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by jahewson 3y ago
It’s true! The old MS Office binary formats were built on top of FAT.
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by jahewson 3y ago
The shares worth that amount are sat in members of the public’s trading accounts.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Claiming control over information that you’ve made publicly available is nothing but claiming control over other people.
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by jahewson 3y ago
It’s only value is abstractions and it gets these wrong. That said I’m not against it and I hope it improves.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I don’t remember anything from before the first Men in Black movie.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Amongst their issues is the issue of enum vs const enum. These compile to different outputs and support different behaviors. It’s not possible to compile a TS file that uses them without looking at the enum declaration to see if it’s const.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I don't think it erases anything. Most places that have been discovered by explorers have been populated. I've never in my life heard of somebody who thought America wasn't populated upon its discovery. The label used for the
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by jahewson 3y ago
I did a double-take when I saw that too. It’s now prescribed as a weight-loss drug and is very much in the zeitgeist so yeah I think it’s a new adjective. Personally I’m going to stick with “light weight”.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Indeed, at scale, a company that is significantly unrepresentative of the population from which it draws its employees surely has something wrong with it. That’s basically what these studies show (flaws notwithstanding). But that’s got noth
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Other studies show that diversity significantly increases team performance Ah yes, “studies”, no doubt by “experts”. Think about how ridiculous this claim is in the context of a software engineering team. What mechanism is supposed to
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by jahewson 3y ago
That’s the idea but to know that an anonymous user who has clicked button A goes on to click button B requires you to track that user via some kind of random ID that uniquely identifies their browser/device. This new Swedish ruling say
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Imagine if a robot vacuum recorded videos of your home and uploaded them so that bunch of ML engineers can see and use it to improve the algorithm No need to imagine, they do: https://homesupport.irobot.com/s/artic
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by jahewson 3y ago
> they monetize it for you, give you a tiny percentage It’s actually about 55% for YouTube. Creators are in demand and it’s competitive to keep them.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I think they’re referring to conic gradients, also known as angular gradients which SVG doesn’t support.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I like to start with a deck of my LEGO design for the pre-seed round.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Ad spend, impressions, clickthroughs, and conversions are all heavily instrumented and tracked Definitely but I’d argue that they’re even more heavily gamed. The information asymmetry between the platform and the ad buyers is just too
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by jahewson 3y ago
This is a losing proposition for Google because they already dominate all of internet advertising. The more Google is dependent on a smaller number of high-quality content creators the more those creators can demand a bigger slice of the ad
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by jahewson 3y ago
These are constraints but not a use case.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> bids with specific intent for your site should at least cost less than bids for queries for products in your industry They do. Your own brand name has a higher Quality Score against your own ads thus lower CPC.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Maybe you don’t remember when Google started inserting its own maps at the top of location searches in place of the top-result: MapQuest. Probably a good 15 years ago.
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by jahewson 3y ago
No because it would also require compelling evidence. Certainly I would entertain a statistically probable argument to an extent. Sometimes there are compelling arguments in both directions and we have to accept not knowing.
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by jahewson 3y ago
This is a terrible example as Japan is demographically imploding. If you buy a house in Japan it’s worth less over time.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Gen X matters though as they’re almost as big and are split on who won the housing/education lottery and who didn’t. Its oldest members are 58.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I’m imaging actual gladiators and spartan warriors going into therapy because they want to be middle managers.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Wow! Good for you.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Yes, that’s what they’re suggesting. The plane was taxiing after just landing so no workers should be anywhere near it.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I never understood this artificially forced point. Any explorer can only “explore” from the frame of reference of their culture’s knowledge. Even Australia’s indigenous population has distinct groups from different origins and necessarily d
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by jahewson 3y ago
Mostly yes, although externalities are worth considering. For example Pokémon Go may have lead to 256 deaths https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3073723
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by jahewson 3y ago
Lazy is a judgement not an actual state of being.
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by jahewson 3y ago
We’ve been building railways for what, 200 years now? Heck the old ones were built by hand .

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