bwanab

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by bwanab 3y ago
To the cultural point I'd add one. I'm an American who worked in Europe in the 2003-2004 era for an American company managing European developers. There was a very strong feeling - as in much stronger than I'd ever experience
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by bwanab 3y ago
Exactly. Three things that should be on the front page of any new language: 1) examples of syntax (check), 2) quick start instructions (check), 3) short description of motivation/rationale including what other languages were considered
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by bwanab 3y ago
This seems like cool technology, but I can't help but to believe that people are concentrating on the wrong problem. Range is important up to a point, but the more important problems to solve are 1) a recharging infrastructure that mak
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by bwanab 3y ago
You're comparing a sports sedan with a pretty normal sedan there. The fact that the model 3 can compete in the same league at all with the BMW has to do with the lower weight distribution caused by those batteries. It's not as sim
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by bwanab 3y ago
Politics proceeds slowly. The first step for a tech aware politician like Sen. Markey is to raise awareness of the issues with his colleagues who otherwise have many other priorities. That's how laws get passed.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Personal anecdote: I moved from my red home state over 30 years ago for these same reasons. A huge number of the people I know in my current and previous blue states have been, like me, transplants from red states. Many came for the jobs, b
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by bwanab 3y ago
I use cash all the time. But then, I'm old so.... But, this statement: "Fiat currency, on the other hand, holds value just because a governing entity is endorsing it" just isn't true. I see it bandied about a lot by peop
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by bwanab 3y ago
Isn't the actual problem that geographic regions within time zones have wildly different natural times? E.G. Bangor Maine and Detroit Michigan are in the same time zone. The sun rises and sets almost an hour earlier in Bangor than it d
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by bwanab 3y ago
The author, Joy Buolamwini, had an article in this Sunday's Boston Globe Ideas section that explores the same topic. It was extremely well written and enjoyable to read, but unfortunately reached exactly the wrong conclusions. In prett
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by bwanab 3y ago
And yet, there are lots of businesses that give a discount for cash specifically because of that 3% fee. Yes, I know the standard trope is that it's so they can avoid taxes and in some cases that's surely true. But, for many, if n
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by bwanab 3y ago
I'm probably overthinking this, but the article makes me think about the infamous 10x programmer. If, as seems reasonable, the ability to program successfully depends on a number of factors (raw brain power, spacial reasoning, educatio
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by bwanab 3y ago
That is a Black Mirror sentiment if I've ever heard one. Unfortunately, it is very accurate to the extent that those billions understand the issue.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Even so, putting on Rawl's Veil of Ignorance, if you were in the bottom America, would you choose to be in a lottery that would place you, randomly, in another situation? Sure, you might end up a living in a chalet in the Swiss Alps, b
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by bwanab 3y ago
Given that SBF had worked at Jane Street, it seems strange that he either didn't know about martingales or believed they didn't apply to him.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Maybe the better question is why is this even needed? As far as I can tell it's only needed because of corn to ethanol refining which itself is a technology that probably shouldn't exist: https://www.sustainabilitybynum
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by bwanab 3y ago
A lot of financial data is of dubious quality. Lot's of spurious data points, mostly in the extremes, just aren't real. Median is useful for many things, but sometimes you just have to get rid of the bad data to get a valid mean.
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by bwanab 3y ago
I agree. Tell me what motivated the language. What does it do that other languages in the same space don't do well?
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by bwanab 3y ago
So we end up coming full circle from "here are the rules" to "play each situation by ear". Ethics is just too dang hard!
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by bwanab 3y ago
Absolutism isn't the point. We all know that there are limits - the classic example of yelling fire in a crowed theater. And as somebody below pointed out, no country has full freedom of speech and while that is true the US does have f
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by bwanab 3y ago
Very few countries have freedom of speech enshrined quite as forcefully as it is in the United States. One really has to wonder where this is going to go? I understand why they want to do it, but once a censorship regime is established it w
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by bwanab 3y ago
There's got to be an xkcd strip on the trajectory of computer languages: 1. Starts out fast, compact and lightweight. 2. Bugs and corner-cases get fixed. 3. Features demanded by users get added. 4. No longer fast, compact or lightweigh
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by bwanab 3y ago
The fact that the article was in DJMag might have been a clue?
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by bwanab 3y ago
You might even think people who make these decisions at Google would be embarrassed at this point.
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by bwanab 3y ago
It's funny that they picked the relatively short time between VU and Walk on the Wild Side to focus on instead of the long period prior to New Sensations. I saw him at the Beacon in the early 90s. What a great show. As he famously said
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by bwanab 3y ago
I think anybody who's ever tried to model MMT feels the same way. I suspect the underlying theory doesn't have enough substance to actually model.
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by bwanab 3y ago
I've always had the same feeling about dentists. If they really fix your teeth, you wouldn't need their services anymore. The logic goes for a lot of service type situations like auto-repair post-warranty period.
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by bwanab 3y ago
I owned the 13 pro. Gave it to my daughter and bought a 13 mini for myself. I don't see how anybody carries around the bigger model in their pockets, but maybe that's just me.
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by bwanab 3y ago
You may very well be right, but for my money Alan Edelman (MIT) is influencer enough.
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by bwanab 3y ago
How are you going to be able to make money off this? Edit: I love what I see.
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by bwanab 3y ago
It's not only impractical, but for U.S. citizens at least, practically impossible. I lived in Switzerland as an ex-pat worker for a few years, so I had a Swiss bank account. Nothing fancy, just a regular post office bank account like 7

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