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by ghc 3y ago
I don't think it's related to any crisis in CRE. Rather it's related to an ongoing crisis in housing. Boston is short 30 thousand housing units. Yes CRE vacancy is high in Boston, but it's still far from being a CRE cr
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by ghc 3y ago
This is true of even the most public-transit-centered cities like Tokyo and NYC. It's easy to find commutes that are short as the crow flies but cover a much longer distance on public transit.
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by ghc 3y ago
The public transit system is shaped by natural barriers and landfill, so the weird layout really has nothing to do with neglect (though there's plenty of that too!). The subway system actually covers a large area including Boston and t
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by ghc 3y ago
You definitely don't need (or want) a car in Boston. Boston is extremely pedestrian friendly and correspondingly hostile to cars. 95% of the people who complain about getting around here are commuters from outside the city.
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by ghc 3y ago
Except Python doesn't use C++ at all -- using C++ from Python is not very easy. The reason is that Python's native FFI interface is in C, because the interpreter is written in C. The reason Jython, PyPy, IronPython, etc. never got
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by ghc 3y ago
Cython is not cpython. cpython started in 1990. Edit: In case you're confused, cpython is the de-facto standard implementation of Python. Cython is something entirely different (it compiles Python to C). Here's a good summary of P
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by ghc 3y ago
> A Python/Fortran combination would have made the development of high-performing HPC type applications more accessible to scientists, more fun, and would have given Fortran a more secure future. SciPy makes heavy use of Fortran. Nu
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by ghc 3y ago
Classic VC-backed B2B play. The trick, however, is finding a "wedge" people actually want on its own. Unfortunately that seems to be easier said than done.
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by ghc 4y ago
To quote the paper I referenced above: > it was only in the late twentieth century that peer review came to be seen as a process central to scientific practice. Throughout the nineteenth century and into much of the twentieth, external r
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by ghc 4y ago
> But if you fixed that, it wouldn't be academia anymore. That's a bold claim worthy of consideration. To assess it, we need to first ask: have the academic incentives always been "publish or perish"? And the answer
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by ghc 4y ago
I'm extremely impressed with the Vicuna output for the Hawaii blog post. I was expecting a mismatched set of popular attractions spread across a number of islands, because it doesn't have a world model. ChatGPT suffered from this
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by ghc 4y ago
A standard library without widespread adoption is just a library. Adoption is the hard part.
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by ghc 4y ago
Tailwind solves a communication problem, not a technical problem. It's extremely common on large teams to have people come and go. The more complex your CSS is, the more time it takes to train someone new. Think of it as a standard lib
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by ghc 4y ago
Nobody's going to engage with those arguments because they miss the point. Tailwind is CSS, ergo it wouldn't work if what you're saying wasn't possible. Writing good CSS for interfaces in a web application of significa
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by ghc 4y ago
It's called an Insured Cash Sweep and most banks offer it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insured_Cash_Sweep The problem here is one of fiscal immaturity at startups. SVB offered ICS accounts but from what I'm
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by ghc 4y ago
Once you commit capital to a VC fund you generally can't pull out. VCs don't take the money immediately, but eventually they will issue capital calls, which require you, as an LP, to wire them money. Your commitment amount is basi
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by ghc 4y ago
I know from extensive debugging of this issue that docker is the problem. You basically can't run docker (as of 6 months ago...I hope this will eventually be false) on an M1/M2 without causing significant heating and battery drain
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by ghc 4y ago
Oh, god...I'm old now :(
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by ghc 4y ago
I recall the explanation of an excellent little Japanese grammar book that made it click for me: 私は puts the emphasis on what you, as opposed to everyone else is doing, and the closest english equivalent is "As for me,". If you tr
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by ghc 4y ago
> take advantage of the fact that you all report to one CTO How many companies even have a CTO that knows or cares about version control? In most companies version control is managed by IT if at all , and code for different products i
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by ghc 4y ago
> I have ADHD and I straight-up don't do silence. > It probably started when I was much younger with much worse asthma and always had a HEPA filter running in the background. Eventually this turned into basically always having so
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by ghc 4y ago
You have it backwards. The source code management (as a marketable feature) came at least one year and maybe two years after the distributed computing parts. The earliest Unison demos (circa 2016) were "build a distributed google crawl
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by ghc 4y ago
This is completely correct. Unison was always a distributed computing project, even when it was just an idea.
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by ghc 4y ago
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by ghc 4y ago
Indeed, the amount of VC dollars invested in Boston companies per years is 3x the per capita of New York's. So while NY may have slightly more total dollars invested, a much higher percentage of Boston metro area workers (something lik
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by ghc 4y ago
I know of five ways: 1. As an undergraduate, join a research group that needs to run simulations on a supercomputer. 2. As a grad student, join a research group that works with supercomputers. 3. As a software engineer or IT person, join a
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by ghc 4y ago
It probably won't be a factor. The likelihood of the system using standard compilers or drivers is quite low. It's non-trivial to optimize a compiler and drivers for a supercomputer, so companies like Cray make their own.
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by ghc 4y ago
It's a supercomputer. The programming model is very, very different. The software stack is full of incredibly fragile stuff from any number of manufacturers. It's honestly hard to even describe how much more difficult using MPI wi
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by ghc 4y ago
Just for a second, imagine a company that isn't a software company, but needs software to run its business. Think manufacturing, logistics, shipping, construction, food (industrial scale egg production, for example) etc. There's
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by ghc 5y ago
> Or, for an amusing time, try to explain how a cryptocurrency works. Both Ponzi and tulip mania pre-date 1922. So, not that hard. Also, fiat currency, cryptography, wire transfers, and banking all existed before 1922.

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