MajimasEyepatch

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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
That’s true of Trump’s base, but I don’t know if it’s true of swing voters. A lot of them are just frankly ignorant and think they voted for “change” without understanding what that actually means.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
When the Democrats had a majority in the House and a supermajority in the Senate when Obama was elected, they couldn't even get a public option included in the Affordable Care Act, and the right so successfully demagogued "Obamaca
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I’m sure he’s great, but that CV sounds much more like Bill Nye (Boeing engineer turned comic turned science communicator) than Carl Sagan, who was an active scientist and researcher his entire career while also doing science communication.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
The title isn't misleading. Maybe it would be helpful if it included the date, but no company the size of Atlassian is going to shut down a product like Opsgenie without a window for people to migrate. This seems to be a fairly generou
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Having a decent intuitive notion of Fourier transforms is an incredibly useful tool in your toolbox, even if you can't derive a Fourier transform by hand or write a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. The basic idea is this: (almos
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
As an example, if you're trying to "smooth out" some signal, what you're really trying to do is remove the high frequency components. So using a Fourier transform to convert it to the frequency domain lets you directly w
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Does the commercial viability change when one considers regulatory constraints on building new fission plants? People may be more inclined to allow fusion reactors than fission reactors, since the former doesn't require uranium. (I&#x2
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
It’s often useful to meet individually with each person before the presentation too, especially those people who are likely to throw up roadblocks. Ideally everyone is in agreement before the meeting, and the final decision is essentially a
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Calculus is so important for understanding the natural world. Being able to reason about rates of change is a valuable skill. That said, spending a bunch of time memorizing stupid identities to compute integrals is probably not the best way
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
> The trouble with functional programming is functional programmers As a former Scala dev, I feel this in my bones.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I begrudgingly have had to enter the world of Spring Boot over the last couple years, and this drives me nuts. Every damn thing needs getters and setters so that the ten thousand magic Spring annotations can mutate things all over the place
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Meanwhile domestic energy production hit record highs under the Biden administration.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
No. HIPAA is rarely straightforward, and in any event it’s not uncommon for employers to have some degree of access to claims data. In a case like this I assume the company self-funds the plan.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Also, when margins are slim, a major event (like a series of wildfires in one of the biggest cities in the US) can wipe out those profits. A responsible insurer can withstand one bad year. But if those major events start happening with more
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
The profit margins on insurance are usually pretty slim. Insurance companies are generally not well differentiated from one another, so they have few avenues to compete other than on price. A state-run insurance plan also has to operate at
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I think this nails the problem with using that phrase as a rallying cry. There is a difference between people whose problem is that their income is too low to be secure and people who could easily live a secure and comfortable lifestyle if
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
The problem with “paycheck to paycheck” is that it evokes images of people struggling to make ends meet—to pay the rent, keep the lights on, and put food on the table. But a lot of people today are using it to mean someone who’s living beyo
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I get where you're coming from, and obviously there are practical limitations on how deep one can and should go in an introductory class. But my recollection of AP Statistics 15 years ago is that, because the exam and therefore curricu
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
As the saying goes, there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. If you're going to do this, you either have to explicitly plan for the cost of the rewrite to do it the "right" way after doing it the "w
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
It leads people down a different path, but that's not necessarily the correct path. For example, between the lack of discoverability of separate repos and the hurdle of modifying multiple separate repos, teams might be tempted to dupli
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
See also state governments' pension problems.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I guess it depends on what you define as a successful outcome. Recent changes to the law mean that employees are automatically enrolled at the matching rate and then their contribution automatically escalates by 1 percentage point per year
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Employers match employee contributions to a 401(k), so it's not purely out of one's own wages. In this case, Boeing is matching up to 12% of the employee's income, which is very high.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Media organizations like the New York Times have had unions for a long time. The Times Tech Guild is part of the New York Times Guild, which is part of the NewsGuild of New York, an umbrella organization for a lot of media unions in New Yor
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Sure, they can render at different resolutions, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a PDF that has a responsive layout. A restaurant website is probably going to use some very user-friendly CMS like Squarespace that can absolutely provide you
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Dynamically generating PDFs on the fly based on the user’s screen size sounds downright Kafkaesque. I feel a deep sense of dread any time I have to touch PDF-rendering code. Any halfway decent CMS (or just plain old HTML and CSS) can easily
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I can't find the source at the moment, but I've seen it reported in the past that engineers are actually unusually likely to be fundamentalist Christians who believe in creationism. Engineers are also unusually likely to be Islami
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
On the other hand, nearly everyone believes in black holes, and there's no practical use for that information. The difference is that "we pointed a telescope at the sky and saw something" is easier for a layman to understand
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
The problem with not offering SSO on lower tiers is that it can make it hard to test into a new service. I might want to try out a new tool with one team for a couple of months and see how it goes before recommending adoption for a broader
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I sometimes wonder if Kotlin will end up on the same trajectory. Java has added a lot of pretty good features since Kotlin first came on the scene, and the gap has narrowed considerably. The one thing enormous thing that Kotlin has that can

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