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by jldugger 4y ago
I was expecting something more than full machine emulation I guess. But there's no way apple would publish instruction on replacing macOS with Linux.
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by jldugger 4y ago
I mean, we celebrate when GDP growth rates hit 3 percent, and here we show a 4 percent decline in the workforce that generates that GDP so I don't think it's that misleading, perhaps as a lucky coincidence. Travelling 7 years in
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by jldugger 4y ago
I use Xournal regularly for solving puzzles -- what's the motivation for the rewrite / fork? Why use the name? I tried looking on the website but didn't see any obvious answer
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by jldugger 4y ago
if len(diff) > 500 lines: return "Looks good to me" time.sleep(86400) return "+1"
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Alan S. Lowenthal made 3 purchases in $UBER for ~$31/share in late August '20. California soon passed Prop 22, allowing Uber to classify workers as independent contractors. This resulted in Uber spiking to ~$49/share. Pr
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by jldugger 4y ago
Honestly, what I'm hearing in this podcast is that front line teams end up with OKRs that don't anchor into any strategic product vision. I agree, OKRs should be able to trace down. Since OKRs are supposed to cascade down, this fa
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by jldugger 5y ago
Maybe the kind of person who complains on twitter we dont educate enough low level engineers does?
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Code schools don't seem to be teaching this stuff and some universities have moved up the stack. ABET accredited CS degree programs still require students take courses including "Exposure to computer architecture and organiza
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by jldugger 5y ago
You realize that's his point right? Each of those is trying to be the Cool New Thing, and part of what distracts the company while it ships butterfly keyboards, touchbars without escape keys, AntennaGate, whatever plagued HomePod so mu
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by jldugger 5y ago
> As I’ve moved into larger companies and am shackled by OKRs Try moving into a large company _without_ OKRs. How much redundancy do you need to buy to achieve your service reliability goals? Well, you can decide on any goal you want but
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by jldugger 5y ago
> was intel really "disrupted"? Yes, Intel was disrupted. It was just disrupted by ARM. Originally the chips are too slow for normal use, but find a niche in low power devices. Over time the rough edges are smoothed out, and th
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by jldugger 5y ago
More like the interest rate 30y from now has to be higher than 7.12 annualized, since thats the one period that will be different, everything else is just the same but lagged
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by jldugger 5y ago
My workflow: 1. Lots of scheduled transactions. Rent, cable bill, paychecks, car insurance premiums, quarterly estimated tax payments, etc. Any transaction you can expect and guess at can be a scheduled transaction. This really cuts down on
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Zelensky is clearly shorter than him by about an inch (~5'5"), and I have yet to see anyone make a comment about his height. Probably because Zelensky is a comedian does TV skits people understand as jokes about having a bi
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by jldugger 5y ago
So, I'm not seeing that on in the dictionary. You sure this isn't just a you thing?
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by jldugger 5y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of the phrase "unfunded mandate" which basically when the legislation tells the administration to do something, but fails to allocate funds to do it. Still a law though. And colloquially, "mandate&quo
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by jldugger 5y ago
I wonder if an autoformatter like black is at play here.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> I don't think anything implies 'unprompted' rather than 'prompted' > I am in complete incomprehension of how "Your Echos Are Heard" suggests that the smart speaker is specifically listening to your
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by jldugger 5y ago
> this is barely even intelligible as a line of reasoning. You are literally engaging in a straw-man argument. Nobody said any of those things verbatim, no matter how much you wish they had. This is bad-faith commenting and you should co
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by jldugger 5y ago
Is there a name for when people giving advice fail to heed their own warning? Perhaps a humorously long german word.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Again, my main point is that there’s nothing inherently flawed with the analysis and plots presented in the original paper. I find the use of quartiles suspicious, personally. It's very nearly the ecological fallacy[1]. > I’m n
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by jldugger 5y ago
google "spiders georg". do your research!
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by jldugger 5y ago
This factoid actually just statistical error. The average person watches the news 0 hours a day. Tivo Georg, who interns on The Daily Show & watches over 10,000 hours of cable news each day, is an outlier and should not have been count
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by jldugger 5y ago
It is a hidden movement game, akin to Captain Sonar. There is a square grid of tiles, and you move around it in the typical 8 directions. Each player is told the color of tile their opponent moved to (you cannot reuse a square). If you move
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Thus, if an organization is poorly-structured, it will produce poorly-structured software. Conway's law doesn't carry good or bad connotations for organizations or software, its simply a belief that software is designed first
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Basically, I wound up cloning some code paths instead of modifying "add_delta" This is more or less covered in part 2, and is indeed considered the path to passing.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> If the latter, renters get the same one vote per person as everybody else. Well, that's not quite true -- there's many (highly paid) immigrants living in my building. None of them can vote on housing policy even though it dir
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by jldugger 5y ago
Employers have way too much power over H-1B visa holders. I don't know what the exact policy change should be, but something needs to make changing employers easier and faster. The entire "hire cheap labor from overseas" prof
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by jldugger 5y ago
Apologies everyone, the paper I was paper I was thinking of was ACM: "Cosmic Rays Don't Strike Twice" -- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2248487.2150989 The point being that consumer grade m
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by jldugger 5y ago
Indeed, there was a study in IEEE pointing out the absurdity of cosmic rays as causes -- one point cited was that the vast majority of bitflip happen at specific points in the address space, page boundaries between chips essentially

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