daxfohl

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by daxfohl 5y ago
I'd really like a 4/2 week. It's just annoying to have an odd number of days. You can't maintain a schedule of something every other day.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
No, there are a few well understood approaches to physically creating a QC, each of which are seeing incremental progress every year. That's not to say there's a clear path from here to there, but it's a lot closer to clear t
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Not yet. The way this kind of stuff usually works is that, as we get closer we'll see some high-profile researchers suddenly quit their jobs to go work on "something else".
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Minister needs to tell everyone not to panic vaccinate.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Nobody predicted GDPR or the need for multicloud. Wonder what the big new grunt work for 2030 will be.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
One way to find out: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/search-results?keywords=...
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by daxfohl 5y ago
FWIW I've been in both situations. One company had sketchy E2E coverage that resulted in a modicum of production bugs. I moved to a competitor of roughly same size had a huge E2E suite and AFAICT results in roughly the same modicum of
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by daxfohl 5y ago
The language itself was a really interesting halfway point between typescript (near JS syntax) and purescript (stronger type system), before either existed. Plus some extra goodies thrown in. It's really too bad they bound it so tightl
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by daxfohl 5y ago
The opposite effect could be in play here too: remote employees feel less connected to their team and are more willing to quit.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
One interesting thing, any scenario I devise where choosing one box wins also implies lack of free choice. IDK if this can be proved, but it seems to be the case.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
I wanted to disagree, that if we all do our part then it could accelerate and provide the change we need. Then I did a reality check. If you look at the raw numbers here: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Petition for reducing the national debt. As I see it, this money eventually gets turned into carbon in some way or other. This means you may need to let go of some special interests, no matter which side you're on. But additionally I&#
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by daxfohl 5y ago
I feel like I agree. And the dumb thing is that all our work does is make it more efficient for everyone to go about wrecking up our planet. I mean, we think of PCs, internet, tech, as the start of a new revolution of efficiency, which soun
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by daxfohl 5y ago
And moreover, certainly don't get on message boards where people are genuinely looking for things they can do, and say "don't do crunchy". A few misplaced comments like that can result in a huge missed opportunity. It ev
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Read up on biology and engineer a virus that creates a worldwide pandemic. It'll shut down cities, keep people from leaving their homes, decimate air travel industry, shut down manufacturing, and create an international supply chain cr
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by daxfohl 5y ago
It depends. Need to know the algorithm. If it's just that 90% of people choose one, then it can choose that one and be right 90% of the time without even taking your brain scan into account. Or maybe 90% of males go one way and 90% of
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by daxfohl 5y ago
At 100% maybe, but at 90% it's possible that some algorithm that took, say, IQ, net income, and Meyers-Briggs type into account could hit 90%.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Well not quite. My parents are convinced this whole vaccine thing is a worldwide conspiracy invented and managed by big pharma to which deep state and big tech are subservient. Breaking down the numbers to show how ridiculous that idea is,
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Changing companies led me from C# to Java. I feel so much less productive in Java, so much extra boilerplate everywhere. C# is just as mainstream as Java, so learning curves and nicheness arguments don't apply, it's just better. I
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Though before basing life-and-death decisions on this, consider reading the "about" page first: https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi > The purpose of the tool is primarily to help you f
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Yup that's what is such an eye roller for me. Everyone here wants to give Fauci such flack but pretty much any world leader that has actual responsibility for their citizens is making roughly the same calls.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah but you're forgetting this is all lies because government has no other way of extracting $31 or whatever from each citizen. /s
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah it's kind of ridiculous both sides skewing statistics. (Granted, it's ridiculous that there are "sides" to this thing at all). But I get super annoyed when I see things like CNN reporting 99% of deaths since January
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Unless you are a member of the Detroit Lions....
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah greenwashing is a thing and even a lot of stuff that genuinely well-intentioned can have externalities that outweigh the benefit. But at least it looks like they're trying.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
I was expecting yet another minor convenience that doubled the ecological footprint of a thing. But it looks like reducing impact was actually a goal here. Pretty awesome.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Combat the ADHD by trying it, fidgeting with things and see what happens. That's one nice thing about css is you can test things out and get immediate feedback. You'll learn more from fifteen minutes of directed playing around wit
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by daxfohl 5y ago
I recommend learning it. I never did and I think it stunted me. The few times I did need to go deep with something, it was actually quite intuitive, interesting, and powerful. But I think I ended up spending so much time working around thin
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Surprised this didn't get more comments. It seems like an interesting direction to explore in terms of Einstein's "no experiment can differentiate between gravity and acceleration". If clocks are inherently noisy and pre
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by daxfohl 5y ago
"I hate almost all software... That I didn't write... For my particular needs... Without deadlines or managers or diverse opinions... Or any attempt to imagine how to make it more useful to others."

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