dan-robertson

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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
What do you think happens today if you mail a letter addressed to the CEO of a big company (or their office)?
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think this is true. It can be easy to accidentally do partial application, especially with optional and labelled arguments, eg: let bar x y z = … let foo w x = bar x (f w x) The performance and evaluation order can be a bit surpr
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Maybe ETH Zurich does a good job both of being somewhat outside the anglosphere but also well regarded.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
It’s only like debt for the purposes of government budgeting. For a person, the ‘student loans’ are much more like a graduate tax which is weirdly regressive. The tax is only on monthly earnings above a certain level so lower earners pay a
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Is this statement based on your recent undergraduate experience or on something else?
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
It is about Sheffield–Hallam university.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
IMO university in the U.K. feels expensive because (a) most people rarely have to directly pay for anything particularly expensive (house, wedding, maybe a car, not much else) so there is little grounding; (b) the British economy is in a po
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Second paragraph rings true of my experience 10 or so years ago. But may depend on the university and the current funding environment is a bit different.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Without knowing anything about your situation, this sounds like a bad idea. I think roughly you want a university that is well-regarded[1] and hard to get into so that one’s attendance carries some signal. [1] by well-regarded, I mean well-
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
The range of institutions called universities in the UK is large and I think you are conflating properties of one end of the range with properties of the other.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
IME the people estimating energy efficiency in the UK do not recognise heat pumps and often misclassify them as less efficient systems.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think most of the change in death rate is improved medicine (and maybe wealth too – plenty of people in the US in the 50s were very poor by modern standards) rather than parents knowing about many potentially harms. (Maybe I’m wrong? Happ
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
This feels to me like the right place to be trying to innovate. Zippers tend to be pretty good for the most technical clothing (and some other cases that demand textiles). In ordinary settings, I find more and more that I prefer pullovers,
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
It does seem that something went wrong in your story, but I don’t think it’s the CEO not knowing how to develop software. Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by that phrase.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I feel like I’d like to see graphs in the shape you see in some medical trials – time on the x axis and % still alive on the y. You could group drives by the year they were purchased and have multiple lines for different years on there.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I would go with the likely explanation here.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think the intuition is that they don’t ‘know’ that they are bad at counting characters and such, so they answer the same way they answer most questions.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
It feels to me like there are two different things going on: 1. Video codecs like the denoise, compress, synthetic grain approach because their purpose is to get the perceptually-closest video to the original with a given number of bits. I
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Sure, I don't want to make a big deal about this but I have observed Java projects choosing to not support zstd for portability (or software packaging) reasons.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think mmapping is less useful when you are expecting to get your data over a network. Not sure though.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think the wasm compiler is going to bring in more dependencies than the ‘heavy’ compression would have. I think that more expensive compression may have made more of a difference 15 years ago when cpu was more plentiful compared to networ
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think it’s a pretty common choice when you want compression in a new format or protocol. It works better for compressing chunks of your data rather than large files where you want to maintain some kind of index or random access. Similarly
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Shame to have missed out on the extra registers
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Why would it? I don't think that much pandemic insurance is written and obviously you model all the contracts as being very highly correlated.
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Wouldn’t the outcome be similar to if France had used a lot of Gas generation instead of having those temporarily-shut down reactors?
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. It’s true in the sense of being around where the mode is for the distribution of incomes over 100k, but people (I know) tend to not like boasting about money, either out of humility or some expectation that they mi
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
“Mmm, heck of a school. Weren’t you at Brown Otto?” I think you’re confusing a statement about ranking in a small set (Ivy League schools) for a statement about a bigger set. This isn’t uncommon – iirc there was some big furore a few months
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
Sometimes colleges make deliberately easy offers for students they like, or they later accept students who did not meet the criteria that were set (if you set offers such that fewer students pass than you have places for, it is much easier
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
I think usage in the UK can vary a lot. And different people may mean anything from the haute bourgeoisie to something much broader including a majority of the population. Another thing is that obviously class in the UK is a social distinct
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by dan-robertson 1y ago
When I was a student you would buy a book which had overall rankings, per subject rankings, and descriptions of all the ranked universities. I assume the book is what they are trying to sell rather than the papers and you want the latest ed

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