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by cwp 4y ago
Not a physicist, but it feels more like the orbit of Mercury. Newtonian physics didn't quite predict it correctly, but it was still the best theory available until relativity came along. That seems to be the thrust of the GP comment: &
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by cwp 4y ago
No, what he was saying was that the probability of you winning the lottery is quite high compared to the probability of you existing in the first place. His point was that mathematicians sometimes try to contextualize these very low probabi
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by cwp 4y ago
No. That's like flipping a coin and then saying the probability of getting heads is 1. The fact that something happened is not proof that it was guaranteed to happen.
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by cwp 4y ago
It's not that I think there's someone more skilled at operations. It's that Cook got Apple into this situation. He was the one that reimagined Apple's manufacturing strategy, closed their American factories and moved eve
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by cwp 4y ago
Apple is about to find its self in need of a wartime CEO. The threat will come when China is no longer a viable place to manufacture high-tech devices. Apple has deep pockets, but they've been doubling down on China with each new warni
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by cwp 4y ago
Ok, the specific culture that she wants to protect aside, I can see this being an effective way to give reminders. It's not going to work with people that are so new that they don't know what the cultural norms are. But, let'
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by cwp 4y ago
The problem with English is that you have to plan out the whole noun phrase in your head before you start talking. Not only do the adjectives have to come first, they have to be in the right order. With Romance languages you can just say th
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by cwp 4y ago
I don't know what the numbers are, but my first thought would be "growth". Online communities tend to be awesome until they hit a certain level of success, and then they represent a large-enough audience that people start per
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by cwp 4y ago
Yeah, for sure. I'm just grumbling about these kids that don't know how good they have it. Even with unreliable keyboards and Intel failing to deliver, the period leading up to the M1 wasn't even close to "the worst the
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by cwp 4y ago
Not really an Easter egg, just the normal release process. That code basically sets up the GUI for the released image - sets up the menubar, opens and arranges windows, etc. The release notes at the top will get styled and appear in a windo
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by cwp 4y ago
This file is part of the build system, and the text is meant to be read within the Squeak IDE, so it's going to look a little weird on the web. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, there's a bunch of code for styling the text,
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by cwp 4y ago
> the worst the Mac has ever been No. No no no. The worst was the Amelio era.
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by cwp 4y ago
It's not the ad industry that would suffer, but small businesses that buy ads. Targeted advertising is how new products and services can bootstrap themselves into existence. As scale increases, targeting accuracy declines, so larger co
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by cwp 4y ago
> Carbon dioxide is easier to compress and store at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure compared to other gaseous storage vehicles, like hydrogen or air.
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by cwp 4y ago
There are two problems with the "affordable housing" strategy, IMO. One is that many (most?) advocates for this are actually being dishonest. It's a cudgel that can be used to stop just about any development project, because
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by cwp 4y ago
A Civ VI fan, I see.
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by cwp 4y ago
The article notes that online sales growth has slowed, but honestly I don't think that matters. Amazon is building out their own logistics and that'll be useful to them even if online sales were flat. Even beyond their own deliver
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by cwp 4y ago
I'll echo this: CUE provides a lot of expressive power without being a Turing-complete language. That's a sweet spot for configuration—you can DRY things up and catch errors early, without introducing nondeterministic behavior.
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by cwp 4y ago
> Value in terms of dollars is not really correlated with productive value to society. No correlation? No, I don't think that's true. Sure, there are externalities, but if something truly isn't valuable, you can't m
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by cwp 4y ago
I'm sure that we haven't found the limit yet. Usually this kind of discussion turns to supply-and-demand economics and somebody says that if you want to hire software engineers you just have to offer more. That's not wrong, b
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by cwp 4y ago
bcantrill had a pretty good take on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
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by cwp 4y ago
Wow, a Kids in the Hall reunion. It really gives me hope for the future. If this can happen, then anything is possible!
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by cwp 4y ago
Yeah, I don't care about all the gamer-centric stuff. I wanted a wireless keyboard with firm, low profile keys and the ability to switch between several Macs easily, ideally just by plugging my hub into the laptop. This is quite nice,
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by cwp 4y ago
Ah man. I just bought a G915 TKL, as the closest thing to what I really wanted, which was this.
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by cwp 4y ago
I wonder how much of this is just that Julia is more composable than most people are used to, and the community hasn't yet developed the patterns and culture that are needed to avoid these kinds of problems. I'm thinking, for exam
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by cwp 4y ago
I think the only real way to do content moderation is to delegate it to users. Let people create something like a subreddit, and then be in charge of content policy for it. Different communities can have different standards, and kicking peo
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by cwp 4y ago
And of course he married a woman named Jacqueline.
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by cwp 4y ago
The solution is go find another job. Everbody, but everybody, is hiring.
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by cwp 4y ago
What does renewability have to do with climate change?
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by cwp 4y ago
Yeah, sounds smart.

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