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by jfoutz 6y ago
I wish I could remember the name of the book, but I remember a few stories. The author was a young broker, and had a truck driver client. The truck driver was pretty adamant about investing in this factory that kept growing every time their
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by jfoutz 6y ago
The parent comment is irony. I've been wrestling with some declarative configuration, and it's getting to that frustrating scale where things are almost the same but a little different. 2. isn't too bad in yaml, since json is
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by jfoutz 6y ago
this has two of my favorite features! 1. comments aren't part of the parse tree, so I can quickly strip all comments by a quick parse print cycle. This is really helpful if you want to do automate changes to the files. 2. I can freely
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by jfoutz 6y ago
much higher stakes and much less response time. There are plenty of city drivers that get confused and, well, pull over or even just stop. it's irritating, but a sensible thing to do. On a freeway, that's terrifying. It _seems_ li
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by jfoutz 6y ago
There are a few things to keep in mind - and I'm probably forgetting a bunch of important factors. First think about solar wind. light shining provides a real force on everything the sun shines on, not much, but not zero - an 800m^2 sa
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by jfoutz 6y ago
First, you'll probably never think of yourself as old. You'll look in the mirror and wonder why 20 year old you has all this gray hair and wrinkles. Second, it's ok to let things slide for a while, but the longer you let them
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by jfoutz 6y ago
It sounds a little silly, but a uniform can help. Pick some clothes that are work clothes, put them on when you "go to work" and then switch back out when you're done. Sort of like how changing into gym clothes helps (me anyw
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by jfoutz 6y ago
let's see - "Nikola Motor Company stock ticker is NKLA. It went public on the NASDAQ on June 4, 2020." (random google search) but the article indicates "When Nikola Motor Company founder Trevor Milton unveiled a prototyp
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by jfoutz 6y ago
NKLA I thought was around for a couple years. Maybe major shareholders were informed?
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Ha! And punish my poor spelling even more.
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Meanings of words drift over time, like, litterally.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
So, I think you're saying a couple of things. 1) what can you personally do to make a globally detectable change. I can't really think of anything. I can't think of a single person who contributes in a meaningful way to clima
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Stretch those dollars. Put a little money in your car, if you can. Keep it running well, it'll use less gas. Making a new car makes a ton of carbon. Getting every last mile out of what you got helps everyone. Look for stuff that will l
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I'm from a neighboring state that provides hospitality to wealthy Texan tourists. It's sort of an odd dynamic. Want people to enjoy themselves and have fun, but also take the wind out of people's sails from time to time. It&
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by jfoutz 6y ago
No. There may have been micro optimizations on specific chips, but there's nothing intrinsically faster about one encoding or the other. Sorta like English reads right to left, but left to right or top to bottom would work just as well
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I am not a lawyer, I'm definitely not your lawyer. Trespassing and possibly theft, I think. Theft includes moving stuff without the owners permission. so if I ,say, have a tow truck and move a car across the street without the owners
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by jfoutz 6y ago
Not a biologist. far outside of my expertise. Random human, there must be a zillion. E. Coli? I suspect, but do not know, there are tons of human eating bacteria.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
seems like you could just not use ',' as the separator character in type declarations. +-*^% I think have the same problems, but @#$ are available. weird syntax, but go already makes the tradeoff, do what's fast to parse.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
11186171, so I can't say I agree with every point, at the risk of feeding a troll, I have some suggestions and observations. Take them as free advice, which is, of course, worthless. An opening statement of calling out the mods is neve
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I like your phrase "statistical fact". I don't really know what you mean when you use it, but thinking back on my statistics class, I think it's a pretty funny turn of phrase.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
A friend of mine works on simulating mouse organs. We had some pretty great talks over beer about modeling and cross model validation. Eventually he'd rant about all models are wrong but some models are useful. If I remember correctly,
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by jfoutz 6y ago
You've got far more Haskell experience than I do, but I have done some pretty heavy refactoring on large java codebases. The process always seemed to be, tease out some interfaces and switch the implementation of those interfaces. Over
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by jfoutz 6y ago
yeah. I've done a little bit (tiny, inconsequential, not an expert) with satellites. When cosmic rays have enough energy they'll move atoms around. That's bad for gates. A 486, old big gates, doesn't hurt much. maybe yo
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by jfoutz 6y ago
That stuck out to me as well. I kinda suspect more ambient radiation. Less atmosphere to catch stray particles, and the smaller gates are more susceptible. Smaller interactions cause random errors. Anyway, far far outside the scope of my ex
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by jfoutz 6y ago
I'm not quite the class of people you're asking, I worked on an interpreter for an old language for a long time. Tests are fantastic for defined behavior. but running actual real world gigantic battle tested programs is where I fo
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by jfoutz 6y ago
A few years ago I saw a retrospective, with a bunch of drawings and background stories from different projects. As I get farther in my career, I spend less time writing code, and more time convincing people that we should deploy that code.
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by jfoutz 6y ago
No, you sort of walked past their point. A thing can happen zero times (never). An example might be 1+1 =0. You could get really unlucky with cosmic rays or something, but really adding two registers, both containing 1, that result isn&#x27
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by jfoutz 6y ago
A slightly more relevant example is speed limit. Speed limits are generally kinda low. It's that we allow a whole lot of cars on roads. Pretty much any relatively new will be fine at 75, but highways have to support 40 year old beaters
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Snide, half thought out response. I don't think there's any malice here, if there is, it's not intended. No fortnight players picked up a piece of rebar to practice their sword fighting. Close analogs are fun. No hate there.
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Very tangential question. I can think of only a handful of targets that the US might want to shoot at. (I realize there might be a ton, and this is my lack of imagination). The handful I can think of, almost all of them seem like they'

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