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by davidgay 2y ago
> A link to the summary? Sorry, it was in a museum - https://www.freulerpalast.ch/ , which doesn't look like it has that much information online.
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by davidgay 2y ago
I wonder how many proponents of this idea know that it's been done before? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_of_Glarus - Protestants and Catholics had separate governments and tribunals in the same (rather
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by davidgay 2y ago
> To do — how? by invading their countries and establishing a police state? That’s a little too much even for so called “nationalists”. I think it’s just plain old bribery and propaganda. Plenty of right-wing extremists seemed happy to h
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by davidgay 2y ago
> These threads end up fire hosed with people claiming hiring visa holders over citizens and permanent residents They apparently also get fire-hosed with comments on the horrors of H1B hiring in a thread that is on green card application
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by davidgay 2y ago
Some of us are both "real engineer"s (certified, legally protected, in Computer Science, etc, etc) and "staff engineer"s ;) But I'm definitely not looking to die on any hill.
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills I'm going to hazard a semi-informed guess (I grew up in Switzerland, live in the US), that 0% of Swiss bankruptcies are because of medicals bills. And https://www.
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by davidgay 2y ago
Java was just unlucky, it standardised it's strings at the wrong time (when Unicode was 16-bit code points): Java was announced in May 1995, and the following comment from the Unicode history wiki page makes it clear what happened: &
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by davidgay 2y ago
You can actually screw them up: by our house (in California) they replaced a 4-way stop with a roundabout with no signaling on 2 of the ways, and a stop on the other 2. An absolute disaster, as the 2 ways without the stop assumed they had t
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Universities used to be expensive schools for rich people's failsons to "find themselves". That's why there's a lot of focus on "well-rounded" educations even today. Then western governments started o
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by davidgay 2y ago
Actually the Democrats had 60 seats from July 2009 to January 2010 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_Senate_elec... ).
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by davidgay 2y ago
1.4 billion $ / 30 million people = $47/person. Do the math before being generically cynical?
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by davidgay 2y ago
That one's particularly terrible for non-Americans, as I (a native English speaker) had never heard the term. I forget how we figured that one out...
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by davidgay 2y ago
You (unintentionally) drop your house key in front of your door. Now we can all freely enter your house! It can't be trespassing with the key sitting right there, can it?
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by davidgay 2y ago
A thread per request has a high risk of overcommitting on CPU use, leading to a different set of problems. Virtual threads are scheduled on a fixed-size (based on number of cores) underlying (non-virtual) thread pool to avoid this problem.
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by davidgay 2y ago
I think you missed my point that what you're describing as the "old" idea were actually the "new" idea with a corresponding "old" idea. For instance, you mention OCaml's typing, but OCaml is from 1996
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Cognitive decline with age is real My father worked as a consultant designing analog-style ICs until his mid 70s - his customers were therefore presumably happy to pay his consulting rate. I’m going to vote for “early” cognitive declin
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by davidgay 2y ago
I have to say that all your “old” ideas (they are all from the 90s AFAICT) seem new to me ;) For example, for Haskell [1990] (ok, not so much the type system bits, but…), see FP [1977] ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by davidgay 2y ago
> 40 fl. oz per quart, That's the imperial quart. The US quart is 32 fl. oz. And, of course, the US fl. oz is slightly different from the imperial one. And neither is 1 (weight) oz of water (but at least the weight ozes are the same
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by davidgay 2y ago
I have an early CD (Bach's Goldberg variations, played by Glenn Gould) which is one track with 31 index markers. My (early) Philips CD player dealt with it fine, but since then it's been a bit of a problem...
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by davidgay 2y ago
Just avoid going there in winter, though... ( https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/53443~286/Comparison-of-t... )
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by davidgay 2y ago
This is the bad kind of statistic, because it doesn't actually tell us anything interesting about the impact on individual doctors (but does sound scary / impressive!). A Google search says the US has 1 million doctors, so $12B ov
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Well, these numbers certainly don't seem like teachers are being drastically underpaid like I commonly hear. I think you've expressing an underlying bias here that "average" is a fine pay for teachers. You should at
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by davidgay 2y ago
This is just ridiculous, esp. re Berlin. I'd suggest starting with reading about D-day at the very least.
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by davidgay 2y ago
> I found it enlightening to ponder the history of clocks. There was a time nobody needed one; it wasn't actually useful for anything[0], because nothing in agricultural societies happened fast enough to require hour or minute accur
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by davidgay 2y ago
Of course, some of those people then do get asked to build a language, and the result is awful and ignores the last 60 years of knowledge on how to actually do that ... (yes, I have seen this)
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by davidgay 2y ago
Major semiconductor manufacturing in Arizona is not exactly new: Motorola had fabs there in the 70s (or earlier?), Intel's presence dates to 1980, etc. The article [1] below from 2001 says that Arizona was "3rd in chipmaking"
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by davidgay 2y ago
You are right and my memory was faulty:(
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by davidgay 2y ago
> Or the employee agreement you sign includes a notice period of 6 months from either side. Those are illegal in at-will states.
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by davidgay 3y ago
The good news of course is that if you were sampling a real signal, then that signal was not actually a perfect square wave. So the fact that you can't (re)construct a perfact square wave is somewhat moot...
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by davidgay 3y ago
There's something off in this thread, which seems to posit that all of this is about Intel moving fab capacity back to the US and away from unreliable places. That is clearly not the reality: according to https://en.wikipedi

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