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by bllguo 6y ago
yes, this is linked in the OP! It's fantastically interesting. Uses magnets instead of springs
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by bllguo 6y ago
the point is that the plant would not happen without US pressure, so it is primarily motivated by geopolitical concerns. If you buy that, it's not much of a stretch to question how much effort TSMC will put into the Arizona plant, give
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by bllguo 6y ago
why does that matter if the outcomes are comparably despicable? In fact that seems _more_ damning to the US people
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by bllguo 6y ago
While I think it's fair to say that it's hard to come up with informative priors for many real problems, the Bayesian framework is pretty robust if you use weakly informative priors
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by bllguo 6y ago
Re: Japanese rice brands, my personal recommendation is Tamaki Gold. Pricey but a fantastic product you can also make zhou/congee with a rice cooker and steam foods. I often use mine to reheat leftovers like chicken legs while cooking
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by bllguo 6y ago
the only time i've appreciated conda is on windows systems. recently I've been playing with pystan, which - after hours of trial and error - im not even sure is possible to install correctly without conda. but otherwise, i agree e
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by bllguo 6y ago
thanks for the link, i will need to give this a thorough read. I understand why most investing advice is conservative and I do plan on having most of my money in those strategies, but I've always thought there must also exist some rela
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by bllguo 6y ago
look, things aren't binary.. No, it's not "support", obviously they largely stand by their country over the US. But it's not North Korea; they understand that life is good in the US, propaganda aside. They don'
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by bllguo 6y ago
because contrary to what you believe, many Chinese looked up to aspects of the US.
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by bllguo 6y ago
CYO meaning choose your own? I wouldn't hold my breath on the Topre front, the company is notoriously conservative in their offerings. They're also not mechanical switches; there's really no way to offer hotswap Topre switche
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by bllguo 6y ago
there are quite a few ortho split ergo offerings out there now. but still just one with curved key wells (as far as im ware) in the dactyl manuform, and that generally requires self-assembly. wonder why that is - manufacturing difficulty? l
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by bllguo 6y ago
"Likely hoping for something similar"? Is this just naivete? As many other comments here point out, there are zero sources that suggest anything close to a majority of HK protesters want independence, let alone HKers overall.
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by bllguo 6y ago
I'm not sure if you've seen a map of the region? I don't understand how you can have an understanding of the geography and claim HK independence is feasible. Even in this impossible scenario, economically it would be ruined b
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by bllguo 6y ago
That seems a bit disingenuous. While I am no expert and cannot verify if the claims in your article are true (though Wikipedia asserts the same), it is clearly different from the OP. Your link is (presumably) rooted in accepted historical f
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by bllguo 6y ago
this is amazing advice. I figured this out the hard way as the manager just last week. Was initially apprehensive as I haven't done much pair programming before, but it was incredibly productive and my report loved it
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by bllguo 6y ago
Reports? They literally are experiencing stability and prosperity. People went from rural villages without electricity to towering megacities in a generation. Honestly I find it rather insulting that you'd rather believe they're
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by bllguo 6y ago
You say this like it's supposed to be some kind of clever gotcha. Yes, the discontent there is real. But even if 100% of HKers are dissatisfied with the regime (which is not the case), they are a tiny fraction of the total population.
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by bllguo 6y ago
you're right. I should have said "less and less so". In any case it's definitely trending down
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by bllguo 6y ago
yes, seconded. China isn't North Korea or the USSR. Don't take for granted that the West is "better", at this point China is looking over and saying "prove it" Can you blame Chinese citizens for preferring the
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by bllguo 6y ago
X is distributed as p(y) where p is a probability distribution parameterized by y
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by bllguo 6y ago
thanks, didn't know what to search. striking to me that it seems to be all mental. I suppose it's reassuring that this is somewhat common
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by bllguo 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but this has puzzled me for awhile: there are times when at night I will suddenly feel like my heart is beating ridiculously quickly and loudly. It subsides with deep slow breaths. The strange thing is that I've tried
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by bllguo 6y ago
It's so painful to discuss China online. The claim I was responding to - that you called "correct", if you needed the reminder - was that most Chinese citizens are being systematically disappeared, tortured, and killed. It is
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by bllguo 6y ago
So when people say companies are afraid of hiring false positives because it's costly to get rid of them - it's their internal corporate culture that is to blame for firing being expensive in the first place? Rather than some over
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by bllguo 6y ago
Correct? How so? I can assure you that most Chinese citizens are not systematically disappeared, tortured, and/or killed (and enfranchisement is not as valued there as it is here). The regime has been objectively _good_ for the overwhe
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by bllguo 6y ago
I too think that's how things should work if a take-home is involved, but I haven't experienced this yet. There are times I've gotten past the take-home and then had to do a technical _phone_ interview after - not even an ons
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by bllguo 6y ago
2. is the biggest thing for me. Exactly the same experience. I would be happy with take-homes if companies actually trusted them. The biggest reason I'm willing to do them is to avoid the whiteboarding. Of course from their perspective
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by bllguo 6y ago
a lot of these comments about valve stem from the somewhat infamous tweets of a former valve dev, though here's the first link i found https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...
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by bllguo 6y ago
What do you take issue with? The first two are clearly factual. AP tests are limited to a single subject and are 2-3 hours in length. My comment on grading is also pretty objective, imo. Your AP score is 1-5. And the curve is crazy; when I
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by bllguo 6y ago
ap testing is a lot shorter, clearly not as comprehensive, and graded very leniently in comparison

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