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by cturner 1y ago
It might be an interesting development of the study to test the comprehension of engineering and then science students on the same passages.
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by cturner 1y ago
There are complex reports that every European-regulated finance entity needs to submit to their regulator. They are always complicated, but they are only sometimes well-specified. The formats evolve over time. There is a cottage industry of
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by cturner 1y ago
We use the word inheritance to refer to two concepts. There is implementation-inheritance. There is type-inheritance. These ideas are easily confused, which should be cause to have distinct words for them. Yet we don't. (Although Java
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by cturner 1y ago
I came to hacker news to take a break from a TIS-100 session, and read this comment. It frustrates me that the TIS-100 machine does not use real bytes. I have been working on puzzles that require division, and am sore that there is no righ
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by cturner 2y ago
Some themes I think about, 1. Distinct prod and non-prod environments. I think you should have distinct Lab and Production environments. It should be practical to commit something to your codebase, and then test it in Lab. Then, you deploy
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by cturner 2y ago
Our generation shuddered in terror when we were asked to translate a spreadsheet to code while the spreadsheet continued to evolve. This generation will shudder when they are asked to bring discipline to deployments built from github action
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by cturner 2y ago
"If I break into a factory or laboratory of some kind and just walk out" This is a weak analogy. In the situation you describe, right-and-wrong is easily understood by the layman, there is a common legal framework, there is muscle
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by cturner 2y ago
Agree that (pumped) hydro is good where it is practical. You make a claim about reworking our economy, > The power is cheap enough that it's worth reworking our entire economy around it. Can you substantiate this? Would it be fair t
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by cturner 2y ago
We are talking about a form of power that is not free. Solar panels and installation have initial costs and refresh costs. Your 90%/20% notes are a hypothetical, and may apply to some settings, but I expect they will be niche. People w
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by cturner 2y ago
Combination of all the points you make, yes.
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by cturner 2y ago
Solar does not generate continuous supply. If you want to propose putting solar panels on everything you need a solid strategy for storing the energy. This is an unsolved problem in our time, and there is a lot of distraction in wishful thi
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by cturner 2y ago
There may be practical issues that explain delays. Consider a team who are staffed to suit normal activity. Then there is a period of increased activity, the team fall behind.
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by cturner 2y ago
There is a legitimate role for both things: to have some non-inflationary things that serve as a store-of-value, and then some inflationary things to serve as regular currency. It is worth emphasising here: non-inflationary currency does no
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by cturner 2y ago
Gresham's law says that "bad money drives out good". Due to the dynamic this describes, it is unlikely bitcoin would commonly be used to buy and sell things even if it did not suffer practical obstacles. Bitcoin experiences l
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by cturner 2y ago
I would love something like duolingo, but for an array language. Not a steady series of challenging puzzles like leetcode sites, Rather, a series of questions with high repetition, somewhat like flash cards, easy to drop into for a few minu
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by cturner 2y ago
You have made the argument that monopolies are trade-offs only to the extent of muddying the waters about the matter. You have not demonstrated that the innovation benefit of monopolies offsets opportunity cost of the monopoly. If you want
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by cturner 2y ago
I have worked on equities platforms in the US and Europe. I consider both arguments given early in the piece to be convincing defences of insider trading bans. 1. "insider trading argue [..] violates the principle of equal opportunity
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by cturner 2y ago
Had not heard of Apollo, an interesting read. I am building a 9P library at the moment towards some projects in this spirit. You make a good case for base features in your last paragraph. I think monolith drivers as well. Raw speed seems to
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by cturner 2y ago
Be is much more like NT than OS/2 or classic Mac OS. Like NT: kernel written in C, portable, emphasis on multi-threading, robust against subsystem failures, shipped with a TCP/IP stack in the base OS. Be booted straight into the d
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by cturner 2y ago
Java and python have dynamic dispatch, but they don't drop messages.
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Objective C drops messages rather than crashing(songseed.org)
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by cturner 2y ago
Stefany is not advertising them for sale at the moment, but is still working on a 68040/48060 platform in the background. https://c256foenix.com/a2560x/?v=6cc98ba2045f If you are looking for an audience for your p
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by cturner 2y ago
I found the part about clay cisterns fascinating (6:40). Does anyone know the trade-offs about lining the outside of cellar walls with a thick layer of clay. Would it be effective to pour a slab foundation onto a thick layer of clay? Or, to
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by cturner 2y ago
Similar story for me. Elevation, your post is a form of marketing and you need to give people a way they can contact you. For a start, email address in your profile.
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by cturner 2y ago
This is a beat-up. The US has a lease on the territory, and it is their prerogative to control access. The British would not have let Chinese lawmakers into Kowloon during the lease. The US would not let Cuban lawmakers into Guantánamo Bay,
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by cturner 2y ago
A major difference is the clearing model. The asset classes you mention generally have a clearing house behind them. This is designed to protect the system against counterparty risk. If one party goes under, it has limited contagion, even t
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by cturner 2y ago
It is not a clean example of NIH. Got stores its data on disk in the git format. That aside, NIH is only foolish when the talent falls short of the ambitions. When the talent is up to the challenge, and when there are resources available, t
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by cturner 3y ago
The Windows alt+tab behaviour up to Windows 7 was reliable/predictable with two caveats, 1. Things that minimised to the notification area would not go to the back of the stack when you minimised them. 2. Microsoft Excel misbehaved - s
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by cturner 3y ago
For anyone interested - I am a long-running subscriber to The Australian and get a free WSJ subscription as a side-effect of that. I have lived outside Australia for nearly twenty years. In that time, tried various papers, but came back to
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by cturner 3y ago
Does anyone have an ISO image of WO 4.5? Apple are giving away WO 5 (java only) via a dmg on their website, so I doubt they would mind.

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