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by _tom_ 2y ago
I don't see a date the article. The web has taught me to never waste time with an undated article. Odds are very good it's obsolete.
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by _tom_ 2y ago
The midlist has moved into self publishing. Many more books are published on amazon than by trad publishers. Many of them don't sell, but the numbers (guess) aren't probably that different from fad publishing in terms of success.
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by _tom_ 2y ago
I'm interested but skeptical. I have not dived as deeply as you. Mostly I'm using ChatGPT. There is just no way it could generate 90% of my code. It is great at generating boilerplate for simple cases. I find it most useful for ge
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by _tom_ 2y ago
Old school guys at my first job could send the contents of the program counter to the speaker, and diagnose problems by the sound of it. Definitely Old School Cool
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by _tom_ 2y ago
Oh, cool. I'll have to look for that. Just went and looked. Thanks. That will help me. I'm still going to call that a UI disaster. Facebook puts "interested" and "going" in the same drop down. Can't miss i
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by _tom_ 2y ago
The market is dominated by ebooks. Trad publishing gets a few home runs, but overall can't compete with the sheer volume of new independent books that come out each year.
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by _tom_ 2y ago
But, boy are they fast to write!
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by _tom_ 2y ago
Wow, what a clueless article. Or maybe a deliberately biased article. The majority of sales and debut authors are ebooks, and traditional publishers aren't involved. This has been true for years. Read publishing is pretty much pointle
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by _tom_ 2y ago
This maybe driven by your platform. The only way to "bookmark" an event you are interested in on meetup.com is to click "going", so people do that. If there was an "interested" option, the flake rate would go w
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by _tom_ 2y ago
Outside of the title, they use the word "tunable" which is more accurate.
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by _tom_ 2y ago
i feel like this would be more useful with a title like 'A note about Coercions in Haskell', it would allow people to determine interest more quickly.
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by _tom_ 2y ago
> wait, are building codes currently not copyrighted? My understanding is that this is what is currently being argued about. Traditionally, the codes have been copyrighted, but more recently, people have argued that the law must be publi
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by _tom_ 3y ago
I suspect the only reason they don't use drones is range. Once they have a match, it'll be drones all the way.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
And (c) in the long term influence the risk. Insurance companies have long worked to improve auto safety. This benefits everyone. This needs to be applied to more significant risks, like fire flood and storm. I think we have to get much mor
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by _tom_ 3y ago
Votes are the sort term answer. People are losing their houses in Florida. Mortgages require insurance, and if you insurance goes up thousand a year, and hundreds a month, some people can't afford it, and lose their houses. Longer term
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by _tom_ 3y ago
Should always be on first use, of course.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
This is a related to my number one problem with technical writing or text books: forward references. "Let's talk all about a topic we will define three chapters from now" Learning about things with undefined terms, concepts a
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by _tom_ 3y ago
I'd love to see what books people come up with. Another component is practice. Talk to lots of people. Get a job at Starbucks if you are really committed. Or go to toastmasters. Join any club that has lots of conversation. Observation
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by _tom_ 3y ago
or 2000 https://www.fastcompany.com/90209550/general-magics-forgotte...
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by _tom_ 3y ago
Useful article. I just tried to update an app to a paid version, and it popped up this dialog. Of course, I refused to enter it, for the reasons herein. Frustrating, as I did want to support the developer. Do we have a current workaround?
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by _tom_ 3y ago
If google provides a credit limited to $300 for new accounts, then it has the ability to limit spend. It should make this available. To be fair: I'm sure they don't provide this limit to make money, because this is a rare case, bu
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by _tom_ 3y ago
This used to be the case. Always a bent wheel or something. I was just reflecting recently that this was no longer the case, and has not been for years. People learned what broke (front wheel that were slammed into things) and redesigned&#x
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by _tom_ 3y ago
Why should we "create" categories. There should be an algorithm for determining level. Input 1000 miles an hour, you get a category. Earthquakes don't have an upper limit. It's just a function of energy.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
> nerds usually suck at communicating with normal people Wow, way to buy in to inaccurate, hostile stereotypes. The smart people I know write novels, teach dance, play instruments - and communicate with people.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
I bought an expensive, name brand, toaster. It's crap.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
I do either, depending on the situation. For me, verbalizing things, internally, is like writing things down - it allows for more organization and review. (Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging )
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by _tom_ 3y ago
It's fairly common to do traffic analysis, and look for behavior that is not typical. Things like a sudden jump in the data being downloaded, access from other countries, changes in IP addresses, log ins from new sites. There are many
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by _tom_ 3y ago
It's way less than $2M, since they don't bribe people to be evil, they just buy the tool and make their own alterations.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
The interesting thing here is you can feasibly measure them all. Not ahead of time, but as you build.
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by _tom_ 3y ago
You are correct. But are you sure you are anything more?

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