MarkLowenstein

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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I would like to know your motivation. We shouldn't all change our clocks so that the sun is overhead at 1:00 unless there's a good reason. I suggest that if you like the sun to be up for more of your waking day, that the best solu
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Almost by definition, the 10x engineer is the one who is in a position to reuse and work within his own code, almost exclusively, rather than navigate the minefields laid by others. The 1x engineer is a normal one who builds upon the work o
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I like to say that, just like matter can be regarded as frozen energy, data can be regarded as frozen actions. I would not be surprised if physicists eventually regarded both phenomena as isomorphic.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Could it be an ennui about tech news, resulting from the Tower of Babel of great projects and great ideas, that haven't reliably improved our IT or development experiences?
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I apologize for the delay. It took me awhile to locate my original source: page 18 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... Mea culpa, though: the chart I remember was of cases not spr
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Since vaccinated are spreading this around nearly as much as unvaccinated, the involuntary manslaughter argument is moot. Getting your own vaccine doesn't help other people not die...only you. Even high-vaccination regions are having w
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
You are correct. This is the largest overreach I have ever seen: if you work for any company we can control by sniffing around government agencies to find a regulation we can leverage, we will make sure you can't even have a job unless
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I've long made half-hearted stabs at creating what I call "NFML", a.k.a. "No Markup Language". My vision is incredibly similar to this, so I wish you luck! I believe the future resembles KDL.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
This is a great quote! I only have a finite number of slots in my brain. If I don't remember it, I won't use it. Why do I feel like computer industry people turn a blind eye toward this? It may be that successful tech people hav
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I like the system at MOD Pizza. They give you your pizza in a paperboard box, but they also put a thin sheet of waxy paper on the bottom of the box before they put the pizza in. So you throw out a minimal amount of paper, but the box is rea
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
And as hard as it’s going to be to hire talent, it’s going to be even harder to retain talent. This does not square with so many organizations falling all over themselves to issue vaccine mandates. I suspect it's not true.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Whatever.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
On a 386, MS Word would make you sit around for 10-15 seconds looking at the splash screen. Then when you upgraded to a 486, you opened Word and it was like "bing!", you're up and running. Now with magnitudes more speed and m
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I have a checklist to do every morning. The first item is "make coffee". I've been doing my checklist now for years. Imagine if I had put an "eat that frog" item there instead. That checklist would be ancient histor
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
All I know is that when people give me a CSV I'm really happy and I get to work on their request right away. When they give me literally anything else I get pissed off and push their task lower in my queue.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Ulrich Neisser apparently. He's also quoted by this guy who apparently had the same idea as me: https://www.modacity.co/blog/using-repetition-achieve-effect...
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Well, the first principle is not about spaced repetition but is more about active learning (wrong term?) vs. passive learning. In other words, don't memorize by playing it a bunch and hoping repetition will beget recall. Instead, play
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Since the early 90s I've used a piano-practice scheme that provides spaced repetition. It greatly reduces the time needed to either (1) learn or (2) memorize pieces. I always feel compelled to cite this poem: You can get a great deal f
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Remember the concept of nerd-sniping? https://xkcd.com/356/ 99% of people, including the sharp and educated people at HN, zealously debate the merits of masks, or the proper priority of individual rights, etc. But take
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
A lot of tech interviews screen for the ability to quickly solve whiteboard problems. But the problems you solve on the job rarely if ever resemble those problems. Perhaps we have a lot of impostor syndrome because we have a lot of people w
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
It is hard to believe any American feels the need to supplement the existing in-school lessons with after-school paid programs like Russian math or Kumon. In the last 10 years nearly every school has adopted the Common Core curriculum, whic
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I've never run into a walkable city center where there was one super-obvious and convenient place to park--maybe a gigantic underground garage--and then you walk everywhere from there. Feels like that might work. The attractive city ce
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
This is the answer. Shrinkflation happens all the time, with bigger sizes being reintroduced at the top, and apparently it's executed well enough for people not to notice, since this is the first comment I've seen that acknowledge
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
(1) If "natural" immunity is the wrong term, I mean to say "acquired", i.e. had the disease. (2) Yes, you're right that vaccinations also lower the amount of "dry wood" available. I try to add those into m
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I meant to point out that if a region has kept COVID conflagrations from happening, via social distancing efforts, they will have accumulated less natural immunity, thus they are riper for conflagrations in the future. The way I predict &qu
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
You're both correct. What is being missed is that, partly because of less social-distancing, FL and the MO/AR/LA region are getting hit first, so you can point to the problems there this week. The media dishonesty is that the
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Did they walk off the job in December and January, when they had higher than the current numbers of infection for 2 months straight? CNN is highlighting this non-unique situation to dump on a hated "red" state. Will they be there
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Mine: o task 1 [not started] / task 2 [started] x nested task A o nested task B + task 3 [blocked, e.g. on hearing back from somebody] x task 4 [done]
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
You know how maddening it is when you try to break apart styrofoam packaging supports to fit it in a garbage bag, and all those bits cling to you and refuse to go in the bag? This is that, only writ large over the entire Earth. Anyone looki
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Pickups, SUVs, and minivans are wider on average than other cars. Could they just be simply hitting more people per car, because they're sweeping more area? (Can't access full paper.)

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