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by arghnoname 2y ago
If I were being charitable (sometimes I try), I'd guess he was concerned that an array of scalars is going to have a high per scalar size overhead and perhaps worse cache locality, whereas the non-unicode perl string implementation at
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Their reign of villainy would surely be stopped by now if it weren't for their ability to power their war machines with washing machine parts
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by arghnoname 2y ago
> whatever we're trying to do right now is really far away from the "success rate" of the nuclear family. I think of many social/cultural arrangements as Nash equilibria. These can be very stable (over centuries even)
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by arghnoname 2y ago
It's just easier for individuals to 'own' certain shared responsibilities, but inevitably the other can be prone to resent having lesser participation and access to the positives of the other's responsibility (e.g., time
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I wish we had a richer language to discuss these issues. 'Equality' defined as having near equal tasks is not necessarily something that everyone thinks is an unalloyed good, whereas equality defined as having equal value as human
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I know, right? You've tried harder than me. I don't think I've tried more than a few times and probably didn't crack 15 minutes! I can clear my thoughts of everything except how bored I am and how long a minute feels wit
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I know what you mean. I have a bit of a contrary streak I have to be mindful of that sometimes makes me be less receptive to certain things than I should be. Meditation and yoga are two practices that I've never managed to make myself
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I've been sedentary and am now pretty active. Without a shadow of a doubt, my quality of life, mental clarity, energy, etc, are all improved relative to my past. Physical fitness is only one axis, and compared to actual athletes I&#x27
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by arghnoname 2y ago
There have been papers that limit the capabilities of a program within a certain context (i.e., within a function), some of which were implemented at the OS level and enforced with hardware protection (e.g., address space isolation). The di
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by arghnoname 2y ago
You can do the math on this, I don't think anyone does. I did the math with some basic assumptions using some simple queueing theory, which unfortunately I don't remember very well right now, but your intuition is correct. It isn&
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by arghnoname 2y ago
It's been interesting to see the different financial perspectives on the threads here. I don't know if people haven't done the math or just think a middle-class lifestyle is supposed to be living in mortal terror of an unexpe
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I made those sorts of wages, and at least for me what happened initially as income went up is I went from drowning to treading water. Instead of having a car that doesn't run or a suspended license from being unable to pay a speeding t
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by arghnoname 3y ago
Where I work, they mandated RTO three days a week. It was largely ignored. Eventually they started checking badge-in access and strictly enforced the mandate. There was a lot of grumbling about people quitting, but anecdotally I didn't
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by arghnoname 3y ago
It's almost inconceivable to me that companies would go fully remote and not over time adjust salary downwards to something more like the median demands of the available labor force (i.e., those whose workday fits within a 8:00-6:00 wi
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I have had amazon prime account since it was released. There were many times where I was probably getting no value from it: I don't watch much TV and I stopped ordering stuff from Amazon with any regularity because it became riddled wi
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by arghnoname 3y ago
Delivering value as an entry level software development position requires some soft skills, but it's probably mostly determined by skill/mastery over technical subjects. As one advances, particularly at larger or more bureaucratic
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by arghnoname 3y ago
This is a myth, one I used to believe, until I started exercising to just improve my cardiovascular health. Lo and behold, I started losing fat unintentionally (my weight only dropped a little, but I think my body composition is better as w
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I ran 15 miles on Monday at a pretty relaxed pace (took 2.5 hours). My watch, while probably not perfectly accurate, nevertheless suggested I burned approximately 1640 additional calories during this time. This is 1/4 as much as 10 hou
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by arghnoname 3y ago
They hired some Apple people in the past year, so well after it was probably clear internally that this was going badly. Even if the new employees do everything right, I would assume that it will be difficult to graft a software culture int
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by arghnoname 3y ago
It's a good example and I think it generalizes. For instance, I'm capable of some minor repairs for appliances, but if some problem seems to be contained in the PCB and I can just replace it for $50 (or whatever) I'll just do
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by arghnoname 3y ago
He was probably right. When I write small, short-lived programs I mind my memory because it's a muscle I need to retain and I don't want to pick up bad habits. For an academic writing a one-off program just to get something done,
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I don't define centrism as some middle point between the two parties. Polling on same sex marriage and relationships is highly supportive, I'm among the great bulk of people on this. At one point my position was relatively radical
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I know of something in this area, but I was involved in it and prefer to maintain my pseudo anonymity. If you care to and email me at my username @ gmail I'll share over that channel.
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by arghnoname 3y ago
fwiw, I'm not a centrist. I am to the left of both major political parties in the United States on issues of political economy. I worked on democratic political campaigns and grew disillusioned with that party many years ago, largely (
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I agree with you and should have been more clear on this point: net neutrality is something I support and anything in that direction is a good thing. It's almost hard not to be a cynic now, but kudos are in order here. I just am suffic
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by arghnoname 3y ago
It's not clear to me which party is more supportive of a 'free' internet. During the Trump and COVID era Democrats became much more aggressive in advocating for and explicitly pushing censorship regimes against what they cons
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by arghnoname 3y ago
This isn't very charitable. There's a saying about the shoes of the cobbler after all. The profession is large enough that we can have experts on, e.g., compiler optimizations, who do not care to know or bother with the tedious wo
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by arghnoname 3y ago
when I use pfctl on macOS I see apple defined anchors.
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by arghnoname 3y ago
It's not about litigation. Companies have actual secrets, such as upcoming products, mergers, and acquisitions. Putting a bunch of non-public information into these things (often run by competitors!) may inadvertently leak that informa
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by arghnoname 3y ago
At my job, any information we get from customers is treated as private/personal. It would be a fireable offense to load it up into some third party database or service. I have not, will not, and am not allowed to copy and paste anythin

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