andrewem

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by andrewem 6y ago
There’s this example of your point, which claims that “Compiler Advances Double Computing Power Every 18 Years” http://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html
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by andrewem 6y ago
I went to a social gathering of former co-workers using Gather.Town. Each person has an avatar which they walk around a 2-dimensional map. You see video (and audio) of everyone within a certain distance, and apparently if you’re in a “confe
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by andrewem 6y ago
You know what scares the shit out of me, to use your phrasing? The people on that site murdering me or overthrowing the government, so that they seize power and elections end or become irrelevant. “The free Internet” has value, but it’s not
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by andrewem 6y ago
The UK had laws which were much more favorable to people who sue alleging slander or libel, and they caused significant problems which led to their being substantially changed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_de
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by andrewem 6y ago
I think this is related to the contagion heuristic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic
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by andrewem 6y ago
Here’s a 2011 HN post describing that claim about an unscalable feature in more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370291 (That was linked from http://highscalability.com/blog/2007/11&#x
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by andrewem 6y ago
I think there are at least two cases where JVM interoperability is relevant. The first is when a company is already using the JVM and so knows how to deploy and monitor it; in that case, it’s easy to choose because it presumably imposes lim
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by andrewem 6y ago
Wikipedia has some comments from him about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)
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by andrewem 6y ago
I posted the link to this interview because it’s between two writers who were deeply influenced by Ray Bradbury and knew him very well. The interviewee is a poet and former head of the National Endowment for the Arts, and as he describes wa
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Ray Bradbury at 100: A Conversation Between Sam Weller and Dana Gioia(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by andrewem 6y ago
Today I learned that Care Bears are called Bisounours in French https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bisounours
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by andrewem 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/11/anonymou... has more information on this topic (and in my opinion is a better article)
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by andrewem 6y ago
Do you know if the beneficial ownership information is (likely to be) subject to the Freedom of Information Act? I ask because this kind of information can be in the public interest. Edit: the Washington Post article on this says “ The gene
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by andrewem 6y ago
The other notable thing about “just like a startup but in a big company” (often for startups which have been acquired) is the frequent claim that the startup will be left alone by the rest of the company. Every single process and incentive
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by andrewem 6y ago
I mostly agree with you. On the topic specifically of whether protests over the summer were a significant factor in spreading the virus, I haven’t seen evidence that’s true. This article is from August so practically ancient history now, bu
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by andrewem 6y ago
“Taking charge of your fertility” is basically about how to gather and analyze data about your body’s functioning, in order to achieve a desired health outcome (specifically, pregnancy).
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by andrewem 6y ago
*Kreps, not Krebs
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by andrewem 6y ago
I saw someone riding a cargo ebike with a kid on it and went home excited to get one. Then I discovered it weighs over 70 pounds, which I can’t imagine working since to get it to my basement storage area requires carrying up several steps t
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by andrewem 6y ago
I agree with what I think is your argument that “bureaucratic” tools used at a company with many thousands of engineers aren’t necessarily appropriate for a much smaller company. For example, the system of ownership by directory in a monore
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by andrewem 6y ago
Yes. People driving kill thousands of pedestrians every year. People act like “but cars kill more people!” is an argument in favor of whatever dangerous thing they’re talking about, not an argument against the way cars and roads are designe
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by andrewem 6y ago
This is a student paper, and it’s from 1998 not 2001, according to this page which lists many other student papers from that course over several years: http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/projects_whole.html
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by andrewem 6y ago
Online or not, and social group must be protected from bad actors or they will drive everyone else away. As an example, long ago I knew of a group for single adults which had one creepy guy who drove away all the women, and of course their
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by andrewem 6y ago
This from the Wikipedia article on Commodus does indeed seem very bad: "Citizens of Rome missing their feet through accident or illness were taken to the arena, where they were tethered together for Commodus to club to death while pret
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by andrewem 6y ago
If that interests you, see the philosophical debates about the nature and existence of consciousness, e.g. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/13/the-consciousness-d... and the follow-up https:/&
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by andrewem 6y ago
The author is this rather famous novelist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwidge_Danticat
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by andrewem 6y ago
From reading the Wikipedia article, it sounds like "run by" overstates his role, but wow nevertheless.
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by andrewem 6y ago
Thanks for the mention of Kakoune, which I hadn't heard of. This page on its site makes a pretty interesting case for the power of its command model over vim's (though I haven't been a regular vim user for many years): https
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by andrewem 6y ago
Speaking of not being allowed to enter a polling place wearing curtain clothes: "Since Tuesday, she has become known as the “Topless Voter.” The woman, who ripped off her T-shirt after objections that it was too political to wear insid
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by andrewem 6y ago
Can someone summarize the lessons or approach of that talk?
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by andrewem 6y ago
The adjective form of Democrat is Democratic. Perhaps as a German the author is unaware that usages like "all the democrat votes are ignored" are repeating the Republicans' deliberately insulting word choice. Edit: thanks to

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