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by milesvp 5y ago
The heavy use of ellipses is a common giveaway for sarcasm in casual writing in the US. But I agree, part of what makes "good" sarcasm is that it's easy to interpret as being either for or against something depending on the a
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by milesvp 5y ago
I think you are in agreement with the parent post. There was an implied /s in the tone. Systemically it’s a huge problem to favor investors over whistleblowers and fines. You want incentives to be aligned wherever possible, and being a
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by milesvp 5y ago
I’m not sure it is. What verb does someone do when they collect and collate data about products at consumer reports, tom’s hardware, or even the low bar of linus tech tips? I’d say while the primary role may be journalist at most of these t
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by milesvp 5y ago
It's sort of a historic adjusted return for annualized stock data. It also roughly matches a healthy 3% GDP growth of a "developed" country and still have some room for added risk. If you want to sort of gross rank investment
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by milesvp 5y ago
If stocks soared, then you’re missing inflation. Risk adjusted, an all market stock index fund should never return more than 4% above inflation (ignoring that even 4% must also include risk). So, as a general rule, whatever your stock portf
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by milesvp 5y ago
I think that’s a false analogy. A face mask surely contains part of a sneeze. Aerosols play an important part in the spread of many airborn viruses, and masks certainly change characteristics of mouth born aerosols. To see a slightly tongue
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by milesvp 5y ago
I used to frame pictures in a former life. It’s a very delicate and meticulous craft. While it’s not the same as a cabinet maker, I can tell you some insights related to something with tangible, finished objects. There are days when you do
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by milesvp 5y ago
I might agree with you generally, but the more I learn about power generation the harder the problem looks. A power grid requires balancing load with a higher degree of precision than you might think, and not just total sums, but also in di
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by milesvp 5y ago
There's actually research around this. I don't have references to any of the papers I read 10+ years ago, but the field is ripe with data since it's gotten easier to measure things. One of the surprising results in this area,
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by milesvp 5y ago
I’m a big fan of these kinds of improvements. They can be a bit dangerous politically though. 5 minutes might be something the manager can get traction to implement a fix to get it below 1 minute build times. At 1 minute the manager may nev
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by milesvp 5y ago
Generally you’ll find that the msrp is going to be roughly 9xBOM (bill of materials). That leaves wholesale prices to be roughly 3xBOM so that there’s some profitability at that stage. This is at least a common heuristic that I use when des
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by milesvp 5y ago
Childcare for 2 children under the age of 5 in my area will cost roughly $4000. Mortgage for a very modest 4 bedroom house is another $2500. $1500 for all the rest starts to get very tight. Insurance as a category alone can eat half of that
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by milesvp 5y ago
Theft is often a crime of convenience. It’s counterintuitive, but thefts actually tend to go down during recessions. People just don’t leave the house as much, so they don’t have as many opportunities to steal. Source: good friend was a pub
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by milesvp 5y ago
There’s actually a problem here in washington state, and I’d guess in other states as well, that most of the legislators are real estate agents. They’re one of the few common professions that can afford to take off months at a time and stil
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by milesvp 5y ago
I’d be worried if it happened more often. But it’s not totally out of character historically for HN. I’d say this is sort of interesting. I don’t know my dog breeds but my first thought was this dog must have some sheep dog heritage. I’m a
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by milesvp 5y ago
Very much this. I find it necessary to make even the most simple and obvious connections explicit in group contexts. This is even more useful when dealing with people who are further away from the problem, or aren't focused on the issu
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by milesvp 5y ago
I don’t know if you’ve worked with testers, but they think differently than devs. A good test org will also be slightly antagonistic to a dev team and that antagonism, plus a slight us vs them mentality can produce some amazing product resu
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by milesvp 5y ago
Did you know that there are Go problems that professional players can't solve, but that newbies solve trivially? Becoming a professional go player creates blind spots, basically any board that could never happen in a real game just don
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by milesvp 5y ago
The fundamental problem with take homes is that they produce a huge asymmetry in the cost of interviewing. The company can waste hours of random people's time without having to spend a single minute on them. So while I understand that
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by milesvp 5y ago
Although orange juice is literally sugar water. I find it maddening that marketing has convinced us juice is healthy.
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by milesvp 5y ago
Yeah, I had to look this guy up. He sounded like a crazy nut job at first, then said the term microscopy in a way that made me believe he had actual technical experience. Seems this interview is several years (decades?) old. https:/&#
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by milesvp 5y ago
I might be tempted to take it a step further, and say that any interaction that would be taxed between businesses should be taxed if the same interaction happens internally. I really don’t like that the system seems to encourage acquisition
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by milesvp 5y ago
This. It’s always important to assume the decisions made before you were correct, or at least a good approximation to correct given the conditions or knowledge at the time. It’s sort of a generalization of chesterson’s fence. If you don’t k
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by milesvp 5y ago
As someone who's been thrust into the embedded world for the last couple years, I have to say that her posts are a breath of fresh air. Her other articles are well worth the time if you're interested in the topic.
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by milesvp 5y ago
I was only familiar with "Turn the Ship Around", so I just looked it up. Apparently there are 2 books on this topic from different captains. "It's Your Ship", Captain D. Michael Abrashoff "Turn the Ship Around
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by milesvp 5y ago
I listened to a podcast recently (most likely planet money) talking about essentially malpractice insurance for police departments. For those municipalities that are too small to self insure for cases that go to court for things like wrongf
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by milesvp 5y ago
Some roomba types also use kalman filters (or similar) to help map out a room. Honestly I’d be surprised if ml gave you anything valuable above some already well known algorithms in this space other than a marketing bullet point.
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by milesvp 5y ago
That’s interesting. I grew up with this movie and for years just thought jiggawatts was just an absurd high number. As I got older and made the connection to gigawatts I still just assumed it was a comedic choice to use hard G. It’s certain
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by milesvp 5y ago
I met a guy at a party who hires for this role at microsoft. Said they hire all kinds since they don’t have a good profile for who will survive. Said the biggest problem after high turnover is making sure to quickly get rid of the people wh
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by milesvp 5y ago
I’m terrified about wearing out a flash on a unit I’m working on. I have a permanent break point in that code. Logically I know when a write is supposed to trigger, but oh man I’m paranoid I’m going to burn my prototype with a fat finger of

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