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by brians 7y ago
Mine are run by the same company and bills pass through. The result has the same effects for me as a PPO with a weird sort of IRA attached, and lower premiums than my old BCBS Elite 100/80 PPO.
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by brians 7y ago
You are using the ubiquitous jargon of radio engineering. But for those on this site who are not radio engineers: of course the impedance of the custard does not change. The impedance of the system including the custard and the antenna tune
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by brians 7y ago
Nah, seems like a power trip to me. Maybe hoping she’d throw herself at him; maybe just getting into making her know it was his feelings that controlled her access to housing and health care. Since it was about a hiring decision—not just a
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by brians 7y ago
I hear it’s because of what the mayor did.
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by brians 7y ago
It was. Criticisms like this led to implementing hybrid-OO systems. Those are what we now call OO. He’s talking about Smalltalk, Self, that sort of thing.
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by brians 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454 The Aho and Kernighan book is amazing.
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by brians 7y ago
Yes! All the Zarfhome stuff, like Hadean Lands or Dreamhold. Deathless: City's Thirst and Choice of the Deathless , both set in Max Gladstone's lawyers-are-wizards-are-lawyers "Craft" series.
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by brians 7y ago
There are huge variations in what each state requires of “charter schools”. Where I am they’re nonprofit, take all kids, and seem to work well to let invested parents get their kids out of broken districts—with little interest from function
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by brians 8y ago
The quoted Dr. Palmer’s novels caricature a far future SV ethos well. Start with Too Like the Lightning and believe the narrator when he tells you he’s a bad dude.
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by brians 8y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richsalz-httpbis-https-dow...
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by brians 8y ago
Okay. Where else is a major metro? London. Paris. Hong Kong. Singapore. Tokyo. Chicago. Los Angeles. And maybe, maybe San Francisco or Boston. If a metro area don’t have a couple major orchestras, operas, a few major sports teams,
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by brians 8y ago
That’s a great example of a safety practice that nets out unsafe: better to ask why the altimeter requires setting and the plane can be started without it!
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by brians 8y ago
Get a 10% raise. At 50 you’re at $1.7M/yr. You save 0.8M that year, spend 900k—including paying off your kids’ education. Assuming 5% returns, your savings tick over to $11118263.51. But you’re right that it’s not pretending you only g
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by brians 8y ago
Wanted the same way HIGH:MEDIUM:LOW was wanted, with a new recipe for late binding of noncomposable abstractions. Same outcome expected.
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by brians 8y ago
We already knew men are taller on average. If an explanation can replace “amygdala” with “height” and lose no plausibility, I prefer to set it aside.
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by brians 8y ago
You’re right about ML. But you’re mistaken about software engineering—though in good company with most software engineers. Of denotation, cache access, confidentiality, authentication, integrity, non-repudiability, performance, thread safet
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by brians 8y ago
Isn’t there something in here about a legacy module?
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by brians 8y ago
Neat. I look forward to better FIPS handling and the deprecation story. And to vulnerabilities from the loadable module support. Getting the property based binding right looks tough!
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by brians 8y ago
Not quite. For one thing, that +/- 200k matters a lot. Start out making $100k out of college. Get a 10% raise per year. Save half of everything you make over that initial $100k—like pretending you only got a 5% raise. You’ll be abl
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by brians 8y ago
Can you expand on that? The rust example looks like pattern matching and dispatch into a standard library. The C looks like some macros and tests, and dispatch into a standard library. But I’m much more comfortable with ML than with C; Wha
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by brians 8y ago
Not root cause analysis. Complex systems fail in complex ways. If you want to read more about how this is done, try Normal Accidents (Perrow), Human Error (Reason)... but you're going to land on Engineering a Safer World (Leveson) ev
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by brians 8y ago
Yeah, but $50 Levi’s will last ten years too.
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by brians 8y ago
That’s called recognizing UAE sovereignty and not imposing our laws or values. It’s flawed, but probably the best we can do. On the other hand, the NSA vets who went to work for the UAE knew who was paying their salaries, and knew they’d g
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by brians 8y ago
I grew up in a suburb. It's important to remember that kids are closer to the ground. Shrubbery. Slates and what burrows beneath. Trees—the texture of the bark and the vestibular effects of climbing. Ice on the ground in this seas
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by brians 8y ago
Yes! But none you want to use on a workstation. Honeywell and Burroughs both produced A1 verified operating systems—presumably there are successors there or at General Dynamics. There are some Russian attempts as well. Nobody else had t
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by brians 8y ago
No, there’s not necessarily a single common female human ancestor. There might be several of related, but not reliably interfertile, species. The most recent common ancestor in that case might be quite nonhuman, though presumably a primat
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by brians 8y ago
Yeah. I thought I just had a busted phone—bad component somewhere, causing flickering. The fact that that's not recognized as a defect is shocking.
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by brians 8y ago
I hire people coming from this program. I can no longer rely on students understanding control systems, having read Leveson's therac paper, having worked with a notebook-style REPL (I.e., something stressful to model exactly in your h
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by brians 8y ago
Prayer changes the prayer, not the imagined recipient.
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by brians 8y ago
And the event-stream implementation will blow your mind.

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