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by jldugger 3y ago
I feel like GNUCash splits the difference. You still get a GUI and reporting tools, but you also get the benefit of local reasoning that double entry accounting provides: as long as every transaction is balanced the entire book is balanced.
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by jldugger 3y ago
But is it compatible with the Categorical Imperative?
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by jldugger 3y ago
Sorry, not disagreeing, just offering speculation in lieu of the answers we don't have.
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by jldugger 3y ago
It sounds like something went sideways with the embedding mapping. Either some kind of quantization, different rounding, or maybe just an older embedding.
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by jldugger 3y ago
Wonder if you can rescue this data from archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20170114232515/https://jcmit.com... update: guess i just need to update my bookmark, it moved to https://jcmit.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I mean, the entire seminar is titled "War." The teacher here has a clear US conservative background, which for whatever leans jingoistic. Other assigned reading includes "Why Men Love War" from Esquire magazine, and Rupe
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by jldugger 3y ago
Was it their earnings call? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-15/the-ceo-o...
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by jldugger 3y ago
I remember watching the Strange Loop video on your testing strategy, and now I need to go back and relearn how it differed from model checking (ie Promela or TLA+). Model checking is probably the big QA story that tech companies ignore beca
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by jldugger 3y ago
Tech, let me introduce low margin retail. Kroger has a margin between 1 and 2 percent: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KR/key-statistics (depending on your preferred measure). And yoy earnings are down. And it&#x2
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Making somebody else pregnant doesn't affect my health, so it doesn't make sense that way either But it might affect health insurance claims, and I'm guessing cheaper underwriting is the reason HR went along with it.
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by jldugger 3y ago
That sounds pretty bad as you present it. I have seen a state uni do a similar sounding kind of employee survey -- the point of which was not to violate individual privacy but to produce an aggregated survey to present to health insurance c
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by jldugger 3y ago
The amount of video that comes out of FOSDEM is amazing. The schedule says there's like 800 events, over the course of two days. One has time to sample perhaps 5 percent of the talks, so I don't feel _too_ bad about never attendin
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by jldugger 3y ago
"This LED needs to be light red. NOT PINK! LIGHT! RED!"
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by jldugger 3y ago
There's just the small matter of the Himilayas dividing mainland China from Pakistani ports.
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by jldugger 3y ago
So... this post introduces a new "fact" then debunks its own headline, using a phenomenon already well known to economists: the wealth effect[1]. This feels less like an economics blog and more like a social media Rorschach test -
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by jldugger 3y ago
Sadly I am not good at it and probably need those first 8 trainer levels
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by jldugger 3y ago
It's relatively common in the US[1] for to start weeks on Sundays. Much of what you see is probably derived from that. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_...
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by jldugger 3y ago
> I'm trying to wrap my head around this 14-week quarter business. If there were exactly 52 weeks in a solar year, you could do 13 week quarters. There are 52 weeks and 1 day. So every few years you need a leap week to catch back up
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by jldugger 3y ago
> in 2024? Why can't the banks validate the check and transfer the money while you wait a few seconds at the teller window? In late 2023 FedNow was introduced, which should facilitate exactly that. But it's optional for banking
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Was ARM really competitive until recently? The writing was on the wall 6 years ago; Intel was not doing well in mobile and it was only a matter of time until that tech improved. Same as Intel unseating the datacenter chips before it. R
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by jldugger 3y ago
Business school[1]? Trading on IEM[2] for six months? [1]: https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252 [2]: https://iem.uiowa.edu/iem/
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by jldugger 3y ago
Does whether the tap water I drink comes from a plastic bottle or a reusable container affect aquifers?
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by jldugger 3y ago
>According to other research sources, a total of 96 percent of millennials say they replace a meal with a snack once a week, and 58 percent say they snack 4-5 times a day! "I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip&quo
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by jldugger 3y ago
Is it? Wikipedia[1] puts Porshe's Operating margins at loosely 16%. Which isn't bad for auto probably but isn't great for tech.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Googles layoff are among the dumbest I’ve ever seen. Hasbro's latest round still tops this though.
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by jldugger 3y ago
Well, it's not like Mynamar's democracy is particularly functional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27état
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by jldugger 3y ago
No inside knowledge but: day care everywhere in the Bay Area is in high demand but is so very expensive and needs to be _more_ expensive. Caretaker ratios are fixed by law, so your main expense is labor, of a relatively low skill variety. A
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by jldugger 3y ago
> The technique to construct an unreinforced concrete dome was lost in Italy until the diligent research of Filippo Brunelleschi So... I was curious what technique that was, and according to Wikipedia, Florence Cathedral is a brick dome.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I think the concern is less about who's to _blame_ as much as "this filter may not be as effective as you think at avoiding this specific disaster."
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by jldugger 3y ago
My statistics textbook at home covers this in pretty clear detail. I bought mine from abebooks for like 10 bucks, seems money well spent. Stats Wikipedia is written by and for stats PhDs. My recollection on standard deviation: 1. It's

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