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by LeonB 4y ago
I felt like the author’s choice to quote that specific part of whatever she wrote was a pretty harsh choice. As a reader you see that and jump to the exact conclusions you’re alluding to here.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Die hard #BD60E2 voters are splitting the vote and giving an advantage to non #BD60E1 voters.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Bingo
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by LeonB 4y ago
“More wealthy”? 100K in 1980 was sufficient to build and compound your wealth. That’s wealthy.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Good point re payments. Your system today doesn’t even handle left pad, outsourcing even that to a non deterministic tree of geo-distributed modules.
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by LeonB 4y ago
If “education” is considered a “positional good” then it’s not an “education” in the sense I meant it above and in the sense that it’s meant when considering societal wellbeing. To see it that way you’d either have to have too little or too
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by LeonB 4y ago
An Instagram customer being asked to take a selfie seems like a very effective and non-intrusive method in this specific context .
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by LeonB 4y ago
Having a strong social support system goes a long way. Help meet people’s basic medical needs, basic educational needs, have affordable housing, a minimum wage that people can survive upon. All of those are preferable (and well studied) met
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by LeonB 4y ago
As I was reading it I thought … okay next it’ll go into IAsyncEnumerable and could feel my self start to sweat. Then it was over!
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by LeonB 4y ago
Hi guido!
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by LeonB 4y ago
In a tree you have branches off branches off branches etc. You can’t orient yourself - you can’t tell where you are - unless you count the branches. And indenting makes that visible. In the examples for TFA, you can tell your location from
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by LeonB 4y ago
Really good article. Make changes and corrections to it, sure, but be careful not to over react to the criticism and make too many changes such that you then get even more critical feedback and make more corrections and get worse feedback a
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by LeonB 4y ago
(Just trying to get this clear in my own head by writing it down.) When a real world system goes non linear (like the Tacoma Narrows case) you don’t get a sigmoid but something catastrophic. (If you graph the amplitude of the vibrations the
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by LeonB 4y ago
As a thought experiment, imagine you had a smart phone without internet access (but it was somehow able to download apps). Apps you would want on that device might include a lot of healthy apps. For example — It would replace many of the de
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by LeonB 4y ago
Not quite.
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by LeonB 4y ago
It’s provides different formats, I was using this one in the past from Powershell invoke-restmethod wttr.in/?format=4 …and I think it was quite compact
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by LeonB 4y ago
Thank you! I was surprised how far down the comments I had to go until I found someone expressing any scepticism whatsoever about this story. It’s a very convenient anecdote to have happened to someone who just happens to have a barrow to p
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by LeonB 4y ago
Yes - so better comparison would be “think of it like leeches- best applied regularly to reduce your circulating blood volume”
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by LeonB 4y ago
Yep that’s exactly it.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I thought it was “the featured article” — in any case, it means in this context — “the linked url that this hacker news thread is discussing.”
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by LeonB 4y ago
I remember my annoyance at XML that you couldn’t simply append a row, due to the closing tag. I think there was some off-spec dialog called something like “appendable xml” (only snappier) that said the closing tag of the root element was op
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by LeonB 4y ago
Yeh, I think you’re spot on. It’s bad enough that lot of people will implement direct alternatives, but it’s good enough that none of the alternatives will get any traction — unless they can be “just click the file” compatible with Excel (o
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by LeonB 4y ago
One major limitation with quoted values that can this contain record delimiters (as opposed to escaping the delimiters) is that it stops systems from being able to load records in parallel. Some systems ban embedded record delimiters, for t
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by LeonB 4y ago
> OP's proposal is equally "highly sub-optimal for the job" for exactly the same imaginary reasons they dislike the currently available encoding formats, but they don't seem to realize it. This is a really unfair appr
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by LeonB 4y ago
I put some work into creating a standard, csvz, for putting csv files and their metadata, into a zip file. https://github.com/secretGeek/csvz It’s a pretty powerful concept. SimonW’s preferred technique of using sqlite
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Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?(successfulsoftware.net)
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by LeonB 4y ago
Copilot was a very good implementation in it’s time. It was a pleasure to use.
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by LeonB 5y ago
Just astounded that they’d think “hockey stick growth” of costs is a good thing. Very dot-com collapse attitude. They took funding from Stripe and I guess they misinterpreted the point of “do things that don’t scale”.
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by LeonB 5y ago
I worked at a company that was taken over by another company. Soon after, they began this creepy process of monitoring “utilisation” where minimum wage strangers with clipboards would walk around every fifteen minutes recording how many des
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by LeonB 5y ago
I’d give the doctor above a little more credit than that, and also would expect the papers she dislikes to be far less impactful than that. Clinicians I know who get frustrated with academic research that draws conclusions about clinical wo

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