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by jfoutz 7y ago
Sort of a weird ask, but as a real, no shit, virologist, what do you think about changing your messaging to make content more accessible to lazy readers? I have some half baked ideas about tradeoffs in infection rate and fatality, but I&#x2
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Captain at the time. I believe Commodore was the title at retirement, which would now be called Rear Admiral. I realize this is fussy. It's fair to say Captain in an old, old article. I think the site requires no editorialization of he
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I wish I could find the original article I read about hashlife[1]. So many dirty tricks to just reach as deep as possible into the evolution of the system. The hash approach is a good trick. you can abuse it quite a bit more than just row&#
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I'm going to sound like "it's just the flu" guy, and I hate that. I hate it so much. Humans are terrifying apex predators. We're not great at flu vaccinations. But we're good enough to continue to be apex preda
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Err, I made a more elaborate reply to r00fus below. Essentially, give people money if they're on the edge. Corporations are the cogs, and relatively easily replaced. Some people suck, some people are amazing, but it's fundamentall
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by jfoutz 7y ago
_blink_ Err. No. I'm not advocating for a bank bail out. The joke about avocado toast pointed in that direction, but was a bit opaque. I think there's basically a pyramid. at the tippy top, there are fabulously profitable large or
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Well, good luck to the bank. Foreclose and enjoy owning a few acres of urban blight. Banks are highly specialized, and that specialization isn't well suited to property management. Property management is highly specialized and that spe
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by jfoutz 7y ago
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" - Douglas Adams
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whew. Good thing isopropyl alcohol isn't explosive in vapor form or someone might make a bomb!
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by jfoutz 7y ago
This is pure speculation based on incomplete and casually arranged data, feel free to dismiss me as a crackpot. The U.S. really didn't have any capacity to test for months. Only recently, a small amount of testing has become possible.
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by jfoutz 7y ago
although I don't own this specific book, the gingery books I have are pretty great. https://gingerybookstore.com/InjectionMoldingMachine.html if you've got time and space, you can do way cheaper than $10k. You ne
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by jfoutz 7y ago
> It is very last measure as in that point you are basically admitting that capitalism has failed. Capitalism fails all the time. I use the market for lemons as my default example [1]. It's ok. It the market works pretty well, and i
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Sure, not unilaterally. But last time the fed chair testified before congress that emergency action was required [1]. The fed can do lots of things besides futz with interest rates. But again, this is just Sunday afternoon armchair quarterb
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I'm sort of surprised they didn't try to push the issue from the bottom. give every tax filer some amount of money say, $200. A bonus for each dependent, say, $100. pulled numbers absolutely out of thin air. I thought the issue wa
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by jfoutz 7y ago
> Sanskrit words do not change over time. That is amazing. I've only used english and a touch of spanish, and those words are so slippery. Even latin has a drift over time. i've poked at Aramaic, but never more than a week or t
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by jfoutz 7y ago
since it's java, you have access to a Set. add each node to the set if it is not present, O(1). A bit more aggressive, check System.Runtime.heapSize() calculate how many nodes can fit in the heap, and subtract 1 for each element visite
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by jfoutz 7y ago
> one of the properties of genius is that it can’t really be deliberately focused i think this is true. I think there is a statement that is a bit more crisp, genius focuses intensely on what it must. I, an average person, can focus or n
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by jfoutz 7y ago
> That's quite humbling. Well, yeah. But also some things are just that hard. There's lots of talk here about the rocket equation. Doing X requires at least Y effort. Maybe building a railroad from the quarry to the monument si
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I don't think you'd get the protection from lateral forces on the straight sections. Just a little bit of curve transfers the cross force down the whole curve. The gist is, if i push on a brick in the middle of a flat part, the fo
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I know this will sound super cynical and overly pedantic. But it's not the Koch brothers anymore. I was by no means a fan, but David is dead. Any funding is on Charles. Or perhaps Charles and David's heirs.
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by jfoutz 7y ago
This is real handwavy and potentially wrong, but maybe helpful. Closed is the thing you're _enforcing_. You have to pay your taxes. Open is the policy that you don't care much about. Cash, check, money order. Maybe others get tack
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I mostly agree with you - there is a little bit of a fine line though. I can learn from my opponents strategy playing against someone a little bit better than me. Maybe i lost because i need more or less of X? Tough to learn from when the o
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by jfoutz 7y ago
This is a fascinating comment. In a municipal environment, would standard remediation of sewer water be good enough to dilute the brine? It seems like you could get something close to a closed loop. Obviously some water would be lost to eva
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Absolutely. I'd argue, if somebody has written their own interpreter and compiler, leveraging the interpreter at compile time first for constant expression evaluation and then something more sophisticated for partial function evaluatio
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by jfoutz 7y ago
eh, i dunno. i think anybody with a decent grip on any language can whip up a scheme compiler way faster than a C compiler. [1] is a very readable guide to scheme and its implementation. Will it be the fastest gun in the west? no. Is it a s
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I've got some incredibly lazy sunday afternoon non expert thinking. 200 years ago, just about everything was custom, bespoke. A carpenter would look for a piece of wood that was best for solving the problem at hand, that bit of warp wa
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by jfoutz 7y ago
Also, fuck mosquitos. I’m not a fan of spiders or cockroaches. I can adapt my behavior so we rarely interact. But, uh, miserable bloodsuckers-I don’t think there is any common ground for us to share.
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I don’t really have much of a problem with that, but I would love the option to replace the guts of my mbp every few years. I keep waiting for Gibson’s sandbenders to show up.
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by jfoutz 7y ago
It's neat! > Am I missing something? Yeah. you've been around here for a while, so i suspect you know the answer. But hey, maybe this will help. The first part is the boring answer > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers woul
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by jfoutz 7y ago
I think it’s more of a lark to play with some ideas. I’m sure Dan can take his Oscar and get hired somewhere.

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