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by gumby 2y ago
The ban* on billboards on Interstate highways was thanks to a famous Texan, Lady Bird Johnson. * The few you do still see today are legacy billboards that date from when the legislation was passed, around 1965.
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by gumby 2y ago
I disagree with this part of your comment: > then you have a real algo on your hands To me an algorithm is closed, while a heuristic (aka rule of thumb) is just a fast way to probably get a better solution / subset of the solution s
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by gumby 2y ago
> CA could do a-lot more given its ... desire to be seen as "thoughtful". Uhh, what? The state that produced Nixon, Reagan, Prop 13; the capital of NIMBYism and the state that had more Trump voters than any other? Sure, Califo
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by gumby 2y ago
Interesting that it only happens on the west coast, eh? You’ve never seen a homeless person anywhere else?
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by gumby 2y ago
I understand the compiler Microsoft uses to build release versions of Windows, Office etc is like this and can take days to run.
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by gumby 2y ago
A program that parses an arbitrary shelf label and then displays a large-print normalized representation (like the nutrition label) would be valuable.
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by gumby 2y ago
I have myself had a multimillion dollar divorce. Dividing your stock portfolio isn’t taxable as you aren’t selling anything. Also you can divide up the houses and then if one party’s assessed value is more than trivially different from the
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by gumby 2y ago
Splitting your assets in half, especially when you’re really rich, is hardly “economic suicide”
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by gumby 2y ago
IMHO the best way to think of it (well, it's how I have long thought of it) is two lemmas: 1 - The compiler has more "fingers" than a human does. Back when I wrote programs in assembly I would use printout to keep track of
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by gumby 2y ago
> I'm surprised at 0 comments after 11h! There's so much frothy bullshit in this area that I'm not surprised people aren't paying attention. This is not a comment on the paper itself, just on the phenomenon you noted.
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by gumby 2y ago
Many of these aphorisms are useful in a non-programming context as well.
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by gumby 2y ago
I believe this practice was followed only in postwar France, and I think even there has long been jettisoned. It's been a while since I got a French phone bill though.
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by gumby 2y ago
Dup with 50 minutes ago
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by gumby 2y ago
The data can be used for traffic analysis (number->number call data); "no PII" except it's pretty easy to match a number to a likely user. I'm an AT&T customer, and in my case I don't have a risk, but I can i
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$95M "Unaccounted for" in Synapse Collapse(nytimes.com)
2 points by gumby 2y ago|0 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
> Was the previous "thicker" M3 iPad holding anyone back? Since I carry a laptop and an ipad, the lighter the better (I use them for different things, and often in concert). That MacBook Air is so powerful and so light that I
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by gumby 2y ago
> Do note that the M4 is built on TSMC's 3nm process while the 9950X is built on the relatively older 4nm process. That helps (perhaps a lot, hard to say), but note that moving your design from 4 nm to 3 nm pitch isn’t as simple as
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by gumby 2y ago
Thank you for that. I'm normally uninterested in the "people behind the story" articles but this one was very good and I'm glad to have read it.
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by gumby 2y ago
Seems logical she would become a writer : her handwriting is so clear. All jokes aside, what's on that whiteboard looks pretty complex for a community college. It might be soul sucking to be working there after getting the PhD in a
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by gumby 2y ago
> one place even kicked me out halfway through the set of interviews It might feel better if you realise they "let you go home" rather than "kicked you out". If a candidate is clearly not qualified why waste their ti
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by gumby 2y ago
A lot of this is done in software (microcode). But even with that case, your statement still holds: "Can you imagine having to make all this logic work faithfully, let alone fast, in the chip itself?" Writing that microcode must
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by gumby 2y ago
I was very excited by switching to USB C for my iphone, but by the time the phone was released it just didn't seem like an upgrade to my iphone 12, and I wasn't going to pay $1K just to get rid of a cable.
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by gumby 2y ago
I had both. I switched my personal to the Sanford credit union (I don’t keep a lot of cash in my account anyway). I’m not sure what to do about my startup’s account though. Chase doesn’t seem to understand startups anyway — you’re a small
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by gumby 2y ago
JPMC bough First Republic and already I’m ready to leave. Fees are high and many, and there’s no direct relationship like there was with SVB or FRB. Just a call center.
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Metal thieves in America's cities(nytimes.com)
63 points by gumby 2y ago|189 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
I'm considering using Mercury,* which is allegedly quite popular with startups. They do have all the usual KYC etc of a bank. Like the ones discussed in the article, Mercury also keeps customer funds in Evolve, among other banks (I gu
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by gumby 2y ago
The EU system clearly takes this into account, beginning with an alarm and only later reducing engine power. Unless you're overtaking a dozen vehicles you're probably OK. OK, it won't help you escape the bad guys chasing you
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by gumby 2y ago
This article is really just a gloss on Kaplan's book (which I have read so it stands out) with a bit of gratuitous randomness thrown in. Much as I have a rather low-level atavistic desire to credit India with the zero/nil, as ther
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by gumby 2y ago
Is this any better than the free "have I been pwned?" My 1password warns me if my account has been listed in sites like the above. Does this google feature simply do the same thing or does it do more? It would have to know all y
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by gumby 2y ago
> we're getting a lot better at treating cancer, Is this really true? I know we are getting better in diagnosing cancers, so the time from initial diagnosis to death is longer, but it's not clear that overall lifespan of peo

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