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by buescher 4y ago
I saw an article a while back about how, much like counterfeits that fool all the experts look amateurish after a few decades, the violins that compare well to Stradivariuses in these double blind studies eventually get considered inferior
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by buescher 4y ago
As a late friend put it: "Everything I know about leadership I learned from Colonel Kurtz."
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by buescher 4y ago
I interpolated an "a" in that headline on first reading.
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by buescher 4y ago
> the only cases You left out Germany and Switzerland, probably others. Hardly "developing countries". So you agree that universal healthcare systems do not almost always ban duplicate coverage, and you agree that there is n
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by buescher 4y ago
Nope. There is no such "standard worldwide". Read the article I posted. In most countries private insurance either replaces public insurance (in countries whose system uses an individual mandate like the original ACA) or as the
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by buescher 4y ago
The way to capture the content of a conversation like that, so that more than one person at a time can easily benefit from it, is in a theory of operation document with appropriate illustrations. Simple block diagrams will take you far bef
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by buescher 4y ago
It's a printed manual. They did have typesetting back then. I like the wide margins with subheadings in them. I bet a lot of copies got written in.
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by buescher 4y ago
No. Most proposals for universal healthcare by the American left would ban private insurance. Most actual universal healthcare does not ban private insurance. > Basically, every single country with universal coverage also has private in
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by buescher 4y ago
There's more than one AGILE methodology. SCRUM is only one of several. Probably if you're doing SCRUM you're using techniques from some of the others, so you might not see the distinction. Look 'em up. KANBAN, for ex
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by buescher 4y ago
I thought Microsoft's scalping mitigation was clever: for a long while now there has been no shortage of availability of the Xbox All Access bundle: you buy the Xbox Series X/S on time, bundled with a Game Pass Ultimate subscripti
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by buescher 4y ago
I took Boneh's graduate class a few years ago through SCPD. Recommended if you can justify it. He has a Coursera course that I assume is of similar high quality with less depth and rigor. We used the above two books in addition to H
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by buescher 4y ago
I don't have much use for such a thing anymore, and I don't know what people use instead of Spyglass/Fortner Transform anymore, but it was really nice in its era.
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by buescher 4y ago
Oops. Well I suppose there’s that. I’ll add that I have no idea how “bankruptcy tourism” works, other than that people do it. It’s odd that one can do it at all.
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by buescher 4y ago
When you hear Europeans get horrified that in the USA a medical problem (or whatever) could drive you into bankruptcy, this is the context. They are usually more horrified than you might realize, because there is a bit of miscommunication
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by buescher 4y ago
A whole lot of the simple functions in the standard C library are in there because a naive implementation will have bugs, often subtle ones. Implementing strcpy or strlen used to be a common interview question.
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by buescher 4y ago
I recall there was a port of the Wingz spreadsheet to Linux in the mid-to-late nineties. Not shipped with Corel Linux, though.
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by buescher 4y ago
The designer of the SIO worked on the USB.
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by buescher 4y ago
Just as a value comparison - the Rigol DS1054Z is a real 4-channel oscilloscope and is $429 MSRP. The target markets are different, of course.
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by buescher 4y ago
Which came first? I am pretty sure it was computer accounting systems. Which is older, the oldest continuously supported operating system, or the oldest continuously supported (computer) accounting system?
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by buescher 4y ago
Yes. There's government money for "water and sanitation issues". NGO money too, but most of that is government money. All of which issues have conventional solutions, but it's hard to assert you have a breakthrough wit
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by buescher 4y ago
Can't a guy leave anything as an exercise to the reader anymore?
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by buescher 4y ago
cpython is the reference implementation and 32% means about 350,000 lines of code. My point stands.
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by buescher 4y ago
And Python is implemented as a large C program.
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by buescher 4y ago
Tooling and experience. In principle, there are other languages that might be better than C or C++ for safety-critical software. You know all the hoary jokes about the difference between theory and practice?
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by buescher 4y ago
Yamaha QY70. I remember reading something 20 years ago, maybe more, about artists using it to compose while traveling. Probably Björk. http://www.synthmania.com/qy70.htm
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by buescher 4y ago
Cars are a great example when you compare just about any used car to being able to finance a new $15K econobox - the econobox will win on TCO. (And at low interest rates, you are better off holding on to your cash and financing). But not w
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by buescher 4y ago
I really hate that quote. For one, it is frequently hard to tell when you are actually getting quality by spending more. Sometimes you might just be paying for the label. For another, nice things often require expensive maintenance. Boo
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by buescher 4y ago
I had a couple interviews when I was young and callow and really needed the job that still stick with me. One was with a large company that's still around. The HR manager accused me of lying on my resume after I interpreted something
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by buescher 4y ago
The dual-port RAM is a cheat; the Apple II series bus supported DMA (so does PCI), but that's harder to implement.
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by buescher 4y ago
Thank goodness I haven't heard a hipster sing the praises of carbon-zinc "heavy duty" batteries from Harbor Freight and dollar stores... yet.

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