RhysU

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by RhysU 3y ago
Generally, I think of public as within spitting distance of private where I live now. I could drop variance further and maybe bring up expected value by going private, but it'd be expensive. Especially because private costs are per ki
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by RhysU 3y ago
I did not want to continue gambling with my childrens' educational outcomes via De Blasio's opaque/random NYC DOE. Crossing my fingers for Pre-K and K was enough nonsense. For example, putting our actual first choices halfway
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by RhysU 3y ago
All day cares will suddenly increase in price to the tune of the tax break.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Also, it's easy to sell X% of a stock portfolio for 0 <= X =< 100 but difficult to do the same for a house. (This is possible with stocks for some X outside those bounds too!)
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by RhysU 3y ago
Heh, and to think I downloaded dozens of Slackware floppy images over a 28.8 modem without any screenshots! What a fool I was! (I have used this utility weekly for almost 10 years. It isn't pretty. It's effective.)
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by RhysU 3y ago
ngrid is quite usable, stable, and sensible for streaming work: https://github.com/twosigma/ngrid
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by RhysU 3y ago
> Software is undervalued The best indicator of the value of a thing is the price at which free parties trade it.
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by RhysU 3y ago
By the sustained impact of their reports on the broader business in light of the fiscal resources consumed to obtain that impact. (also, half raises hand).
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by RhysU 3y ago
https://github.com/flame/blis/ Field et al, recent winners of the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. Field and Goto both collaborated with Robert van de Geijn. Lots of TACC interaction in that broade
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by RhysU 3y ago
> Wall-E was made in the pre-messaging-first age. Which part of the fat consumers destroying their planet was pre-messaging?
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by RhysU 3y ago
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.“ -- e. e. cummings
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by RhysU 3y ago
I read 'Type in string' like a forward declaration. I find uses for them within a single module. They're not always hacks.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Aye. I love the following three-step solution for compute workloads: 1) Make something right. 2) Reduce RAM requirements. 3) Apply GNU Parallel. It's magical how just much batch work can be done one manycore system when one keeps it ho
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by RhysU 3y ago
Look, for many people using a 401k is saving money on taxes. Does that imply 401k users are generally societal moochers? There's nothing ethically wrong with optimizing inclusive of taxes. It's stupid not to. The OP is not stupid
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by RhysU 3y ago
Nowhere does the OP suggest that a jurisdiction with easy tax evasion possibilities is of interest. One picks the size of one's share when making a choice like the OP. (Love the username in the context of your pay-yer-share non sequito
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by RhysU 3y ago
I am partial to balanced ternary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary It once made an appearance in a computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
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by RhysU 3y ago
16,500 US gallons of kerosene assuming that I am driving https://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight correctly. The market value of that output feels piddly relative to the cost of the inputs that you called o
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by RhysU 3y ago
We in NJ who work in NY already pay income taxes to NY state even if we don't reside in the boroughs. Instead of charging me $15 more to visit, go have Adams ask Hotchul for money if you want to reach further into my pocket. But you ca
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by RhysU 3y ago
Michael Crichton has (rightly) entered the chat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton Crichton says these failures of humanity are inevitable because there will always be a technologist who does things beca
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by RhysU 3y ago
> If they are really worried about their kid, they can find the dog another home. Right! They should transfer the liability to someone else! So that new, possibly unaware owner can get their pants sued off if the dog attacks someone in t
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by RhysU 3y ago
I would not want to be the owner who had a second kid injured from one specific animal. Fool me once, twice, etc. Guilt aside, the civil liability from a second potential attack (for any owner) can be family destroying.
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by RhysU 3y ago
It is, at least, classical communist strategy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism > Secondly, it would educate the proletariat in Marxism in order to cleanse them of their "false individual consciousne
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by RhysU 3y ago
This is my favorite Californiaism, especially whenever I drive "the 101". In Pennsylvania one drives "30" or "22", never with "the" and seldom even prefixing "route" or "US". Texas
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by RhysU 3y ago
The 30 miles on each side of most people in the US includes a lot of open space. NYC isn't 30 miles east of me. There are rural farms only a few miles west. This is representative of the edge of the most dense metro region in the US. T
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by RhysU 3y ago
> Code that is no longer being touched is not done; it's dead. The goal should be to write code not needing maintenance. Four weeks ago I contacted a coworker to ask about some routines he wrote 5 years ago. He said he hadn't t
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by RhysU 3y ago
Ideally, the slow code is available alongside the fast code and the unit tests confirm they are sufficiently equivalent. If that's not possible, the go-fast bits need to be refactored until it is possible. Don't forget that error
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by RhysU 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend... Give the US a few centuries to catch up to European density and let's talk then.
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by RhysU 3y ago
This feels backwards. Invest first. Buy the house second.
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Sincerely, what happens to an area that builds at rates not deemed to be a "failure"? I never hear how that turns out and why failing to get there is suboptimal.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> The underlying problem is that people who don't yet live somewhere, can't vote. Are you advocating for universal universal suffrage? As in, everyone can vote everywhere?

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