jsjohns2

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by jsjohns2 1y ago
It always strikes me how much commonality exists across different software engineering disciplines—not to mention across fields outside of engineering (e.g., how double-entry bookkeeping mirrors immutable design principles, or how federalis
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by jsjohns2 4y ago
To those bashing the author as uninformed -- this is George V. Neville-Neil. Member of FreeBSD Core Team who wrote the book on FreeBSD. He might know a thing or two about POSIX! [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implemen
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by jsjohns2 4y ago
> In arbitration, this doesn't work. It's a vastly more even playing field for consumers, who tend to have less money than the companies they're suing and less downside in the case outcome (money damages versus e.g. having
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by jsjohns2 4y ago
Lest anyone come away from this thinking that arbitration is good for the consumer, this story only has a happy ending because the business chose to settle. I also took a corporation to arbitration. A Big 4 bank destroyed my credit over a b
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Is Our Homelessness Crisis a Drug Problem?(nytimes.com)
2 points by jsjohns2 5y ago|2 comments
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
I suspect that there is a strong non-linear effect, i.e., introducing novel drugs into a state with very cheap housing does not move the needle that much on homelessness (WV) but is catastrophic when done in a city with expensive housing (L
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
Jake, I get the argument. Fifty years of bad housing policy have yielded high housing prices today, high housing prices leads to homelessness, and homelessness leads to drug abuse. Fixing housing policy now will lead to lower housing prices
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
Comparing the number of available beds with the number of unsheltered homeless people does not disprove parent's argument that there is a bed for everyone who wants a bed. A better question would be -- what the average shelter utilizat
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
Comparing LA and WV is like comparing apples and oranges. At least those are both fruits. Those locales differ on much more than just housing costs.
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
If you are naïve enough to think that we will simply build our way out of the homelessness crisis, I encourage you to book a flight to Los Angeles and strike up a conversation with any first responder. They will all tell you the same story
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
You may have a circadian rhythm disorder, e.g., delayed sleep-wake phase disorder (DSWPD) [1]. It is rare in the general population (<1%) but my intuition is that software engineers are overrepresented. Irrespective of whether you do, th
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Ask HN: Where is Aaron Swartz's federal court record dump?
33 points by jsjohns2 5y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Where is Aaron Swartz's PACER document dump?
15 points by jsjohns2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
> I’m not sure what you are getting at? There is one general characterization of a homeless person who has severe mental illness or is in the throes of addiction. There is another of a person who is simply down on his luck. He sleeps in
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
If this isn’t a problem in need of an immediate solution, then what is? Those people need help today , not if/when LA figures out how to fix fifty years of housing stock mismanagement. I would be surprised if the old woman in the sand
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
Well, where is this invisible majority hiding? No RVs at all in Santa Monica, limited parking in general, close to zero tents, a limited number of parks, and no forests. The city proper is filled with tent encampments but is otherwise not t
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
But how does this solve the immediate problem of psychotic people roaming my neighborhood?
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by jsjohns2 5y ago
> Edit to add: before someone mentions "mental illness" and "drugs" and other contributors to homelessness, yes those are real factors: that said, the lower the cost of housing, the easier it is for someone on the mar
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by jsjohns2 6y ago
This is a flawed comparison. GraphQL is probably a superior query language. The more salient question is how the complexity of back-end API endpoint implementation differs. The answer is that it varies widely between ecosystems (i.e. you ar
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Gmail was down for most of last week(medium.com)
1 points by jsjohns2 6y ago|0 comments
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by jsjohns2 8y ago
Also an excellent read on the subject: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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by jsjohns2 9y ago
> For a while, Bitcoin was used for transactions that people wanted to keep secret from government authorities, like drug deals. It soon became apparent, however, that if authorities wanted to track these transactions, they could. For in
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by jsjohns2 9y ago
Soylent is great, but you should check out Joylent if you get a chance. Similar nutritional profile to Soylent, but cheaper, better tasting, and cooler branding. I've been getting 90% of my calories from Joylent for about 5 months.
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
Yes! Many people seem to miss this for whatever reason. There is no risk-free choice if you are unlucky enough to have poor eyesight. Personal anecdote: I have a retinal scar from an eye infection that was a direct result of wearing contact
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
Sure, some actions are more harmful than others. Killing a person is worse than imprisoning them indefinitely. But the degree to which it is worse (and whether it is enough to ban the death penalty) seems quite subjective. Seems to me tha
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
The lack of an "undo" button is not exclusive to the death penalty, many serious forms of punishment are irreversible. Why, in your view, is it much worse for the state to jail an innocent person for a long time (say, their entire
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
> The OP specifically mentioned "immune" and "metabolic" dysfunction, not symptoms. Fair enough. > The symptoms, abnormalities, triggers and cures match perfectly with what you would expect from exhaustion due to c
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
> - there is no "unique and consistent to ME/CFS sufferers" dysfunction, except perhaps in HPA axis (the main stress system) responsiveness (but even this is somewhat up for debate). This is at odds with the current scient
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
> Do you think any of the firmware in your system comes from your OEM and is secure? No, of course not. But I'm surprised that Lenovo would tacitly admit this.
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by jsjohns2 10y ago
Quite the hilarious "security advisory" [0] that Lenovo put out. They manage to take zero responsibility, shift blame to the researcher/IBV/Intel, and admit that they ship SMM code of both unknown author and purpose. [0]

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