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by caffeine 5y ago
As a hiring manager, they are very useful. As an applicant, you should consider it a good thing. You work in one of the few fields where it is possible to easily and quickly test whether someone is incompetent. If it weren’t for the tests
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by caffeine 5y ago
You can do it once or maybe a few times. If you are majorly adversely selecting their liquidity provider, they will just shut you off. It’s not an exchange. Their overall risk to an individual account is a few 100, and very few accounts wil
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by caffeine 5y ago
> The idea that there are base moral facts is ridiculous Sexual abuse of toddlers? Unprovoked abduction and torture? I think there certainly are base moral facts at the extremes of behaviour. Evil exists. Malevolence exists. But I agree
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by caffeine 5y ago
I only recently discovered something that is probably obvious to most other people: someone’s immediate verbal reaction to a message is often different than their long-term behavioural response to it. “Your team isn’t pulling their weight”
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by caffeine 5y ago
I think you could have phrased it more constructively, but your question is valid - does it make sense to build nuclear given we may be entering a period of prolonged warfare? Most fossil fuel facilities are equally vulnerable to destructio
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by caffeine 5y ago
I spend time making my perfectionist vision very clear. Diagrams, written descriptions, etc of what my perfectionist design would be for a given project. So I’m confident I know in detail what it would take. That scratches a lot of the i
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by caffeine 5y ago
I wouldn’t say “might makes right”, because morally the mighty can be wrong. But “might makes reality” is quite accurate - if a country cannot defend itself it will indeed cease to exist.
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by caffeine 5y ago
When they do that they don’t hire devs already experienced in Haskell, they just hire smart experienced devs who are competent at building systems and can learn to build them in Haskell.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Has anything actually useful ever come out of this field of enquiry? To me it always seems like excessive formalism for its own sake without a useful real-world outcome. Would be happy to be wrong about this.
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by caffeine 5y ago
> I'm a mid-30s German guy. I just broke up with my g/f after 10 years of relationship. I quit my job. And I'm about to leave my appartment behind. I have 40'000 Euro cash and 60'000 Euro in ETFs/stocks. Jus
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by caffeine 5y ago
For your second Rust book, I'd highly recommend the Nomicon! https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ Please ignore all the gatekeeping marketing on that front page - it's very counterproductive and not at all accu
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by caffeine 5y ago
Hey thanks for pointing this out.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Let’s say you are the Lead Data Engineer of a small data-driven company. You need to define a strategy, pick a stack of tools, decide how data is going to be stored and normalised, what the workflow will be from ad-hoc, exploratory studies
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by caffeine 5y ago
Let’s imagine hypothetically there is some circuit genetically encoded in every human’s brain that gives +10% probability of agreeing with someone if they are a tall male. Let’s also imagine hypothetically that in many situations, the speed
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by caffeine 5y ago
Has this revolution happened in European football yet? It seems like a harder to quantify sport (less episodic, more flowing, so harder to quantify positions)
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by caffeine 5y ago
Nothing used to annoy my Essex friends as much as telling them they sound French because they treat “H” the same way
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by caffeine 5y ago
The proposed minimum wage hike was $15/hr. If a job is worth $10/hr to get done, nobody will ever pay anyone $15 to do it. They will just not do it at all - so that’s 10/hr somebody could’ve earned that is just burned. You h
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by caffeine 5y ago
Never quit. Don’t ever quit.
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by caffeine 5y ago
I actually don’t think UBI will help much either. Minimum wage hikes are counterproductive - it’s a ban on jobs for people whose skills are worth less than the minimum wage, which are the poorest people who need the jobs most. It’s a terrib
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by caffeine 5y ago
The article doesn’t say much about what would help. One thing that helps the poor a lot (everyone, but especially the poor) is functioning, competent institutions. Things like effective policing and crime prevention, a functional healthcare
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by caffeine 5y ago
Well it could also be called “teaching tools and tactics that research had shown work for other people” Usually it’s not entitlement, it’s an effort to help. The effort might be misguided, but assuming that the cause is entitlement rather t
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by caffeine 5y ago
This article really needs a TLDR. Reading it in between the cookies notice, the subscribe modal, and trying to slog through a detailed history of everything this guy has done since he was 10… Has anyone managed to get through this who coul
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by caffeine 5y ago
> Also if anything has become clear in the last 5 years it’s that educated people are much less likely to be deceived by false populist promises. Agree with the basic premise that the main political division is not between “right” and “l
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by caffeine 5y ago
Yeah that’s totally incorrect. Every species is an “invasive species” given an environment where it can flourish. There is only equilibrium because everything is jostling as hard as it can to outcompete everything else. Peace is a human in
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by caffeine 5y ago
I can’t figure out if this is a real product or a joke site? The name is confusing. If it’s a real product it’s cool, I’ve wanted something like this for a while (currently I just use git repos full of JSON files but this would be better I
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by caffeine 5y ago
The only clear conclusion to be drawn from this is - never marry the author of this piece!
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by caffeine 5y ago
Just curious - why does not caring about it matter? Is there something special about not caring for a project that makes it more interesting? Not a snarky question, genuinely wanting to understand.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Maybe you lack imagination.. I can think of a lot of things more discouraging than that.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Big Pandas
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by caffeine 5y ago
I’ve been doing this for years. It’s good advice.

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