mihaic

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by mihaic 3y ago
I remember using Perforce and Accurev about 10 years ago, and they were miles better than Git in terms of abstraction and feature set. I often miss being able to work on multiple branches with partially uncommitted local work for instance.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Thinking about cache-optimality, I'm wondering if anyone is using a hybrid: the first levels are in this way (index K branches to 2 K and 2 K+1 if 1-based), but the end levels are consecutive to then can be loaded in a single cacheline
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by mihaic 4y ago
Shorten!
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by mihaic 4y ago
My favorite anecdote with Chargaff is how he first told Linus Pauling about how the ratio between the nucleotide pairs A-T and C-G is constant on a sea voyage. Pauling thought he was unpleasant and ignored him. It turns out you need to some
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by mihaic 4y ago
But why not then fire both parties was my question?
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by mihaic 4y ago
What if hiring them in the first place was the mistake? What are your options in that case?
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by mihaic 4y ago
The fact that the world's production of nutmeg until the 19th century was restricted only to the remote Banda islands I think falls in that category. The Dutch protected their source with vigilance.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Not a native German speaker, but for me the word "gemutlich" came to mind as their equivalent, at least from what I understood from the article.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Also blame a litigious culture, where context can be used against you in a court of law. It does need to be easier to give feedback without opening yourself up for a frivolous lawsuit.
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by mihaic 4y ago
This effect of media familiarity is exactly the same for me: I can be very creating when listening to an old playlist, but can't think at all when listening to something new. Not all people seem to be like this though, as I have friend
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by mihaic 4y ago
Good list. I would add the evolution of sexual reproduction, 1.2-2 bya. It seems to be a one-time leap and snowballed into the modern complexity of life.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Seems to be product people that have a need to launch a feature to which they can doctor some KPIs and justify their promotion. The longterm damage to the company is probably in the billions, so I also have no idea why the top execs don&#x2
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by mihaic 4y ago
The most shocking thing for me here is that one of the best mathematicians of our times has to do fucking random data to Excel gruntwork. What AI seems to be replacing is mostly bullshit jobs in this case, that should have been handled by s
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by mihaic 4y ago
That's pretty much my point actually: the art world keeps repeating some things as true, while the general population completely disagrees. It's like how architects keep saying "ornament is a crime", while most people wa
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by mihaic 4y ago
It sounds to me like you heard this bullshit argument from someone before and they managed to convince you. It's almost a trope in the art world, and the fact that many unoriginal artists use it has made it a usable argument by simple
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'm mostly trying to extrapolate from current code and text generation abilities, so I know any prediction has a high chance of striking out. Legal professionals that work on boilerplate could see simple contract generation being taken
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by mihaic 4y ago
The one good thing I see out of the coming AI cambrian explosion is that it'll hit the bracket of top 10% to 1% earners the hardest, while those above and bellow are safer. This bracket has been in recent decades the enforcers of the s
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by mihaic 4y ago
Thinking of what I would have needed to hear in your place: - By your burnrate, it sounds like you have about 5M left. First give yourself 500k safety bonus, so you have some piece if mind to think clearly. 10% doesn't matter negativel
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by mihaic 4y ago
The US has managed to export significant parts of its political discourse in places where it makes no sense to have those discussions, simply by controlling global news. I think you underestimate how much this is.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I can't say about the US, since I don't have enough information there. The way US grants are usually awarded might also be broken, but it's different enough that other solutions are required, and there really isn't much
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by mihaic 4y ago
As an EU citizen and entrepreneur, I can safely say that the system is and will remain fundamentally broken, unless a serious shake-up happens. Grant programs have the rigidity of a totalitarian bureaucracy combined with the corruption of c
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by mihaic 4y ago
Do you know by first-hand experience if these public consultations actually make any difference? I once attended one from the local gov, and everything was already predetermined and the debate was just a dance.
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by mihaic 4y ago
If you're affraid that your house's value will drop in value, this seems to be a very broken system. If you own it and you're using it as much as you want, you living quality is not at all affected by fluctuations in its hypo
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by mihaic 4y ago
Fingerprinting is doing terrible things for big-tech data collection, and at the same time it's excruciatingly hard to protect against bots, spammers, fraudaters etc without it. Few people seem to try to reconcile this, since neither s
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by mihaic 4y ago
I had a similar contradiction with a friend yesterday, and I argued that the big winners of the AI revolution might actually be those in construction/electricians for instance, as their livelyhood won't be significantly affected i
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by mihaic 4y ago
As a Windows user since version 3.1, ever since Windows 11 I've been thinking of migrating to KDE+Ubuntu. It's sad that Microsoft clearly has talented developers, but their product people seem to be like an Apple that is openly ho
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by mihaic 4y ago
That's the general social contract that most people have as their mental model: "If I pay my taxes and do my part, my children will get the standard benefits of citizenship". Honestly, I'm not sure what use you see from
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by mihaic 4y ago
Abandoning friends at the first sign of problems, without at least trying to help them leads long term to a society where almost everyone has fallen down and has been abandoned.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I once spent a whole afternoon thinking about how one could make a political campaign with the explicit goals of dropping the value of real-estate. It's a tough one, breaking against most economic dogmas: foreigners and second home own

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