paulclinger

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by paulclinger 5y ago
The rule of 55 ( https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-rule-of-55-2894280 ) may still apply, which relies on a separate 401k balance.
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by paulclinger 5y ago
> Weather is substrate-dependent. That's true, but it doesn't mean that the simulation doesn't have desired effects in the real world. The simulation will not make you wet, but it will keep you dry if you use its predictio
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by paulclinger 5y ago
> taking advantage of smaller players who think the game is fair, until a profit appears. I'm still not sure in what form this "taking advantage" happens. I think the stock market provides unique opportunities in how one c
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by paulclinger 5y ago
The chart title comes from the actual paper (linked right above the graph: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28912/w289... ) that includes two charts (COVID-19 and Great Recession), but
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by paulclinger 5y ago
The very last example in 2.1 ("__bar.foo { color: red; }") should instead be "foo.__bar { color: red; }" if I understand it correctly.
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by paulclinger 5y ago
Already happened; https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/185 (Add sqlite3 support to Lua scripts in Redbean) has been merged.
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by paulclinger 5y ago
I developed a Lua IDE/editor/debugger (in Lua) [1], as I was looking for something that would be simple enough to use for high school students (for a project I was working on at that time) and have been working on it for the last
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by paulclinger 6y ago
I've been puzzled by the same question (as a reaction to the same ads) and it occurred to me that it may be simple math: If the likelihood of buying by someone who already bought the item is 3% and the likelihood of buying by someone e
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by paulclinger 6y ago
Maybe if the date is "close" to the end of the month (as in fewer than X days from the end of the month), then count in the days left, so Jan 31st (0 days left) becomes Feb 28th and then to Mar 31st and so on.
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by paulclinger 6y ago
Somebody already referenced F# elsewhere in the thread: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe... . It will apply unit of measure checks as part of their static type checking.
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by paulclinger 6y ago
> I know of a researcher that held a multimillion dollar informatics grant for 3 years. In that 3 years they literally did nothing except collect money. I wonder if a whistleblower payout similar to the one that SEC is doing for 1M+ fine
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by paulclinger 6y ago
I have done something similar in a Lua IDE: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/live-coding-in-lua-b... . The IDE actually supports live coding with several Lua toolkits (Love2d, Moai, Gideros, and others; here is a
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by paulclinger 6y ago
> If the last 20% of the worker's time is truly non-productive, then the company is already over paying and the worker is wasting their time. I think it's a misconception about worker productivity: you need to optimize the over
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by paulclinger 6y ago
You can disable Scripts loaded from www.newyorker.com in uMatrix.
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by paulclinger 6y ago
> If index funds didn't exist, why would I take $100 of Fifth Third Bancorp or TechnipFMC when I could get $100 of Apple or Slack instead? Because you don't know which one will become the next Apple or Slack and will invest be
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by paulclinger 6y ago
Both (in and out) numbers are usually printed on the receipt, as the charge is per weight dumped (with some minimal fees; for our waste management station that includes 320 pounds).
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by paulclinger 6y ago
This gihub link may be a better one, as it provides demos, hardware, software, and design descriptions along with the schematics, pictures, and ICRA paper reference: https://github.com/Nate711/StanfordDoggoProject
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by paulclinger 6y ago
I see Joel's point, but I'm not convinced it needs to be that broad. My (consulting) contract limits my IP rights assignment to "all IP right created in the course of providing services to or for the benefits of Company"
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by paulclinger 7y ago
It's an open source project that will gladly accept patches. I've submitted patches for those things that didn't work for me and while getting feedback is useful, getting fixes is better.
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by paulclinger 7y ago
There are several tickets related to math handling. See https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/pull/578 and other tickets referenced there.
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by paulclinger 7y ago
I agree with you; I'm the same way about bugs in my products. Having said that, a bit more time/effort put into a bug report can save quite a bit of time for me in fixing this and increase the chance of success.
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by paulclinger 7y ago
I hate creating new accounts as much as the next person (maybe more), but if you can't be bothered with that much work why should I be bothered with fixing the bug? I definitely prefer bug reports in the bug tracker, even though I will
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by paulclinger 7y ago
You can merge your commits into a separate branch and designate it as the "default" branch for your repository.
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by paulclinger 7y ago
"Goodbye for Now" by Laurie Frankel has a similar plot line where an engineer builds a "simulation" for a grandmother of his girlfriend based on her emails, texts, facebook messages, and video chats. I found the story qu
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by paulclinger 7y ago
I think the advice will still work, but you'd need to switch from "named" timezones to number-specific one, so for example replace `PST` with `-08:00` and then apply the opposite conversion on the right side (as you and I sug
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by paulclinger 7y ago
I don't think it works the way author expects it to work, as the math is not correct. Think about `a+1 < 2` comparison. To remove +1, you need to change it to `a < 2-1`, not to `a < 2+1`; the operation needs to be transformed
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by paulclinger 7y ago
MCAS was only using data from one of the AOA sensors (picked during restart), but two were still present, so sensor disagree light/message (when available) would show disagreement between the sensors.
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by paulclinger 7y ago
It collided with the crane cables. It can be seen on the video.
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by paulclinger 8y ago
It's still in alpha. The beta version will include better protection for the customers. /s
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by paulclinger 8y ago
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human be

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