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by jdlshore 2y ago
Generally speaking, it reduces the cost of welfare programs by replacing complex need-specific bureaucracies with a simple blanket payment. Food stamps go away, for example, assuming a large enough payment. Similar for low-income housing, g
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No, sometimes things happen by coincidence. And in the market, where something is always going up or down, there are a lot of coincidences to be found.
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How are you imagining that variable gets flipped? If an attacker has the ability to run arbitrary code, you’re already screwed. To put it another way, somewhere in your code you do authorization: `if (isAuthorized) enterTheCastle()`. The ga
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You nailed it.
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They did complain. But the key part is “the abstraction works so well.” It doesn’t, and I suspect it can’t.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
They typically generate generic LALR parsers, not custom recursive descent parsers. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that custom recursive descent parsers have advantages in terms of readability and error message generation.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Huh. While I agree that Bitcoin specifically has been a successful speculative investment in the past, "a safe store of value" is a massive stretch. It's a safe store of value in the same way a S&P 500 index fund is, exce
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I don’t doubt used cars are shipped out of the US, but I’m pretty confident quite a few cars are junked in the US as well, as any junkyard demonstrates. I’d be pretty surprised to hear that junk cars (a subset of used cars) are shipped and
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by jdlshore 2y ago
For anybody who’s wondering what happened next, this is from the above link: “Monster's counsel had made a horrible mistake, and probably caused lasting harm to the company, by sending me that ridiculous letter. But he, and Monster, di
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Cars don’t last forever, and shipping junk cars from the US to the global south doesn’t make economic sense. Eventually there’s a bottom of the chain.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
When used to compare costs, “equivalent” is used instead of “employee.” “The cost of one full-time employee is equivalent to X CPUs.” —> “The full-time equivalent is X CPUs.”
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Great points, thank you. I’ll check out that video.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
The point of passive investing and a balanced strategy is that you can’t predict what will happen. So, yes, the past five years were good for VTSAX. But if you’re investing today, then it’s the next five years that matter, not the past five
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by jdlshore 2y ago
A balanced strategy is best. I use the advice in A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which is a mix of real estate (VGSLX), bonds (VBTLX), and stocks, with the stocks split 50/50 between US (VTSAX) and international (VTIAX and VEMAX). I
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Front-end code is real development. It’s the part of your system that users interact with, and the part that has the most influence on people’s perceptions of your work. It’s also very fiddly and full of edge cases, precisely because it i
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by jdlshore 2y ago
The debate is about superintelligence, not value.
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I don’t know either, but it seems more likely to involve planes that suddenly take priority or require special handling due to VIP status. Say, Air Force One landing.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You’re making the mistake of believing that people choose B2B SaaS purely on the basis of price and features. While those are a component, reputation, marketing, and an effective sales force are far more important.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
That’s similar to how I use it. Useful, but not game changing. Definitely not at the level of the hype.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Ignore the hype. Every advancement in programming technology has been followed by an expansion in the need for programmers. This too shall pass.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I went back. It’s fine at solving small problems and jump-starting an investigation, but only a small step better than a search engine. It’s no good for deep work. Any time I’ve used it to research something I know well, it’s got important
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by jdlshore 2y ago
It seems to be currently popular corporate-speak for "overextended." I've heard it a bunch lately. Never really thought about whether it was accurate, though!
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I'm not trying to throw shade when I say this: those codebases are very small. (I'm assuming what I found in the src/ directories is their code.) Working in large codebases is a different kind of experience than working in a
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by jdlshore 2y ago
“Sources with direct knowledge of the situation” is often reporter-speak for “the person who did it talked to me.” So its more than private conversations… it’s raising a ruckus in the press.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
That’s pretty typical for banks, as I understand it. VP is a low-level management position.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
When you have more than a few people, “talking about things and doing what needs to be done” breaks down. You can end up in analysis paralysis (endless talking), wild west (everybody doing their own thing and not doing things that work toge
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You say, “The system does not meet its purpose.” They respond, “The purpose of the system is what it does.” In other words, there’s no point in arguing about the purpose. If you want the system to do something else, you have to change the s
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Seems like ignorance of the implications, not any desire to a tie themselves to a political stance. I think the “assume positive intent” principle needs to apply here.
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Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products(martinfowler.com)
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Boards do seem to be fairly incestuous and fad-driven, yes.

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