Tycho

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by Tycho 4y ago
It’s not like they’d be content with a deadlocked parliament where the ‘government’ they voted for can’t enact any policies. It’s good that there’s two dominant parties, both fairly central, who continually moderate their policies to keep h
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by Tycho 4y ago
The big parties continually moderate their positions so that about half the population wants to vote for them.
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by Tycho 4y ago
This is pretty funny. If you have to spend $44 billion, might as well have some fun.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Why do people criticise FPTP using these hypothetical scenarios that do not resemble the actual outcomes.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Scaling effects matter. In practice there are many parties but most of the votes go to two of them.
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by Tycho 4y ago
What about an AI that can write unit tests for any codebase… seems like the overall benefit of that would be huge.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I think the problem is that some people seem to just innately like mathematics, they like learning and applying formulas, they don’t need any background context or practical application to find it interesting - and they don’t realise how dr
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by Tycho 4y ago
I'm not going to recap the arguments here, but I suspect twitter is likely to crash hard within the next few days to week or two (at most) and Musk has fired most of the people who can fix it and keep it running. We can revisit this
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by Tycho 4y ago
The Waste Land is amazing but I recommend Four Quartets even more. Which reminds me, one of my goals for this year was to memorise it… better get back to that.
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by Tycho 4y ago
They are travelling from Western Europe to the UK, yes.
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by Tycho 4y ago
That’s so obviously not true. Come on.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I would describe myself as a dataframe engineer.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I just read the comments on HN (often without even reading the links).
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by Tycho 4y ago
There’s two good things about agile/scrum: breaking work up into manageable chunks; and having daily check-ins to make sure people aren’t doing the wrong thing for months on end. The rest can be ignored.
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by Tycho 4y ago
It would be cool to have a sort of smart home where you can activate an immersive language teaching mode where it will talk to you as you move around the house, naming things you interact with or prompting you for instructions, so that you
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by Tycho 4y ago
They were definitely talking about Zodiac, although the same name is linked to the other case.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Someone was telling me that the killer’s real identity is George Hodel, and Hodel’s son wrote a book about it. They seemed to have a lot of good pieces that fit together.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I remember @pmarca kept a Twitter list of journalist accounts. It was a pretty good thing to browse, full of stories that journalists were trying to bring to light. Then in 2016 it became unreadable, just a 24/7 TDS group therapy forum
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The Hacker News comments of user dxbydt(news.ycombinator.com)
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by Tycho 4y ago
Maybe we can force Google to do this through ESG activism.
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by Tycho 4y ago
My work MacBook Pro had been running hot for months. Whenever I check the app power consumption it would list Chrome, but I felt that was to be expected. Eventually I got curious and looked at the Task Manager within Chrome to see which of
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by Tycho 4y ago
I know someone whose Elo rating dropped after they got covid, so they started taking some ‘nootropic’ supplement (Lion’s Mane or something) and they recovered and actually ended up with a higher score than before.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I suppose that amounts to the same thing as what I’m saying.
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by Tycho 4y ago
In a vacuum with no matter or radiation, presumably the laws of physics still exist, and therefore it will be emptiness forever. As King Lear said, nothing will come of nothing. But if the laws of physics themselves did not exist, then noth
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by Tycho 4y ago
If it’s good enough for courts of law, it’s good enough for news reporting.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Class is basically the cluster of attributes that emerge around people with different levels of wealth. In Europe, those attributes have been entrenched and reinforced and undisturbed for much longer than they have been in American society.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Are you trolling us here? The act of classifying is easy. It needs to be repeated many times. So you scale up by hiring many people to do it.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Because there’s other stuff you need to do that you can’t outsource.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I mean for places where $5 per hour is an attractive wage.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Why shouldn’t someone do it for five dollars per hour, and do it properly lest they get fired? Seems like a very easy job and easy to supervise.

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