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by nrr 1mo ago
And? As a risk management professional, I am nonetheless left scratching my head.
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by nrr 1mo ago
The illustration that Chrome uses Mach ports is a counterexample to an (implied) insinuation that nothing in running in macOS user space uses Mach ports. Outlier or not, the fact there is at least one (albeit also very useful and very popul
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by nrr 1mo ago
> If you ever owned a vacant home, not only are you still going to have to pay all the usual bills, you'll be dealing with vandalism, squatters, and that undetected roof leak that ruins the interior. Maybe! That said, the improvemen
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by nrr 1mo ago
To this end, we can model the price level at some point in time in a way similar to how we model compounding interest: P(t) = P(0) * (1.0 + r)^t. Take P(0) = 1.0, r = 0.032, and t = 2026-1914 = 112. Then, P(112) = 1.0 * (1.032)^112 = 34.05.
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by nrr 1mo ago
> and you kinda have to keep learning in software dev It's less the constant need to keep learning that bothers me (my formal credentials involve a requirement to undertake a minimum of 30 hours of continuing education annually) tha
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by nrr 1mo ago
Oh, I mean, I'm fully aware of the emphasis on codebreaking and on areas like operations research that provide optimization tools for tacticians, not to mention the ITAR restrictions on crypto export. (I was there when only 40-bit SSL
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by nrr 1mo ago
In the case of housing, agglomeration effects play the biggest role. A single family house in the middle of nowhere is very scarce, but it also has limited economic productivity[0]. Notably, that lone house isn't enough to support comm
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by nrr 1mo ago
> Are you sure your reasoning is flawless? Oh, heavens no. I'm human, so I almost certainly make logic errors all the time, whether in terms of truth or validity. However, one thing I am very careful about is that the definitions I
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by nrr 1mo ago
Forgive me, but I don't exactly follow. This isn't obvious to me.
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by nrr 1mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I don't work on weapons as a matter of deep conviction, so I'll continue to be concerned about this.
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by nrr 1mo ago
The stuff in Airtable seems to be. The lion's share of what's there is research that has applications to, like, sensors and robotics and AI, even if the abstracts themselves don't state that, likely because the PIs behind tho
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by nrr 1mo ago
I might be biased, but everything under the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the MPS directorate is important. Math is one of those weird fields that tends to touch everything else even if not directly, and it's impossible to know
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by nrr 1mo ago
We didn't have this definition of correctness until 1990 (due to Steele and White), and it wasn't until the past decade or so that we got a published algorithm (most recently, I think, Dragonbox, due to Jeon when he was still work
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by nrr 1mo ago
> I implemented float-to-string for my compiler's printf back sometime before 1985. It's a medium difficult problem. It might have been medium difficult back in 1985, but the state of the art has progressed in the intervening 4
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by nrr 1mo ago
It's something of a meme that's grounded in reality, but it's honestly less grounded in race and ethnicity than it is in socioeconomic status. That said, there's a joke that the white people version of this is the little
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by nrr 1mo ago
> The honestly very poor black community around the area? they fucking hate us white people. like actively, all the time, no what no matter what you have or haven’t done they don’t like your ass one bit. Did you replace folks' smoke
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by nrr 2mo ago
To this end, I've long held that Zed Shaw's blindness was in his misunderstanding of how authoritarian inner sancta tend to work in times of social or ideological crisis. Some protection happens, but the lion's share of the w
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by nrr 2mo ago
Wait, we had socialism in the US?
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by nrr 2mo ago
> Thanks for the insights! Most welcome! > I generalized a bit too wide when I said "social stuff". I was thinking more along the social media angle (GitHub stars, follows, etc.) I figured given the context, but I wanted to
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by nrr 2mo ago
I'll add one more thing to this, given that my experience as a math major at SIU was that each hour of lecture was expected to carry four hours of studying: read and summarize the course's texts (additionally, for math courses, at
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by nrr 2mo ago
> I'm going to stop right there. Um, OK. > Perfect competition is unnecessary. It is definitionally a precondition to applying the supply and demand model for analysis. > Part of perfect competition is perfect information. Thi
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by nrr 2mo ago
I'll flip this around and instead elucidate when it does apply if that's alright. The supply and demand model only applies to analysis of microeconomic systems with perfect competition, namely of systems that lack monopoly and mon
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by nrr 2mo ago
Please forgive me. I happen to have a formal background in economics by way of training as an actuary, and I can't take seriously the implication that the standard model is a law. Supply and demand aren't invariant under all condi
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by nrr 2mo ago
There are some details here about the history of how generics finally came to Go: https://golang.design/under-the-hood/en/part2lang/ch08generi... The tl;dr boils down to a combination of valuing both compilat
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The Evolution of [Go] Generics Design(golang.design)
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by nrr 2mo ago
I'm unsure that I agree. History has borne out a lot of evidence that people will jump to other means of paying for things in the face of the local currency collapsing, even in the face of amped up (but nonetheless impotent) enforcemen
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by nrr 2mo ago
As it turns out, I'm not making up my own definitions here. The view of a free market being a market with equitable access is attributable to Adam Smith from his Wealth of Nations. He bases his understanding of this freedom on the abse
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by nrr 2mo ago
I fear that this conflates open and closed access with exclusive property rights. It isn't untrue that asserting exclusive property rights on something makes it closed access[0], but there are other mechanisms for achieving closed acce
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by nrr 2mo ago
Not at all. Tithing[0] is contributed as one is able, but assistance in the face of hardship is no questions asked. For my congregation in particular while I was growing up, this extended even to non-members, and there was a strong thread o
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by nrr 2mo ago
My remark was a rebuttal to the assertion that these contributions were guaranteed. That notwithstanding, I'm unsure that I agree that it amounts to about the same thing; we tend to take care of each other as a matter of due course and

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