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by jldugger 5y ago
well, i'd frame that conversation in terms of confidence intervals. with only 7 trials you are not very confident a>b.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Arguing that two outcomes are equally likely when one has happened many more times than the other is an exercise in frustration Are they actually equally likely though? Perhaps there comes a point where one must consider if observed ou
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by jldugger 5y ago
Then you should definitely consider switching keyboard layouts to reduce RSI. I did, last week. Going from 80wpm to 30 wpm is definitely a job impediment (in the short term). So many things are keyboard driven: - communicating with peers ov
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Unmesh Joshi It feels kinda strange to see an author other than Martin Fowler blogging on martinfowler.com....
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by jldugger 5y ago
I think he did: an OS agnostic web means people choose OS based on other factors. Obviously price is one, but features is another. And he points out that winning on price is actually the same as losing (and Sun's sale to Oracle appears
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by jldugger 5y ago
TIL. Never used that!
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by jldugger 5y ago
Are you familiar with Terminator? https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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George Orwell's Critique of Rudyard Kipling(orwellfoundation.com)
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by jldugger 5y ago
> giving any rating less than a 9 is essentially giving a rating of zero. Well, at least its not a negative number!
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by jldugger 5y ago
As the bug thread mentions, Bill is paid to work on Cray Fortran. It looks like the issue is that cray is using gfortran (and others) as a regression test suite, and found a bug. Possibly one that surfaced after cray fixed their own similar
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by jldugger 5y ago
Equally importantly, HW / silicon jobs pay less well. People on the HWE side of the house frequently ponder switching to SW for the $$$
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by jldugger 5y ago
The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was good, and informative, and left me wanting to find a good textbook on the subject with practice problems so I can apply the concepts in my real life causality problems. Unfortunately it seems the textbooks
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by jldugger 5y ago
> So the issuer just pays interest forever until it happens to be paid off? Well, by definition perpetuities are never paid off. You could just buy your debt back on the open market though. I'm not a lawyer, so IDK if there's a
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by jldugger 5y ago
> In practice though they just use new debt from new investors to payoff the old one to old investors. One particularly interesting idea I've heard bandied about is to eliminate the rollover risk this represents by allowing the issu
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by jldugger 5y ago
Masamune Shiro is somewhat of a gun nerd, it turns out.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Then it would be even more in America's interest if EU citizens participated equally.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Counterargument: most of the things you can consume at 3x speed are not worth remembering long term. For example, every day the APM: Marketplace podcast recites the returns on specific induces for the day. It can help put context to stories
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by jldugger 5y ago
> How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations? For papers, mostly through social sharing I think. HN, reddit, and slack communities. For videos, I subscribe to a few youtube channels, like PapersWeLove. Reddit has &#x2
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by jldugger 5y ago
I routinely launch canaries before deploying new code to production. Given there is no intent to deceive, mislead, or otherwise harm customers, and all internal testing has yielded a 'ship it' signal, is there any ethical need for
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by jldugger 5y ago
Perhaps submitters need to consider that not every single post of dan's merits an HN post? or the voters or what ever else drives the front page algorithm
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by jldugger 5y ago
So only two of the three interested parties then ;)
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by jldugger 5y ago
I'm not saying there aren't costs associated with building or running these services that need to be paid for. But owning the OS and pushing subs in the default apps is just as annoying when Apple does it as when Youtube does.
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by jldugger 5y ago
I agree it's possible, but their services offerings are all paid, and there are enough of them now that a discount bundle exists[1]. And then there's the App Store / iTunes / iTunes Match. Even checking out to buy hardwa
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by jldugger 5y ago
> it would be much better for it to be either me or my recipient who benefits Better for whom?
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by jldugger 5y ago
> What is the estimation for the inflation rate in USA in 2022? Again 7% or back to 1%? 1 year treasuries are currently auctioning at 0.25 percent. Obviously the fed is heavily involved in the market to the point of manipulating rates, b
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by jldugger 5y ago
> So let’s say if a small town in Texas decides x is legal or not legal, does that mean the rest of the country has to follow? City ordinance typically doesn't apply outside city limits, same with county and state laws. Texas cant o
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by jldugger 5y ago
Wonder why the documentation changed so recently
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by jldugger 5y ago
> I was thinking someone was trying to make it through to the other side without leaving. I feel like you're describing a "stay bag."
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by jldugger 5y ago
My congratulations on your commitment to carrying the joke forward.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Fortunately, it just needs to get me east of I5, right?

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