abathur

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by abathur 5y ago
I didn't say the median was perfect. I said comparing the mean and the median was a quick way to avoid posting clickbait. Because it's clear that the median and mean aren't strongly correlated anymore.
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by abathur 5y ago
The quickest way to avoid posting inflammatory clickbait on this is probably to bother comparing the mean to the median. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_GDP_per_capita_...
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by abathur 5y ago
Yes--I exaggerated. The diagram clearly depicts a shaded fraction of the right-tail of a normal distribution. The text asserts: - this shaded fraction represents the loss of positive outcomes (and implies that there are real-world condition
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by abathur 5y ago
The first 15 of 24 instances of the term "Upside Decay" that are actually in the article title/body are not at all definitional. Somewhere between 1 and 15 I stopped caring about whatever the writer is either too cool to tell
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by abathur 5y ago
I'm roughly in sync with your I-thought-you-were-better-than-this expression. But. I think some people out to drive wedges are working overtime to frame a specific subset of "cancellation" as a civilizational threat. Over the
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by abathur 5y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285802 https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by abathur 5y ago
It should. I'm not a Haskell-er, but there are a lot of Haskellers in the Nix community.
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by abathur 5y ago
I'm not sure exactly where your focus is, so I'll just give you a mix of thoughts and see if I accidentally help :) - Building takes space, but the build takes place in a temporary directory that is discarded afterwards, and only
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by abathur 5y ago
As said: > the MirBSD Korn shell is one of the most lively shells for development activity, the latest release being in October of 2020 I.e., you suggested the measure is release recency, not cadence. And after I pointed out that bash (s
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by abathur 5y ago
> However, the MirBSD Korn shell is one of the most lively shells for development activity, the latest release being in October of 2020. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-12/msg00003...
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Gandalf-/Bashkell: Functional bash scripting(github.com)
2 points by abathur 6y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 6y ago
I stumbled on this while searching local manpages on Big Sur. The link is just the only place I could find a rendered copy of it online.
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Cryptex filesystem hierarchy specification (Darwin manpage)(keith.github.io)
2 points by abathur 6y ago|1 comments
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by abathur 6y ago
Right. My own framing: art isn't an object, it's an experience. I call an object _intended_ to trigger art experiences an art-object, but people often have art experiences that don't involve an art-object. I think this framin
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by abathur 6y ago
In grad school, I did a project for a Shakespeare class that involved picking at how characters used gendered pronouns to see if I could find anything interesting. (I think I built an sqlite3 db from the playshakespeare XML version; I don&#
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by abathur 6y ago
And 23 more for https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=shellcheck.net :)
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Porglet is a low cost and small form factor drone detection system(github.com)
1 points by abathur 6y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 6y ago
I agree that parts of the left are engaged in moral policing, but I think you may be mis-speaking when you say it is "no longer coming from the religious right." I think it still is, it just isn't a monopoly?
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by abathur 6y ago
I recall hearing that it was 29K on Griddy (myself included) before the storm. I've also heard a little over 10K were left to be transferred when it was shut down. I'm not sure exactly how many were exposed to the 4-days of artifi
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Texas takes Griddy to court over electric bills sent during storm(dallasnews.com)
3 points by abathur 6y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26282500
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Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims(reuters.com)
152 points by abathur 6y ago|268 comments
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by abathur 6y ago
This. Before PUCT pegged the prices, we were able to load-shift our showers, heat, and device charging to parts of the day where there actually was still sufficient supply to drive prices down under 50c/kWh. Even if you aren't shi
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by abathur 6y ago
AFAIK Griddy also made a point of not cutting anyone off for non-payment during the catastrophe, further exacerbating how large some of these bills could get.
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by abathur 6y ago
Surprising amount of erotic energy in this comment. :)
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by abathur 6y ago
I've seen comments that there's also like 13-15GW offline for maintenance (cleaning?)
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by abathur 6y ago
It probably depends on what you want? If you like treating your Mac like a very MacMacMac pet, a pm designed for Mac is probably better. If you'd like to treat your Mac like UnixMac livestock, you probably want a cross-platform pm. Usi
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by abathur 6y ago
I feel similarly and am a little careful about when I choose to take an update. That said, I think most people want darwin failures to be able to block, so it's mostly about getting on top of them to the point where it's practic
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by abathur 6y ago
When I was working on my MFA thesis, I came to a realization that feels like it might overlap with what you're describing. It's a little hard to put a bow on the idea (and why it isn't trite...) at this length, but basically:
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by abathur 6y ago
Writing-advice is tricky. The people who need it most are on the far side of a chasm they can't bridge without learning to read their own writing. Doing so takes a mix of interest/dedication and practice that I suspect are hard

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