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Broken dependencies in 90s-era Microsoft systems was so common that it has its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
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Rate of pay is empirically determined by the intersection of supply and demand for that job, not by how important a particular person or group thinks a job ought to be considered a priori. Where supply is much larger than demand -- that is,
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Wallaroo.ai | Senior Frontend, Backend Engineers | Perma-REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining company in the artificial intelligence &#x
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I used many old school forums in the pre-social media days. "Mature voices and thoughtful people" were quite rare.
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The "bad / dangerous" part of the city is now significantly larger than it was even three years ago, when you moved here. It's been expanding rapidly the past few years.
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Fascism is not a capitalist economic model. It is a "third way" socioeconomic system that proposes an alternative to both capitalism and socialism where both capital and labor are regulated by an all-powerful stern father figure L
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I totally agree. Engineering should be the best it can be, within the constraints of the resources available. My post was addressing the common case where an engineer seems to ignore the 'resource constraints' side of the equation
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If your optimization goal is "use the least memory possible," then sure, manual memory allocation is the way to go. I was addressing a different optimization goal: the "high performance" case, meaning approximately &quot
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Quality engineering must always be balanced against the reality of finite budgets. Sure, lots of amazing engineering can be achieved in theory, _given infinite funding_. That never happens in the real world. One always has limited time to p
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Seconding this - some esoteric JVM garbage collector tuning is required to build a high performance Java (or Clojure, etc.) system, but it can be done. It's arguably significantly less work to learn how to tune the GC and then optimizi
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It is more or less exactly this. Texas Instruments invests in extensive marketing aimed at teachers, school districts, and university math departments. They get a lot of free teacher training and materials centered around TI calculators, to
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I'm another long time but occasional Photoshop user who doesn't know all the Photoshop hotkeys very well. I've been quite happy with Affinity as a replacement so far, and haven't looked back. The controls are a little di
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The internet industry’s D.C. powerhouse vanishes(politico.com)
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Perhaps publishing negative or non-novel results ought to be an equally important goal of publication. Only publishing novel results is a primary cause of publication bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
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Wallaroo.ai | Frontend Engineer, Client Solutions Engineer | Perma-REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining company in the artificial intell
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Notwithstanding the popular stereotype of the profligate American credit card user, personal debt is much higher in many European countries than in the US. Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Portugal, F
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The amount of money a bank (or loosely equivalent crypto entity) can make holding deposits and making loans out of them is far lower than the amount it can make by printing new fiat (or crypto tokens) out of thin air and loaning them out (&
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The engineering work was far simpler then. A single person can reasonably understand the whole of how an Apple II computer is designed and works, end to end. A small team of such people interacted in highly productive ways to iterate that i
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That article also says that unregistered / illegal firearms are common in Finland, many hidden since World War II. This is the case in many other parts of Europe, too.
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Gun ownership is quite common in many parts of Europe. Finland in particular is nearly the same as the US in terms of percentage of households with firearms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_gun.
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The big win for cast iron is its higher heat capacity. It takes longer to heat up, but once hot, the temperature drops much less when you add cold / room temperature food to fry, resulting in crisper and less soggy output.
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Clojure famously makes extensive use of a software transactional memory (STM) to provide painless multithreading: * https://clojure.org/reference/refs * https://sw1nn.com/blog/2012/04/11&
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Wallaroo.ai | Software Engineer, Senior Client Solutions Engineer | REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want to use Rust every day? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining com
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Capitalism? Socialist countries such as Cuba and North Korea are far worse in terms of state-mandated incumbent preservation. Their economies are lifted directly out of 1950 in the best parts, and the feudal era in the worst parts.
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A Woz-led company culture would have made Apple into something like Arduino or the Raspberry Pi Foundation: a cool, well-designed niche product for technically minded people to tinker with. A beloved product, yes; but a tiny company with no
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The Clojure dialect of Lisp comes with a software transactional memory (STM). This basically provides relational database atomicity semantics around in-memory variable access. 99% of the pain of concurrent programming goes away. At a high l
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Wallaroo.ai | ML Engineer, Software Engineer | REMOTE / EST core hours Want to help define what painless MLOps at scale looks like? Want to use Rust every day? Want in on the ground floor of a paradigm-defining company? Wallaroo is hir
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Correct, and those countries' economies also give us little to no signal about US dollar inflation. The proposition was that BTC prices somehow inform us about that.
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The entire BTC market cap is minuscule -- about 600bn as of this writing. That seems like a lot, but compare it to Apple -- the market cap of just this one company's stock is currently ~2,238bn. The market cap of gold, US dollars, Euro
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In efficient, highly optimized economies such as the United States and most of the European Union, the border guards' job is to prevent people from entering and participating in those economies illegally. In the countries with low GDPs

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