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by pjscott 5y ago
When I was in high school, the school library was a few minutes away and I could go there easily during the school day. The town library was a lot harder to get to. Your experience may differ —- but people have lots of different experiences
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by pjscott 5y ago
I’m also intrigued. I’ve seen this happen several times but always de facto: someone would become a manager as an experiment, try it for a few years, and then (usually) decide to stop.
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by pjscott 5y ago
tsc is a large JavaScript program run at the command line, which is a pathological case for a JIT-compiled language: by the time the hot spots get native code generated, tsc may be close to finished already. Porting it to any ahead-of-time
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by pjscott 5y ago
I don't expect ARM to have much effect here. The wasm instruction set is basically a low-level compiler intermediate representation, and to go from that to machine code for x86 or ARM is about equally difficult in both cases.
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In my experience government services in areas completely controlled by Democrats don't seem better-run than ones in mixed-party or Republican-controlled areas. The "Starve the Beast" hypothesis doesn't seem to have much
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by pjscott 5y ago
It makes some sense that it would be that way. If a private company's web site doesn't work at all, then they don't get your money. There are incentives for them to get basic functionality right, and if they still screw it up
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by pjscott 5y ago
It’s interesting that things differ so much from one region to the next. I’m in the Midwest and everything is abundant, the shelves are full, and you can get pork for $1-2 per pound, usually on the lower end of that range, and chicken at mo
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by pjscott 5y ago
As far as I know, almost all practical cases can be dealt with by storing family name (which must be optional), given name, and locale. Or just store a name as arbitrary Unicode text, if you don’t need to do anything fancy.
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by pjscott 5y ago
That’s heartwarming. Although the ideal would be for your teacher to know everything and be able to offer expert guidance, what she actually did was the next best thing and I salute her for it.
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I wonder how many people’s learning has been held back because a teacher was too prideful to say the words “I don’t know” and then suggest looking it up.
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by pjscott 5y ago
I had the strangest experience with Logo in junior high. The computer class taught people some basic drawing commands -- going forward, turning left and right, moving the virtual pen up and down, etc. -- but for some reason banned us from u
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by pjscott 5y ago
> When school budgets are cut and underpaid teachers leave the industry "Oh, that's just the free hand of the market." Are school budgets being cut? I keep hearing people saying they are, but the US Department of Educati
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The large chassis castings in the Model Y, however, are an aluminum alloy.
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by pjscott 5y ago
That’s correct, but (a) the recipe is extremely non-trivial and (b) Apple could take that recipe to Samsung and get mostly comparable results for something in the double-digit millions of dollars range for design conversion, so they have le
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by pjscott 5y ago
That technique is beautiful! And the results are as good as I would expect, once you’ve given the compiler the information it needs to do a good job. I’ll keep this one in mind next time I need to clearly delineate the fast path from the fa
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by pjscott 5y ago
I managed to track this down: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html
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In my experience there's usually not much speed advantage to be had from assembly unless you have a specific thesis about how you're going to do better than the code that a good compiler would generate; e.g. the article author s
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by pjscott 5y ago
It can take time for supply to increase. Chip fabs can't be built instantly no matter how much money you're willing to throw it the problem, any more than babies can be made in five months if the mother really tries hard.
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by pjscott 5y ago
From what I remember from my high school classmates -- and I went to a good Midwestern school, filled with unusually smart people! -- GPT-3 does indeed produce ASCII character sequences that sound better than my human classmates did. GPT-3
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by pjscott 5y ago
Murder rates are useful for estimating the prevalence of violent crime, and crime overall, because they're almost always recorded. Compare to something like shoplifting in San Francisco: the number of incidents reported to the police i
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by pjscott 5y ago
Yes, and so is the new Flamanville reactor. It's funny: out of the fifty or so commercial nuclear reactors that came online in the past decade, for some reason those still-under-construction debacles are the only ones most people have
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by pjscott 5y ago
> Wasn't it the new Finnish nuclear plant that cost 11 billion Euros? Olkiluoto unit 3 is a pretty extreme outlier in construction costs. The same amount of power generation capacity from CPR1000 plants (widely used in China today)
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Often you can find a misbehaving process that somehow got into a weird state, one that you weren't tracing beforehand because you weren't expecting trouble and didn't want the overhead, and in those cases it can be tremendous
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I've been appreciating some people's practice of giving subjective probability estimates for various things depending on the strength of the evidence; see e.g. the "Probability Updates" section of this article: https:&#
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by pjscott 5y ago
A couple of days ago there were very strong winds in my area that caused a lot of falling tree limbs and property damage. The next day the newspaper reported, correctly, the fact that the weather had indeed been like that. I'm not sure
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What you're talking about is a real problem, but I don't think it's the same problem that the article is talking about. There's a lot of journalism that isn't trying to stir up strong emotion, that actually does l
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> How do you keep out the YT commenters, Fox News or r/politics commenters, etc? Have clear written criteria for what constitutes virtuous and unvirtuous conduct, and make it clear that commenters can be banned for the sort of angry
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by pjscott 5y ago
When people donate to an open source software project, they probably aren't intending to donate to some other cause that the maintainer cares about. It would be at least slightly unethical to solicit donations for the former and spend
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I've noticed this as well. I think it has to do with people self-sorting to different parts of Twitter based on what kind of political discussion they want. The people who just want to be loudly scornful of $OUTGROUP go to the places w
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This library is header-only, and should have the same binary compatibility as using the Objective C framework directly.

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