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by mandevil 2y ago
Building a good UI is not to be sneezed at- it's a lot of very important work to get a user experience that isn't a dreadful series of checkboxes with limited choice. I haven't downloaded this so I can't tell if he has s
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by mandevil 2y ago
Good to see this article is available. Would that count as a new publication date?
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by mandevil 2y ago
Sleep versus awake from a sensor on the wrist is always going to be subject to wide error bars. Source: worked on an experiment trying to make people fall asleep while driving (in a simulated environment so it was safe- I built the simulate
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by mandevil 2y ago
"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be nece
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by mandevil 2y ago
So back in the 1990s, online I talked with someone who worked in the GPS constellation. He said that they wanted multiple passes of a Navstar over their tracking locations to correct the orbital parameters after every orbital burn. Since th
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by mandevil 2y ago
Comm sats in LEO like Starlink are never going to have orbits precisely known enough to be near GPS-quality without a lot of waiting. Because Starlink is in LEO they have to burn regularly (much more often than the MEO orbits preferred for
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by mandevil 2y ago
A comm sat network is very very different from a positioning satellite network. You'll notice that here on earth those missions are done by very different satellites in very different orbits, they are not substitutes for each other.
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by mandevil 2y ago
It leaked to other people in the company, who were looking to use that information for a secondary market product that Carta had. Since they know everyone who owns stock in company X, they know exactly who to approach about selling stock in
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by mandevil 2y ago
SAR's can be discussed when criminal charges are filed. The most famous case I know of that stems from a publicly available SAR is former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-Il) after his retirement from the House, when he was a lobb
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by mandevil 2y ago
FINCEN (and others who have search access to it, which rounds to most Federal Government criminal investigators) can see all SARs filed. Banks (and other financial institutions obligated to file a SAR- like casinos!) don't get to see w
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Quota vs. Quality? Long Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota (2022)(cesifo.org)
3 points by mandevil 2y ago|1 comments
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by mandevil 2y ago
This is a study done on Finnish teachers. For six years in the 1980s there was affirmative action to help have more male primary school teachers. The male teachers who were there because of affirmative action seem to have been better teache
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Return to Office Mandates and Brain Drain(papers.ssrn.com)
6 points by mandevil 2y ago|2 comments
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by mandevil 2y ago
RTO causes more senior, more skilled, and women workers to leave, and open jobs were slower to fill. Based on 3 million LinkedIn employees for S&P500 companies.
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by mandevil 2y ago
Interestingly, it might be true that Saddam Hussein did pivot to fake ones. After the complete destruction of his conventional military in 1991, it seems he decided that the only way to keep Iran or some other unfriendly neighbor from invad
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by mandevil 2y ago
Good question. One point is that the chemistry is well known by the right kinds of chemists in every country and... doesn't look like that (just as a for instance, a gel that aerosolizes in the ways you'd want for a chemical weapo
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by mandevil 2y ago
Just as a note, real chemical weapons are not like this at all. Basically, VX (in the US and basically all other countries) is stored in binary form(1), two separate, basically clear chemicals with a glass wall that separates them, and the
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by mandevil 2y ago
I think data center revenue was in AMD's favor because AMD is second (obviously far behind NVidia) and Intel is third in AI accelerators, which both companies include in their data center numbers. So that pushes things in AMD's fa
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by mandevil 2y ago
From thousands of kilometers away, to make attribution/legal issues even more complex.
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by mandevil 2y ago
That's why I said it would be interesting to see how insurance companies decide on this. The insurance companies definitely would want this to be considered an act of war, I would expect, so they wouldn't have to pay out. But an
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by mandevil 2y ago
I mean, it will definitely cost someone money to go fix the cables. I know that in the US, our insurance explicitly does not cover acts of war (1) so I would be curious as to how insurance covers this. I suspect that the costs of moving ext
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by mandevil 2y ago
I prefer pi myself. For the sort of false precision that managers love.
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by mandevil 2y ago
I own a PHEV, for almost a year now, as my daily drive. It's not as good a BEV as a true BEV (range is ~20% of one) and it's not as good a HEV as a true HEV (gas mileage on hybrid mode is worse than my in-laws Prius'). But it
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by mandevil 2y ago
That was for the OpenAI games- including the ones that won. For the ones he ran himself with open source LLM's he restricted their grammar to just be legal moves, so it could only respond with a legal move. But that was because of a se
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by mandevil 2y ago
It sorta played chess- he let it generate up to ten moves, throwing away any that weren't legal, and if no legal move was generated by the 10th try he picked a random legal move. He does not say how many times he had to provide a rando
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by mandevil 2y ago
In my refactoring I always refer to that as Chesterton's Fence. Never remove something until you know why it was put in in the first place. Plenty of times it's because you were trying to support Python 3.8 or something else obsol
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by mandevil 2y ago
Hahaha, Joel Spolsky predicted exactly that IN THE YEAR 2000: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by mandevil 2y ago
When I was in my 20's George W Bush was president of the US, Tony Blair was supporting him 100% on the importance of invading Iraq, and then when I was 26 the bottom dropped out of the economy in the worst economic crash since 1929. So
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by mandevil 2y ago
I mean, I think two sets of 12 hours dates back to Ancient Egypt, basically as old as the Pyramids, so quite a bit older than the Bible itself. But note that most of those cultures used equal divisions per day, expanding or shrinking the le
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by mandevil 2y ago
You really need a good grounding in European history to follow it, I would say. Medieval/Renaissance is where I'm weakest so it's where I struggled the most, but he covers over 1800 years of history so he moves pretty fast an

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