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by gumby 3mo ago
Autocorrect changed “were” to “we’re” and I didn’t catch it
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by gumby 3mo ago
The patent system grew out of the European guild system. It was the opposite of regulatory capture: the local authority (typically a king) would be paid to sanction a monopoly (on shoemaking or whatever). So the shoemakers could keep thei
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by gumby 3mo ago
I hate the typical use of NPEs but your point is correct. It’s like private equity companies: in principle quite reasonable but many people use them to extract the value of a business and leave a husk behind. I don’t know of a way to fix t
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by gumby 3mo ago
Today’s style is a callback to the 60s, and we’re people making the same complaints then?
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by gumby 3mo ago
The "list of undefined behaviour" annex has been written and was discussed at the last meeting. As I said, some of what's in it are already being implemented by the big compilers (though TBF to your comment not yet in any re
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MAGA's attack on science is worse than it looks(noahpinion.blog)
13 points by gumby 3mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
These rules are great but “landmark” seems like puffery, as California has had such rules for quite a while. Ironically that has meant it’s hard to unsubscribe from the New York Times except in California.
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Cat is being nice? Think again(nytimes.com)
6 points by gumby 3mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
This is an internal form of the problem described in The Innovator’s Dilemma*: you optimize for what seems to work well and miss the big picture. I thinkers a natural Hayflick limit for companies. * you know: one of the 4 or 5 business book
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by gumby 3mo ago
“Halfway to” -> “half”
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by gumby 3mo ago
Yes but it’s uncommon in English to simply drop a word from a sentence while pretty common in German casual discourse. The only other English common case I can think of is the American “I could [not] care less” dropping “not” which is also
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by gumby 3mo ago
This actually makes more sense!
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by gumby 3mo ago
Best if the subject line is the conclusion and the message supports that. Subject: feature X dropped from v4.4 Body: we all know this feature is delayed and will cause the release to slip. Marketing gave us the OK to defer it to 4.5
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A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology(grist.org)
159 points by gumby 3mo ago|26 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
The problem is future societies harvesting the engines for interstellar probes. This problem has been discussed in a series of books by Larry Niven.
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by gumby 3mo ago
I’m a “quarter past” person but I’ve always been confused by “half ten” (which thankfully isn’t used in Australia). But in German, “half ten” means 9:30, which is make more sense to me (probably because I’m used to how German speech often d
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by gumby 3mo ago
> for instance C and C++ leave signed integer wrap undefined Not in C++29, and I think the big 3 compilers (gcc, clang, MS) will have squashed this long before that version is officially approved.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Every time I encounter this story I read it again because it’s so great
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by gumby 3mo ago
His ability to focus and execute has been haphazard. But as you say he is a good writer and was apparently able to force his will upon most of the writers in the stable
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Grade distribution after switching from take home to in class(insidehighered.com)
4 points by gumby 3mo ago|3 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
Programming is even more recent
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by gumby 3mo ago
If you’re a left leaning voter the Speccie is almost _never_ going to have an article for you. And the “almost” is simply because often the articles are very well written and a pleasure to read even when the actual topic and argument are de
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by gumby 4mo ago
My company has a strict NTLA policy. That’s No Three-Letter Acronyms Instead we do name things after animals like Lamprey, Remora, Whelk, Axolotl, Tick (the last has not been approved)
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by gumby 4mo ago
> … similar related drugs like dextromethorphan and ketamine and other NMDA receptor antagonists are innovative drugs to help prevent Alzheimer's. Should read “NMDA receptor antagonists _may_ give rise to treatments that _may help p
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by gumby 4mo ago
In the physical sciences at least, there are also corporate jobs.
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by gumby 4mo ago
The German equivalent uses much less bandwidth as it’s simply a static png.
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'It's just his AI and my AI going back and forth'(fortune.com)
2 points by gumby 4mo ago|1 comments
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Decline of PhD Admissions Could Imperil a 'Generation of New Talent'(nytimes.com)
3 points by gumby 4mo ago|3 comments
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by gumby 4mo ago
Odd how? I’ve been a reader since 1985 and am satisfied.
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by gumby 4mo ago
> …agents are predisposed to write extremely defensive, odd-case-handling code… the SNR ratio is very low. You get a spaghetti that is unlikely to crash, but really hard to extract the gist of. And finding more global bugs can be difficu

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