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by brianolson 5y ago
Framing is a plausible place to optimize, so how about steel? The factory cuts all the pieces to be assembled on site. It goes up real fast. This is what we want, right?
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by brianolson 5y ago
Bitcoin is terrible technology and stupidly wasteful, but there are new blockchain networks coming along that are about a million times more efficient, so use those instead.
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by brianolson 5y ago
Isn't everyone usually praising taller ants? https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/taller
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by brianolson 6y ago
I have their 13-ish/14-ish laptop from 2017, 3200x1600 display. It's great. Damn shame they don't have anything high-dpi now. 15" 1920x1080 is unacceptable. 1920x1080 is the new 1366x768.
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by brianolson 6y ago
I used to think smaller districts would be harder to gerrymander, but the 99 Wisconsin State Legislature districts (each none too big) can still be gerrymandered plenty to distort the balance of that body.
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by brianolson 6y ago
The sortition process isn't quite like centrally listing everyone and picking from the list. The Verifiable Random Function (VRF) allows you to know "I was picked!" and create a short quickly verifiable certificate to prove t
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by brianolson 6y ago
You can make 'modules', little repeatable chunks that can be replicated or turned on or turned off etc. OpenSCAD is programming so a 'module' is a 'function' or 'procedure' in other langs. My multi-pa
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by brianolson 6y ago
Here's a google sheet recreating the model, and some columns about what happens if you add in 5% growth to that wealth being taxed https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RUOyxXLZ-J_Nb_aPIhiF...
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by brianolson 6y ago
why the long domain name, shouldn't it be "SSCabridged" ?
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by brianolson 6y ago
skip to 36:20 for the action
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by brianolson 6y ago
Gary Bernhardt was prophetic https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by brianolson 6y ago
Some people have 10 years experience. Some people have the same year of experience 10 times.
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by brianolson 6y ago
(I work for a blockchain company.) It is still a useful pattern. It was definitely overhyped. There is still a useful core value proposition there and the market will settle out towards where it makes sense.
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AMD Succeeds in its 25x20 Goal(anandtech.com)
4 points by brianolson 6y ago|0 comments
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by brianolson 6y ago
Nice! See also https://bdistricting.com/2010/ and http://autoredistrict.org/
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by brianolson 6y ago
Part of 'software engineering' is the wisdom of how to organize a large project. There are books on the subject, some of them good. One place I worked had a book club that met one lunch a week to talk about them and what we liked
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by brianolson 6y ago
Moral flexibility and subjugation. The boss says to build a thing, you build the thing. If rewriting an infiniband driver and pinning it to a core on the server and processing requests in kernel space in exquisitely crafted C is what cuts r
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by brianolson 6y ago
Minnesota Public Radio reaches similar conclusions https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/04/20/behind-calls-to-reo...
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by brianolson 7y ago
CBOR went to the trouble of being an IETF standard, RFC 7049. So, you know, the lovely thing about using standards!
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by brianolson 7y ago
Or you could use IETF standard CBOR (Concise Binary Object Representation) https://cbor.io/ RFC 7049
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by brianolson 7y ago
Your next AWS instance might be ARM. I'll have to test my specific workload, but for 40% more compute-per-dollar I'm interested.
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by brianolson 7y ago
It's early in its life cycle and needs a JTAG interface to work with now, but it _could_ be a sweet little Arduino board. Comparable to the TeensyLC but $3 instead of $12. 3.3v 33mA 108Mhz 32k RAM 128k flash.
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by brianolson 7y ago
Big organizational problems can't be fixed by writing better code. Meritocracy sounds nice but you have to learn to play office politics. New products and new features should have a business case (yes, even at Google) so that eventuall
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by brianolson 7y ago
the patents are pretty good reads, no hype, just diagrams https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160020652A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160380496A1/en
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by brianolson 7y ago
I laughed, I cried, it was better than "Interstellar"
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Algorand [Blockchain] Running on Raspberry Pi(medium.com)
5 points by brianolson 7y ago|1 comments
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by brianolson 8y ago
"Approval Voting does surprisingly well" and I agree that it's a mathematically valid and efficient solution that does _surprisingly_ well, but other systems do better (Cordorcet, etc). Also in the messy human emotional sense
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by brianolson 8y ago
Yes, there was a real world election run using IRV that got the wrong answer. Fortunately the full (anonymized) vote set was released and we can see how it would have gone using other election methods. https://bolson.org/irv
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by brianolson 8y ago
What the article misses is that there are alternatives better than BOTH approval or IRV. I will always find "Approval" to be unsatisfying because I want to say I like A more than I like B. I will always find IRV to be dumb because
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by brianolson 8y ago
made a 6 minute video that could have been a 2d multiline chart

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