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by medler 3y ago
But the people on the waitlist are not using the daycare. I don’t know the numbers in this case but you could imagine a daycare with 10 slots and 1000 people on the waitlist.
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by medler 3y ago
The article discusses the problems with UVC. No one who read this article would think UVC was safe to put in anyone’s bedroom.
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by medler 3y ago
Why do you say that? I like it and would recommend it to anyone. Since I’m asking you to critique it I’ll go ahead and critique it myself, even though I’m overall positive on it. It’s aimed mainly at middle-aged business owners who are used
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by medler 3y ago
> get good at making drawings and hiring shops What is “hiring shops?”
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by medler 3y ago
Oh I agree 100%, the 10,000 hours thing is a cliché and the popular interpretation that 10,000 hours of an activity equals mastery has been throughly debunked. I roll my eyes whenever I see it mentioned. I’m giving Norvig a pass here becaus
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by medler 3y ago
This essay holds a special place in my heart, since I first read it as a teenager when I was just starting to learn to code. Re-reading it now, I was surprised to see references to Malcom Gladwell, since I didn’t remember Outliers becoming
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by medler 3y ago
Most low-paid workers are safe for the time being, since they do jobs that cannot be done by LLMs, for example, cooking, cleaning, caring for children, driving, etc. The current AI wave threatens only mid- and higher-income workers, for exa
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by medler 3y ago
Maybe if I got audited. I don’t think they would have noticed otherwise
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by medler 3y ago
This mistake was a consequence of the complicated tax system. It involved a complex maneuver (the backdoor Roth) that TurboTax supports but has a bad UX for. Presumably a less complicated tax system would eliminate these kinds of complex ma
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by medler 3y ago
On form 1040, under “IRA distributions - taxable amount” (box 4b), TurboTax filled in the amount of my IRA conversion. It should have been left blank. This caused my taxable income to be increased by the amount of the conversion. Not good.
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by medler 3y ago
The first time I used Freetaxusa, I also filled out TurboTax as usual, and found that with TurboTax I made a mistake that would have cost me well over a thousand dollars in overpayment. I then realized that I had made the same mistake the p
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by medler 3y ago
> But what about all that lackluster driver support? WiFi drivers still on the 802.11g standard and all? Surely you can't be serious about it when Linux offers all that support out of the box, right? Wrong, actually. For starters, t
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by medler 3y ago
> “You can browse a modern web, have things scroll smoothly, watch videos and even play some 3D games like Quake with it“ So it sounds like the alleged difference in performance is subjective based on interactive use, not benchmark numbe
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by medler 3y ago
> E.g. “The fatal flaw, as I understand it, in Kant’s deontological ethical system is his disregard of consequentialism.” Did the kid come up with that himself, or is he just regurgitating, verbatim, a judgment penned by some author he r
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by medler 3y ago
The idea of the ethics training is that you as an engineer don’t do the unethical work, even if stockholders want it
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by medler 3y ago
Since 2020, gyms in NY state are required to offer an easy means of cancellation
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by medler 3y ago
Insider trading laws apply to private companies as well. (No idea about the legal questions on this particular case though)
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by medler 3y ago
Passing larger objects by value is allowed or even encouraged if it lets you avoid a copy (e.g. if you’re about to move the object)
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by medler 3y ago
I like this perspective as well. If the coin is rotating around a point (radius 0), the point on the coin edge touching the point will not move at all, yet the coin will make one rotation before returning to its original position.
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by medler 3y ago
The application to sidereal time is where this really gets interesting. It’s far from a trivial question of semantics or a mathematical trick. It’s something astronomers have known about for ages, since the amount of time it takes for the E
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by medler 3y ago
It depends on the viewer’s perspective. From the coin’s point of view it rotates three times, but to an outside viewer it rotates four times. I think the outside viewer’s perspective is far more intuitive, so four is really the “most” corre
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by medler 3y ago
None of the papers linked above or linked in the GitHub repo mention “loop resistance.”
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by medler 3y ago
Could you share some pointers where I can read more on “loop resistance?” Does that just refer to whether it does well on a looping access pattern?
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by medler 3y ago
So you actually see “1 year of experience repeated 10 times” as a positive! I like that, but do I think there’s value in thinking about how a system should evolve over the long term and in seeing the long-term consequences of your own archi
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by medler 3y ago
Big Microsoft critic here but that tweet made me chuckle. Gotta give this one to the Microsoft social team
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by medler 3y ago
> You think he opposed being tormented for his own good, but would have happily endured it for some other (purely hypothetical) person? He was against moral legislation, such as laws against homosexuality and laws promoting marriage, but
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by medler 3y ago
I don’t think that quote applies to this situation. Lewis is talking about forcing people to do things for their own benefit. But speed limits are not mainly for your own benefit as the driver. They’re to protect others from the driver’s da
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by medler 3y ago
Reading this made me grateful that there are still ways to avoid all this surveillance. For example,—and this is just the tip of the iceberg—reading Standard Ebooks on a privacy-respecting ebook reader.
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by medler 3y ago
OP’s company is based in the UK, so I was curious if the UK had stronger mechanisms for renouncing copyright. According to this source[1], they do not: “Under United Kingdom law, the availability of [copyright] abandonment is far from clear
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by medler 3y ago
Be careful with projecting these numbers forward. As far as I can tell, there’s no SLA for durability, only for 99.9% uptime (you can get 10% off your bill if this is violated)

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