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by m12k 5y ago
From a UI/usability perspective, one of the dangers with overengineering is the "wall of options" issue, where all users - even the majority of them that just need something simple - still need to read and understand all thes
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You can - but then your startup needs to be that much more attractive to get investors in the first place.
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> Don’t put them in a position to embarrass themselves: “RxJS was really confusing for me when I learned it, was there any way I could make my explanation clearer in this talk?” This is much more effective than just, “Did that make sense
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IMO that's exactly the argument why wee need a carbon tax. The status quo is that the only people who are really doing anything at all are some governments and the wokest part of the population. That's not nearly enough - we need
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by m12k 5y ago
This policy is called "fee and dividend", and has a pretty well-fleshed out wikipedia article[1]. IMO it's the best way to implement a carbon tax while avoiding "yellow vest protests" or deepening inequality. A carb
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> Efficiency and cost savings that just happen to reduce emissions? That's where the focus should be. Isn't that where the focus has already been for decades? Which has pretty definitely proven itself insufficient for curbing e
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The core problem here is that emitting carbon doesn't cost the polluters much, so helping them or their customers to avoid it doesn't save them money. It's not a pain point, so the only motivation for them to do anything abou
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by m12k 5y ago
$86,001 for a world first - he should have minted an NFT instead
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by m12k 5y ago
Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
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Using the plasma's pressure on the containing magnetic field to induce a current (rather than heating water in order to use steam to run a turbine, as is currently what we do with fission) is pretty damn clever, and might lead to small
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It's mind-boggling to me that something as nebulous and tradition-over-proof-oriented as the concept of a "prestigious journal" still gets to be the centerpiece of the functioning of the entire scientific community. I get tha
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Spoiler alert for Part 2!
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An NFT is basically a link to a URL stored on a blockchain. Websites can host an artist's image at a specific URL and help them sell the NFT as a kind of "crypto-autograph" for the artwork. It doesn't mean the actual art
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I think it's also worth reflecting on how modern attention spans have shortened. Modern media has spoiled us with instant and constant gratification in our pockets. Dune, the book, was written in an era where it was still considered ac
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On macOS I use Spotlight (cmd-space) to do one-line calculations or unit/currency conversion.
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Learning something and pretending like you know it already are two goals that are very at odds with each other. It's one of the things I felt got better when going from high school to university - in high school I felt like I needed to
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by m12k 5y ago
I've only been in the industry for ~15 years, but it still feels like every year, some ecosystem discovers the value of something that another ecosystem has taken for granted for decades - type-checking, immutability, unidirectional da
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by m12k 5y ago
So you're saying what I really need is a decoy surfer that I can send further out so I get the nearer spots to myself?
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by m12k 5y ago
I think generally Lua is considered a scripting language - it is suited for gluing together performance critical components built in faster languages like C, C++ or Rust - the kinds of GC-less languages you can make a VM, game engine or OS
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by m12k 5y ago
It's like bad software architecture. Imagine we already have a security module responsible for deciding what requests are properly authenticated and authorized. And we have a service module responsible for some of the processioning of
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Estimating uncertainty is preferred, but if you have people who insist on a single number, then teach them that it should be the median instead of the mean. Means tend to overvalue "moonshots" where there's a 99% chance you l
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by m12k 5y ago
The crazy thing is that unlike a weather forecast, if people start to trust your economic forecast, then their actions will likely throw it off again, so your new forecast then needs to include the reactions to the first forecast (and other
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I wonder when they're going to tackle macroeconomic forecasting? It seems like a good candidate - a complex system with too many variables for analytical models to be very good, and indications that there are patterns and connections t
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Maybe because it was an acquisition, so they had already built up a talent pool?
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There's indications that the Russian intelligence services are intertwined with organized crime. The oligarchs get help laundering money out of the state, the intelligence services get untraceable money that they can use to bribe forei
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I imagine an emulator will have hot paths in tight loops in a way that web apps don't, so it makes sense that it sees the biggest benefit from jit'ing
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Well, it makes the "download our self-checkout app" posters they throw at you while standing in line pretty useless.
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Incognito mode defeats this
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We imagined a future with flying cars, but today, the notion of wasting energy to overcome gravity, when the normal force from a road could do that for free, seems wasteful in a world struggling to meet its energy needs without emitting mor
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by m12k 5y ago
It's pointless for Facebook to have their hardware used if it's not tied to their accounts and ecosystem. More likely, the Oculus Go is obsoleted enough by the Quest 2, that they decided they didn't care.

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