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by lainga 3y ago
Seems like the problem is that "programming as a career" often means "waiting". All the process stuff he mentions is (personally) fine with me, it's just that you often have no agency over when it happens. Everythin
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by lainga 3y ago
Say what you will, but in true hacker spirit he has created a product that automated his job away at scale.
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by lainga 3y ago
The difference between 2010 (firesheep) and now is about $100B of regulatory capture. That $BIGCO is not this $BIGCO.
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by lainga 3y ago
Everyone knows that the best way to get something done on the Internet is with an inflammatory title and a potentially incorrect contention.
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by lainga 3y ago
You're not thinking the Matt Levine way. None of that matters. What matters is whether said (undisclosed) event could be construed to have materially harmed the business, and thus form grounds for a shareholder suit. The Theory is ha
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by lainga 3y ago
> Since they e.g. don't really get hurt if their customers' private info is leaked I don't know, that could depress future customer retention and hurt the business. Seems like it would run afoul of the Matt Levine Everythi
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by lainga 3y ago
Ah, but HN is a platform for not just any software engineer, but the entrepreneurial type.
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by lainga 3y ago
That is a generous number. Thank you for enlightening me
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by lainga 3y ago
Hi Esteban. What's your business model?
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by lainga 3y ago
How long? The cloud microparameterisation looks really exciting, but 10-year stability for a GCM (and "nearly conserving" water) is not great
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by lainga 3y ago
One of my high school teachers had a quote she was fond of repeating: "Education requires three things: a teacher, a student, and a stump. Unwilling to change the first, unable to change the second, educators spend all their money on t
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by lainga 3y ago
Many Times Must We Endure Dang's BS?
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by lainga 3y ago
counterpoint being "bring up what my husband said 10 months ago". the Devil skips away, contract in hand...
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by lainga 3y ago
Headline disease. Czar nabs top vetting job, slams snub.
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by lainga 3y ago
I found the article answered most of the questions it posed, but this one came and went unexplained... > Banks aggressively partition staff based on job duties and levels within those duties. Why?
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by lainga 3y ago
How do I interpret that Q4 to Q1 sawtooth? End-of-year bonuses paying off debt?
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by lainga 3y ago
We have seen the EU, Japan and (as sibling comment says) almost the US space industries have these problems. Can you think of any national space industries which do not? Maybe NZ due to the presence of Rocketlab and nobody else?
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by lainga 3y ago
I thought some CSS was cutting off the descenders, but no, it's a conscious choice. (Although it sounds from the font copy that you can get regular g's and u's by enabling an OTF alt style...?) https://www.fontspri
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by lainga 3y ago
The 1920s?
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by lainga 3y ago
After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back on
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by lainga 3y ago
It looks to me like it's "upscaling" ENS data to high resolution. Global general circulation models work with somewhat low-resolution data about terrain, and this model has found a function mapping the low-resolution weather
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by lainga 3y ago
Sorry... just imagine this comment in 2pt font... Ԁɹ uᴉ ʇᴉ ƃuᴉpɐǝɹ ǝq oʇ pǝsoddns ǝɹ,noʎ ʇǝƃ noʎ ǝɔuo ʎsɐǝ sʇǝƃ ʇI ¿ʇsǝʇ lɐǝɹ ɐ ǝq oʇ pǝsoddns ʇᴉ sᴉ
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by lainga 3y ago
Can anyone please explain to me what the train of thought was from effective altruism (of which I choose to know very little) to a "bunker/shelter" in Nauru? [] [] https://observer.com/2023/07/who-wa
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by lainga 3y ago
No broadband in da Belt
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by lainga 3y ago
This is a bit of inside baseball but many climate models use something called a "bulk formula" for evaporation [], which is empirically derived from real observations of the sea surface. Hopefully which (already) captures this nov
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by lainga 3y ago
But they still all had jobs, right? So does it matter that much? Or is there some other force keeping them from losing their hides to competent realtors?
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by lainga 3y ago
> As someone who worked with Chinese nationals, even some of them who were complete simps for The Party had no desire to have all their finances completely digitized and tracked. HA! Reminds me of Bertolt Brecht's postwar life when
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by lainga 3y ago
What do you dislike about Lua? (having used it I have several answers already in mind)
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by lainga 3y ago
> .vs, .fs Is that like a Unity or Unreal standard? The thing I'm familiar with is a single .glsl with a void fragment() and void vertex() etc. in it
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by lainga 3y ago
> You can actually make a very comfortable career of Senior and Staff by learning to identify this kind of work/system and proposing ways to simplify it. Where?

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