MichaelNolan

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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Further reading from Gwern - https://gwern.net/iodine
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> A controversial approach to parenting > Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. That article feels like it’s arguing against a strawman. It’s seems clear (to
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
TypeScript is just for compile time. You can pop() every element out of the array at runtime with no error. This compiles with no issue - https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/C4TwDgpgBAcg9gOwK...
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You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras(wired.com)
4 points by MichaelNolan 2y ago|1 comments
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> Replace all asserts with expected == expected and most people won't notice. It’s too resource intensive for all code, but mutation testing is pretty good at finding these sorts of tests that never fail. https://pitest.o
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> Yes, Elon is wildly optimistic about timelines. I have to laugh at his quote "At SpaceX we make the impossible merely late". I think an important part of this quote is “At SpaceX”. For my part, I generally assume that “SpaceX
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Starship is Still Not Understood (2021)(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
57 points by MichaelNolan 2y ago|79 comments
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> using a short 2-3 hour take-home Where in the process did you give the take home project? As a candidate, I would consider doing a take home project as the final round of an interview, but anything earlier than that and I will reject d
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
I think the article missed the biggest argument in favor leetcode style interviews - that they are quick and cheap to administer, and relatively unbiased/objective. The reason big companies use these interview methods, is because they
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> what does it mean to be able to “meaningfully fork” something and be able to make it more useful if you don’t have the ingredients to reproduce it in the first place? I could be misunderstanding them, but my takeaway is that exact bit
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Do they (Japan, Germany) ever purposely leave unexploded ordnance in place? I see a news story about once a year about them finding a bomb, and in every case they have their bomb squad disarm and remove it. I’ve never heard of them knowingl
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
I thought you were kidding at first, but here it is https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkpp-002-0... Bonus points for brevity I suppose. And to be fair, Harvard (and all other colleges) was way les
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> The most notable limitation of interleaving, however, is that its benefits are likely limited to difficult discriminations. The learning tasks in the studies cited in this review were obviously chosen to produce discrimination errors (
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
I’m not an HVAC expert, but I’m not sure how to reconcile what you’re saying with the fact that heat pumps are being installed in hot and humid areas. Heat pumps are being installed in places like Florida, Texas and Arizona seemingly withou
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Heat pumps work great in hot climates. I see new builds in Texas (100f) and Arizona (115f) with them all the time. I don’t understand the part about oversizing the heat pump for a hot climate being a downside. Without a heat pump you’d have
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> I asked Michael [Bay] why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up. — Ben Affleck Still one of my favorite movies though.
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars. Prison isn’t that bad. Especially a federal minimum security woman’s prison. It’s basically like a summer camp, but with nothing fun to do.
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
> Apple … has been working on it in secret for years. I keep hoping Apple will release a MacBook with a 5G chipset. The rumors are saying their in house one will ready in 2026 at the earliest. It sure seems like a long road given they bo
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
What’s the difference between a regular battery with a smart inverter and a UPS? It’s just that the UPS is an all in 1 box right? Or is there something else that a ups has?
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
How many kwh do you need? These are just over $1000 - https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-v2-lithium-battery...
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Basically all the batteries that have ever been built (by volume), have been built in the last 3 years. The party is just getting started. So while it might only be 15 minutes today, it's going to 1000x in just a few years. https:&#x2
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
I wish the best for the geothermal industry, but the phrase “could outperform” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Geothermal thermal has essentially zero growth, in the US, in the last 20 years. And there is basically no growth planned in the
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Wow, how’d I miss that? I can’t find any articles about the partnership ending. Did they ever reach the stage where the cars were actually available for riders? Or did it end before that? https://waymo.com/blog/2019&#x2
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
So bynext year Waymo’s rollout will look like this: * Los Angeles - Waymo One * San Francisco- Waymo One * Phoenix - Waymo One, Uber * Austin - Uber * Atlanta - Uber It’s still early days for AVs, so I’m guessing Waymo is still experimentin
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ToArray(new T[0]) or toArray(new T[size]), that's the question(shipilev.net)
1 points by MichaelNolan 2y ago|0 comments
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
To put the 70% reduction in crashes into some context, in 2019 crashes cost about 340 billion dollars. > The $340 billion cost of motor vehicle crashes represents the equivalent of $1,035 for each of the 328 million people in the United
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Nix and Bazel reproducible, incremental builds(nix-bazel.build)
3 points by MichaelNolan 2y ago|0 comments
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
That’s how it is in Texas. The company that owns the power lines to your house is unrelated from the company you buy the electricity from. (The latter of which you have dozens of options to pick from)
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
Broken link?
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by MichaelNolan 2y ago
I think these conversations of top down vs bottom up, are frequently a case where people are talking past each other due to using different definitions, and having different goals. And I think this is especially common when one of the peopl

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