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by osteele 8y ago
> instead of just scaling with larger blocks Blocks will need to be ~5TB to match Visa transaction volume. Some lightning network advocates are concerned about the effect that a size increase necessary to support even a fraction of this
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by osteele 8y ago
Also see (Claude) Shannon's Juggling Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling#Mathematics Shannon also built juggling robots. (But not, to my knowledge, machines to measure human juggling.) Here's a v
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by osteele 8y ago
My ops postmortem template tried to elicit breadth. Once you’ve got a forest of causes, you can apply Five Whys to add depth. There’s some overlap among the following questions. The intent is to elicit observations and ideas, not to uniquel
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by osteele 8y ago
DELETED as a misreading of the OP.
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by osteele 8y ago
> Out of morbid curiosity, what's the current answer for "how to pack up a Python program into a single executable/directory for Windows" now? The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python[1] (HHGTP) encapsulates a lot of sta
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by osteele 8y ago
> I don't really understand how the Go team make decisions. If you haven’t yet read it, start here: https://blog.golang.org/versioning-proposal
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by osteele 8y ago
> Speaking of which, what is the best way to start a python project in 2018 Pipenv[1] and flit[2]. Together, these do most of what npm/yarn provide for a Node.js project. Pipenv for installing packages. It’s a virtual environment ma
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11 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’(history.com)
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by osteele 8y ago
> What is the take-away message for that person? How can it possibly be anything other than: "Lisp is fragmented! […]” When I last worked in Lisp (in the 90s), "Lisp" wasn't just fragmented. The word described a fa
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by osteele 8y ago
> "Lisp" has to do with the little design details, not superficial resemblance. Would you consider LISP 1.5, MacLISP, InterLISP, etc. to be Lisps? They differ on different design details than Scheme does, but they differ signif
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by osteele 8y ago
Me (GP): Scheme is generally considered a Lisp. Me (now, after reading P and other responses): I was wrong (or at least half-wrong) about this being generally accepted. I was not aware that I've been in a "Scheme is a Lisp" b
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by osteele 8y ago
"Alexa, Siri, and Google Home, can hear inaudible commands" "Alexa, Siri, and Google Home, can hear commands that humans can't"
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by osteele 8y ago
> If it doesn't have nil that is also false and the empty list, it is not a Lisp. Scheme is generally considered a Lisp.
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by osteele 8y ago
Mine says “Linguistics”. I took CS graduate courses, but there wasn't an undergraduate major yet. My father-in-law had a math degree and was a math professor, and then an EE professor — the latter while he co-founded an AI lab, that hi
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by osteele 8y ago
> I'm saying recognize the hypocrisy instead of constructing weird arguments to justify it. People with different priors on whether Apple's managers (or managers in general, or managers of large corporations in general) are lik
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by osteele 8y ago
If Apple intended to collect locations, I would expect them to have recorded GPS (when otherwise enabled), and WiFi RSSI, instead of just cell tower RSSI. I can imagine theories that include this omission as part of deniability for a cover-
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by osteele 8y ago
Any good act by a corporation can be explained away as a business strategy. Just as any good act by an individual can be explained away as a means to garner status, or because the individual derives personal satisfaction from either the act
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by osteele 8y ago
The article speculates that this breaks GreyKey. Presumably that was the direct motivation for the change.
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Squarrows: algebra for elementary schoolers [pdf](drive.google.com)
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by osteele 8y ago
As a consumer of carefully-tuned journalism offerings, it’s useful to know that magazine titles are generally selected without the approval of the author and often without full consideration of the content. The title should be taken with a
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by osteele 8y ago
I put it at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hfzm3Rvm4xpwp_xHUKBHxuIEgf... . Please let me know if that fails, and I’ll try to fix it.
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Squarrows: introducing algebra to elementary-school students(scribd.com)
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by osteele 8y ago
Fun(ctional)! When my daughter was in 4th grade, I volunteer-taught a group of pull-out 4th–6th graders, so that she could have some peers to do math with. You might enjoy this set of math worksheets I created for them. https://w
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by osteele 8y ago
As a former hiring manager, I weighted highly any evidence of an ability to sustain work on projects and bring them to completion (which could be demonstrated on technical and non-technical projects); and evidence of actual interest in tech
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by osteele 8y ago
I've been pitched to write books a few times, by editors at reputable technical publishers. (HN readers would recognize the names of the publishers.) One of them told me up front that I would be offered an advance of $8K, that it would
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by osteele 8y ago
Some (not all) of these jobs provide slack to an organization. A human is effectively paid a retainer, or given an excuse to on premise and engaged, so that they have the knowledge, context, and social capital to deal with unusual or unfore
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by osteele 8y ago
> Aikido is that fantasy martial arts. The kind that only works when the opponents are in on the ruse. Similarly Lisp only works when used with a cooperative compiler. And jazz is most effective when played with fellow jazz musicians, an
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by osteele 8y ago
I'll play! This distinction, between chance and goal-directed physical processes , is artificial, though. It's artificial because it was produced by humans. :-)
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by osteele 8y ago
How long have you done this, for how many sites, do you rotate passwords (when sites are breached, and/or on a schedule), and have you had to access sites in a mentally compromised state (distracted, sleep-deprived, post-concussion)? E
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by osteele 8y ago
Sync, browser integration, password generation, audits on password age and duplicates, validation against pwned passwords, shared vaults — nothing that you can't do yourself on top of a text file, if you've got the time and energy

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