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by fatbird 5y ago
Those prices depend not only on buyers’ confidence in the building’s safety but also their willingness to be associated with a building that is regularly in the news. He's leaving out a big factor that any condo owner understands: ma
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by fatbird 5y ago
Munger said McFadden would “go ape-shit” if he saw the models; McFadden did see all the material, including the models, and resigned. Munger is clearly unable to comprehend disagreement with himself, which is definitely not rational beha
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by fatbird 5y ago
Guido has replied to Gross's announcement to observe that his performance improvements are not tied to removing the GIL and could be accepted separately. But he doesn't reject Gross's work outright, and if the same release t
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by fatbird 5y ago
It was Guido's requirement that GIL removal not degrade single threaded performance at all, but in the talk I attend at PyCon 2019, the speaker mentioned nothing about qualifications on that. Guido's restriction was presented, qu
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by fatbird 5y ago
Even discounting what others said about significant opposition to further investment in fossil fuels: Alberta oil is in tar sands, which is expensive to refine and is not economically viable to extract unless the price of oil is over $70-80
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by fatbird 5y ago
There were a variety of ways for me to do so by invoking more Azure services, but I stopped trying at that point, because even after smoothing it out, Cosmos would still be 50x as expensive as a basic VM running Mongo. But also, every time
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by fatbird 5y ago
Same story with Cosmos. On an IoT pipeline I set up with event hub, Cosmos needed $15k/month to keep up with the flow without generating 429s (i.e., causing the ingestion function to drop events). The RUs shouldn't have needed t
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by fatbird 5y ago
Hey, if the The Lord of the Rings movies can lose money, as New Line asserted to Peter Jackson when they denied him royalties, then a New York type foundry can surely operate for a couple decades on just a little more than a half million.
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by fatbird 5y ago
I recently set it up as the ingestion point for an IOT pipeline that currently runs steadily at a high volume, and found that Cosmos would charge me $15k/month in RUs to achieve stable ingestion (i.e., no 429s on intermittent spikes).
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by fatbird 5y ago
Your house, your rules, my apologies.
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by fatbird 5y ago
In fact, you are, in the US, allowed to refuse service to someone based on their tattoos or hairstyle [0]. The only prohibition in general on refusing service is to protected classes such as race or sex. So now we can refuse service to som
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by fatbird 5y ago
Because most of the effect of vaccines is their effect en masse . It's a solution lying almost entirely within the realm of collective action, so it's a test of whether we're collectively smart enough to implement a rationa
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by fatbird 5y ago
We aren't out warring on "no shirts, no shoes, no service" mandates in private businesses, but somehow mandating a vaccine for a pandemic disease that kills is a gross infringement on our bodily autonomy? Religious exemption
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by fatbird 5y ago
Yes, this. I've never seen a "crisis averted by timely application of consultants!" post on Medium, but I'm sure many such tales exist, as I'm one of those consultants.
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by fatbird 5y ago
Your causality doesn't seem to line up. As you tell it, the workstation CPUs were already peaking in terms of complexity and cost, when Intel and HP announce a huge investment in the next generation of this class of CPU. This doesn&#x
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by fatbird 5y ago
Change history, if nothing else. That alone brings a ton of benefit, from being able to view earlier versions, to recovering from mistakes or lost code. If you have a remote repo then, you can also have offsite backups. If you never branch
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by fatbird 5y ago
This is very important, very unappreciated point, to which I'd add that there's a legitimate fear that, within the organization, as your business infrastructure increases in size to handle international sales, your core business o
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by fatbird 5y ago
There's a large body of established case law that organizations do not have to bear the consequences of their employee's private lives, or continue their association with an individual when that association is harmful to the organ
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by fatbird 5y ago
At the time, the U.S. Admirals recognized that clearing the occupied islands wasn't necessary and would be ruinously expensive. Their explicit goal was to create airstrips within bomber reach of the Japanese home islands. Even with 6
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by fatbird 5y ago
If the system doesn't work but all the tests pass, then you're missing one of two things: code coverage, or articulated requirements. Either code that you're not testing is crucially responsible for the system outcome, in wh
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by fatbird 5y ago
Your "redployment" saved you from their current email migration problems. And, ironically, perhaps, I find myself daily battling what I call "The IBM hangover," where large orgs (gov't and private) deal with the leg
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by fatbird 5y ago
A couple years ago, Hootsuite announced that they were laying off 20 employees at one location, but they termed it as "assisting them in their transition to the next stage of their careers." It was beautifully horrific phrasing,
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by fatbird 5y ago
He did mention trading ammo for food at one point, and later, food for ammo. It wasn't a question of drawn-out firefights, it was a question (as I read it) of always having effective weapons at your disposal, even after several years
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by fatbird 5y ago
You're confusing logic with epistemology in the context of legal proceedings and life in general. Epistemically, I prove there's no elephant in my room now because elephants can't be invisible, because I would feel it or hea
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by fatbird 5y ago
Innocent people do get convicted. Some negatives can't be proven, just like some positive assertions can't be proven.
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by fatbird 5y ago
It's not a logical standard, and you can prove a negative. For example, I can prove that I'm not dead, that there's no elephant in the room with me as I type this, and that my wife is not having sex with someone else right
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by fatbird 5y ago
> There's a shortage of people doing top-quality work that advances the state of the art. Ok. What do you have to back this up? From my perspective, a PhD is defined by making a new contribution to the field, and we're graduat
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by fatbird 5y ago
Is there a shortage of people with CompSci PhDs to staff universities and do research? Is there a shortage of people to present at conferences? Just because you feel like cancel culture is cancelling people who don't deserve it, doesn
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by fatbird 5y ago
This is one way to handle the problem, but certainly not the only way, and not a way that is blessed as "the mature solution". There are a variety of legtimate reasons not try to speak first privately to Matthias. Butterick ge
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by fatbird 5y ago
It's not actually a hard problem. We're not short of brilliant people who are also nice or at least not generally toxic. We don't need to exile the brilliant monsters; we just need to not make allowances for them. If the

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