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by larkost 4y ago
I think the difference in the number of canceled projects is that Apple cancels them internally before customers see them. Google seems to like to try things out more to see if it might work, whereas at Apple they have to clearly see how th
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by larkost 4y ago
Amazon always wants as much as it can automated, they devote an enormous amount of money to that. This is not going to move the needle on something they were already dedicated to. And that argument is almost always silly. All of these big c
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by larkost 4y ago
> absolutely. If anything investors provide for liquidity of the market. No, no, no. "providing liquidity" is not a good thing unless liquidity is actually a problem almost everywhere people talk about this. The "liquidity
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by larkost 4y ago
I don't think you are getting this right. A example would be Senator Elizabeth Chaney. She has been actively shunned by conservatives because she is willing to tell the truth about the 2020 elections. So she is being publicly punished
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by larkost 4y ago
I think the difference between university and college in the US is very clear, it is just not widely known. A college can get you a bachelors degree, a university can confer a doctorate (I always assume masters degrees come along with unive
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by larkost 4y ago
I should point out that places like Germany do vote for the party, not the person for positions like Parliament. In each region the parties submit slates of people they would put into the positions if they got all of the votes, and then onc
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by larkost 4y ago
Sadly it is the very reasonable assumption that is wrong: important findings often do not get replicated. Usually the setup and execution (even working from great notes) is long and difficult, and often involves something specialized like t
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by larkost 4y ago
Prop. 13 means that a commercial renter can rent out the land to one tenant after another virtually forever without the taxes going up very much at all (way below inflation). At some point it gets to a point where it is never economically a
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by larkost 4y ago
This is not quite right. You are forgetting Kentucky: a slave state that explicitly decided not to leave the union and fought alongside the non-slave states against the Confederacy. Even Abraham Lincoln had declared himself as a non-aboliti
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by larkost 4y ago
And you have arrived at about the compromise that the Supreme Court had before this latest ruling: a fetus can start to get protections (on a state by state basis) when it hits viability (might be able to live outside the womb).
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by larkost 4y ago
The provision (Second Amendment) explicitly says "well regulated", and talks about gun rights in connection with being for militias. This is how that right was read until 2008. This is all about conservatives on the Supreme Court
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by larkost 4y ago
There are no indications at all of incompetence (I assume that is what you meant) or laziness in this at all. All indications are that this is an group of employees who came together to complain internally, the complaint was leaked (no indi
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by larkost 4y ago
Conversely, could this not describe Musk's/SpaceX's response to this: complaining about a letter rather than working with them? I don't think anyone has accused the letter writers of not getting their job done. So far it
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by larkost 4y ago
The other option is to have the government have a larger control, either by government run insurance, or by government run healthcare. There are numerous examples of either in the world that are both more effective by healthcare metrics and
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by larkost 4y ago
You mean that as absentee ballots started to be counted (after the in-person ones, as required by Republican officials), that the polls started to swing just as everyone (including then-President Trump) had expected before the election? Is
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by larkost 4y ago
Fleshing this out a bit more: The idea was that there would be one "Document" type, and that you could have multiple parts in that document, each supported by a separate application. Users getting a document could always see it (t
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by larkost 4y ago
I would also suggest the Storybots series. There are some amazing cameos by Snoop Dog and Weird All Yancovic among others.
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by larkost 4y ago
To give some color: there were a large number of (small) insurance companies that were paying less than 50% of their revenues in actual medical payments. In those cases most of the costs were in bonuses to the executives. This was a measure
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by larkost 4y ago
This assumes that every relevant detail is speced out. In many projects you don't know exactly what something is going to look like at the end of the project, so over-spec'ing is just as much a problem.
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by larkost 4y ago
Even more than that. Most of the Silicon Valley employees of Apple do not work in either the Spaceship or any of the Infinite Loop locations. There are dozens of buildings around Cupertino and Sunnyvale (many quite large) that house Apple e
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by larkost 4y ago
I use mostly Python, with a little Golang in my job and my reasoning is: 1. Most of what I am doing is calling other programs, often over ssh. The speed difference between the two is going to be tiny (where it is not, I use Golang) 2. Pytho
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by larkost 4y ago
I believe that the binaries that actually get shipped to the watch are final bits. Apple just compiles the bitcode that developers give them into versions for all of the watches that they are supporting, and those versions get downloaded by
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by larkost 4y ago
I disagree. What is really trying to be banned here is things like talking about families that have two dads (or two moms). No-one is talking to kindergartners about sex in schools, homosexual or heterosexual. But they are talking about why
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by larkost 4y ago
It may well be that either the third parties who created the game are no longer around (making their intellectual property difficult/impossible to license), or that they in turn had licenses for various assets (images/sounds. etc.
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by larkost 5y ago
While I totally agree that process can go nuts and get in the way, I will disagree that testing always makes things slower. Once you are past the prototyping phase, and get into actual production phase (some projects never make this turn) s
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by larkost 5y ago
I will counter that integration tests tend to have a much bigger footprint: one test covers a lot more ground and so per line of code will catch more things. But, the failures from integration tests are often a lot harder to read. Even half
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by larkost 5y ago
Did you raise your hand after a couple of mentions and ask what a velocity vector was? Or go see the professor either right after class, or at their next office hours? Or talk to a TA about this? Those all seem like appropriate solutions to
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by larkost 5y ago
No. ProRes is designed to be a good compression scheme for editing. That means it has to be designed in a way that make jumping to arbitrary frames and scrubbing very fast, as well as it needs to focus very hard on near-elimination of compr
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by larkost 5y ago
I have Russian-speaking Ukrainian friends. They have told me that there is no such pomgrom in Ukraine against them or people like them. They have told me multiple times that Russian friends of theirs keep telling them that they must be scar
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by larkost 5y ago
But that is taking a hindsight view on things. The U.S. planners had no real access to the thoughts of these people, and from their perspective, one gained by the island-by-island battles like Saipan, both the Japanese military and civilian

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