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by cma256 2y ago
Goodhart's law in action. Though in this case it seems to be the "strong version" of it where targeting a proxy worsens performance.
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by cma256 2y ago
Will my 8 year old be exposed to sports gambling commercials?
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by cma256 2y ago
Let's let 8 year olds drive drunk. I'm more than capable of spotting them on the road and avoiding them.
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by cma256 2y ago
> A two party system is the logical conclusion of a first past the post voting system, which they have created. It is a bug, and fixing it is also effectively impossible. AFAIK it only mandates it for the President. We're free to e
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by cma256 2y ago
The boat might not have been big enough to carry her family, attendants, and material wealth. All of which can be more important to people than immediate escape. Pliny writes that the cloud had not reached Stabiae. Its likely she was anx
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by cma256 2y ago
15 hours! You're hiring contractors not interviewing.
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by cma256 2y ago
Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814161
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by cma256 3y ago
I am also a nixos enjoyer but I have mixed feelings around the fact that I still don't really understand the configuration language. I'm happy in the sense that its simple enough that I can install programs and do all the other us
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by cma256 3y ago
"A canal on one side of the planet is broken? Just use the canal on the other side of the planet." I'm enjoying that sentiment very much. I wonder if there's a mileage breakdown of China -> US (around South America)
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by cma256 3y ago
Some commenters here should watch the talk "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki. Else you're gonna get Jeff'd.
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by cma256 3y ago
Glad that doesn't happen any where else!
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by cma256 3y ago
Don't leave Washington... believe it or not you live in a well-managed, representative state that is both fiscally responsible and socially liberal.
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by cma256 3y ago
Had something similar happen to me in San Francisco. While I was walking a driver rolled down their window and shouted "white power" at me (I'm white). Very strange experience. At the time I lived in Chicago, walked everywh
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by cma256 3y ago
Static typing won there's no point arguing over it anymore. The issue is the type systems. Someone writing Haskell will have a very different opinion of types versus someone writing Rust versus someone writing Typescript versus someo
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by cma256 3y ago
I'm reminded of a certain episode from The Office... People should be responsible for the machines they operate. North Carolina should be responsible for their roadways. Google _should_ update their maps but that's aspirational.
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by cma256 3y ago
The great thing about Kafka is the ability to batch operations. Collect a set of messages in memory and, when its time to commit, submit a bulk operation. If something fails you just rebuild the buffer from the last committed offset. Pre