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by chaboud 2y ago
There’s a pleasantly elegant “hey, we’ve solved the practical functional complement to this category of problems over here, so let’s just split the general actual user problem structurally” vibe to this journey. It often pays off to revisit
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by chaboud 2y ago
That’s really the core problem here. As is often the case with rent control models, the natural outcome of an incentive structure came to pass in spite of the best intentions of legislators/regulators.
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by chaboud 2y ago
You may be thinking of the US Forest Service’s suspension of prescribed burns. https://cepr.net/publications/us-forest-service-decision-to-... However, state and local agencies undertake prescribed burns regularly. To
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by chaboud 2y ago
I once had my boss at a new job sit me down, a couple of weeks into the job, and tell me "Matt, we have a pace that we work at, and we need you to work at that pace... If leadership gets the idea that we can deliver at a much faster
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by chaboud 2y ago
100% agreed there. A central authority can just sign stuff. Merkle trees can still be very valuable for integrity and synchronization management, but burning a bunch of energy to bogo-search nonces is silly if the writer (or federated writ
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by chaboud 2y ago
In a distributed setting where a me may wish to join the party late and receive a non-forged copy, it’s important. The crypto is there to stand in for an authority.
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by chaboud 2y ago
This is a deeply problematic way to operate. En masse, it has the right result, but, for the individual that will have their life turned upside down, the negative impact is effectively catastrophic. This ends up feeling a lot like gambling
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by chaboud 2y ago
The physics computer lab in Chamberlin Hall at UW in the 90's was a secret treasure trove of idle NeXTstation Turbo machines in an almost always empty room cooled to near refrigeration temperatures. I used to light up at least half of
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by chaboud 2y ago
There's a big difference between "rely on" and "be considerate of". I'll take from the recently-created throw-away account that you know this already, and, based on this interaction, I don't think I mind
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by chaboud 2y ago
“You need better tooling” is inconsiderate of others. Sometimes you’re in a browser reading over a CR, or you’re sitting at someone else’s machine, or debugging an emergency via a smartphone. Whatever the case, is it really that hard to us
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by chaboud 2y ago
That’s basically it. Using double-letter loop counters is a very simple courtesy that one can pay to other developers or oneself in the future.
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by chaboud 2y ago
I thought this was going to be a bit of dry humor before I followed the link. It’s actually serious, and fairly informative (albeit a bit scary). The first place I worked had a soft-but-hard rule (enforced by ridicule) that single-letter
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by chaboud 2y ago
We’re knocking on the door of simulated signal interfaces (primitive work already exists), and there’s also been quite a bit of progress in neural activity detection and scanning (e.g., imagery from scans). Casting folks as “rationalists” i
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by chaboud 2y ago
Likely Generic Segmentation Offload (if memory serves), which is a generalization of TCP segmentation offload. Basically (hyper simple), the kernel can lump stuff together when working with the network interface, which cuts down on ultra sl
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by chaboud 2y ago
We actually (myself included, to an extent) know a great deal about the mind, perception, and cognition. There’s lots still to learn, but we’ve been poking, prodding, and experimenting for a long time. I’ll give an example that is related
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by chaboud 2y ago
If your consciousness is a product of matter, it isn’t special, and, sure, consciousness as we label it could arise in forms of other matter. That doesn’t mean that it’s present in all matter, in the same way that we don’t ascribe conscious
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by chaboud 2y ago
Okay. That I’m partly down with. Naming of objects is convenient, but very few objects that we name and count are, in fact, single things. That said, the categorization and grouping are awfully convenient for day to day living. - that’s a
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by chaboud 2y ago
That becomes a bit of a silly argument, in that it ends up making no real assertion. Similar arguments were tried in the early days of the telescope in the 17th century, asserting that what was being observed could not be trusted due to the
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by chaboud 2y ago
So, in the absence of fully bearing out the complete pathways of experience (effectively, mapping, at the atomic, and possibly quantum level, everything in a person), we’re going to assert that some non-physical phenomena are afoot? That s
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by chaboud 2y ago
We must have very different definitions of senior engineer from the GP, because I’d put the monthly cost of a senior engineer closer to $30k than $3k, even on a log scale. Employing people requires insurance, buildings, hardware, support,
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by chaboud 2y ago
Having not gone deep into this problem, I’m a bit confused. It appears that the initial assertion is that consciousness is somehow special and also somehow not a product of fundamental properties of matter. Both of those appear to be taken
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by chaboud 2y ago
This is a regulatory incentive problem, plain and simple: 1. CAFE standards use different rules for cars and light trucks. It’s a protectionist move that strongly pushes manufacturers to find ways to get CUV’s on the road instead of hatch b
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by chaboud 2y ago
I think that’s fair. It was, in effect, a cache and DMA target. A similar scheme was present in the Cell, where the SPE’s had 256KB of embedded SRAM that really needed to be addressed via DMA to not drag performance to the ground. For low-l
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by chaboud 2y ago
I totally agree, except when it comes to emulation. It is immensely hard to real-time emulate if some facet of your host hardware isn’t at least a little bit faster than the corresponding element in the emulated system. Then you have to li
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by chaboud 2y ago
Among the intended audience, it likely is. I think this article is here to equally amuse and traumatize folks familiar with the system. The Emotion Engine (CPU) to GS (GPU) link was what made the PS2 so impressive for the time, but it also
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by chaboud 2y ago
I thought this was an obviously ridiculous statement, and then I looked it up. In many of the last 25 years, civil asset forfeiture outpaces criminal burglary in total losses. Wow. I thought civil asset forfeiture was a messed up problem b
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by chaboud 2y ago
The simplest way to figure out the current court is to apply a “Republican Party” filter before any judgment is applied. Texas arguing against adhering to treaties? Texas wins. New York trying to give air passengers the right to not sit
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by chaboud 2y ago
The Nine Inch Nails “Broken” EP had a couple of tracks at the end of 99, though the middle tracks were all 1-second blanks.
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by chaboud 2y ago
Cow Tau: Emperor bull requires that you properly orient all of the cows using axis angle interpolation, but over-spinning will churn their milk into butter.
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by chaboud 2y ago
There’s a thin sliver of things I have read through that I considered good (even great) that were high effort to read. Things like STL, boost (in parts), numpy… huh. Come to think of it, all things that use C++ templates… and I’m a big fan

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