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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah, it's really difficult because a lot of the drive expressed in OP is for a new source of opportunity... The problem is that ageisms and such definitely take root in our industry, trying to work healthy hours at a startuppy place w
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by crdrost 5y ago
“Have you tried turning off and on again?” is advice to perform a total state reset, which works because the system’s state is inconsistent but its sources of truth are not. You never have to reset state if you do not have it in the first p
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by crdrost 5y ago
> I don't know why people try to explain monads without explaining this first I mean, I get where you're coming from, but the thing that you've described is that a monad and there's not an easy way to get it there. Bu
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by crdrost 5y ago
Permissioning/ACLs is something that you really want to get synchronous whenever possible, you don't want caching and pipeline delays if you can help it. Some maintainer is acting in bad faith, someone else quickly locks them out
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I mean in their defense I see almost nobody doing this right... Like to do full SI you really need 7 rational numbers, maybe a sort of inline “NaN” equivalent for when you add things with incommensurate units... you might also want display
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by crdrost 5y ago
So if I'm reading your resume, I am personally trying to get a quick scan of you as a person before I meet you. Do you have an education? Or are you self-taught? Neither one is bad. Do you have an education in a completely different fi
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by crdrost 5y ago
Haha, no yeah, that's a very jargony sentence indeed. Phase space is jargon for the set of all allowed configurations of a system. In the simplest case, an ideal gas of n spherical atoms, each atom is specified by 3 independent numbe
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by crdrost 5y ago
Temperature has to do with how the entropy changes with the addition of energy. It helps to use the “coldness” or “thermodynamic beta” scale, β = ΔS/ΔΕ is the coldness of a system, the thermodynamic temperature is defined as 1/(k
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by crdrost 5y ago
I am not sure about your first statement... In particular even with a quantum non-interacting gas with particle-in-a-box modes, the Hamiltonian is not bounded from above and there is no reason to expect a negative temperature, no? There exi
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by crdrost 5y ago
So the problem with “Data transfer is in binary” is that it really requires both the source and the recipients to be running the same executable, otherwise you run into some really weird problems. If you just embrace parsing you of course d
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by crdrost 5y ago
Video is of course not necessary, just sufficient. What you want are the talk notes, something you can read to understand what the shape of the talk was, what context each image came out in. The video of the actual talk substitutes quite ni
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by crdrost 5y ago
With respect, this guide is somewhat better than most. For instance it dedicates a section to the fact that the scale lies. A lot don't. It mentions that nutrition is more important than calorie counting before dismissing that as “but.
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yes, that is a very basic point, one basic reason to do queuing is that queues are buffers for uncertainty. If things are perfectly predictable, as you see on some robots, you allocate exactly what you need and no extra. The uncertainty exi
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by crdrost 5y ago
There's kind of three things you want to show people to get them to understand indexes. Let's say you sell an internet police service and have a table of URLs you are crawling for a table of clients, each client gets some client_i
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by crdrost 5y ago
So Wikipedia has a bunch of problems, it looks like you are focused on the political problem. By this, we must be careful to say that we don't mean the American political problem that is embedded on Wikipedia[1]. The problem you are ha
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by crdrost 5y ago
That's not saying much as it appears to just be double precision, but yeah, rational approximations only save you one or two digits and after a certain point it’s more nerdy to just memorize pi.
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by crdrost 5y ago
WLOG the shape starts at the origin (0,0,0), the first kink is at (0, 0, m), and the next point is (x, y, m), where x²+y²=n² You can always rotate this to (n, 0, m) and view from the +y axis looking down, and it is a right turn. The L sha
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by crdrost 5y ago
Another game worth mentioning here is Cultist Simulator. Usually the text is not directly informative but atmospheric, nevertheless it is the point of the playing... it is where the listlessness and excitement and Lovecraftian grossness is
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by crdrost 5y ago
Fun fact, 22/7 is only accurate to one part in 2,500, or 0.04%, netting you one extra digit (i.e 3.14 is less accurate with 3 digits but 3.142 is more). Most remember 3.14159 which is way better than 22/7, but pi has an even bett
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by crdrost 5y ago
> The first turn can be defined as always "right" or "left," No it can’t, not in 3D... it is just a turn. You can however choose to rotate about the first segment until the turn is Right, then use this orientation for
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by crdrost 5y ago
I mean, I would be surprised if you lacked the “sense of color” altogether. But I will say that, it needs to be cultivated over time. That the trappings and ceremonies of religion are co-opted by power-structures and televangelists and fa
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by crdrost 5y ago
So it is the standard preliminary test subject. Preliminary being a key word, things get tested in them first for plausibility but those findings usually need to be reconfirmed in an actual human study. The first thing is that they're
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It's just more touch and go. At a TEDx I attended, wind powered beach robots dazzled, a consultant gave a powerful spoken-word poem suggesting that consultants’ reports should be written as poetry to actually drive real change... [I ac
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by crdrost 5y ago
For the counterpoint from the late great Joe Armstrong, > Rewrite from scratch with zero external dependencies - always the fastest way (or at least the most fun way) - it increases understanding. [1] I don't have a permanent viewpo
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One huge difference is that the low latency of E-ink means that we don't have scrolling yet. If you read articles on your phone you may notice that you read in a fundamentally different way then you read printed text. You generally kee
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by crdrost 5y ago
By the same token if you ignore all of the good parts about having a credit card, “in the end, unless your credit card can be thrown away, credit card debt is a negative.” There's a valid perspective for this but it's not a great
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by crdrost 5y ago
Original sources by Ward Cunningham are not too hard to come by... > I became interested in the way metaphors influence how we think, after reading George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's Metaphors We Live By. An important idea is that w
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by crdrost 5y ago
Code doesn't deteriorate... Like we're talking about a banana growing spots or whatever... Code gets plastered over with features and abstraction layers, but that's an active process that we are complicit in doing. More germa
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by crdrost 5y ago
Will this break 500 comments? A thousand? Good luck, mate. Yeah, one definitely both wants to grow up and not lose the smiles in the photos of when we were young. I feel you. What you've described sounds like a spiritual crisis, but I
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by crdrost 5y ago
JS is a strict language, so an array containing one or more bottoms is a bottom. The only legal value is the empty array, at least in theory.

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