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by icambron 4y ago
It’s easy to imagine almost anything. The question isn’t whether he could but rather whether he did. I’m challenging the reasons many people believe he did, or likely did.
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by icambron 4y ago
Right. But the specific point in this thread is that his horrible analysis after the Firouzja game was suspicious, which doesn’t lend any weight to the accusation unless we’re also claiming he cheated in that one.
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by icambron 4y ago
I don’t think this is right. The idea seems to be that his post-game interview shows he didn’t understand the positions very well despite playing them accurately, so he may have cheated. But a) today there was a huge amount of extra securit
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by icambron 4y ago
The idea here is that if everyone is just holding index funds that follow the market, no one is responding to external signals to drive prices to any particular value. Index funds follow the market, but what does the market follow if all th
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by icambron 4y ago
The article did a good job of explaining the problem of codifying a style ontology using only clases, and proposing a solution to that problem (custom attributes and pseudo selectors for specialization). It did not convince me that classes
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by icambron 4y ago
I used to work with a guy with an impressive collection of highly customized mechanical keyboards who couldn’t touch type. I found it baffling, but the reality is that obsessions find you, not the other way around.
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by icambron 4y ago
I use the `ln` command a lot. I use the `man ln` command _almost_ as much.
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by icambron 4y ago
I can’t identify with any of this—I guess I simply don’t travel in social circles where reading books confers status—but I will say this article is wonderfully written and entertaining throughout. In particular, I got a good chuckle out of
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by icambron 4y ago
And I’m not arguing that. The article is dealing with those blurry edges, though, and what layer “matters” in evaluating the distinction is very much at issue. So if we’re going to compare to SQL/C, we need to bring in the relevant ana
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by icambron 4y ago
But each layer’s what is the layer above its how. My C code is just declaring the program I want to run. How it is run is determined by a compiler, assembler, linker, operating system, and CPU. There’s a sort of useless sense in which every
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by icambron 4y ago
I don’t think this is right. Germany, for example, has 9 countries on its borders and a blood-curdling history, and it’s a very pleasant place now. The idea that a country of 145M people lacking the agency to move forward doesn’t pass the s
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by icambron 4y ago
This isn’t what would happen. Even we had a huge number of inexplicably needed leap seconds (there are 3600 seconds in an hour), local offsets would just change, for the same reason that people on the other side of the planet have a differe
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by icambron 4y ago
I’ll add that it propagates the other way too: only those who’ve positioned themselves to take advantage of changes in the environment can get lucky. Taking the iPhone example: have you built a team of engineers, designers, and manufacturin
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by icambron 4y ago
I believe the parent was responding to “seems small” in regards to NYC’s steam heating system, which is the largest in the world.
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by icambron 4y ago
You might also try instrumental metal. There’s a good public playlist on Spotify for it, which I use quite a bit as coding music
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by icambron 4y ago
Remember that these are completely disposable products. You set it off, enjoy the kaboom, and that’s it. So you don’t have to be, like, into the aesthetic to think “that might be fun to see”; it just has to be interesting enough to add to y
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by icambron 4y ago
Is that obviously wrong? Seems like almost any action you’d take to prevent this would be a massive overcorrection and ineffective anyway. You’re right, airport security is theater. Adding to it would just more theatrics.
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by icambron 4y ago
Putting aside questions of monorepos, I am always astounded by how much big companies invest in their build/change management/review systems. Shipping becomes a whole product in itself. This appears to be a serious piece of engine
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by icambron 4y ago
What’s your complaint about the question mark operator?
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by icambron 4y ago
I know how `NOT IN (null)` works just fine. Now what? Remember that full stack devs have also been writing SQL for their whole careers. It's weird that you have somehow confused "I have specifically avoided these parts of the stac
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by icambron 4y ago
Full stack developers who have been working for decades have also been doing sql for decades, because most substantial software uses a database. Perhaps the DB server has changed (I’ve gone deep on Postgres, MsSQL, and MySQL) but the princi
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by icambron 4y ago
Counterpoint: it is absolutely something you could know all of. In your example, I’d describe myself has highly proficient in c#, Typescript, React, Postgres, and Kafka, proficient at Kubernetes, and unfamiliar with OpenTelemetry. That’s ju
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by icambron 4y ago
The point here is to not bump the issue. My GitHub notifications are a mess, and bumps cause me to unsub from notifications to issues in my own repository. There’s also a 0% chance a bump is going to cause me to reallocate my evening, so
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by icambron 4y ago
Clojure has a few options here. Typed Clojure is a set of macros for enforcing typing, conceptually similar to Typescript (and like Typescript, I found it hard to incrementally retrofit in a large existing project), and core.spec, which is
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by icambron 4y ago
I occasionally missed types even in Clojure. “What keys are supposed to be in this map again? Hmm, turns out some callers are providing foo and some are providing bar…” That said, I certainly agree it comes up less than it does in, say, Jav
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by icambron 4y ago
By “thesis” I meant the thesis of the business, not of the article. The article said just what you said; my point is that another way to explain those dynamics is that you can’t sell software to SMBs if they don’t urgently need it. That’s b
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by icambron 4y ago
Their whole thesis was that SMBs need contract management. That thesis appears to have been mistaken. So it’s certainly a flaw. Sure, you could fix it by creating a new thesis about a different market, building a product that addresses that
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by icambron 4y ago
You are the one claiming Russians are children, but with different words. You say Russia has no choice, but you are also claiming the American response is a strategy to prolong the war, as opposed to, say, the natural reaction. So in your t
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by icambron 4y ago
The article buries the startup’s more fundamental flaw > Almost no SMB views contract management as an urgent problem. If you are a solving a problem your target market doesn’t care about, you’re not going to get adoption. This isn’t a p
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by icambron 4y ago
You are misunderstanding conditional probability. You keep doubling down on the idea that the alternative scenarios don’t matter, but this is mistaken. They very much matter. They are the crux of how Monty Hall “works”. Bayes’ theorem is th

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