crdrost

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by crdrost 5y ago
Samsara is not just “world”... The etymology is Sam/Sara, “through/motion” and the idea is that it refers to an endless going-through-the-motions, an endless cycle of dying, and re-dying, and being reborn as a slug and suffering a
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by crdrost 5y ago
I see this comment and feel so bad for past you! Why are we treating all sugars as the same? They are not the same. Some baked goods have sugar in order to feed yeast, rather than humans... Pizza dough, bagels, croissants. Yes these all com
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by crdrost 5y ago
For folks that are out of the loop, the post looks something like “24/4*3: 80% of people get this wrong!” and the arguments in comments are between people who do this the way most computers do (multiplication and division have the same
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by crdrost 5y ago
Is there a way to script IntelliJ? I find myself in a job with 30ish coupled microservices, because they are coupled flipping between them is not unusual... But trying to set up a project that has all of them as parallel sub-projects, (a) g
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah, per the status page, there's a temporary mitigation rolled out while the team tries to figure out more... so no more 404s but load balancers will be locked down for a while while investigation continues.
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah, that's roughly about the sum of it. Other observations about OKRs that I would have liked to see included are: - The article calls out how Measure What Matters and OKRs only work if the key results are legitimate metrics, real
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by crdrost 5y ago
Diet and exercise are indeed not the path to weight loss. This is well known: most fad diets work this way in some fashion or another, and it’s well known that most fad diets fail. Since it touches my field, physics, why people have this mi
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by crdrost 5y ago
Oh I mean, you can say "its body of knowledge" instead of "truth" but the punchy headline still works. Indeed, be careful calling it "body of knowledge" -- this can imply a level of truth, and this is what the
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by crdrost 5y ago
I believe Slack has an "only pay for what you use" model? Or at least had one at some point? And of course every cloud provider works this way, but that's not a "subscription model" anymore.
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by crdrost 5y ago
Consider also “we only charge you at the end of the month if you actually used it” or so. Can be a much more difficult revenue model but user trust is way higher when you make that sort of commitment and if you are indeed struggling with ge
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by crdrost 5y ago
Similar claims were also made by Dr. Lustig’s book Metabolical earlier this year, which of course is more concerned with the diabetic aspects but indeed considers Alzheimer's etc. metabolic disorders. Not seeing Bredesen on the bibli
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by crdrost 5y ago
Very surprised that they never added one that started with R so that the acronym could be CRIME.
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah I was worried about that part giving offense, but the sentiment became a lot longer when shifted from “language that nobody uses” to “language that I can't convince any employers to let me use because they are worried about hiring
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah I mean that's fair too. My impressions are poorly formed but the analogy is that both F# and OCaml are based on functional programming, which to my mind takes a step back from the "imperative programming -> OOP -> share
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by crdrost 5y ago
Kind of, but like OCaml-to-F# is like "Dark goes from the Prius of languages nobody uses, to the Tesla of the .NET ecosystem." The aims (ecological in the car case) of the purchaser are similar, but the car [at least in its ecosys
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by crdrost 5y ago
There are much better cases than this; in this case a monorepo makes it slightly more likely to be caught rather than less. (A monorepo can get to Google size and then you can't check it all out at once and it needs bespoke tooling, wh
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by crdrost 5y ago
> Most seemingly common sense solutions fail miserably. Trying to break prisoners' dilemmas by nailing all responsibility to someone (a) may be a lot more disruptive and aggressive than you imagined and (b) will often result in elab
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by crdrost 5y ago
There is definitely something in common with zazen but it is worth not externalizing it for two reasons. 1. I was formerly a Buddhist and I find it unserious, maybe even cringey or appropriative? People who are doing Buddhism are actually
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by crdrost 5y ago
Right, communicating to the business is actually the core message of DDD. It should potentially be called “anthropological design” since the “domain experts” are a synonym for your non-technical users of your software (the domain is the bus
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by crdrost 5y ago
Something like that, yeah. If done right, the idea is that in the one configuration you have thirteen 24/25ths of a boy, so thirteen 96%-boys. You hide this as each one being slightly skinny. In the other configuration you have twelve
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by crdrost 5y ago
No... the missing dollar riddle asks people to confuse cash inflows and outflows by changing the subjective interpretation of a middleman, who starts out being an outflow (he/she is "part of the business") and then is treated
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yeah, it is tempting to think Norm is very dim-witted given his deliberate choice of slower tempo and buildup, but you see things like his Larry-King-interviews-Larry-King skit https://youtu.be/7A6ba43XuOg?t=122 and like he
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by crdrost 5y ago
The question in the title is very very easy to answer. The political reason that natural immunity “doesn’t count” indeed is not directly about medical reality. To say things are political is almost an insult these days—I don’t mean it that
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by crdrost 5y ago
That you can’t go faster than the speed of light is a direct, simple consequence of everybody agreeing on the speed of light. It's a real-life Zeno paradox. Alice and Bob are in some spaceships by a long racetrack in space. Alice fires
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by crdrost 5y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by crdrost 5y ago
Related to this, there is an intimacy of small community which makes you feel valued and a proper contributor, that social networks really seem to oppose: they want to make the network bigger, you are part of the biggest world context, ever
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by crdrost 5y ago
These questions are explored in greater detail in Lustig’s recent Metabolical , which makes a systematic case, although somewhat of a brief one (it's not the main point of the book) that heavy greenhouse gas emissions of the bigger gr
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by crdrost 5y ago
So we need to be a little careful here. Git has won the version control wars, and Git actually reifies a very hard-nosed and pragmatic sort of postmodernism.¹ Postmodernism gets a bad rap from modernists as being anti-Truth, and you can see
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by crdrost 5y ago
Yes, although the algorithm here just accepts a certain small amount of bias rather than reject. But the "corrected" version of this says that if I am rolling a 1dN the first random byte will have N-1 different "rejection&quo
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by crdrost 5y ago
It helps to work out an example, maybe. So let's try to roll a 1d5. We generate a real number p uniformly in [0, 1). In terms of base-2 decimal notation we should return 1, if p < 0.0011 0011 0011 0011... 2, if p < 0.

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