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by jefftk 2y ago
> one option is to list occupations that are in short supply each year and to prioritize those That's a lot of what prioritizing slots by pay does: pay is higher for jobs with low supply relative to demand.
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They're not ranking games on whether you've heard of them, but on how fun the BGG community finds them to play. Monopoly is rated #27,258.
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Could be, though at this point in my career that's not something I need.
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That's right. I wrote and maintain a bunch of small things, because they're useful to me and I hope they can be useful to others too. The most popular is probably iciff. I haven't released anything in a bit over a year beca
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And if the transmission fails so does the foot brake.
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Uber had one fatality, yes, but the investigation into that fatality showed fundamental issues with their approach: https://www.jefftk.com/p/uber-self-driving-crash If instead it had turned out that their system was we
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Depends on the state and municipality. Mine doesn't allow homeowners to pull electrical permits.
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Do you trust Ballmer to give you $1 in the cases where he's said he's going to give you $1? If not the EV calculation looks pretty bad...
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Ballmer opens with "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100". If he uses your strategy instead that's a different scenario.
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How do you know their practices are better than at your typical artisanal chocolate company? The kind of claims they're making don't look unusual to me.
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The original non-profit edX sold its brand and most assets to 2U. The remaining non-profit entity was temporarily renamed “The Center for Reimagining Learning.” Last year, this organization was officially named Axim Collaborative and appoi
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(2021) Three years later I'm not in ads anymore, and now work at a research non-profit trying to detect new viruses in wastewater sequencing data. I found a direct use of my efforts that was more valuable than earning to give, so I sw
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Unfortunately our level of certainty generally falls off as we increase the granularity. For example, imagine the patient is a 77yo Polish-American man, and we're lucky enough to have one historical result for 77yo Polish-American men
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That seems like the key point!
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> A nonfunctional “mass simulator” will take its place. ... NASA had spent $450 million on VIPER, which is already fully assembled with its science instruments installed ... testing of the rover to make sure it would survive the shaking
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I do actually use <xmp> when authoring blog posts, though I wrote a preprocessor to convert to escaped <pre> in case some rendering environments don't support it: https://www.jefftk.com/p/i-want-xmp-but
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It also rejected one of my favorites, the long-deprecated <xmp>
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We expect some individual traders to beat the market (and some to do much worse than the marker); that's variance. But each individual trader should not expect to beat the market, because they don't know if they're one of th
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That sounds like a pretty serious bug in the sql development software!
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This seems to have a slightly shorter support lifetime than you'd normally get with a Mac. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772 is all phrased in terms of "when Apple stopped distributing them for sale&quo
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> Is there a good reason to force the same visual representation on everyone? Leaky abstractions. If there are two different visual representations then sometimes someone using one representation will need to think about the other.
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> That's not really possible, ... a tool would have to ascertain My guess is you could build an AI + limited human review tool that would do it better than the 75th percentile lawyer. But there's not much reason for YouTube
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Is there anything under the parking lot?
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With hundreds of reasonable non-Tinder related comments going back to 2018? https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Supermancho
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Lots of great features here! On the link preview feature, both Wikipedia's and Gwern's implementations put the preview on top of the main content. I think this is much nicer to put to the side, where its less intrusive: https:&#
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I do this too, and I like it a lot: https://www.jefftk.com/p/mastodon-replies-as-comments > Using Mastodon to power our comments means that every time someone visits the blog post, the user’s browser makes a reques
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Does that mean there's an opportunity for increasing performance by bringing collections of gates into scope for optimization? Or does that not actually let you decrease transistors very much?
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> There's a lot of highly idiosyncratic designs for gates, heavily customized for the physical and electrical context that they're used in - and I won't deny that they're often very clever and space-efficient, but th
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I think you may want to limit it to showing the most recent post from each blog? Otherwise, when someone fixes an RSS feed issue and dumps a whole bunch of posts, you get something like what is currently #17 through #36 on https:/&#x2
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I'd be surprised to see a pilot endorse that

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