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by jnwatson 3y ago
It was a pretty good scam. The scammer had a company that sold fractional profit shares in oil wells. Without getting too deep in the weeds, he sold the equivalent of more than 100%. He invested the proceeds of new investment in paying ou
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The SEC does indeed get involved with recovering money for victims of investment fraud. Source: me. The SEC recovered about a third of the money I unwittingly invested in a Ponzi scheme.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Thank you. This is the calculation I was looking for. 2% leakage is very conservative. The amount of additional pipeline infrastructure necessary to achieve this at scale is daunting. It will have a lot of leaks.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It isn’t really linear. Sleeping is a heap insertion which takes O(log n).
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by jnwatson 3y ago
At least their status page works.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Fuchsia is open source.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
All sugar is not remotely the same. The biological processes of digesting glucose vs fructose are dramatically different and involve different organs.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
My experience was quite similar.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I got it on levels.fyi. It was a couple thousand.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I 2.5x’d my salary by 1. Hiring a negotiation consultant, and 2. Get offers from 3 FAANGs. The consultant just told me what to say/email, and I did it. Not sure it would happen now 2 years later.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I still have in an old bookmarks file a link to yahoo.stanford.edu.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Yeah this is such garden variety auto fraud.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Odometers break and get replaced (and you can’t set the new one to the old value). Sometimes they get stuck. It isn’t lying if you say “this odometer is 40k low”.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
At least one Google office I know has building access controlled by Zanzibar.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
This is called “emergentism”.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
A related question is “why do conjoined twins have two consciousnesses?” Some twins have reported to be able to share feelings.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It depends on the material. It might work for certain tours of steel, since the failure state is gradual. Carbon fiber, however, is not known to gradually fail.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
When it has a walk-in airlock, you know you’ll need some space.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Even with width, the ratio between the width of the front of the foot and the width of your heel varies. I need a normal width heel and a wider toe box. Only took me 20 years, but I finally found a decent brand of running shoes that matches
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by jnwatson 3y ago
And continue to publish it. And then Red Hat might start watermarking downloads. It would be tough to sustain such a plan.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Even better, Python scripts become programs after they are run for the first time.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Just plug in a Raspberry Pi or PC stick of your choice. That and a wireless mouse or trackball. You'll probably want to move around the file.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I first coded using Monaco some 38 years ago. Time flies.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
You can’t say that Bard isn’t sentient until you define sentience. UK just declared that lobsters are sentient. Why not Bard. I think Lemoine did the world a favor by giving it a good few months head start. From his podcast, it is obvious t
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by jnwatson 3y ago
At Google, that’s definitely not true. Our C code crashes way more often than our Java code. Memory management is harder than just remembering to free. It requires a deep understanding of ownership, lifetimes, and threading. That is hard a
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The full story is that this was the 100th similar interaction the mod had that week and they were short on patience.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I think Musk learned the hard way how hard it is to strike the right balance. Anybody that thinks Reddit is fascist should spend 60 days moderating a popular sub. Your attitude might change. This isn’t to say that there aren’t mods with po
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by jnwatson 3y ago
5 minutes with an existing eye tracker will show that this is completely infeasible. Your eyes move too much for it to work. Perhaps you could use it to bring windows forward.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
4k is awesome for a terminal nerd. The first time I used a 50 inch 4K screen in full screen tmux/vim, I realized this is the correct way to program.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Because most “journalism” is just a person working from a coffee shop now. At least it was written by a human…

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