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by prewett 3y ago
In this context it has a technical meaning, as in Taleb's book "Black Swan" [1]. His hypothesis is that the distribution of (stock) market events is not gaussian, as usually assumed. In fact, the distribution is not even know
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by prewett 3y ago
Air resistance is proportional to v^2. My dad told a story once where he was driving out west borrowing one of his brother's cars with a broken speedometer. After he got back he said to his brother, "the car just seemed to top out
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by prewett 3y ago
I've never stayed in a US hostel, but hostels I've been in all have lockers for your stuff. Although I'd be nervous about a hostel in the US--again, I've never been to one--but I'd be worried that the clientelle wou
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by prewett 3y ago
The abstract says that T_c is 127 C, which should be comfortably above room temperature for most of the planet
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by prewett 3y ago
> When you decide to hang out your shingle and profit at the expense of the general public Whoa whoa whoa, you can't just assume that profits come at the expense of the public! There are plenty of businesses that provide valuable go
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by prewett 3y ago
I've met people like this, and I don't think that is charisma. I think a better description of charisma is enjoying people. The people I think have the most "charisma" are the ones that always seem glad to see whoever it
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by prewett 3y ago
Definitely different countries in my mind, just because of the accent when speaking English. Norwegians have a pleasant accent, but it gets harder to understand as it goes west. The Finns I have met are really hard to understand.
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by prewett 3y ago
Hooks are particularly bad to reason about. I can't figure out why hooks seems to be the official Way, it just leads to a bunch of spaghetti functions. The old object-oriented approach might feel old and creaky, but OOP was invented fo
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by prewett 3y ago
Yeah, the memory is overpriced. So are eyeglass frames (rimless are especially overpriced). But as long as you can afford it, a few hundred dollars isn't that much spread over a few years. Or, think about the other option. You can get
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by prewett 3y ago
Hopefully that wondering would lead to testing the water to see whether there is actually a problem.
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by prewett 3y ago
The purpose comes from why the creator created it. Whether the created likes and accepts its purpose is a different question. George MacDonald was quoted as saying something to the effect of: "did it ever occur to you that God created
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by prewett 3y ago
> I wouldn't say there is any threshold where purely functional programming shines less. But what is the set of problems you are usually solving? Any problem set that involves a lot of mutable set is not well-suited for functional p
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by prewett 3y ago
My personal opinion is the problem people are solving moved from what used to be called "desktop applications", for which OOP is a good solution, to other problems. Also, the advantages of HTML/JS (cross-platform, ease of dis
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by prewett 3y ago
Some of us would prefer spend our days with WhatsApp server's elegance rather than than the Facebook server's ugliness. When you have to write a compiler for a poorly designed dynamic language just to get decent performance becaus
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by prewett 3y ago
Maybe I've been ruined by early exposure to C++, back when C++ was the new hotness, but I find encapsulation and even the namespacing aspect to be helpful. Encapsulation is obviously helpful, but it also comes in handy for some algorit
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by prewett 3y ago
The problem with Java's everything-must-be-a-class OO fundamentalism is that a computer is actually has data AND executable code. Java forces everything into a noun (class/data), but some things are actually verbs. You can these b
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by prewett 3y ago
I think these statistics are meaningless without discussing how much state/federal funding has been removed. The article briefly mentions it, but gives no idea of what percentage of tuition was effectively state funded in 1980/198
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by prewett 3y ago
Thank you for your story. I'm sorry that your stuck in your current apartment due to the layoff, that would be really frustrating, to say the least. Kudos for continuing to persevere in your education while still needing to provide for
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by prewett 3y ago
> incredible privilege Bah. It's spoken from a place of valuing yourself. We can choose to be a victims of "the system" or we can choose to be powerful people and place boundaries on how we want to be treated. It might tak
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by prewett 3y ago
> How they intend to do that without any staff Contractors from cheaper cost of living countries, I expect.
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by prewett 3y ago
While researching the melting temperature of glass (1400 - 1600 C), I discovered how glass panes ("float glass" [1]) are made: molten glass is floated on molten tin in a positive-pressure of nitrogen (to keep the tin from oxidizin
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by prewett 3y ago
If you etch/engrave the gold with impressive designs, itss price will go up, too. A raw wafer, which is more comparable to the price of gold bullion, isn't going to be the price of gold.
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by prewett 3y ago
As an example of an effective take-home project, I was applying for a contract helping implement features for an open source project. Normally I don't like take-home project, but this project was interesting, so I was willing to give i
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by prewett 3y ago
Xi Jinping has communicated that lying flat is not part of his vision. But, it can't be CCP propaganda. See, the key thing about the CCP (particularly Xi) is that the solution to a problem is always more control. The State is always
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by prewett 3y ago
Since you've got self-funded Basic Income, do what all those Basic Income people say people will do :P I've had plenty of software engineering jobs that were interesting and 9-5, both at small companies and large. That was importa
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by prewett 3y ago
I hate the Window's half-window snapping, because I don't want tiled windows, but in order to have the window at the edge or top of the screen (which doesn't seem like a huge ask) I have to get it just close enough so it does
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by prewett 3y ago
I tend to setup separate Spaces and put related apps/windows in the same Space. So I have a general/browsing Space, and development Space, a graphics-editing Space, etc. So I don't usually need to move my windows around. Unfo
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by prewett 3y ago
Launchpad can also be started by taking four fingers spread out and bringing them together into one spot. I think that is enabled by default. (Control panel, at least in older versions, also had a little animation for all the gestures, and
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by prewett 3y ago
If you move the mouse up to the top of the screen in fullscreen mode the menu bar will reappear, so things work about like normal (although that certainly wasn't obvious the first time I pressed the green button). The double-click on t
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by prewett 3y ago
It seems to me that John Lasseter was responsible for a lot of the creativity.

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