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by creer 2y ago
I suspect the US tax system has far more smart people working on generally finding and exploiting its features and other holes and optimizations than your favorite OS or bloated web browser.
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by creer 2y ago
Yes but not entirely. Yes in that if the CEO tries to sell 125B dollars of shares, the stock price will take a significant hit. No in that this is paper wealth that you can borrow liquid cash against. Which makes a decent fraction of that w
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by creer 2y ago
It depends on company share ownership. If they created the company (and held on to shares), or if they are mostly paid in shares (and held on to shares), if they kept buying as many shares as they could and got paid in as many shares as the
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by creer 2y ago
There's a difference between panicking and making it your job to find your next job. We often hear the two extremes, "stressed and depressed" and "relaxed and on vacation". "Delaying retirement" is absolut
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by creer 2y ago
> > Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals. > > Those deprived people of freedom Are you actually arguing that closing most mental health facilities was the only way to fight for individual freedom?
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by creer 2y ago
Yes. Watch out though that many "social welfare programs" are remarkably perverse and difficult to obtain, use or keep.
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by creer 2y ago
> quality of life issues caused by the homeless they are referring to the subset of homeless people that are "unsheltered". Quality of life issues for others are not caused by "homelessness". They are caused by mental
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by creer 2y ago
I did not mean to imply that the population should vote again for the same candidate to demonstrate their independence. New evidence was presented to and by a high court and it's fair to expect it to be considered (for example for how
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by creer 2y ago
We'll have to see the replacement election to decide that. Will the population change their vote in response or not.
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by creer 2y ago
To be fair "doing something, anything, mostly stupid" is well established american standard procedure when something happens. Something "has" to be done - so something gets done.
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by creer 2y ago
Perl's "layering" is one of its most brilliant features. You start learning Perl in layers; achieve some fluency and effectiveness and understanding of the general principles - and will still have many layers and sets of feat
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by creer 2y ago
Languages have deep features. That's why people create new ones (except for PHP perhaps). You can write BASIC in any language you want, it's still BASIC. Languages systems or environments have still other deep features themselves.
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London Perl Workshop(youtube.com)
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by creer 2y ago
Do most of them even "know python" or just the crudest parts of python?
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by creer 2y ago
Always makes me laugh when I read things like "2018 is still a long time ago" (no offense or downvote). But also the very thing that perl fought against. Your programming is not going to break for a long time (much longer than 6 y
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by creer 2y ago
raku is amazing. It's perl to the power of perl. Which is why I adopted it. I used perl for its power and expressiveness, and for its layering (never having to learn the entire language at once: one feature at a time is fine). Raku doe
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by creer 2y ago
Projects don't often demand full time work. A quarter-time work from an effective developper is a lot of work.
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by creer 2y ago
Isn't it both? In particular dependent on the size of the project? And it's still easy for individuals to at least contribute detailed problem reports even to very large projects. And these are useful. Even when ignored by the lea
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by creer 2y ago
And really "every other generation" would be pretty nice too. An actually small phone, actually supported for a few years (included in the guidelines for app writers and to remind web page designers that this exists). We could liv
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by creer 2y ago
Speed is not necessarily the correct lever it might affect. A probe with much larger antenna, with much larger or multiple radioactive power sources, with much more solar panels, with much more onboard fuel, etc could be much more useful wi
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by creer 2y ago
The context here was making 1000 chips. Custom. You amortize (decide whether it's worth it) based on the 1000 chips. So yeah, if you are going to churn out a million greeting cards, you might do a very simple and relatively inexpensive
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by creer 2y ago
> your custom chip in your system was less expensive than adopting an off the shelf chip That's a tall order - off the shelf is rarely very expensive for the functionality you get (that is, compared to design cost.) And that's
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by creer 2y ago
The fact that it's unusual is not relevant. Or it's relevant in that - pretty much by definition - these situations are unusual. It's not okay to violate people's rights merely because "unusual". It's not
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by creer 2y ago
There are stories everywhere. They are very varied. So no, one more story is actually detrimental, making the reader feel good "Oh, some silly unusual situation I would never find myself in". This is already all too common a posi
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by creer 2y ago
You can't equate "illegal street racing" to "cars". I mean you can but how is that going to address anything?
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by creer 2y ago
> difficult for me to believe that they really got 10% top performers It's difficult to achieve, but it's not an unreasonable objective to have. After that there is a question of measurement. How do you measure that? Did they?
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by creer 2y ago
This is an interesting testament to manufacturing reliability - that they can go to so many layers and still achieve good yield.
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by creer 2y ago
Somewhere in there is the problem. ChatGPT & Co should be viewed as tools - they can do research, they can discuss and echo your ideas, they can write FOR YOU. (Or at least that's the idea, when they don't go nuts). And if the
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by creer 2y ago
> management without technical excellence track is just misguided It's different technical excellence. What's not given proper weight is that it's different technical excellence. Roles seen as "more management" d
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by creer 2y ago
> I don't think a manager will be impressed by a report saying It's funny because it could go exactly the two opposite ways. If you "report the problem", you might be - totally as punishment - volunteered into the pos

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