Marazan

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by Marazan 1y ago
The reassignment of a live IATA code between two airports was absolutely cluster fuck level. This had never happened before. Like, you don't even _change_ the IATA code of a live airport. To switch them was a huuuuuuuuuge assumption b
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by Marazan 1y ago
People need to stop recommending forks to drink soup with.
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by Marazan 1y ago
That was the first episode I ever saw of Samurai Jack. I had never seen anything like it. I had tuned in after the initial exposition so I experienced zero dialogue until the very end. It was spellbinding. When he dons the blindfold and
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by Marazan 1y ago
A truly breathtakingly daring show booth visually and sonically. I adored if at the time and it still looks and feels unique to this day
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by Marazan 1y ago
Would I be right in saying Promela and SPIN are at a higher level than what is being described in the article?
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by Marazan 1y ago
For me the most catastrophic situations happen when a fatal error is treated as a non-fatal error and suddenly instead of the system crashing the system starts promulgating nulls everywhere and into storage.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Many airlines operate on the following model. Imagine the plane has a hundred economy seats. The seats will be split into groups of 10, each group has it's own price. Group 1 seats cost 100 dollars Group 2 seats cost 110 dollars ...
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by Marazan 1y ago
This is the same thinking by Google that has ruined the web as everyone chases the perfect SEO optimised page. A page that presents and answer to your problem in the first sentence as soon as you open the page? Low engagement time, high bo
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by Marazan 1y ago
That's only because the markets have been opened up to non-producer/consumer participants.
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by Marazan 1y ago
> Yes many futures are not "cash settled" but settled in the actual commodity. This, in many ways is a ridiculous sentence which shows what is wrong with the futures market. Futures are contracts for the supply of commodities.
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by Marazan 2y ago
You don't say. This is my very shocked face.
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by Marazan 2y ago
We had Markov Chains already. Fancy Markov Chains don't seem like a trillion dollar business or actual intelligence.
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by Marazan 2y ago
That's what you get for using an inferior machine. Spectrum users had no such problem.
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by Marazan 2y ago
> In reality, the US government is one of the most static, unchanging organizations on the planet. How naive are you? I mean seriously. Your post is one of the worst faux savvy takes I have seen. A true classic of the genre. The US Go
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by Marazan 2y ago
Who is talking about the last 15 years? We are talking about the last 15 weeks. America has jut installed a corrupt autocratic government that has immediately become mired in corruption, graft and defiance of the rule of law. That will hav
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by Marazan 2y ago
Historical data is not great for forming an argument when the basis is that things have radically changed and historical results don't matter anymore.
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by Marazan 2y ago
Middle management _is_ the culture of a company. A regular worker interacts not at all with the CxOs except reading their emails and every day with their managers. Middle management is also the memory of the company.
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by Marazan 2y ago
And even when you jave quite a lot of machines worth of processing some single threaded streaming of data on a single machine can still beat out any distributed framework as the the overhead of distribution is large.
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by Marazan 2y ago
Spark is never going to be the right choice when running on a single system. Spark is for when you have a hundreds of machines worth of processing to do
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by Marazan 2y ago
Futures market started as a way of (and in America were strictly limited to) prpducers and wholesale buyers to hedge/fix their costs. Then American regulators started handing exceptions to allowable market participants out like candy
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by Marazan 2y ago
I found some of the exercises in building abstractions with procedures pretty inaccessible with implicit maths knowledge necessary. From building abstractions with data onwards they become well spec'd and straightforward.
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by Marazan 2y ago
> I think he leans towards an idea that quantum mechanics has a way of making more-than-Turing computation happen (note that this is not about what we call quantum computers, which are fully Turing-equivalent systems, just more efficient
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by Marazan 2y ago
At the end of the day Penrose's arguments is just Dualism. Humans have a special thingy that makes the consciousness Computers do not have the special thingy Therefore Computers cannot be consciousness. But Dualism gets you laughed at
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by Marazan 2y ago
The flash runtime was pretty efficient but the authoring tools were so easy to use that anyone could produce "working" abominations filled with the most good awful code that got the result they wanted.
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by Marazan 2y ago
That was just shonky code, nothing to do with flash itself.
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by Marazan 2y ago
Ah yes, famously restaurant websites got so much better after flash died Wait... I'm hearing that actually restaurant websites still suck but in HTML 5 now
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by Marazan 2y ago
But it did cause vendors of cross-compilers to lay of dozens of staff as the clause killed their business (Source: I work with someone who was laid off because of the clause)
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by Marazan 2y ago
I would ask chatgpt every year when was the last time England had beaten Scotland at rugby. It would never get the answer right. Often transposing the scores, getting the game location wrong and on multiple occasions saying a 38-38 draw wa
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by Marazan 2y ago
It's text. Seeing words written down is like a hack for making humans treat something as profound. People were declaring ELIZA was intelligent after interacting with it and ELIZA is barely a page of code.
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by Marazan 2y ago
The world and human society is not zero sum. The Mercantilist world view is empirically wrong.

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