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by bjterry 4y ago
The video from the article ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bydMm4cJDeU ) is much better because it highlights the index of the outer loop, which is unclear from the cascading visualization there. By seeing t
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by bjterry 4y ago
The study from that link[0] that the CA government used to justify this law is BS. Huge garden of forking paths issue. I mean this doesn't exactly inspire confidence: > After following the iterative identification, estimation, and d
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by bjterry 5y ago
The company I work for is in international logistics (Flexport) so as you can imagine, dates and times are quite important. We have standardized internal time definitions that can represent uncertainty, which were the result of much discuss
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by bjterry 5y ago
I think if critics said things like “Pet Sounds was a huge technical and cultural innovation in the production of music but was only an incremental improvement in the aesthetics and complexity of music” we wouldn’t have this article. The po
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by bjterry 5y ago
From Brian Hook[0], who worked with John Carmack at id Software: > I remember Carmack talking about productivity measurement. While working he would play a CD, and if he was not being productive, he'd pause the CD player. This mea
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by bjterry 5y ago
The headline is deceptive as written. It's an executive at an Applebee's franchisee with 47 restaurants, not the chain itself.
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by bjterry 5y ago
> Amazon eventually solved this problem by having their own delivery people (and Apple has done this as well for same-day delivery). At scale, there's no commercial service you can pay for that will reliably attempt to deliver packa
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by bjterry 5y ago
My non-scientific method was to put the two windows side-by-side, and click the "zoom out" button three times to eyeball the difference.
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by bjterry 5y ago
Thanks for the correction. It felt a lot closer, but I haven't been there in a long time.
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by bjterry 5y ago
There is a widely spread myth that Mt. Diablo in Oakland has the second largest viewshed in the world after Mt. Kilimanjaro[1]. With this tool you can actually compare them directly, which is pretty cool: Mt. Diablo: https://www.
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by bjterry 5y ago
99% feels like an exaggeration. I've talked to many developers from non-FAANG companies, and it isn't at all uncommon for them to be using GraphQL or serverless. I guess there is some selection bias since they are usually applying
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by bjterry 5y ago
I don't think that's right for all of them. I suspect it's the company that owns the lease or loan on a plane that's being financed. For example, the current first listing is an A319-112 with the number A997E5. According
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by bjterry 5y ago
I think you are misunderstanding how second-price auctions work. In a second-price auction, the FIRST price bidder pays the bid of the SECOND price bidder. This sentence is saying that the FIRST bidder is still paying the SECOND price rate,
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by bjterry 5y ago
Here's the original tweet, for those interested. The content is essentially identical either way: https://twitter.com/JoelBurgess/status/1428008041887281157
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by bjterry 5y ago
These walls are typically called "lath and plaster." A lath is a narrow slat of wood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lath_and_plaster
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by bjterry 5y ago
> Looking at the open issues, it doesn't appear to be actively maintained I'm not sure if this is intentionally ironic or not, but it does seem like if your small libraries aren't getting updated regularly because they are
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by bjterry 5y ago
There is an art installation in Las Vegas[0] which is basically a grocery store from an alternate, mildly dystopian, dimension. This would fit in perfectly there. 0: https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/visua
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by bjterry 5y ago
In the article, they use the term "domestic" to refer to a Pakistani agency posting in Pakistan. The definitions are slightly more clearly explained in another post[0]: > Foreign-led efforts to manipulate public debate in anoth
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by bjterry 5y ago
Thanks, this is a great recommendation based on the Amazon reviews!
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by bjterry 5y ago
I have been thinking a lot about Systems Thinking recently. Will Larson writes in An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management that it's one of the most useful general tools he's discovered for approaching management pro
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by bjterry 5y ago
In the current world, information wants to be free. In the AI-powered future, knowledge wants to be free.
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by bjterry 6y ago
By chance I listened to a translation of The Divine Comedy on Audible last month. The production was quite good, with a poetic translation by Clive James. Speaking as someone who has done almost literally no research on the topic, I will sh
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by bjterry 6y ago
I use Clockwise for managing my calendar. It's quite convenient if you are a manager because it can handle all your flexible meetings (aka 1:1s) even without everyone on board at your company using it. Definitely recommend it.
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by bjterry 6y ago
The discipline of software engineering is mostly about managing change, and the most impactful ideas in the field support this from the micro level to the macro level. For example, at the micro level immutable functional programming with mo
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by bjterry 6y ago
The single-player campaigns were a major focus for many early RTS. Even Warcraft II many players mostly played the single-player, but that was probably the tipping point due to the success of Battle.net.
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by bjterry 6y ago
Also, a very dangerous drinking game is to watch BBC's Planet Earth and have a drink every time they use a superlative ("most," "biggest," "fastest," etc). So that is also definitely not an exclusively Ame
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by bjterry 6y ago
If you have two actors within a system that are at odds, using the term "purpose" to refer to the system is either mostly incoherent, or (in most cases) trying to import the connotation of "purpose" into a conversation.
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by bjterry 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that's a toy or costume helmet. Calling it a "firefighter's helmet" is hilariously, intentionally deceptive.
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by bjterry 6y ago
The semantic formatting seems better to me, but I feel like I'll get used to almost any reasonable formatting. If you spend enough time with a consistently formatted codebase, your eye will be drawn to the important parts when you revi
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by bjterry 6y ago
When I imagine a classic webcam, it's definitely the Logitech QuickCam Express (1999), with its memorable industrial design of an orb perched atop a stumpy pyramid. It only predated the iSight (2003) by 4 years, although there were ear

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