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by crdrost 6y ago
To be fair the boundaries blur a bit and that is where magic happens. I don't mean magic like JRR Tolkien magic or whatever, I mean magic like David Copperfield magic, Penn & Teller magic. You go to a restaurant, you ask for a thin
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by crdrost 6y ago
I mean I don’t personally experience the emotion of irony in relation to that state-of-affairs. Like, if one were to tell a tale of some non-mainstream Christian commune which gave free healthcare to neighboring cities and then one day one
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by crdrost 6y ago
It gets worse because even if one had precisely such a word, say the difference between ‘efficiency’ and ‘superlativity’ respectively, it would not necessarily be as simple as to say “efficiency bad, superlativity good.” They morph into eac
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by crdrost 6y ago
This this this, so much this. The economic definition is for a “perfectly competitive market,” one with extremely low barriers to entry. And one of the arguments about these markets is that they are the least profitable markets because fi
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by crdrost 6y ago
Haha, everybody is going to have their opinion on this. Heck, I read through the comments and I didn’t see this answer but probably in the time it takes to type it up, someone else will post it. So Adam Savage had a video[1] a few months ba
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by crdrost 6y ago
Arxiv link to the actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02373 Looking at the actual graphs, what is presented appears at first blush to be a bistable system prepared in its higher-energy stable state. (Or at least,
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by crdrost 6y ago
I mean it has some relevance to everything. I like to tell people that all learning is pain. It’s a sort of contrarianism that I picked up from Buddhism, I guess, where the first noble truth is that everything is pain. A more careful restat
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yes! Scaling problems are extremely nice to have. May you be so blessed that all of your problems are scaling problems! People spend so much time trying to preemptively solve scaling problems and proactively design around scale. I am bein
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by crdrost 6y ago
Increasing flow and decreasing concentration through most filtration assemblies generally increase their effectiveness. There are some exceptions in certain active transport systems that I can think of and the kidneys certainly do some of t
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by crdrost 6y ago
Right, and it’s also a culture thing. If you are operating in the Valley then you get startupy folks who really think in terms of “that’ll crush our competition”... Maybe that is an intrinsic sort of motivation, talking to yourself like tha
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by crdrost 6y ago
IANAL and you should probably contact yours about such things but a straightforward reading suggests that because you knew you were downloading something likely illegally gotten, you are in fact on the hook for downloading it. “Misapp
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by crdrost 6y ago
Because until this thing gets diffused and dissected by everyone and their mothers, the law is likely to view it as publication of confidential trade secrets, and people who can be confirmed to be spreading such things can get federal time,
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by crdrost 6y ago
They talk about this in the associated Numberphile video. The starting bottom-most card can be thought of as creating a partition of the deck into two parts: the ones "above" it are not uniformly shuffled but the ones "below&
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by crdrost 6y ago
Hey that sounds awesome! Don't know what a maconnery ruler is, but I feel your pain about straight cuts with a jigsaw. Lots of clamping on a chunk of spare wood as a "guide" and even when you do that, if you try to push the
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yeah, there's a lot there to learn, too. My plan to build a custom shelf unit for our kitchen went over-time and over-budget (in the small). Reason: once it was made it became apparent that it lacked strength against skewing deformatio
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by crdrost 6y ago
Wow, you got cloned by Tatham fast Author: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> Date: Sat Jul 16 19:51:53 2005 +0000 New puzzle: `Untangle', cloned (with the addition of random grid generation) from a simple but
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yeah, I was going to say, I've played a lot of this because I ran Kubuntu on my laptop for several years and Simon Tatham’s games are sort of our win-98-minesweeper.
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by crdrost 6y ago
For the simplest case you have a system of transitions Start → Mid(1, ↑) prob: 1, time: 1? Mid(1,↑) → Start prob: ⅜, time: 3 Mid(1,↑) → End prob: ¼, time: 1 prob: ⅜, time: 3 (not 100% sure about thos
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by crdrost 6y ago
There are various religious perspectives on this effect. My Buddhist teachers from back when I was a Buddhist would likely say that the latter—books, documentaries, and uitwaaien “bathing in the outdoor energy”—are somewhat “closer” to true
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by crdrost 6y ago
I do not know why you are simulating this system. Given random x, y, controlling for z = x + y trivially generates a perfect anticorrelation as x = z – y. Like, I get that you want to make a point, just seems weird to have a numerical solut
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by crdrost 6y ago
Possible that estimates were before COVID was affecting us?
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by crdrost 6y ago
I like this idea of phrasing it as branding. In my experience nobody sits in one place and works on one thing for 8 hours a day. I am tempted to say that it's not only rare but it's undesirable. I can work for approximately 5 hour
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yeah like these do not have to be separate things. If I advertise a final price to you, "you will pay $4.95 for this thing," I can still communicate on the receipt that $0.50 of that went to sales tax, and if you are paying in a w
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by crdrost 6y ago
Firebase is loosely speaking an app development framework which hosts the server side of your app on Google Cloud. The firebase web site lists some apps built with it like NYT and trivago and Duolingo, but I don't think you could reaso
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by crdrost 6y ago
I hear what you're saying, but I think you misunderstand what the protesters are saying. “Black lives matter” is not just asserting that black lives are among the lives that matter. Like, it IS asserting this and that observation IS so
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by crdrost 6y ago
Note that you can also, while you're at it, abolish rounding. You already have this in some sense on gas pumps: the price advertised has taxes included so you are not always playing guess-the-final-total with your money. Just pass a la
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Google Cloud Next '20, virtual conf, starts streaming today(cloud.withgoogle.com)
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by crdrost 6y ago
Gcached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:... In terms of the content, I was hoping for more concrete data rather than speculation. I myself come from a worldview where this is somewhat al
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by crdrost 6y ago
That can only work for a short time. There is a feedback loop at play here and it will seek a stable equilibrium. The organization needs to solve its internal problem. The move from estimates to story points is actually a part of this compe
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by crdrost 6y ago
There are various forms of cooperation too. Lions merge with cheetahs to hopefully starve the leopards out, then they domesticate emus and antelopes so that they can survive scorching the rest of the savannah so they don't have to deal

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