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by msteffen 5y ago
My interpretation was: "what is responsible for the inflection point that occurred in 1980?" Perhaps it's still not a single factor (which, I agree, would make a lot of sense) but IIUC that does raise the question of why ther
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by msteffen 5y ago
Just to note, I believe Terry Wahls has been arguing a version of this for at least a decade ( https://www.amazon.com/Minding-Mitochondria-2nd-progressive-... ) and has written a diet (the Wahls Protocol) directed towards mit
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by msteffen 5y ago
Yeah exactly, thanks. I think I should've said "and focus on the data structures" instead of "and see the data structures"
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by msteffen 5y ago
My feeling on this is mixed—I competed in ICPC in college, which is a competitive circuit of programming contests (like leetcode, but predating it) and went to the world finals, which is easier than it sounds but not nothing. I think there
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by msteffen 5y ago
One of the examples given on Twitter that I found enlightening (not an expert so I hope I'm interpreting this correctly): if you have a homeostatic system, you would specifically expect to find less correlation between the components t
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by msteffen 5y ago
> Not only is it a skill, but it's very difficult to make that sort of effort when you are depressed, which many lonely people are. It's true. TBH to the extent I've done/helped with it, I've learned more about m
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by msteffen 5y ago
Seems like a lot of comments are discussing how to address loneliness, so I'll share one tactic I've learned: you have to host. Everybody wants to join a meetup or club or whatever, but if you organize the event(s), and then invit
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by msteffen 5y ago
I knew about the vandalism but not in detail, so I'm glad someone brought it up. My opinion, fwiw: I think people really want to believe that collective punishment works, but it really doesn't. People on the right who were excited
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by msteffen 6y ago
I'm interested in this as well. I'm sure there's more to it than this, but I know there are multiple implementations of malloc out there: - https://github.com/google/tcmalloc - https://github.
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by msteffen 6y ago
Yeah. Every time I hear someone blamed for bad parenting, I think about how Abraham Lincoln's father used to beat him for reading. Let's all try to raise little Lincolns, then?
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by msteffen 6y ago
> What bullied kid really thinks "it's not those kids doing this, it's the system"? Me, I thought this. I wrote a long post explaining it and then erased it because this pattern exists everywhere and is essentially t
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by msteffen 6y ago
I thought this was great. I particularly believe that people who like to think of themselves as smart (most of whom are smart, but the two are distinct) are prone to this, because finding a shortcut is a smart person thing to do. In my opin
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by msteffen 6y ago
Yes--see https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/082515/who-decides-... under "How the Fed Creates Money With QE": "The Fed can indeed create money "out of thin air." To be more prec
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by msteffen 6y ago
If living in a nicer house caused engineers to have more job opportunities at higher salaries, then Google probably would pay you more for living in a nicer house.
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by msteffen 6y ago
Yeah. Google makes like a million dollars per engineer, so it's either "make less money on this engineer than you'd like" or "don't hire this engineer and make nothing". It would be stupid if they were doi
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by msteffen 6y ago
I think that if society were to end restrictions, they would also need to somehow prevent anyone in covid-induced pulmonary distress from going to the hospital. A big part of the danger of covid is that it overwhelms hospitals.
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by msteffen 7y ago
At the point where a startup is being valued at 800M (and therefore raising rounds of ~100M?) are the founders still making 150k? At this point, wouldn't your business have hundreds of employees? Also IIUC startup equity value (for tax
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by msteffen 7y ago
I once had a manager who insisted on time estimates, but used them in a way that I actually found valuable. You'd write out all the tasks involved in a project add them all up, and then say "this will take T" Then he'd s
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by msteffen 7y ago
> the wealth doesn’t exist to provide them white glove service until death. The solution is not startups, it’s community and family (along with having enough savings, FMLA, and vacation time). The linked article seems to suggest that adu
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by msteffen 7y ago
I got curious about why the NYT would do this and did a little googling, and I think her boss still works there ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmckinley ), so, per other comments, it doesn't look like the NYT is g
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by msteffen 7y ago
> Is it a fictional fear instilled in our cultural fabric that makes us so averse to what maybe isnt and wont ever be as bad as our stories tell us it will be? Was real life in China not this bad during the cultural revolution?
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by msteffen 7y ago
I wonder if some of the disagreement in this thread over whether the narrator was being reasonable is really disagreement over the productivity of remote employees. I saw the author's request for extended remote work as entirely reason
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by msteffen 7y ago
I'll bite—I love the beyond burger. There's a burger joint near work that has them and they're now exclusively what I get when I go there
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by msteffen 7y ago
It was all in one repo on that team, yes. Offhand, it seems like linking all PRs in all repos back to the bug, and linking the bug to all of the disparate PRs might help. A version (possibly) of the "many PRs" problem that we sort
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by msteffen 7y ago
In a prior team, we accomplished the goal of "a newcomer should be able to figure out the history of the code they're looking at, and thereby understand why it is this way" in a simpler, lower-tech way: 1. One commit per PR (
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by msteffen 7y ago
Seattle made a bunch of lanes bus-only and my understanding is it helped with both congestion and transit use
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by msteffen 8y ago
I can't speak to the general quality of these restaurants, but I actually go to the Garden Fresh in Palo Alto pretty regularly and love it (I've heard the Mountain View location isn't quite as good).
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“cyber-” comes from “cybernetics”, which comes from “Kubernetes”(merriam-webster.com)
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by msteffen 8y ago
> The author certainly didn't have any more hard, objective facts than anyone before them. Are there other articles that talk about e.g. the coroner's conclusions? I had not heard those before
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by msteffen 8y ago
Sharding a simple bash script across multiple nodes is one of the original (and still one of the most common) uses of Pachyderm. We actually have a tutorial based on it: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/blob&

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