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by cwalv 3y ago
Doesn't 'subjective' imply 'inconsistent' unless you have one subject doing all the evaluations?
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by cwalv 3y ago
It'd be interesting to think about ways we could implement congestion control on highways .. every thread I've read implicitly assumes it's not possible
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by cwalv 3y ago
What about an architect's salary? Does the firm who designs the building amortize the cost of that labor, while the purchaser of the building also amortizes the entire cost of the building? How about EEs who design the hardware? Are th
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by cwalv 3y ago
Have your 'office manager' do everything with 'no code' environments .. maybe with them using some sort of java to 'no code' compiler for parts.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> there is basically no situation in which it is important to optimize for binary size, embedded sure, but nowhere else Not disagreeing that there many upsides to statically linking, but there are (other) situations where binary size mat
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by cwalv 4y ago
I really wish we could all move on from the conservative/liberal false dichotomy. I'm neither (or both), and so is nearly everyone else I know. I think we need something better than winner-takes-all for all elected positions, bec
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by cwalv 4y ago
You'd have to give a very free hand, and it'd likely end up with many students being kicked out of class. So they'd have fewer students, and close to all of the ones that stayed would be achieving at grade level. Not sure i
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by cwalv 4y ago
Equal outcomes is a fine goal, and this is a terrible example of a good way to achieve it. It may be the quickest/easiest way (maybe even the only way given the levers they have control over), but that doesn't make it good.
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by cwalv 4y ago
That's undoubtedly true, but time alone isn't enough. Achievement in poorer schools is lower as well; in some schools the only math that students really care about is decreasing their odds of being assaulted between classes, and d
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by cwalv 4y ago
> if don't think much of the questions it'd be interesting to know why you think that way. Mostly because you don't have to buy any of this. If it's that unfair, figure a better/cheaper way to do it yourself, oth
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by cwalv 4y ago
It aims to be able to express the typing used in a bunch of pre-existing javascript libraries. Many/most of these were written in a "how would I solve this if the type system just let me do whatever I wanted" style (since tha
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by cwalv 4y ago
I see what you're saying .. and yes, it's (obviously) true that in order to protect individuals' rights we necessarily have to restrict some: to protect individuals' property rights means we have to restrict what non-ow
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Given that one of these modes of living reliably produces a happier population Is that really a "given"? > Given that ... one of the core purposes of cooperative government is to find ways to promote outcomes that benefit
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by cwalv 4y ago
Missing out on the potential air quality improvements would be disappointing too.
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by cwalv 4y ago
Its proximity to the Colorado river arguably makes it inherently better than most of the rest of the southwest
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by cwalv 4y ago
Spot on. Now word can augment it's UI, maybe automatically recognizing when I'm writing a letter and offering to help with that specific task.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Although I will concede that naive approach to both of those is sub-optimal. Paradoxically, this can actually lead to a better understanding of how to write performant code. When I first learned some of the be implementation details o
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by cwalv 4y ago
I said "All it needs is to be able to recognize when it’s unable to safely have control *with enough advance notice to delegate to a human*" IMO, there are road conditions where this is possible. For black swan cases like random
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by cwalv 4y ago
> if you are not getting 100k miles out of your brakes the problem is not the car but the driver. This is just false. If you get 100k in your non-EV before having to replace at least your front brake pads, you must be racking up highway
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by cwalv 4y ago
It can definitely be useful, but there are also programming jobs/tasks where it's not useful at all. "modern programmer" covers a lot of different cases
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by cwalv 4y ago
I wasn't comparing autopilot in an aircraft to autopilot in a car. I was comparing remote piloting of an aircraft to remote operation of a vehicle.
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by cwalv 4y ago
I'm not saying that you attempt FSD with the copout that a driver needs to stay attentive and be ready to intervene. I'm saying that there is a high proportion of truck driving that's completely mindless, and it's possib
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Driving is not a closed domain problem. There will always be fat tail circumstances where statistical methods will break down. It doesn’t have to solve all cases to be immensely useful. All it needs is to be able to recognize when it’s
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by cwalv 4y ago
It's great when we can use off peak energy for things like this, but they're not as easy to locate onsite as bitcoin miners .. and difficulty with transmission is a big part of the problem
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by cwalv 4y ago
If you live in a developed market with no need for the utility bitcoin provides, then to you bitcoin is only a waste of energy, and energy generation is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In this case you see it as all c
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by cwalv 4y ago
> There’s surely a huge argument that all of scientific education is a massive disservice. > If the general public is to benefit from education and pass that benefit into their society (that’s the point right), it needs to be more tha
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by cwalv 4y ago
> What keeps the software alive are the programmers who have an accurate mental model (theory) of how it is built and works. That mental model can only be learned by having worked on the project while it grew or by working alongside some
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by cwalv 4y ago
> it's such a funny comment because it's pure regurgitation, but the argument in it is against regurgitation being "real thought" If I understand based on my own experience of 'consciousness' that "I&qu
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by cwalv 4y ago
You could sell secured put options and end up making a decent return even if it doesn't drop http://opcalc.com/PJM
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Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race(economist.com)
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