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by davidgay 3y ago
> In the 80s, they [Kodak] owned the whole photography market, No, they shared it with Fujifilm (1/3rd each in 1990 according to https://pdgciv.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/tfinnerty2.pdf ). And essentially
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by davidgay 3y ago
Speaking as an asthmatic, the smoking bit was god awful. Forbidding smoking in planes was marvellous. In theory, IIRC, the smoking area was at the back. But in practice, the smoke and smell carried everywhere.
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by davidgay 3y ago
> the cycle of the moon - 28 days 29.53059 days, so no, that's not super practical, and there's less than 13 of them in a year...
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by davidgay 3y ago
> And not just some features or aspects but almost the entire system in almost every way. Except latency. RAM (uncached) latency managed maybe 3x (250ns in the 80s to sub-100ns these days)? The only really significant latency improvement
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by davidgay 3y ago
There's also the "get married on top of Half-Dome trick" (13km hike one way, 1.6km elevation gain for non-Californians) - keeps the wedding party small and fit! I didn't do it, but did see one ;)
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by davidgay 3y ago
Hey, be glad you don't live in various European countries - you could pay tax to the church instead (yes, you can avoid it in most cases AFAIK) ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
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by davidgay 3y ago
> I would in fact argue that the trend, in "applied" fields, of justifying the importance of a piece of work by pointing out that a lot of people are doing similar work is in fact self-fulfilling. There is one filter on this, t
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by davidgay 3y ago
They were programming language professors. They most definitely had an interest in both programming and academia.
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by davidgay 3y ago
> Which means that CS departments are populated by people with no particular interest in software. This is bunk, from my experience at UC Berkeley (PhD) - the professors I knew/worked with loved to program. One explained to me that
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by davidgay 3y ago
They aren't "barred from any action", they can, e.g., publish reports on those statistics - it sounds like you don't even want the questions to be answerable...
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by davidgay 3y ago
> So after you get hired and provide that information for government statistics collection, why would your employer ever need to ask you for it afterwards? Because your employer wants to collect statistics too.
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by davidgay 3y ago
As the article mentions, the court did allow that practice: "The watchmaker successfully defended its practice of enforcing recommended retail prices for its retailers, with the authority accepting that preventing the sale of fake Role
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by davidgay 3y ago
Billboards (standalone or on buildings) are not allowed.
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by davidgay 3y ago
> "Software hasn't changed in the last 10 years". It instantly devalued the entire program for me. As opposed to maths, physics, philosophy, civil engineering, classical studies which have gone through complete revolutions
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by davidgay 3y ago
> The oldest buildings in the world[0] are as old as they are because they use materials with lifespans of much less than 100 years. Rather apropos counter-example: Rome's Pantheon is several hundred years older and built in part of
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by davidgay 3y ago
I'm no expert, but note that finite loops were allowed. In the case of any tree or graph traversal, you could replace it by a loop bounded by the tree/graph size plus an if...
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by davidgay 3y ago
As someone actually on a green card, working at one large tech company and previously at another where I got the card (both in the same range of importance as Microsoft), and having seen various colleagues go through various issues: no, it
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by davidgay 3y ago
Down this path is the requirement that politicians be independently wealthy, so that we can require them to earn no money and take no money-related actions, as those all risk corruption. Is that really what you want?
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by davidgay 3y ago
The Z9 has no (mechanical) shutter.
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by davidgay 3y ago
During my driver's license exam, the examiner scolded me for stopping for a pedestrian who was waiting to cross... (saying something essentially like "you might get read-ended") This was in Switzerland, in the late 80s, and y
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by davidgay 3y ago
That only works when you can see the place you're connecting to, or have used it many times. I've definitely cursed many times failing to plug in non-rectangular VGA, serial and parallel cables ;) [edit: it is still better, but no
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by davidgay 3y ago
Not Armenian, but, e.g., Bulgarian has a distinct name for the relation of two husbands of (not in-law) sisters. In English, that's just one of the "brother in-law" cases. On the whole, Bulgarian has far more such relationshi
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by davidgay 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... The US is #5 (of 26 countries for which the statistic is available) in fatalities / km. That's only "awfully damn good to me" if your
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by davidgay 3y ago
The perl version of regexps is np-hard... https://perl.plover.com/NPC/
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by davidgay 3y ago
You claimed that the fix to getting lucky with a batch of good students (or unlucky with bad) is random assignment. Now it seems that you're claiming that getting a bad batch is a good deal as it will be easier to get them to improve..
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by davidgay 3y ago
> There should be experiments to determine what works and what doesn't work. I think one of the problems is that a proper experiment takes ~ 12 years (or more, if your want, eg, impact in college or on writing life) which leads to m
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by davidgay 3y ago
> The only thing that works is school choice. Citation needed.
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by davidgay 3y ago
Don't forget to bus the kids randomly across town (county? state?), or else your suggestion is ineffective. That has always been a very popular and well received idea (or maybe your should think a bit before blaming teachers).
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by davidgay 3y ago
Except that UC Berkeley most definitely is “in the rat-race to be "top-tier research institution" (probably more accurately described as one of the rat-race winners in many fields) - it’s definitely important that top-tier researc
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by davidgay 3y ago
> If you want to have a tenure track "professor" position focused on teaching in a top-tier university, you need to be a great researcher as teaching skills are not considered much Not completely true. UC Berkeley at least has

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