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by njtransit 2y ago
Strapping the whale to the side of the ship to be butchered while sharks feasted on the underside always seemed insane to me.
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by njtransit 2y ago
Generally the definition of "intermittent fasting" is limiting eating to a limited time window (e.g. 8 hours) per day. E.g. you "fast" for 16 hours, meaning you're not fasting for the other 8.
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by njtransit 2y ago
There is a NYT op ed titled “The Tyranny of Convenience” that covers the phenomena well.
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by njtransit 2y ago
Are you sure that’s what they’re doing? In the demo, they show that the vector sections have been preserved, so there’s clearly more to the story. Maybe 2D -> 3D, map path to vertex, rotate, project path back into 2D?
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by njtransit 2y ago
Pumped storage hydro solves many of these issues.
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by njtransit 2y ago
But the people in cross-functional roles are still being drawn from a probability distribution in which most people are unable to think cross-functionally.
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by njtransit 2y ago
The issue is that most people are not cross-functional thinkers. Those who are not generally fall prey to the “if you have a hammer, every problem is a nail” fallacy. Engineers want to engineer, PMs want to add features, managers want to “m
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by njtransit 2y ago
Learning can be the gerund form of the verb “to learn” and isn’t necessarily a noun referring to the abstract concept.
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by njtransit 2y ago
But you don’t know the cleanup cost yet, so how can you put a dollar amount on the subsidy?
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by njtransit 2y ago
There were a number of essays that influenced my world view and a story that left a strong lasting impression. The essay on why we consume mass media was insightful at the time and particularly prescient given the rise of influencers, strea
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by njtransit 2y ago
It’s on my to-read list, but starting is daunting. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (the essay collection) was amazing. I think about it often.
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by njtransit 2y ago
It’s interesting that both groups had their number of bowel movements double or more. Perhaps a lot of constipation is actually dehydration.
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by njtransit 2y ago
A much better example, in my mind, is binary addition. Conceptually, binary addition is very easy to explain (there are two sequences of bits, we want to combine them pair wise, etc.), yet it’s trivially easy to double the problem space by
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by njtransit 2y ago
WebRTC can absolutely be peer to peer. You just need some out-of-band method of exchanging ICE candidates. The connections in WebRTC are literally called "peer connections."
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by njtransit 2y ago
> 1) time to design it Do good interfaces take more time than bad interfaces to write? Does adding more time really make interfaces better? I find that engineering quality (of which interface design is one facet) is largely a function of
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by njtransit 2y ago
A few thoughts: 1. Almost all mobile devices used by adults to access their work email have provisioning profiles that allow trusted certificates to be installed by one’s employer. 2. Plenty of authoritarian counties require trusting CAs o
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by njtransit 2y ago
The article mentions certificate pinning is used to prevent MITM attacks, but none of the alternatives listed actually prevent this class of attacks. I’ve heard multiple times that “certificate pinning is obsolete.” Who is pushing this narr
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by njtransit 2y ago
Is that a bit-wise OR? That seems like it would greatly reduce entropy. The probability of any given bit in A | B being 1 is 75%.
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by njtransit 2y ago
There are such attempts, e.g. Smarkets. The general approach is called a "betting exchange" where you buy and sell bets with other people to set the market price for the various games / events going on. It's too complica
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by njtransit 2y ago
o1 seems like it’s basically 4o with some chain of thought bolted on. Personally, I don’t consider chain of thought a breakthrough, let alone a major one.
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by njtransit 2y ago
Your understand is wrong. 2008 was not a bad time for tech at all.
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by njtransit 2y ago
Anecdotally, I see the market picking up again. Fewer good candidates coming across the recruiting desks and hearing stories of the friends of our new grad engineers finally landing jobs.
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by njtransit 2y ago
Do you really think life was fulfilling before the Industrial Revolution? Most men toiled, watched their children and wives die, before dying at a young age themselves. Where was the fulfillment, exactly? You’re only able to contemplate tha
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by njtransit 2y ago
I have a relatively naive implementation of an infinite canvas in React (which is a very slow library). The implementation is exactly 161 lines of code (including white space, imports, etc.). On my laptop, my implementation visibly starts t
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by njtransit 2y ago
While this is really cool, you're essentially re-implementing the browser if you take this route. If you're ok only rendering in the browser, you can easily implement an infinite canvas using the normal DOM (including normal HTML
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by njtransit 2y ago
Stainless or carbon steel. Once you learn how to cook with a stainless pan it’s basically non-stick.
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by njtransit 2y ago
Or the great filter is a misconception based on an extremely myopic view on the universe.
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by njtransit 2y ago
How could you "jam and replay". It seems like you'd have to choose one or the other.
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by njtransit 2y ago
A bubble is when expectations are severely detached from reality. Simple over-investing is not a bubble.
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by njtransit 2y ago
It’s about 100 records per second for a year and a half, or 10,000 records per second for 5 days. Both are easily achievable. As an engineer, why would you ever knowingly design such a system when it’s trivial to not have this vulnerability

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