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by memling 4y ago
He also wrote a great intro to generating finite automata using Scheme macros.[0] It carries you through step by step and motivates the work well. [0] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published&#x2F
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by memling 4y ago
> It is a fool's errand to try to evaluate the net societal impact of a particular technology, even with perfect predictive power. This really isn't true. We regularly do cost-benefit analyses for business; we don't skip
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by memling 4y ago
> I saddens me to see here these sort of posts. We should actually be much more proactive about technology: it is not an unalloyed good, and an unwillingness to consider its downsides leads to naive designs. Even leaving bad actors asi
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by memling 4y ago
Saunders collection Tenth of December is great.
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by memling 4y ago
Gladwell's 10k hours rule is disputed.[1] Assuming it were true, for sake of argument, it's not 10,000 hours to get good at something. The difference between bad and good is much, much smaller than the difference between b
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by memling 4y ago
> Find something that’s enjoyable to you, and valuable for the world, and put your whole self into it Sounds like you hit one of two here. Not for the faint of heart. I hope yours recovers soon enough.
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by memling 4y ago
> There are much less obscure texts, roughly contemporary with the Bible, which discuss humanistic values such as might be associated with 'Western Civilization'. Some of these have been treated as holy by various religious gro
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by memling 4y ago
> The Bible is not exactly .. readable? I can appreciate why people might say this, but modern translations are not that hard, and large parts are narrative and relatively straightforward. Probably a bit of an explainer is helpful, just
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by memling 4y ago
Educate me, pkease: why no new or delete? Does C++ now discourage heap allocation or is the common practice to use smart pointers, etc.?
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by memling 4y ago
> "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" There's a good book on this called "Damned Lies and Statistics" that I recommend to people.[1,2] [1]: https://archive.org/details/damnedliesstatis00best
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by memling 4y ago
> That said, a hydrogen gas station exploded near me, so yeah. There's definitely challenges, and it shouldn't be used where it doesn't make sense. Why did this happen, out of curiosity? Do you have a linked source?
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by memling 4y ago
Can you talk a bit more about the reasons for your deconversion? I'm always fascinated by these stories and it seems like yours includes an interesting elemnt of your parents supplying you with the tools to think critically about what
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by memling 4y ago
I more or less diagree with you, but the comment was lovely , and for some reason I find myself craving lobster thermidor.
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by memling 4y ago
> robust to noise but not warping in time or frequency domains. Could you use something like a dynamic time warping algorithm for this? (I'm not super acquainted with the technique and not sure if you could get away with it in the
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by memling 4y ago
> C has such a bad wrap with the HN crowd... why?
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by memling 4y ago
> Some U.S. states have a sales tax. Some also have an annual tax on the current assessed value of personal property, like real estate, cars, boats, etc. My current state has sales taxes (on non-essentials), property taxes that go to the
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by memling 4y ago
> Depends. Vigorous debate and experimenting does not come from humility. It comes from conviction. Humility is an end game, you can only reach for it when you accept that you are wrong (at the end of the argument) and likewise, when you
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by memling 4y ago
> But how can a humble person accomplish something extraordinary? At some point, you gotta have faith in what you're doing, despite all the opposition. Humility means accurate self-assessment. People will argue this point, I suppos
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by memling 4y ago
> I take a bus. Canada pays too little for software to own both a car and a house Can you get comped for working on the bus? Is it even possible? Commutes like this are really killer.
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by memling 4y ago
If you work a 230-day year, every ten minutes on your commute is over 38 hours of time. You're spending the equivalent of 17 work weeks in the car, or 37.5% of your 230-day work year. That's a lot of time.
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by memling 4y ago
> I'm using Pinephone as a daily driver What OS? Does MMS work out of the box for you?
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by memling 4y ago
> I love my friends and family and they love me back. However I would avoid conflict at almost all costs in order to please people even if it is too my own detriment. I've sat on this for a couple days trying to wrap some thoughts u
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by memling 4y ago
I have been learning Racket on and off for the last few years as part of an interest in DSLs. (The documentation is well written, but I confess a certain kind of impatience with it because it is hard for me to get task-specific information
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by memling 4y ago
> Scrivener Are you aware of any tools that approximate Scrivener under Linux?
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by memling 4y ago
To add to those who have said that there are legal implications, I would add anecdotally I was advised by my HR department not to give feedback for exactly that reason. (We had a junior candidate who misrepresented his experience on his re
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by memling 4y ago
> Who cares about inflation if your rent/mortgage is 3 or 4 times higher? Oh, for sure: inflation is challenging to measure, and it probably isn't very descriptive for a lot of common situations. (I think the Consumer Price I
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by memling 4y ago
> I bet 100k today is roughly 50k in the year 2000. Mean inflation from 2000-2021 (last year on record) was ~2.24%, including a 4.7% increase in 2021.[1] $50k inflated at this rate would be approximately $80k. I'm sure others are mo
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by memling 4y ago
> [M]y vote behind Guards! Guards! as a great starting point. That was my introduction, when it came out, but I recommend Hogfather to most as it captures the wide breadth of his writing. There's a lot of great comedy in it, but
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by memling 4y ago
Have an upvote. > So right off the bat I'm not sure the point you're making. That 350k yearly salary is a high number. Attainable, sure, but high, and not representative of typical SWE jobs for most people, senior-level includ
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by memling 4y ago
> If your upper bound does not greatly exceed that number*, then all of the actually senior folks that I know are not going to be interested in your role. Most of my contacts are outside the Bay. That's fine--it's still a large

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