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by jldugger 4y ago
Unfortunately, Putin has a nuclear umbrella and the wagner group. It seems unlikely he will be held accountable.
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by jldugger 4y ago
That citation is from 2020, and https://x1creditcard.com/legal/program-terms#x1-card-rewards... indicates you can redeem points 1point:1cent as statement credits. And of course reddit points out they have cut that down
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by jldugger 4y ago
> You have lower rewards (about half) and fewer perks. I'm not sure you're reading it right. From what I can tell, I can make tax and rent payments and get 3% statement credits. These two categories are typically at the lowest
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by jldugger 4y ago
I've had Discover send me letters telling me all the things I could buy with a preapproved loan from them. Of course, they only started sending those after my income / assets were so high I'd never need to use their services.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Well, that widget doesn't exactly tell the full story -- if I have 500 bucks in checking on Friday but rent is due on Monday, I cant realistically go out and blow cash on a weekend adventure even if the home screen widget suggests othe
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by jldugger 4y ago
Well, yea, but you can't calcuate GDP per capita. You have to instead look at median household income. If you wanna sell fancy electronics in mid market economies it really helps to know the difference.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Three economists are on the football field, practicing field goals. The first kicks the ball was to the left, widely missing the goal. The second one kicks and shanks it to the right, again missing the goal. The third one runs off the field
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by jldugger 4y ago
I read that book, and as I recall it takes a left turn into education policy after chapter one. Part 1 sells you a story of personalization over one size fits all, and the next parts tell you how individuals vary, mostly in ways understood
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by jldugger 4y ago
Relatively similar to https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/same... and a dozen such puzzle games from long before it.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Honestly, because a quarter of the typical company is management whose main job is talking all day. In pathological situations, they spend more time talking up than down, to the point where my boss "sees" me for about 1.5 hours a
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by jldugger 4y ago
Just this week while going through the book _Ideas That Changed the World_ I read the original paper on LISP[1]. I have to say this magazine article reads a bit cleaner. But that's kind of the fun of the book -- learning to decode the
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Reading new books on unfamiliar subjects, practicing intensely for months to develop a new skill, talking with an expert and absorbing decades of wisdom as they share a lifetime of experience. Honestly, these are wildly different forms
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by jldugger 4y ago
At least personally, it's gotten a lot better recently. I get more interesting conference talks (PyData, USENIX) and less twitch streamer clip shows.
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by jldugger 4y ago
This basically how all of arduino "works". It was quite shocking to see this after working on embedded systems in grad school that used interrupt driven microcontrollers for low power situations to see a while (true) in the core a
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by jldugger 4y ago
This is uh... very beginner level, and doesn't feel super organized. https://www.circonus.com/resources/statistics-for-engineers/ seems like a better intro? For more advanced conversations, here's a few
856.
by jldugger 4y ago
I saw something the other day that really struck home on this: for any given software technology you encounter, your best estimate is that it's halfway through its useful lifetime. I know some TED level influencer had some story about
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by jldugger 4y ago
> You might run everything you touch into the ground, but hey who cares? In a more perfect world, when this resume hits the hiring committee's desk, they read it and think "this leadership role is too important to fill with som
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by jldugger 4y ago
I imagine it would be a bigger deal if they had the same seal. _That_ would suggest someone was trying to steal cargo, or commit some kind of customs fraud.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Second, you are ONE country, you have ONE president. We also have fifty governors, 100 senators, 435 house reps, nine supreme court justices, and countless state legislators. We do not live in a dictatorship. Yet. Of these, it's t
860.
by jldugger 4y ago
I'm not debugging safari bullshit when chrome and firefox function fine.
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by jldugger 4y ago
I'd say about half of the grafana dashboards i build trigger safari's "this page is using too much memory" popups.
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by jldugger 4y ago
aww jeez
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by jldugger 4y ago
What does the H in H12 stand for then?
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by jldugger 4y ago
> The net amount remaining goes covers living expenses, and whatever is left might be swept into after-tax investments. It me. Was literally thinking of taking on a margin loan to cover the time between when I pay quarterly estimated tax
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by jldugger 4y ago
> The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. Well yea, most of their headcount is consultants now, right? Corporate America might not be a democracy but neither can executives change t
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by jldugger 4y ago
Interesting -- I mostly come from this as an SRE doing canary analysis, where the A and B is basically old and new software version. All of my data is embedded in timeseries data, and stratified by minute =)
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by jldugger 4y ago
I don't quite understand -- how does seasonality not affect both A and B groups equally when randomly chosen?
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by jldugger 4y ago
> One thing working in complexity’s favor, though, is that engineers like complexity. Honestly, I hate complex solutions. Even my own. What I like, and what impresses me, is the simple solution that takes a lot of work or math to prove i
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by jldugger 4y ago
> I like that this is taken care of for me and that I don't have to spend my personal time trying to research a bunch of life insurance options and figure out what works and what doesn't. Doesn't Google accelerate RSUs upo
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by jldugger 4y ago
Agreed, which is why I found the link to apple.com surprising.

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