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by prewett 2y ago
"Gratuitous software" would be excessive and unnecessary software. Which I think a lot of commercial (particularly "news") websites qualify for, and "modern" websites in general. NPM makes it easy to just insta
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Lilypond makes gorgeous music. However, getting things besides music to look good is painful at best and sometimes impossible. I spent hours trying to figure out how to get a good looking lead sheet setup (music, chord name, lyrics). Espe
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At least it's relatively culturally neutral in Cambridge, UK. Putting up a Confederate flag in Cambridge, MA feels like it would be risking property damage the next time the Progressive student mob gets a bee in their bonnet.
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They really skipped over the actual original use of the word, which was not witchcraft, but "wyrd", the Anglo-Saxon word for "fate", although according to commentaries on Beowulf it was less "inevitable because of (
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by prewett 2y ago
A much more salient cause is the 0% (base) interest rates. Obviously you can afford the a larger mortgage at 3% than at 7%. This should eventually reverse itself with higher interest rates, but right now no one with a 3% mortgage is selling
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The 5% HYSA minus the FED-targeted rate of 2% is back to 3%. But high quality dividend companies generally raise their dividend each year, plus you get the increase in stock value. So you only get 3% in income , but your total return is
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by prewett 2y ago
What is your $2m generating? For instance, if you invested in high quality dividend stocks, you can get 3% and it should generally grow about what GDP does (which should also include inflation effects). So that's $60k/year, or aft
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by prewett 2y ago
Not the parent, but as I understand it the post is saying that morality is not defined by outcome, but rather by consistency of the object's purpose. A sentient chair choosing to fall apart when you sit on it is being "immoral&quo
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And yet, you also have the experience of existing and the experience of thinking and the experience of making decisions. I think this is evidence that your analysis is missing something. (And before you just dismiss this as wrong, note that
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm not sure how the Tropics of Cancer/Capricorn got in this discussion, they are latitudes of the earth. I know nothing about astrology, but according to the article I posted your sign is the constellation the sun was "in&qu
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And now the wheel turns... Two or three years ago everyone was quitting.
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It must because their signs are all wrong because they didn't account for the precession of the earth's axis... /s https://www.livescience.com/4667-astrological-sign.html
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I think parent meant that some people did not want to be in a position where they could make a mistake that mattered (that is, they are uncomfortable being responsible for safety). Those people were put on projects where failure had few con
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I've worked at an online retailer which uses custom code for both warehouse operations as well as corporate operations, similar size as you. The dev team grew over time, but was on the order of 10 people. You absolutely can attract tal
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Having been there recently, it definitely would not have been immediately clear to me that there would be a problem. The boardwalk is next to the pools but clearly not in structural danger. The videos show the eruption being basically verti
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In a real inflation, why would profits be down? If the company has any pricing power, they just increase the price. In fact, the definition of inflation is prices increases.
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Thanks for the explanation! I knew it focused on concurrency, but just assumed Erlang was another functional language. Your description makes me curious about it. Also makes me wonder how useful it would be as a systemd sort of thing, given
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by prewett 2y ago
The article talks about AI, but I think it's interesting that Ted Gioia ("Honest Broker"), similarly, talks about the lack of a counter-culture [1]. I propose that the avant-garde has been synonymous with deconstruction &#x2F
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by prewett 2y ago
I'd pick some nugget that wasn't so self-congratulatory and patronizing. Which are in short supply in the blog entry.
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"Employment vibes"?! "The entire industry was sleeping on SSL and DHE ciphers..."?! And that self-quote at the top, wow. No names of the companies he worked for. It's hard to take this seriously. Over 15 years of ex
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by prewett 2y ago
> I don't know how to solve this. Don't use an algorithm which produces its response according to a probabilistic arrangement of tokens when solutions require accuracy / correctness? Most probable and most accurate are not
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by prewett 2y ago
You're telling me that of MasterCard's 33,000 employees and Visa's 28,800 employees, only a "few" are "capable"? Either management is negligently incompetent or, well, maybe the hubris is from a different
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by prewett 2y ago
Change is not always for the better. Vladimar Putin is changing the world, but expect that few here see it as a good thing. Putin, himself, is known to see Soviet Russia as good; the USSR also changed the world, but it is hard for many to s
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by prewett 2y ago
There's nothing in the nature of reality that forces us to fight each other, unless you mean human nature. But we have a choice in whether we choose to be self-serving, which inevitably leads to conflict, or we choose to love our enemy
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Sounds like a pair of noise cancelling headphones would be a good investment in your quality of life, then! Or you can get those noise-reduction things that look like headphones but just attenuate noise for construction sites. My brother ti
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> were complete ass pulls Boy is that a dismissive overstatement. Briggs began thinking about personality in 1917, intentionally read biographies to get more data on personalty, and incorporated Jung's ideas in 1923 when his book wa
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I believe most authors do not earn out their advance of $5k - $10k. I'm not sure how long it takes to write a book, but I'd be willing to be that ends up being less than minimum wage. If you enjoy reading, but don't think the
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by prewett 2y ago
First, change the image at the top of that link to show the different apps. Right it's calendars until below the fold (on a desktop), and I didn't scroll down because "eh, physical calendar, not interested". Also, appare
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Pedantically, any storage of money is a bet, because it could change in value. However, to the Buffett-style investor, you think about whether you want to buy the entire company, even if you can only afford one billionth of it. You look at
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It's all fun and games by Lewis Carroll, but given the amount of doublespeak in American cities these days (especially by the Left but also by the Right), I think we need to insist that words have a meaning and you can't twist the

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