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by interroboink 2y ago
> isn't it on the border of measurement error? At least going by that payscale.com link, I don't think so. That is compiled from 600K+ responses, so they have enough data to measure small differences with some confidence, I thi
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> Turns out "gender pay gap" magically disappears as soon as you start controlling for relevant variables I think this is false? The gap certainly becomes smaller when you control for those factors, but it does not disappear.
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by interroboink 2y ago
One thing I really like about software is that it can theoretically live forever. I know bit rot is real, but with some maintenance, and even a quite small community, it can keep getting revitalized basically forever.[1] The field is genera
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by interroboink 2y ago
For some, a lot of their work is not doing "conference-style" activities (networking, meeting people, giving presentations, promoting to the public). For others, perhaps it is, and your point would hold more water for them. But su
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by interroboink 2y ago
> Do you dispute that take? (Legitimate question.) I don't have much knowledge one way or the other. I have no reason to doubt you though (: My main direct experience is with someone who did have normal Lyme's, and then also
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by interroboink 2y ago
Yeah it's tricky; I imagine it's a mix of things going on. Suppose 80% of cases are fake. If we see that, and dismiss the whole thing as a result, that leaves the 20% of real cases ignored/dismissed. That could still be a lot
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by interroboink 2y ago
I had an odd interaction with my doctor recently re: long Covid: he feels that we won't be talking about it much in 10 years, and I got the impression he felt it's not a "real" thing. Some points he brought up: (1) histo
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by interroboink 2y ago
I think you're mistaken. You can use .XCompose on Wayland (modulo certain broken cases, perhaps). The Wayland book recommends XKB: https://wayland-book.com/seat/xkb.html It does come down to the libraries used by
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by interroboink 2y ago
My understanding is that generally, Wayland uses XKB, which respects ~/.XCompose But I think there are specific exceptions still, such as this Chromium bug: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40272818
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by interroboink 2y ago
> It's a huge pain to actually write and install custom compositions Could you say more about this? IME, it's just a matter of adding lines to ~/.XCompose — is there something I'm missing?
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by interroboink 2y ago
I'm not sure how you mean that, but I take it to be kinda opposite to the position you're espousing? I.e. you want people to give up some essential Liberty (privacy[1]) in return for some increased Safety (from "criminals a
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by interroboink 2y ago
> a hard problem to solve Indeed. And perhaps part of the issue is that there is not a single solution. Even manual curation is ultimately based on trust. If someone's trusted list of recommendations gets popular enough, what's
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by interroboink 2y ago
There is the fun example of a trade that was made before that information should have been physically able to arrive, based on speed-of-light limits. [1] (2013) The article says "Presumably there will be a hard look into what exactly h
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by interroboink 2y ago
And maybe Joyce was a fan of the Brothers Grimm! [1] "The third question is, how many seconds of time are there in eternity?" Then said the shepherd boy: "In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles
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by interroboink 2y ago
Just yesterday, I walked by a soccer field with some young kids playing a game. They were using a mini-goal, parents were standing around, their gear didn't fit very well, etc. But they were having a blast. And it occurred to me that t
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by interroboink 2y ago
If you're hosting static data, shouldn't HTTP cache flags be enough in most cases? Read-only cacheable data shouldn't be toppling even a modest server. Even without an explicit CDN, various nodes along the chain will be cachi
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by interroboink 2y ago
Seems like a nice idea — instead of the stark CPU/GPU divide we have today, this would fit somewhere in the middle. Reminds me slightly of the Cell processor, with its dedicated SPUs for fast processing, orchestrated by a traditional C
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by interroboink 2y ago
I think there's a useful distinction to be made between "we understand it" and "we can make use of it." Certainly the latter is true, as you describe in your examples. I don't know that it implies the former, t
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by interroboink 2y ago
For some definition of "mastered" (: If I recall correctly, the we can't really solve the equations for anything more complex than a helium atom (or is it hydrogen?). That's not to say there isn't useful work we can
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by interroboink 2y ago
Snark aside, that's not how oncall works at Amazon. The oncall person has a laptop (and perhaps a pager), and they are expected to remote connect ASAP when needed. That was the norm well before Covid; doesn't make sense to wait fo
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by interroboink 2y ago
From a Brendan Gregg presentation[1]: "Massive AWS EC2 Linux cloud, with FreeBSD appliances for content delivery" [1] https://www.brendangregg.com/Slides/TracingSummit2014_FromDT...
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by interroboink 2y ago
> What is hard isn't the API ... Clearly someone who hasn't gazed into the maw of OAuth :Þ Though I guess the article wouldn't call that an API but "api security" added to the real API. A bit potatoes potatoes
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by interroboink 2y ago
I think the misunderstanding here (and I apologize where I've contributed to it) is that you think I'm talking specifically and only about CPU clock rates. The scale-up/scale-out tradeoff applies to many things, both in compu
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Now I'm considering whether I'd rather have two pound cakes, or one big one... One normal-size, versus 10 miniature ones? Needs research (:
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by interroboink 2y ago
I just want to make one last attempt to get my point across, since I think you are discussing in good faith, even if I don't like your aggressive timbre. There is risk in reinforcing a narrow-minded approach that "all we need is m
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by interroboink 2y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but what about those decades where CPUs were made faster and faster, from a few MHz up to several GHz, before hitting physical manufacturing and power/heat limits? Was that all just a bunch of wasted effort
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by interroboink 2y ago
I don't mean to wear out this thread, and I totally respect your different viewpoint, but when I see: ... they're trying to tell us something. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not "get a bigger compute
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by interroboink 2y ago
I'm all in favor of making the best of what's available. But at the same time, if such thinking is taken as dogma, innovation suffers. You spoke of one log, and the time scales involved. But suppose you have an entire forest of
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by interroboink 2y ago
> they did not try to grown a bigger ox Actually, humans have been doing exactly that through breeding over the millennia. They were just limited in their means. This analogy has some "you wouldn't download a car!" vibes —
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by interroboink 2y ago
I appreciate your perspective (: > By analogy I would not ask the school athletes to gain extra weight just because I was forced to jog a mile. This is why I don't like your analogy (no offense meant); it approximately correlates ex

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