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by rdw 5y ago
This post sounds like wisdom, but after looking at it hard, it seems that the point is no more than "peer review processes are popular". Not to say that code review is bad in any way (I do it at my current role), but, this argume
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by rdw 5y ago
It repeatedly asserts that immunocompromised patients cannot have antibodies ("weirdness" 3 & 4), but, immunocompromization is a spectrum. Many people can produce antibodies but not as many as normal. If the piece hinges on g
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by rdw 5y ago
Acronym stands for Public Housing In My Backyard. (I had to look this up)
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by rdw 5y ago
Settlement is one of the conditions that SF Bay realtors draw a very hard line around. I have on several occasions seen just the possibility of settlement kill deals and drive prices down by huge percentages. Similar to black mold. The exp
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by rdw 5y ago
> New Yorkers may seem assertive/rude/cold at first but you will soon love the fact you always know where you stand. Unfortunately, I have observed that New Yorkers are now performatively complaining and being rude. They belie
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by rdw 5y ago
This is truly an optimistic take. Mark's "maybe no one else would bother building this if I don't" ethos is inspiring. But, man, that can justify absolutely anything. It seems like an expensive hobby, like Rod Stewart
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by rdw 5y ago
Maybe my people were special in some way, but it seemed like the idea of lining things up vertically just immediately clicked with them. It seems like it's something that folks do in their regular lives when writing (hand-written) not
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by rdw 5y ago
It used an off-the-shelf library, I don't remember which one anymore. I don't think it really matters though -- YAML is a format, not a parser. Per the YAML docs [0], "Creating a fully compliant parser has proven almost impo
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by rdw 5y ago
YAML's not bad if you couple it with strong types. I used YAML _heavily_ and wasn't aware of any of the issues that the author mentioned because of the types. It doesn't let YAML automatically parse dates because the destin
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by rdw 5y ago
It would have been surprising and mildly impactful on the world at large, had Facebook lost. So the tech journalists were following it in the small chance that that happened. It really seems like the folks who are upset at the lack of cove
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by rdw 5y ago
Or maybe the reason is that it's not interesting. "Meritless lawsuit against huge company fails, status quo remains the same" stories play out every day. I'm sure it was a big deal for the participants, as most trials
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by rdw 5y ago
People care about performance a lot, especially when writing evented I/O. The explicitness is pretty useful at preventing unexpected performance cliffs. One of the main pieces of feedback I heard about green threads is that they are &
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by rdw 5y ago
Just because you're not getting that panel back doesn't mean it's destroyed and wasted. I figure that these policies simplify their front-line technician jobs, getting faster turnaround times and higher success rates. Then
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by rdw 5y ago
Your comment got me thinking, and I checked the math. It turns out that light takes ~0.2 ns to travel 2 inches. But the speed of signal propagation in copper is ~0.6 c, so that takes it up to 0.3 ns. So, still pretty small compared to t
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by rdw 5y ago
Rent does not necessarily include a profit margin for the owner. There is a rental market rate and if the landlord's expenses exceed that rate, they can and do rent out the unit at that rate. It's still better than leaving it em
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by rdw 5y ago
Atlassian bought Bitbucket after it was already mature. That's why!
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by rdw 5y ago
I currently believe that it is because software engineers are non-substitutable. The hiring manager is not looking for any qualified engineer, they are looking for a very specific engineer who is also qualified. Engineers also are not loo
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by rdw 5y ago
There's a startup using a similar principle to address a related challenge: getting and staying focused on a task. I tried it and it was surprisingly effective. https://www.focused.space/ (Disclaimer: I know one of th
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by rdw 5y ago
Is this some sort of six-degrees thing where Eric Schmidt wanted to co-author a book with Kissinger (or the other way around) for the prestige? And then they paid Huttenlocher to actually write it?
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by rdw 5y ago
Looks like one of the NRO telescopes is being used in the Roman space telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...
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by rdw 5y ago
As amazing as Hubble is, it's worth remembering that other agencies built several more devices of the same or better resolving capability, and the NRO donated two spares to NASA almost a decade ago [1][2]. Not sure what's happene
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by rdw 5y ago
The hypothesis in the article could be correct (that industry is not adopting new academic innovations because they fail in the real world). Based on my experience in this industry, though, it could just be that there isn't a super str
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by rdw 5y ago
For many, the question is about the code quality as well. Having an AI write substantial chunks of code based on the work of "the average github committer" is being criticized as a problem for security, correctness, and understan
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by rdw 5y ago
The feature of TabNine that uses the "public" dataset is optional. It can also provide completions only based on local code. That optionality is important. Also, tabnine has a smaller scope; you type "var " and it sugg
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by rdw 5y ago
There are different methods of framing a house and roof and builders do tend to specialize in just one. Balloon framing is different than platform framing which is different than mortise and tenon framing. To learn a new system, a carpent
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by rdw 5y ago
When Google Maps came out in 2004 and revolutionized mapping with the sheer quantity of data presented unbelievably smoothly, there was a similar (though smaller) excitment about "map-based" apps. It seemed like such a big blue
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by rdw 5y ago
The early generations worked as you describe. Newer/better ones attempt to map out the layout of the home, which allows them to cover larger areas, return to base to recharge/dump dirt, and to only gently touch objects instead of
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by rdw 6y ago
The justification for why they don't need an auto industry CEO makes sense. But do co-CEOs make any more sense? I never get a good vibe from that arrangement.
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by rdw 6y ago
The 30% cut was considered very good at the time. It was way better than the 50-90% cut that traditional publishers would take. A sibling comment notes that Steam charged 30% at the time (though some had better deals) but it's worth n
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by rdw 6y ago
I asked a similar question of someone who worked on these systems at Instacart, and the answer was that story inventory is often innacurate or incomplete. The stores just haven't needed the degree of accuracy before. There's also

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