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by jlg23 9y ago
> If everyone has the expectation that the lenders and borrowers will try their best to live up to the contract they made in good faith, wouldn't it be a better equlibrium? What makes you think Puerto Rico did not try? How much long
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by jlg23 9y ago
No, they cannot except for the few users who actually understand what it is all about. I probably did more harm than good by advising clueless OSX-users (as in "ordinary users") to use the Little Snitch. Now they browse as carele
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Put Andrea and our attorney on speed dial. If that is advice you have to give to your employees, either stop working for the US army in war zones or hold meetings in a free country.
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by jlg23 10y ago
It's tall enough that I can neither bend me legs to 90 degrees nor use a regular office chair. While 190cm is not this tall, it's just too tall to fit into most industry norms: Beds, bikes, desk & chairs are all made for &quot
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by jlg23 10y ago
Or it may make people detest your management style even more. I belong to those who cannot stand being coerced into doing some "fun group activity" (whether in office or in a hotel). And when people want to take care of my health
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by jlg23 10y ago
> This requires more standardization than one is likely to get. Not for the functionality - the only difference is that your compiler cannot tell you that you are doing it wrong while a strict interface can be checked at compile time. Bu
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Why in these stories is the patient always a researcher or married to a researcher in the field? Because, usually, listening to a patient's great ideas is a waste of time. This of course is not the case, when the patient has prov
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by jlg23 10y ago
Basic example: A lot of operations on vectors can be compiled into much more efficient code when the length of the vectors is known at compile time.
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Your business is the database. Models matter. If you tie your model to your database, you might be out of business sooner that you think. Just ask any of the oracle customers who paid $$$ to migrate away from that license fee sinkhole.
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by jlg23 10y ago
At least in Western Europe architects have to follow an industry standard that governs fonts and stroke width (afaik 2 different widths, depending on context). 40 years ago, learning to write in this style was even part of the curriculum i
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by jlg23 10y ago
They all require one to keep state information on the server side and with overall little benefit. Yes, I do what you proposed, but in hindsight it was a waste of time to set that up: 99% simply don't know what they are doing and there
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by jlg23 10y ago
In theory you are right, but in reality 99% of the rogue bots are actually just some scraper tools were ignorant users changed sane defaults to "make it go faster". They usually don't have enough knowledge to even understand
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by jlg23 10y ago
Searching for a relief from menstrual pain was what made Albert Hofmann research Secale cornutum and accidentally discovering LSD in the process (or how he put it "being discovered by LSD").
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by jlg23 10y ago
Google "1850k led".
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by jlg23 10y ago
Alternative reality: * listening to animal rights advocates * not incarcerating more * not using the death penalty even for minor violations * not forcing everybody to have a cam in their bedroom (of course, strictly for access by security
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by jlg23 10y ago
Oh yes, please make my logins traceable for all eternity....
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by jlg23 10y ago
> One problem is that the "known good perl code" likely doesn't have comprehensive tests, it was probably written before TDD became prevalent. I'd argue that perl made TDD mainstream, though we did not call it that wa
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by jlg23 10y ago
This requires you to full understand upfront all of the code you are trying to convert. While this is feasible in small projects, for a large code base this can be very, very dangerous. The advantages of going the slow way: * you can reuse
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by jlg23 10y ago
> The thing with infosec is that no matter if you're a consultant pen tester or an in-house member of a blue team, a high proficiency in technical writing is required. As much as I admire people who show the courtesy to the trash bi
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I think we have a different opinion on "easy to reason about". > No, there are no real benefits as it's only a syntactic difference. Yes, but an implementation in brainfuck can be derived by pure syntax transformation
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by jlg23 10y ago
"We had shitty code, optimized it, now it runs [maybe] better" is probably the only fixture in software development. I'm not sure kind of code samples one would want in the context of an article as abstract as this one. I did
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by jlg23 10y ago
> [tacit programming] makes reasoning about programs much harder With sufficient type information reasoning is easy enough that even the compiler can verify correctness. > The opinion that a point-free style is "beautiful code&qu
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by jlg23 10y ago
200ug are a pretty high dose[1], 10 to 20 times the threshold and your friend's reaction is not really typical even for a bad trip: In most cases people just want to reduce the amount of auditory or visual input they have to process wh
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by jlg23 10y ago
> The proposal: "Premium video rental", at $30 - $50. Indeed. On first glance. But do the math the other way round: On average n point m people per household (depending on where you live); all of the family would go to a theatr
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by jlg23 10y ago
This old US Navy teaching material explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aH-M3PzM0A
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by jlg23 10y ago
> However, as architecture grows organically, it doesn't take too much understanding or experience to know that using a single Redis instance for three different use cases would probably run into issues. That's more than likely
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I couldn't help but laugh at this part. He proved a classic theorem in statistics and then precision engineered the actual submission to be roundly ignored. He simply did not care: “I am used to being frequently ignored by scienti
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by jlg23 10y ago
> The AI doesn't exist. People will make it. But it will require much less people to build the AI. And that's the only relevant point when stepping into the investors' shoes.
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by jlg23 10y ago
In principle, I agree with you, but in practice: Don't use my urinal if you don't like it. Liberalism goes both ways.
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by jlg23 10y ago
"La transcendence de l'ego", by Jean-Paul Sartre[1] - I read it when I was 14, by sheer accident, and it provided all the backing for intuitively understanding Sapir-Worf and finally for being able to navigate in a multitude

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