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by bulatb 4y ago
For a job whose going rate is M, a company would offer N to Bob and N- d to equally qualified Alice. If they want to hire Bob, they have to publish that they offer N so he applies. Now Alice knows that something is up when they offer N- d
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by bulatb 4y ago
That's a purposely absurd example of a mode of thinking I see almost every time I'm here. Whatever EQ is, if anything, maybe some amount of it is needed to avoid that.
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by bulatb 4y ago
High IQ with low EQ, whatever they are, is someone who thinks "feed the homeless to the hungry" is an elegant solution to an irritating problem and is baffled why we haven't done it yet. We don't need to rigorously quant
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by bulatb 4y ago
What people mean is that they've done nothing wrong, not that there's nothing they'd rather keep secret. "Not like that!" means they're annoyed you're focused on their words instead of their meaning. They&
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by bulatb 4y ago
That model about music is really interesting. Thanks for sharing, I never would have found it.
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by bulatb 4y ago
> "Quality is like art. I know it when I see it." I think that's the minimal repro. The thing objectively will have those traits, but you can just enumerate them. Labeling them "quality" adds information about
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by bulatb 4y ago
> Is champagne higher-quality than coca-cola? Of course it is Hm. I don't think I'd use the normal definition that way. I see it, but I wouldn't compare them. But maybe that's why I'm suggesting this weird defi
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by bulatb 4y ago
~ A take ~ "Quality" is what we say when what succeeds is not what we think should succeed. There's an actual objective function that defines success: that's fitness. Quality is what we call the difference between that o
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by bulatb 4y ago
MOND is unsuccessful in the broadest sense because the jury is still out. It hasn't failed, and does have support, but hasn't managed to convince the experts that its individual successes translate into overall success as a mode
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by bulatb 4y ago
I guess I'm still not being clear. I'm not insulting MOND or people who like it, at least not on purpose. That's just absolutely not my goal. At all. Rereading my first comment, I'm not happy with the tone. I wrote it qu
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by bulatb 4y ago
I'm saying there's a scientific model called MOND and also, separately, a literal Dawkinsian meme[0] which features the acceptance of that model based in part on motivated reasoning, not science. I'm not dismissing the hypoth
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by bulatb 4y ago
I'm trying hard to be precise, but I could always do better. MOND the physical hypothesis is perfectly good science, whether it turns out to match reality or not. My issue is with MOND the meme , the complex of beliefs among non-physi
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by bulatb 4y ago
That's the fascinating thing to me: it doesn't matter! MOND is a successful pseudoskeptical meme despite not being a successful physical theory. The narrative of MOND-the-meme is totally wrong but extremely compelling. That's
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by bulatb 4y ago
They're emphasizing a precise distinction between "concurrent" (the way it's structured) and "parallel" (the way it runs). Concurrent programs have multiple right answers for "Which line of computation can
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by bulatb 4y ago
Buyers of art are paying for artistry. The product is the art itself, or something closely related. Buyers of software are paying for working productive machines with inputs and outputs, same as a train or a tractor, but which happen to be
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by bulatb 4y ago
I wouldn't quite say they're gamechangers, but they're exactly what I happened to need. Variadic generics will (I hope) be very nice for typing pre-2.0 SQLAlchemy code. `Query[*Ts]` or similar would be a natural type for many
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by bulatb 4y ago
Newer packaging-related PEPs require TOML, and many developer tools use TOML by choice, but a fresh install of Python couldn't actually read it. That required workarounds from tool and library maintainers, making it more complicated to
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by bulatb 4y ago
This unblocks or simplifies so many of my projects. Variadic generics, better exceptions, and TOML in the standard library are huge, self-types are great, and extra speed is always appreciated. Thanks to everyone involved.
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by bulatb 4y ago
As the Baltimore philosopher Butchie put it: "Conscience do cost." Feeling good makes people happy. What's measured to produce that feeling is the outcome of the am-I-good thing in your brain's evaluation of whatever y
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by bulatb 4y ago
Last and triple edit but "validate," not "justify," because it's not about ends justifying means.
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by bulatb 4y ago
Too late to edit, but an edit: > You have to choose between [...] or doubling down and losing everything on purpose for nothing. If you choose to double down you might get lucky and win, or some outside-context thing might happen and w
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by bulatb 4y ago
> there is more than one battle taking place That's not the way I took it, but if you're right I wouldn't disagree. Sometimes you can play a different game. Though strategies designed to win will outcompete and replace o
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by bulatb 4y ago
I'm not suggesting it's okay to be an asshole just because you see some other person somewhere being an asshole. If their behavior happens in their bubble and you live in your own, disconnected, then you're free to do whateve
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by bulatb 4y ago
Two armies take the field. One brings their swords and their gentlemen's honor. This is how Real Men have always fought, it's Right, and it's the way they'll fight today. The other brings machine guns. Maybe there is suc
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by bulatb 4y ago
Unless you badly need the job, take the risk. The company will get to pay a lower wage if and when they find another candidate they like who's willing to take it. For the moment they have you; they may or may not have someone else. The
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by bulatb 4y ago
I would say consistently achieving your goals is effectiveness. Intelligence can help you be effective, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient.
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by bulatb 5y ago
If we study something that seems obvious and it's confirmed and replicated, now we actually know what everyone "knew." If common knowledge turns out to be wrong, we strike a false belief and add a true(er) one—even better.
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by bulatb 5y ago
> If you're storing personal data, you need consent. Could you explain this claim? I'm seeing it more often and I wonder if there's something I'm missing. GDPR Article 6 gives five other legal bases for processing.
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by bulatb 5y ago
> I just don't buy the "you might need to make your app an SPA some day to you might as well take on the technical burden from that decision now" idea.* I'm not selling that idea. "Boil the ocean now in case you
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by bulatb 5y ago
This is not a better way of making apps. Or a worse way. In solutions there is no such thing as good or bad—only more and less fit for the problem. If your problem and requirements are such that you will always be outside the part of the so

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