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by qzw 6y ago
Exactly. It’s amazing how good customer service can be when the profit margins are high enough. It’s really only dumb companies and those with too much power that tend to combine high margins with bad customer service.
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by qzw 6y ago
Try an American Express savings account. Usually the same rate as Ally, but allows much higher transfer limits. And you don’t have to have an AmEx credit card to open one. It’s my go to “middle man” account between ones that have ridiculous
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by qzw 6y ago
Presumably “Wuhan Corona”? I don’t know if that’s common nomenclature in his circle or just idiosyncratic.
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by qzw 6y ago
AKA a recipe. You can follow a Michelin starred chef's recipe all you want, but you're not getting your own star that way. You actually have to learn to cook. But recipes can still be useful anyway.
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by qzw 6y ago
I’m sure it’s not that they think software isn’t worthy, but simply that it’s not their traditional area of competence. It took a monumental effort for a lot of them just to make the film to digital transition, and they were only competing
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by qzw 6y ago
I too have a Stallman encounter story from years ago. He used to work/sleep one floor below the research group I worked for as an undergrad, and he would wander up to our floor regularly. He would sometimes walk by and nod at me when I
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by qzw 6y ago
I’m sure this works for some people in the right context, but so many great OG hackers were career computer scientists and engineers. I mean, people like the original Xerox PARC guys, Woz, Cerf, Diffie, the RSA guys, TBL, and too many more
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by qzw 6y ago
In a just world, he would have 1/48th of Elon’s fame/fortune too.
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by qzw 6y ago
Absolutely. I would buy the heck out of a 4000-piece Falcon Heavy LEGO set, and I suspect I’m not alone.
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by qzw 6y ago
Well, then that’s not the original use case anymore, and it’ll have to be re-engineered. In the meantime it may have been used for years and the perf difference may have saved many developer-years collectively across its user base. Surely y
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by qzw 6y ago
While I agree with your overall point, it’s worth pointing out that Apple doesn’t really do a lot of freemium stuff, so Cook’s comment should be taken in the context of having nearly all customers who have already paid up.
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by qzw 6y ago
I think what an FB exec is trying to decide is more analogous to "should we use child labor to make our shirts?" or "should we incur higher costs to run a humane farm?"
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by qzw 6y ago
I think you should try to look for an achievement that's personally meaningful rather than "impressive" to some unknown stranger. For example, summitting Everest is not as impressive as an achievement as it once was, not if y
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by qzw 6y ago
This instead of the site that collects PG's parenting tweets? It was on the front page a few weeks ago.
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by qzw 6y ago
I was asking more specifically why Civ 6 was worse than its predecessors, but I appreciate your answering. I see that there are now many comments detailing the shortcomings of 6.
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by qzw 6y ago
I’ve never played any Civ game. Can you elaborate?
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by qzw 6y ago
Would definitely be nice to see Microsoft put more resources into supporting Rust. Go has Google’s backing and Swift has Apple’s. Would be interesting if Microsoft fully embraces Rust, but hopefully without the “extend and extinguish” part.
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by qzw 6y ago
Yes, there's definitely more going on than just reflectance. That's why most virtual materials appears too glossy to me. From what I understand, ray/path tracing will enable better materials modeling as well, given enough pro
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by qzw 6y ago
Yes, and particularly the way light reflects off of different materials is often still in the uncanny valley. Perhaps ray tracing will finally get us there in the next few years.
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by qzw 6y ago
Those have to be (part) owners of Acer Inc. On a separate note, the Swift 3 is $49 cheaper than the Mac Pro wheels.
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by qzw 6y ago
Yes, it’s all the more galling that they ruined the desktop experience without providing a good tablet experience. Yes, things are bigger and more tappable, but there’s more to a good tablet UX than that. They have only done the relativel
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by qzw 6y ago
Don’t complain about the price. This isn’t for you. It’s for pros who need the best rolling performance to do their jobs. I mean, when the pros’ time costs $$$$/hr, are they really going to buy some knock off wheels for $500 and risk g
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by qzw 6y ago
That’s undoubtedly true, but brut force password cracking is something that banks have a relatively easy time of detecting and defeating, so one could argue that the length/char limitations are not as big a problem. I’m far more concer
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by qzw 7y ago
$840/page. 100k+ pages rather than 1M. Doesn’t change your other points, however.
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by qzw 7y ago
Looks like a solid survey of the state of the art, as one would expect from Boneh and Shoup. Given that this is about applied crypto, I would like to see a chapter or sub-chapter devoted to discussing the usability of some real world cryp
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by qzw 7y ago
I know that good penmanship is no longer necessary, and my own handwriting is rather inelegant due to reluctance to practice when I was a child, but I can’t help but feel a little sad that beautiful handwriting is rarely seen anymore.
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by qzw 7y ago
TLDR: 1. Go, 2. Java, 3. C++17. Java was slightly faster than go but used significantly more memory. C++17 was slower than both and used more memory than go. I’m still reading for more details on the implementations, but the results are cer
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by qzw 7y ago
I would add that the effect is even more pronounced in college sports (in the US) compared to pro sports, especially those that have a draft system (so the NBA but not Formula 1, e.g.). The persistent institutional/reputational advanta
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by qzw 7y ago
Well, in a hypothetical ideal ranking system that is stable and not easily gamed, a lower ranked university would need to actually improve the quality of its education (and whatever other characteristics the ranking system measures) in orde
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by qzw 7y ago
From the abstract: *>we both formally and experimentally show in multiple ways that this ranking scheme is not reliable and cannot be trusted as authoritative because it is too sensitive to weight changes and can easily be gamed. That&#x

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