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by jahewson 4y ago
Every place is the way it is because of its past history and geographical location.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Engineering is just applied math too.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Humans manage to reason just fine with neither of these.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Fascism means… whatever you want it to mean?
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by jahewson 4y ago
Oh yes, some time ago I wrote a nodejs module to handle large xml files like that https://www.npmjs.com/package/big-xml For JSON, given that large files are generally record-based ndjson is the solution I’ve encountere
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by jahewson 4y ago
I had to parse a database backup from Firebase, which was, remarkably, a 300GB JSON file. The database is a tree rooted at a single object, which means that any tool that attempts to stream individual objects always wanted to buffer this si
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by jahewson 4y ago
That would be irrational. It’s a Prisoner’s Dilemma and no matter what any individual would prefer to do the only rational move is to assume others will betray you. I don’t think it’s fair to ask SV to behave irrationally.
728.
by jahewson 4y ago
Just tried this with Apple Maps + Siri and it can do it if the place you’re asking for is not ambiguous but it requires you to press to confirm. It can also show you the amount of time the stop will add in a prompt before hand, but again on
729.
by jahewson 4y ago
“on site”? Medical records are in the cloud already.
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by jahewson 4y ago
We have a heat pump water heater, it pumps out cold air. In theory we could duct it into the house (at least in the summer) though it cools the garage for free, so that’s nice.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Not true. Publicly talked about back in December and the author had a short position: https://archive.is/dHmC4
732.
by jahewson 4y ago
Want do you want them to do, ring a giant bank run bell?
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by jahewson 4y ago
No their bounds are worth fundamentally less than they paid for them.
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by jahewson 4y ago
The more expensive housing in the US is famous for all-cash transactions so I don't think this works.
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by jahewson 4y ago
> Traditionally, the solution has been violent revolution. No that's not a solution, it's a means. A means to what end exactly? Magical economy unicorns?
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by jahewson 4y ago
It's definitely not! Many good things cost more to build than people are willing to pay for them.
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by jahewson 4y ago
I don’t know, C++ has Make, CMake, Buck, Pants, Ninja, GYP, Bazel.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Running ads is a sophisticated business. You have to understand the platforms you’re using, the targeting tooling, the audiences you want to target and to do so in a way that won’t just blow your budget instantly in the wrong place. You als
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by jahewson 4y ago
That’s not really true. You will have a much higher Quality Score for your own name that any competitor and as such your ads will cost very little. Your competitor on the other hand is going to have to pay a small fortune to bid on those sa
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by jahewson 4y ago
I suspect your fears are well-placed. Whoever is hiring this team has no idea how to hire for those roles and that suggests that those roles might not be valued within the larger company. Though sometimes the hiring manager has just lucked
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by jahewson 4y ago
I don’t like this approach because it doesn’t provide measurable or repeatable criteria for comparing candidates. It also suffers from a sort of Gell-Mann amnesia where a candidate who spouts good-sounding BS about a topic you’re not famili
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by jahewson 4y ago
Now tell me, what’s the expected value of a 1% chance of a 100x return?
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by jahewson 4y ago
Given that it’s now lying beneath the Atlantic, it may have been rewritten in Rust.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Asbestos is still used to make chlorine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloralkali_process
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by jahewson 4y ago
Juuuust before they're beached: > ‘There’s also the Basel Convention, which is on the trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes, such as end-of-life vessels.’ The problem is that a vessel only counts as hazardous waste once the c
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by jahewson 4y ago
Surely elevators already come with hardwired speakers?
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by jahewson 4y ago
Does Upwork have a binding arbitration clause? I’d expect them to. In which case, take them to arbitration! It’s pretty easy for you but costs them money.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Not in the way you’re thinking of. Growing, processing, and smuggling drugs on a thousand-mile route requires huge resources and sophisticated multi-decade operations that are openly visible to the government. Sneaking it over the border in
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by jahewson 4y ago
Sometimes we should just accept that we don’t know why.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Unlikely. Look at Japan.

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