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by gbacon 6y ago
This idea that success is all about, mostly about, or largely about luck is intellectually lazy, is extremely misleading, and stokes envy. None of that benefits society. To benefit from luck, you have to put yourself in position to get luck
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by gbacon 6y ago
If it’s galling for the essential people to be paid more, what’s a fair compensation structure in your view?
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by gbacon 6y ago
> Test-driven development was supposed to eliminate the need for independent testing. Who seriously makes this claim?
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by gbacon 6y ago
Whoops, good catch! I had references on the brain. For completeness, that makes it either $nested{$x}{$y}{$z} or after initializing with curly brackets rather than parentheses to construct a new reference to an anonymous hash
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by gbacon 6y ago
Correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(programming)
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by gbacon 6y ago
%nested = (foo => { bar => { baz => "quux" } }); Access the leaf with $nested->{foo}{bar}{baz} If the keys are in variables, it becomes $nested->{$x}{$y}{$z} For dynamic depth, do you hav
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by gbacon 6y ago
> $ alone has so many different meanings and operations depending on context. Used as a sigil, $ always tags a scalar, a single value. $foo = 3; A reference to something else is a single value. $bar = [qw/ apple orang
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by gbacon 6y ago
What do you mean the documentation doesn’t cover them? https://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#SPECIAL-VARIABLES
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by gbacon 6y ago
> I have worked with many languages, and Perl has always been one of the hardest to remember due to non-standard symbol abuse and a few strange semantics. For example?
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by gbacon 6y ago
What you wrote is insightful as to the underlying thinking, but I’m not sure I buy the premise. If luck is the dominating factor, how is the outcome of any election legitimate? Aren’t the winners merely the luckiest? Where’s the safety net
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by gbacon 6y ago
We see power-law distributions everywhere, notably the 80-20 Pareto rule. They are the rule with uniform distributions being the rare exceptions. The claim of a hidden puppeteer running this gigantic con that occasionally allows success and
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by gbacon 6y ago
But ingenuity is part of work. Granted, knowing when to take a step back from brute force is a skill that must be developed and one at which some seem to have stronger natural aptitude than others.
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by gbacon 6y ago
Yet the same faces seem to show up over and over at the final table because some are better than others at executing the process, maintaining control of emotions, bankroll management, and so on.
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by gbacon 6y ago
“Luck is probability taken personally.” – Chip Denman I’m amazed at how many comments piled up insisting that luck is a major or possibly the most significant factor. Even if true, what a self-defeating outlook. Every accusation is a confes
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by gbacon 6y ago
People without theoretical CS background probably think of regular expressions (or regexes for short) as just text-matching thingies that sometimes give you two problems and would look at you blankly if you mention the Chomsky hierarchy.
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by gbacon 6y ago
1. Launch MVP 2. Perform basic SEO 3. Founders made initial deliveries themselves 4. Market to a nearby, reachable customer base via email 5. Pass out fliers 6. Capitalize on their email list to encourage repeat customers
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by gbacon 6y ago
Proving that a problem is NP-complete requires proving that it is NP-hard and in NP. Reducing SAT to regex matching with backreferences does the former. The latter requires proving that any solution can be checked in polynomial time. The au
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by gbacon 6y ago
Yes, for at least ten years and likely much longer. https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/448/362
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by gbacon 6y ago
I like the way this 2-minute video illustrates the increase in P factor during a climb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJOYERf6380
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by gbacon 6y ago
The accident airplane had both, although steam gauges and not a HUD. The pilot has to know how to use the gadgets and actually do so. Scheduled airlines, FAR Part 121, are much safer for several reasons: pilots have much more training and a
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by gbacon 6y ago
JFK Jr.’s crash[0] clearly shows the accident chain beginning on the ground. He’d injured his ankle in a snowboarding accident a few weeks prior and was wearing a boot that may have interfered with operating the rudder. His magazine was in
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by gbacon 6y ago
In what jurisdiction?
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by gbacon 6y ago
The Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) may request months of CPAP data. Insulin-dependent diabetes may require special issuance. For a broad reference, see the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) database on health conditions that ma
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by gbacon 6y ago
Three-quarters of accidents are due to pilot error.[0] [0]: https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...
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by gbacon 6y ago
Around three-quarters of accidents are due to pilot error, and about 15% of non-commercial fixed-wing accidents are fatal[0]. Flying more often keeps skills sharp. Get-there-itis is a mindset that a good instructor and other pilots will war
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by gbacon 6y ago
I co-own a Piper Cherokee Six/300 with two other pilots. It’s an easy way to dilute overhead costs of hangar, maintenance, insurance, and so on along with the time commitment of care and feeding. Insurance may be cost-prohibitive for a
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by gbacon 6y ago
What motivated you to get started?
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by gbacon 6y ago
I can cut a long drive in half or by two-thirds in what are considered slow (read: beginner-friendly) single-engine airplanes. You take on an entirely different relationship with the weather. Flying into expected congestion beats driving an
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Private Pilot Ground School(ocw.mit.edu)
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by gbacon 6y ago
Phil Greenspun writes[0] about motion sickness for student pilots. > I get violently seasick in any normal ocean swell but have never thrown up on a commercial airline flight. Personally I find light planes in good weather to be somewhat

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