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by oivey 4y ago
I think submodules end up highlighting failures of the (implementation of the) many small repo model. People want to develop in both the submodules and main repo simultaneously, and that’s relatively painful. If you find yourself doing that
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by oivey 4y ago
A normal company would have had basically one product all these years and not renamed it just due to internal engineering efforts. I also imagine chat apps are great for promotion driven development. Not that hard to make from scratch relat
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by oivey 4y ago
> My point is that their choice of Python (because of the libraries they use, or the training they got in school?) bleeds out and causes Python to be used in places where it doesn't fit so well. They use those libraries because ther
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by oivey 4y ago
Data scientists are hired for a certain set of skills, and software engineers are hired for a different set. That’s the reality of specialization. I don’t often see data scientists complaining that software engineers are bad at statistics.
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by oivey 4y ago
The “luck” Python ran into was that some people came together to write NumPy. The alternatives at the time were Matlab and R. Matlab is not a great general programming language and is expensive. R has esoteric syntax and also isn’t a great
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by oivey 4y ago
> The "Chinese vaccine don't work" talking point is a bad faith myth created by western mainstream media, which misrepresented this study by comparing single- or two-dose Sinovac with 3-dose Pfizer. This sort of misreprese
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by oivey 5y ago
I think people have some big misunderstandings about power. You’re right, centralized systems can lead to monopolies. On the other hand, decentralized systems where no one has absolute power can make important changes difficult to implement
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by oivey 5y ago
The low interest rate is beneficial to Goldman Sachs, but the high inflation rate is not. They are an investment bank that holds assets, and those assets are devalued by inflation. The the interest rate and inflation may have some correlati
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by oivey 5y ago
Why would it be? If it drives up prices, WD is less able to capture that price increase due to production losses than its competitors.
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by oivey 5y ago
Creating “useful” compounds from atmospheric green house gasses isn’t some “have your cake and eat it, too” type thing. It is going to be extremely inefficient and expensive. Emitting less is still cheaper.
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by oivey 5y ago
They suggesting a model where you subscribe to individual YouTube channels rather than the platform.
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by oivey 5y ago
It was at NIF. The facility is huge and costs many billions of dollars.
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by oivey 5y ago
I think the point he is making is that profitable fusion-based electricity generation isn’t a physics problem; it is an engineering problem. Engineering requires dealing with people in addition to physics.
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by oivey 5y ago
A generation is more like 20 years. You’re talking about a lifetime, which is even more insane.
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by oivey 5y ago
Private jets are way too expensive for congressman, even with handouts from lobbyists and other shady business.
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by oivey 5y ago
Madoff's "investment" firm, I think, is a good comparison for Holmes's Theranos. They're both conartists that peddled their image and influence to run fake businesses and steal money from investors. My pre-edit post
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by oivey 5y ago
Your first comment suggests that she merely wasn't getting good criticism because men were fawning over her, and that's why her technology didn't work. We'll see the verdict from the trial, but at this point it is pretty
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by oivey 5y ago
No, that’s the Doppler effect. This is a time delay between when different colors were captured.
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by oivey 5y ago
You lost the word “universal” in “universal healthcare” in the comment you’re replying to. There are many ways racism impedes the push for universal healthcare. One is the classic fact that it is a welfare program, and that spurs the commen
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by oivey 5y ago
Python had basically already won numerical computing thanks to NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib before ML really blew up. The other two serious contenders were R and Matlab. Python is a much better general purpose language than either of those,
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by oivey 5y ago
If you hit a 10 ton object and _any_ of the collision is inelastic, that is a tremendous amount of momentum to dissipate. It might not change the speed of the sub much, but it could still cause a lot of damage to the hull which could then i
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by oivey 5y ago
Yeah, and if the deer went through your windshield you likely would have been seriously injured. The relative size of the object to the vehicle doesn’t have to be large to cause significant damage or injuries. Just because you are big doesn
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by oivey 5y ago
As anyone who has hit a deer in their car can tell you, that’s not how momentum works.
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by oivey 5y ago
This isn’t true, and, as the article states, this submarine is specifically a fast attack sub. It attacks other submarines and ships. That’s still related to nuclear deterrence, but not in the way you’re saying.
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by oivey 5y ago
On the other hand, for complex topics I’ve found that a face-to-face conversation is often much more effective because it allows both parties to have a rapid back and forth to resolve misunderstandings or gaps in the conversation. Asynchron
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by oivey 5y ago
Single family homeowners still don’t want to live in collapsing fire traps with railing short enough that their toddler can climb over. The building codes are also different for different building types. Not all hazards in a building will b
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by oivey 5y ago
I’m not sure why it would be any different.
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by oivey 5y ago
I’m sure they considered that. It’s rather obvious, and the degradation of the material was openly reported in the news at the time.
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by oivey 5y ago
In the electrical world, this is called time domain reflectometry.
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by oivey 5y ago
Population isn’t the problem. Consumption is.

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