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by jfoutz 8y ago
Pretty sure those laws came after reconstruction.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I worked at an isp that was the state registrar. I had number.street.city.state.us I should have maintained that.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
The historical term is forecast. Catching a ball is enough evidence the ability exists. I agree, it’s important to not overstate the possibility, but it’s not nothing.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I see you're clearly not a fan of Card and Krueger. But it's deeper than that. I'm happy to vote away minimum wage if (and it's a big if) there's something we replace it with that continues to serve society. what wo
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Fundamentally you have to choose. Does society serve the market, or does the market serve society? I realize that legislating that it not rain on Saturday is ridiculous. But it is certainly reasonable to influence the market. Save in the go
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by jfoutz 8y ago
> Economic illiterarcy on full display What’s your plan to fix that? The school of hard knocks? Public education? I mean, as long as it exists, people are going to be exploited. Specifically not paid fair market value.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
And it’s totally original, not some derivative knock of designed to evoke thoughts of some other creation.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Sure. That would be an efficient solution. No one wants to take that hit though. So we’re going to do the other thing.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Are you sure? evolution is pretty darn simple. just not trying the same solution twice is a pretty big speedup.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
This is hard to parse. All software that can be represented as if and goto (and some sort of assignment i suppose)? when, while and do are just if and goto. alpha go is all just if and goto. I'm not sure what you're looking for or
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I wonder if the next wave of hft will be a geostationary space station over New York, to get the extra occasional nanosecond.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I recall some effort in moving from imperial measurement to metric. Reality itself does not care, but the math sure gets easier if you carefully select units. Actually, another neat example is analog vs digital computation. your models can
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I don't understand how one can regret hanging themselves. Maybe hang means something less grisly than what i'm thinking of.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Seems like breadth first vs depth first search. They will converge at the same answer. Depth first, you make the happy path work, then refine error handling. Breadth first, you ensure everything is handled at every moment. I’ll have to thin
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by jfoutz 8y ago
> requires you to specify everything That's not my experience. checking for errors is completely optional. I'm probably just a bad lazy programmer that leans to hard on the compiler. I like the catch everything and then refine
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I’ve adopted the nineteen seventies tech, absolutely. Why be stuck in the 1800’s?
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Mass produced cars, bread, and public water are all over 100 years old. It’s funny you only use ancient tech as counter examples for avoiding ancient tech.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
It’s not clear how many can be in the pipeline.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Different instruction streams use different registers. It’s like sharing a bathroom. I can shower while you brush your teeth. There’s more contention when we’re both trying to shower.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Not sure if they're still doing it, but it was trivial to get a $300 credit to spin up enough hosts to make sense. the great Kelsey Hightower's tutorials take advantage of the credits. https://github.com/kelseyhigh
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Perhaps the poster was celebrating women as chattel property. I don't know. I thought it was an interesting fact. It's weird more states haven't determined an engagement ring is simply a gift, and not a sort of (as i learned
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Because they are not wretched at risk analysis. They have at least a child’s understanding that humans are not machines, and there is a high variability in week to week performance, but overall the humans are a net gain. Basically the same
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Also it looks taller, same reasons people prefer vertical stripes to horizontal stripes. Pinstripes, corduroy, stuff like that take advantage of the same effect.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I know, like, nothing about this. But my wiki reading makes me think this is essentially a one time pad. you share the entangled bits, you send a message, the message tells you what to do if your entangled bit is one, or zero. nobody can me
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by jfoutz 8y ago
This is pretty much my favorite misfeature of modern American food service jobs. I never want the people handling my food to sneeze. Alas, that’s not the world I live in.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
> involved in multiple IP lawsuits and one other major civil matter sounds like breach of contract, not crimes though. shrug
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Is it imprecise? I can make claims about my worldview. I say the sky is blue. you say the sky is white (cloudy). we can argue about it, but there's no reason for either of us to change our opinion till we look out the window and see wh
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I even liked _The Big U_. Pre Cryptonomicon Stephenson was weird and full of wacky ideas barely held together with a thin veneer of a story. I think he's a much better storyteller now, but the books aren't quite as dense with weir
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by jfoutz 8y ago
It's interesting. can you have @js more than once? can you have @app more than once? pretty sure ಠ-ಠ is a valid app name, but ಠ_ಠ isn't. i also can't quite tell how to say map of maps. i'd guess it's @this-se
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Smalltalk probably. Which iirc, was a pretty big influence on the JVM.

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