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Peep:... Abstract Activities in complex networks are often both too important to ignore and too tedious to watch. We created a network monitoring system, Peep, that replaces visual monitoring with a sonic `ecology' of natural sounds, w
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Correcting reversed steering only while backing up is entirely possible. Drive by wire allows it. Car designers realize the user base knows the older UI and uses the older UI without issue. The "install base" of existing user skil
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As a thought experiment: send your next email 1 character at a time by regular post. One doesn't have to do something often for it to be an awful experience. We choose tools, in part, because of the worst case experience not only the a
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Is securing a home equity loan a taxable event? Is securing a college loan? Is securing a car loan? What's different about the case for stock? The house, future earnings, and car are different sorts of collateral. If stock is differen
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> You can’t prove anything by observation. Nice observation. Epistemology is a harsh mistress.
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The revised content on that topic, found in the Boss Fight book [1], is even better than the blog post. A teaser: > I'm obsessed with finishing as a skill. Over the years, I've realized that so many of the good things that hav
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> "Things Your Architect Doesn't Know and Your General Contractor Won't Tell You" ...by WalterBright. Sold! When can I pre-order?
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Hahaha. You think the people in that arena don't re-invest every possible dollar for more growth as soon as it hits their pockets? Cash flow is king to be able to pay for continuing leverage. A sudden tax bill and the end of acquiring
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If he doesn't want to spend his life doing this then it isn't a priority for him. In these income brackets, time is the only true coin. If he doesn't spend his time then he doesn't value the outcome. Pretending that amas
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You don't need a charity. That's diffusing responsibility. Be responsible.
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Put your excess money where your mouth is and leave coercive government out of it. You, personally, you can provide these things for people in need. For example, I am in a similar financial situation. My family took in a Ukrainian refugee.
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> People like Musk ... are not elected by the people. Untrue. Everyone who bought a Tesla voted, with their dollars, to give Musk this wealth. Everyone who owns Tesla stock voted, with their dollars, to give Tesla this wealth. And everyo
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"inoubliable" if you'll pardon my French. You can't forget this word once you see its definition.
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> composable algorithmic transformations This phrasing always feels pointlessly fancy. I may be understeeped in the right lore. What is a non-composable, non-algorithmic transformation? A composable, non-algorithmic transformation? A non
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Do the majority of people moving to the SF Bay have a two-body problem? I would have expected it overwhelmingly attracted the personally unattached who obtain long-term attachments there.
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This. Fidelity has a rather nice BillPay service and can accept direct deposits for paychecks. The only thing one really loses is access to a human teller to obtain beyond-ATM levels of cash.
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Gnome 40 is a thing. Windows 11 is a thing. I didn't say things can't change. I said don't play games with major version numbers to window dress optics.
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> Van Rossum is totally right in saying that he never wants a Python 4 for that reason, so it seems at least he learned a little bit since then. Just because the BFDL doesn't increment the major version doesn't change the fact
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> If the string is an f-string, it is immediately evaluated and you no longer have access to the interpolation info for a resolver. So? It's been evaluated successfully. What more is there to do? > If the string is not an f-strin
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Why could you not know these things without a language feature? > ...other stuff that happens before evaluation... A greet(string) function could parse the string and resolve the names itself: parsed = parser(string) resolved = resolver(
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f("Consider...") greet("Hello {name}") What was wrong with the standard way to write function application? Python is sufficiently dynamic that an implementation of greet(...) can look up one level to resolve {name}, righ
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I like how the problem was the standards body.
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Or A1 Pastor, who either preaches of battleship or who admonishes steak sauce or who counsels a flock at just one end of just one airport terminal.
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When I need a gift for someone starting a CS degree I give a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions.
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> Optimizing Python extensions is becoming increasingly important as Python is used in more and more compute intensive environments. I have always loved how the trick to making Python better eventually comes down to not writing Python.
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Why do the Rust afficionados show up in every thread?
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Capsaicin is also a poison so clearly "poison => always avoid" has deficiencies as a model. Hence, studies.
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Well, why not? You can do both. Public Service Announcement: The Motorcycle Safety Foundation runs classes that will teach you how to ride a motorcycle. https://msf-usa.org/
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As a prior customer, may I please request a deck based upon https://www.designhacks.co/products/cognitive-bias-codex-pos... ?
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> But waitlists of > 1 year are the norm (at least for all the parents I've talked with). It takes 1 year for a batch of similarly aged kids to age into the next classroom. >1 year sounds like math to me, especially under the

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