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by kd5bjo 7y ago
At one point, I tried to rent a vehicle space at a self-storage facility (in the US). The lease had a clause that I would not store anything worth more than $1000; had I gone through with the rental and left my car as I had planned, I woul
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
One historical point that the author missed: much of the auto-updating of on-device software started as a response to the speed at which the online SaaS companies were able to innovate: because they were changing their own computers, they d
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> But even that doesn't explain why organizations refuse to switch from bailing-wire scripts to a pre-built, commonly-available infrastructure-component better solution. In such cases, both staying and switching are ops costs. The c
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Southwest couldn’t fly outside of Texas because they chose to use Love field as their base. Love was cheap for them to get into because flights from there had already been restricted in an attempt to shift commercial flights to the fledgli
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The task as described included an easy for a human but tricky for a computer verification that the correct word will always be a color. Given this, and the need for the system to be tolerant against human error occurring at the paper, I be
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Note that I got my analysis above slightly wrong: 730 times 5 minutes is 60.8 hours, not 120. According to the new numbers, the break even is 20 hours of engineering work (or adjust the engineer/assistant multiplier; I picked 3x to ma
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Also, how does reading the data from the original source solve the business need of verifying that the newspaper included the information in the agreed-upon place in the print edition?
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In this sort of situation, it's always useful to ask what the cost of not automating the task at all is. That will give everyone a better feel for whether the automation makes sense, and how much developer time should be allocated to
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
As someone who has travelled some, the tragedy of the modern tourism industry is that it has homogenized so many places that it’s hard to tell them apart. I first noticed it when I took a Caribbean cruise a decade ago. The port areas are
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
This seems like it’s more a free press issue than free speech. Through its trade policy, the US government has restricted GitHub, a US company, from publishing certain material (the tkashin.tk website). Trade policy can reasonably apply to
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Where I went to school (in the US, but there weren’t unified standards at the time), US and European history were taught separately, in alternate years. So we got both the war of 1812, and the Napoleonic Wars, but there was little to conne
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I admit that I don’t know the details of how citizenship was handled after the American revolution, but that was only about 30 years prior. My understanding is that the vast majority of American citizens were considered by the Crown to be
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> But today if a US citizen visits a country that also considers him a citizen, and that country drafts him into the military, the USA has nothing to say about it. I imagine that they might have something to say about it if the other cou
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Understanding and reasoning about a text is a concentration-heavy activity that libraries exist to facilitate, and context-switching costs are similar to programming. In a library, it is rude to interrupt someone for any reason less urgent
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> It doesn't matter much for platforms if gig workers are still legal in say, Wyoming. Why not? While brand recognition is valuable, it makes sense to operate in any jurisdiction in which you operate at a profit. At this point, all
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Move to Europe and then send them a GDPR request?
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
When I lived in California, the town I lived in was surrounded by freeways to the extent that there was only one way out of town that didn’t require traveling over or under a bridge, and that required you to drive the wrong way on the freew
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
On the opposite end of the scale: go to a sporting event and cheer on the home team. You’ll be in an energetic group with common purpose, and no expectation to hold a conversation of any kind.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It also falls into the trap of treating the most common definition as the only one. When you look up left/right in here, you'll find positioning, but nothing about liberal/conservative opinions or a legal guarantee (the righ
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I don’t know much about the current state of adtech, so I’d be hard-pressed to make specific recommendations. As a broadcast medium, TV stations had basically no data about the number of viewers that they had; Nielsen instrumented a repres
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Isn’t that basically the point of Nielsen? They go to a lot of trouble to get trustworthy stats about TV viewership so that advertisers can make informed purchase decisions wrt. both stations and programs. Several companies have tried to fi
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Aside from the flaws of his counter-example, he’s trying to argue in support of a technique that he gives no example of whatsoever. He simply states that his preferred solution would handle the inherent complexity better than this.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
By using a hypothetical to support his argument, the author is implicitly asserting that his hypothetical is representative of the real-world situations we’re trying to discuss. He had the freedom to pick the strongest example possible, or
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Localized is good. It means that the next time there’s a new thing, there’s only one place you need to change to specify its unique set of properties. Often, this can even be removed from the code entirely into a configuration file, so th
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> You cannot fix essential complexity with any kind of design. If there are options in design, your code will reflect them at some layer. That’s certainly true; my favorite method at the moment for this sort of thing is to make it data-d
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The article’s argument is a reductio ad absurdum that flows from the outcome of the purportedly reasonable refactoring of this: int new_sequence_number (int old_sqn, int foosoft) { if (foosoft == 2) // version 5.34.2
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Knowing that a thing is true is categorically different from knowing how to do something— Knowing that group A uses technique B doesn’t automatically make you proficient at using B yourself. Masquerading as a particular cyber-attack group r
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Thanks; I had assumed that drawing a sample was a fundamental operation on a well-defined probability distribution, and that existing QM tools were sufficient to define that distribution, if not distinguish between the various interpretatio
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Both you and the other reply refer to counting universes/branches, which is obviously a term of art that I’m not understanding. Where I talk about sampling successor universes, are you just emphasizing that we’re drawing from a contin
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> But I have the luxury of not doing this for a living, and I'm very happy to be proved wrong by people who do. I'm in a similar (but likely even less knowledgable) position; I'm having trouble following your logic, presum

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