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by jfoutz 5y ago
I'll go you one further. Outsider visits island for a few months and enjoys their time there, makes some great friends. Outsider's friend has a hotel, and wants to attract more clients. Outsider has a knack for storytelling, but h
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it's a question of scale. in a small town of 120, yes, absolutely. In a city of a million, it's hard to get everyone to hold the line. A few fall, which causes more to lose their nerve, and more fall, and authority is enforced. bu
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by jfoutz 5y ago
This is baffling. It's a good hook to listen to the podcast, but I'm not going to. My second thought was about insurance. The house is gone, it's up to their investigator to determine the cause. In the worst case, they say, t
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I had a professor from Germany that strongly recommended drinking when young, and driving when old. I think there is a lot of wisdom there.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
If you like, feel free to educate observers of this exchange. All I really believe is that the pyramids are absurdly old.
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So much this. Keeping feature by feature parity is the tricky part.
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Well, a little bit of sideways could sure speed up intercontinental travel. Sure, could be a rich person toy. I’d imagine sometimes it’s useful to move a rare thing halfway around the world very quickly.
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Eh, Shelly, Dickens, Twain and Wells are all I can think of. Not zero, but a vanishingly small percentage.
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I can't speak for the parent, some things that stand out to me 1. k8s and bare metal, when you make a bunch of threads things get slower. with the FIFO case, you can have pending requests in the queue that don't get their connecti
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I'm wary of unbounded thread pools. Production has a funny way of showing that threads always consume resources. A fun example is file descriptors. An unexpected database reboot is often a short outage, but it's crazy how quickly
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Oh no! I have an OKR sheet that might be in violation.
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I guess fancy pants California wine then. I know the valley grows a lot of grapes. I interpreted the thread as Napa /Sonoma
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This is an amusing example. I'd guess that car enthusiasts are aware of Sonoma for various reasons. I suspect they'd get some exposure to California wine inadvertently through that connection.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I don't think this is what's happening, but I think this is the model. I have a super Mario cartridge. I also have a lot of drugs (or whatever) that I'd like to sell, but I don't have a distribution network, so I have to
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I don't understand the mechanism that hexafluoroethane would be produced by a solar panel. I guess, that gas might be produced as an impurity during manufacturing, but wouldn't that be at the factory? That seems like something tha
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I had a snarky remark about Galileo and Copernicus, but it’s probably not relevant.
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Well, ok. Swords to Plowshares, project Orion. There are things that might be more dangerous that might need a little bit more thought before just giving it a shot. But RTGs turned out to be pretty neat. Superconducting supercollider was pr
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by jfoutz 5y ago
This is kind of amazing. The willingness to try, at least on the surface, ridiculous things is great. There are lots of ways to spend money, and in 1957 there were probably better ways to spend the money. But for pure research, this highlig
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It's been a long time since I'd read about the connection machine, so my memory may be foggy. They didn't know what instructions would be useful, so each 8 bit alu supports all 256 instructions. zero nand ones
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I always argued with people about the SGI UI for the Indy being real and not movie magic. I didn't realize that movie had a connection machine. That's amazing.
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Eh. I'm not a JavaScript developer, just winging it I got 9/25. Seems like there are 3 broad categories of (my) confusion. 1. floating point. Floating point is tricky, and when I use it seriously I have to look up a lot of special
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by jfoutz 5y ago
That really angry guy with the offices under a volcano. They've got lots of security in slick looking outfits. Might also be a couple of mice, you know, the one with the gigantic head.
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I'd throw one more in there * cut back or cut out recreational drugs Having a beer or six has a pleasant way of making problems tomorrow problems. But it's a vicious circle.
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"rhetoric to deceive" He asks questions with many possible answers. He leads to one specific answer. He picks his favorite and dresses it up. the difference would be, he knew for a fact that Bob murdered Alice. Saw it with his own
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I guess, I like Gladwell for the same reasons you dislike him. He's popular and picked apart. I can read his books and be convinced, then find out about all of the ways he's wrong. Where did I screw up? What did I fall for? Blink
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Malcom Gladwell writes clearly and persuasively. I don't believe he uses his rhetoric to deceive, I don't think it's full on sophistry. That said, he clearly won't let the facts get in the way of a good story. As much as
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Sometime during quarantine I had an evening thought excercise about clever password choices in this context. It was a fun game, and would be a cute scene in a movie or a book. Ultimately the password `fuck you cop I'll never tell` is a
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Really drives home the point, business is not a meritocracy.
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I wouldn't claim that the 4 type is the only type to exist. But I would claim 2 things. (completely unsubstantiated) First, You can shift classification over time. An example might be drug use inducing mental illness, moving from 1 to
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I got my Ben Eater kit a few weeks ago, and completed the clock with my partner. It's a fun project, sort of like a super jigsaw puzzle. It is also a nice refresher for my dim memories of digital electronics. I had put together a Minec

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