PowerfulWizard

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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   Wow I didn't know that, he must be sweating.
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   Here is another look at the GE insurance business with some napkin math regarding the adequacy of their reserves: http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2019/08/one-more-brief-com...
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   You could ask: Will you pursue policies that will make the cost of shelter higher or lower? In many areas the government is trying to do both simultaneously.
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   I think Canada implemented conscription much later than the European countries, so in a lot of cases it would be volunteers versus conscripts. I wonder if Canada also had a less visible/rigid class system than Europe back then, that co
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   Yeah I was vague on the size because it depends how you build it ... If I were to do it I'd most likely want a 2x replication factor locally, a rebuild time under 12 hours for a drive loss, and set a threshold around 80% storage use wh
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   One thing I've considered doing but haven't done, is building an "archive" box just to sit in the office and mirror cloud data. It wouldn't be all that complicated just mirror some cloud storage onto local encrypted
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   That is what I do. The backup server can access the production server, but production can't access the backup. But my setup requires the backup to go to disk on the production server and not stream out directly, so that aspect is annoy
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   Yeah, I mean for context this is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/Ngcsa3q It isn't uncommon for books to promote other books before/after the content, but something about having it in the page movement
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   by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

   I have 300+ books purchased and read on iOS Kindle, after buying Neal Stephenson's latest recently I discovered it has an obnoxious popover Audible ad on the page browse screen which must be re-dismissed each time you open the book. I
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    So it will be roughly $115 USD per megabyte? (1% of a BTC). High, but at least you get a 10000x replication factor.
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    The thing that still bothers me about the 737 MAX information I've seen, in particular from the NYT article that was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20070509 is that I'm not convinced anyone a
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    I do a mix of video chat and conference calls, I don't feel the face cam really adds anything, but it is nice to have the ability to share the screen to review information, which is a reason to do video chat with the cam disabled.
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    https://registry.opendata.aws/irs990/ A dataset of IRS 990 filings are available there. It is a big collection of XML files. Here is an example of one chosen at random: https://pastebin.com/pzNYBZYQ ED
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    That is smart, I would add "limit 2" to a single row update, so if it returns 2 rows updated I know it was wrong.
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    I'm just going off the article, here is my understanding. The sample program is doing 2^7 = 128 NOPs, 4 at a time for 32 cycles, and then it is doing a memory access. The address of memory that is going to be accessed is known right be
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    by PowerfulWizard 7y ago

    That's interesting, what in particular is the most revealing?
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    Zuckerberg released a photo once where he had a piece of tape over the microphone hole on the size. I don't know what the effect is, but it would be easy to test.
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    I like the Goya painting in particular because a firing squad still looks the same: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Du39t4jWsAIe6_b.jpg . If any notable art came out of the Iraqi wars it is probably hanging in Baghdad, we
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    So, I personally get an emotional response to Pollock, especially that particular one, I actually have a MoMA catalog on my bookshelf with that entry bookmarked with my admission ticket from 2010 when I went to see it ( https://i
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    I think OP is referring to the "PCB mount" version of the cherry keyswitches which has two extra supporting plastic pins. The other "plate mounted" version doesn't have them. Nothing about the PCB mount version prev
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    I would really ️ like being able to disable the ️ like button on Instagram as you can for comments. I don't like the approval seeking nature of the way it is presented. EDIT: HN filtered out my emoji :S
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    Markup.rocks says it is client side and appears to be using ghcjs: https://github.com/osener/markup.rocks/blob/master/Makefile#...
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    The CPU is the third such project that I'm aware of, also checkout their Nitro hypervisor and disk interface: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali... I know they did their own networki
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    Some more info here: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2018/11/1227/
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    Yeah agreed, it is extra complicated since it requires coordination between browsers and also enough websites to make it worth it. If it were released today it could take years to register in i.e. global internet statistics. I guess in theo
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    Agreed on the stdlib concept. I'm sure people are working on it, the benefit would be massive. Just the amount of mobile data transfer that could be saved by 1MB of software pre-distributed to all browsers would be huge. I wonder if an
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    Yeah it is interesting, and it could also be a big boost to plain olde speech to text in cases where you have video if the errors were non-correlated (which I wasn't able to determine from skimming the readme.) edit: now I see it is be
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    I think there is often a lack of distinction between situations where uncertainty is due randomness in the natural process, versus situations where uncertainty is due to your incomplete state of knowledge. For example, a coin flip is physic
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    I wonder how long until we see 2nd gen propaganda twitter trolling. If aggressive twitter propaganda that is in favor of candidate X has the effect of make candidate X look bad, and anyone can do it since they're all fake anyway, I don
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    by PowerfulWizard 8y ago

    I'm sure I've complained about this before, I'd love to read a similar article to this that compares two quantities that share the same unit. Debt is in dollars and GDP is in dollars per year. Those are different units. For e