The nature of the utility that is created by code is therefore heavily context dependent. So from this perspective I'd argue
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by JanisL 6y ago
In modern times there's a definite case of Dutch Disease going on with the economy some sectors have been very successful and have sucked all the air out of the rest of the economy. Why this has been allowed to happen is due lot of cul
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by JanisL 6y ago
I'm a bit surprised to hear this, is this a common thing to do in the DSP world in 2020?
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by JanisL 6y ago
Thanks for this perspective, I guess the gameability of the metrics explains a lot.
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Is it just me or is Total Cost of Ownership being talked about way less often these days?
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by JanisL 6y ago
I worked with a company last year that consistently made poor decisions due to lack of resources, especially time. Sometimes "opportunity cost" was used as an excuse for a lot of things. Now sure if you have a few different immedi
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by JanisL 6y ago
I'd really love an explanation of what specific impulse is. I've looked it up a few times but the units seconds^-1 confuses me, what does this represent?
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by JanisL 6y ago
Huh neat, I didn't realize there was a HTML tag (<abbr>) till just now, thanks! EDIT: Just spent the last 45 minutes adding it in on my sites in various spots, hopefully this helps the readers.
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Exponentials and the power of one percent growth a day(scrygroup.com)
2 points by JanisL 7y ago|0 comments

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