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901.
by gen220 6y ago
If you are purchasing “covered” options, it is absolutely akin to paying an insurance premium to limit the impact of short-term price swings, that are out of your control. Just like you pay health insurance premiums to mitigate against cost
902.
by gen220 6y ago
I've written the same sentence before! This is so cool! pardon the wall of text. Here's my thesis, curious to hear your thoughts. At some time around 2005, when efficient persistence and computation became cheap enough that any ol
903.
by gen220 6y ago
An interesting correlation is that songwriters used to be popularly-famous. Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin stick out. But I can't confidently name a single songwriter from the last 50 years, aside from the ones that were p
904.
by gen220 6y ago
I’ve heard it said that trees are upside down people, with a “head” buried in the earth. It’s a flawed metaphor of course but it gets people thinking. There’s been some interesting experimental research on how certain plants respond to stim
905.
by gen220 6y ago
I think it might depend on the cheese you’re using! In my experience the roux makes a big difference. We use a blend of Gruyere, Fontina and Cheddar (in 1-2-2 proportion). The hard, soft, and middling textures mix best when they’re gently c
906.
by gen220 6y ago
There was a cool article on this subject a few weeks ago: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972607811/reading-a-letter-th... Basically, opening centuries-old letters that are sealed with this technique is u
907.
by gen220 6y ago
You might find this reading interesting: https://rolfpotts.com/walker-percys-loss-creature/ In a nutshell, you can intentionally choose to prevent others’ perception of a place from spoiling your own. One step further,
908.
by gen220 6y ago
I think this article [1] does a pretty good job. (#1 result when I Google for “optimal typing posture”). Only thing I’d disagree with is I prefer to have my horizontally aligned with the midpoint of my monitor, to ease pressure on the neck.
909.
by gen220 6y ago
Just trying to help, since I’ve been there! Your RSI symptoms might be correlated with but not caused by key travel / force. I’ve found that the dominant cause of RSI is wrist pose (position + orientation), which is mostly influenced b
910.
by gen220 6y ago
Sometimes the interests of the TL contradict the interests of the EM. Circumstances like those are usually brought on by strong budget or roadmap constraints. Usually, people in your position will systematically wear one hat at the expense
911.
by gen220 6y ago
Oh, nice! I've never thought about using flash for backups, that's a very nice trade-off of for form factor and cost efficiency.
912.
by gen220 6y ago
You can boot the RPI off of an SSD nowadays, or boot off an SD card with the root file system on an SSD. I also used to be concerned about persisting data on a RPIs because of the SD card problem. But this setup is quite comparable to a sta
913.
by gen220 6y ago
Underlying article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21326-w The letters being opened are “locked” with a technique that was obviated by sealed envelopes, but was prevalent in the Renaissance and Mi
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Reading a Letter That's Been Sealed for More Than 300 Years Without Opening It(npr.org)
1 points by gen220 6y ago|1 comments
915.
by gen220 6y ago
Wow, I didn’t know I was looking for this before you shared it! Thank you so much and huge kudos to the authors, this is a fantastic tool.
916.
by gen220 6y ago
Another one for the list: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi09/cse223a/p145-maekawa.pd... I remember thinking it was a really cool result in college. Further, I’m not sure if there’s a good paper for it, but
917.
by gen220 6y ago
Probably one of the network protocols underlying the web. Maybe TLS with X.509 certs and the whole CA structure? Or DNS, or SMTP which are also distributed by design. If it’s something trendier we’re looking for, might be Kubernetes. From f
918.
by gen220 6y ago
Whenever markets have "crashed", it's usually been a reversion to fundamentals. See the bond market crash of the 80s, the sub-prime mortgage crisis of the 00s. The reality is that the cash flow and assets underlying these sec
919.
by gen220 6y ago
Value investors use the insurance example as a plank in their argument that “loss avoidance” is the most important value investing principle. Buffet famously said loss avoidance is rule number one, and rule two is to remember rule one. You
920.
by gen220 6y ago
The value investor type (buffet etc) would call this speculation, not investing. Speculators control all of the short term movements (everything on a time scale of <1 year). Sometimes when new financial instruments (what value investors
921.
by gen220 6y ago
It doesn’t need to heavily dominate! Especially in WFH days, where you eat breakfast and lunch at home. If you eat three meals a day and have staple breakfasts and lunches (for us it’s oatmeal/muesli in the morning with fruits, sandwic
922.
by gen220 6y ago
Unless you’re really special, your grocery bills at the end of the year will dominate your takeout and restaurants bills combined. This was an eye opener to me, after meticulously tracking my finances for a year. There’s two takeaways. (1)
923.
by gen220 6y ago
One of my coworkers shared an interesting thought with me the other day. Apple is positioning itself as The Privacy Company today, but they've benefited immensely from the attention economy over the last 15 years. They would not have s
924.
by gen220 6y ago
From your snippet: > We may take advantage of these exemptions for up to five years or until we are no longer an emerging growth company, whichever is earlier. The definition of "emerging growth company", from https:/&#x2
925.
by gen220 6y ago
I'm sorry that I came off as belittling these roles. They are valuable, and I didn't mean to imply that coasting was a norm. The principals and staff engineers I've known have been brilliant technical minds. I was attempting
926.
by gen220 6y ago
Staff engineer means “you are now or have at some point in the past been an indispensable senior engineer at a fashionable tech company (this company inclusive)”. Principal engineer means “you’ve made a lot of money, so you don't need
927.
by gen220 6y ago
Even better, a standard API that you can create dynamic config against. :) My best experience writing config files has been with Aurora config files for mesos deployments in pystachio-Python. Once you’re used to using a real programming lan
928.
by gen220 6y ago
Eh, I'd say most popular technologies suffer from the same problem. There's always an accretion disc of "X is garbage/panacea, here's 10 reasons why" content around ubiquitous tools. In fact, I think I can coun
929.
by gen220 6y ago
This is a compilation of gotcha-discovery-reports, distributed across the surface area of K8s (which, since K8s is huge, covers many nooks and crannies). This is not a compilation of "K8s sucks, here are 10 reasons why", which i
930.
by gen220 6y ago
Redis is like this. It runs in-memory by default, but can be trivially configured to write to disk / be persistent between server sessions. Many credit this feature as a catalyst to its adoption.

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