aleph_minus_one

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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
There can always happen the situation that customers of a bank want their money that they deposited there back. In the insurance sector, the situation that a singular event (say, a hurricane) causes damages to a lot of customers at once
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> Of course they're not, although capitalists love it when people think capitalism means the same thing as "free markets" and therefore regulations are opposed to capitalism. Great camouflage. Why should capitalists love i
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> and watch your ass because an EE is about to arrive to drag you for not just using a 555 timer in your projects. I know from an electrical engineer that with microcontrollers having become that cheap, it can often be cheaper to use a m
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> People with excellent and accurate risk estimation and assessment work as actuaries, or accountants, certain kinds of insurance brokers, something nice and safe where you can do good work for 35 years and retire. The quintessential &q
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> "You don't want to teach this lecture? No? Ok. But you DO want to tell a Greek guy how to write Greek? grin" - Dr Ioannis Alexandrou A person who knows Greek quite well once told me that I wrote some Greek letters wrong
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
Honestly, I do believe that at least some of the people would be able to rewrite what they use curl for in the mentioned weekend. In this sense I think they are mostly right from their perspective . Of course, curl contains a lot more fu
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> It's really striking though that a person graduating high school in say, 1970, could easily pick from a number of career choices even without doing college or even learning an in-demand trade, like plumbing, welding, etc. [...] Th
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
Have a look at Temtem.
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> The alternative to charging was going out of business, so hard to vilify them too much. > They tried. They failed. They tried something new. You only advertise with such a slogan if you are really sure that you will never have to
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> You make a new product, you charge for it, you advertise it. What's the big issue? The issue is: from beginning on and for a long time Duolingo advertised with "Learn a language for free. Forever." :-(
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> In some ways, doesn't this put the Amish squarely in the "hacker" demographic? I would say: "No." Hacking is about making objects (very often computers in a general sense, but hacking is not restricted to it)
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> Why do people like him think copyright laws are bad and made by rich people, but also support open source software, which relies on the same copyright laws to exist. There are quite very different open-source licenses. Copyleft license
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> There are a couple of efficiency reason besides the simple fact that every piece of hardware in existence operates on data sizes in powers of the byte. To start off with it would be fantastically inefficient to build a cpu that could
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
I know people for whom what I described is the daily job. Of course, the respective organization has to ensure that there do exist programmers who can maintain the software (but having to maintain it or adding new features from time to time
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
If your comment is not intended as a joke: Just look into a some nearly arbitrary industry/department where Excel is used extensively. Replacing some "cobbled together" Excel workbooks with properly implemented applications v
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
Relevant: Aquarela do Linux! > https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#52
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> linear programming are problems that are worst-case NP-hard Linear Programming (with rational coefficients; to avoid sophism) can be solved in polynomial time.
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> I have a bit of difficulty trying to understand what ASD means for such individuals as adults. If one is highly intelligent one can just spend time studying people to determine how they respond to situations. I don't really grasp
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by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the developer is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the same case for every $10/mo subscription service in the world, and so we should all be operating at infinite efficiency.