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by saulrh 2y ago
Not necessarily the case. Consider the possibility that strongly-held political beliefs correlate with software engineering skill, in which case it could easily be that a politically-active but superior engineer comes out ahead despite &quo
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by saulrh 2y ago
If you want this in formal terms: "pulling the trigger" and "living with yourself after pulling the trigger" are both skills that some people have and other people don't, those skills exist on a continuum of both di
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by saulrh 2y ago
The letter's entire criticism is that Dolstra is clinging to that position through an extended, conflict-of-interest-ridden campaign of toxic behavior and that this toxic behavior is preventing Nix from "delivering useful software
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by saulrh 2y ago
It's like he didn't even read the letter. It's fact after fact, sourced and linked and screenshotted, demonstrating that Dolstra, the Foundation, and Anduril are engaged in toxic leadership that are concretely limiting the Ni
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by saulrh 2y ago
Yeah. Dolstra is responding to a letter that criticized his views, which isn't what the letter is. The letter's concern is that Dolstra is seriously harming the Nix project by forcing all decisions to go through himself, relitigat
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by saulrh 2y ago
I bet that it does apply to transcripts of meetings. This means, of course, that people with hearing or memory problems will be locked out of leadership because the company can't take the risk that accessibility tooling increases the
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by saulrh 2y ago
For people who aren't aware of this, the IRS is so underfunded right now that funding IRS enforcement has an ROI of between five and nine, that is, for every dollar we put into funding the IRS it would be able to claw back up to ten d
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by saulrh 2y ago
Historically, US courts have declared that giving a password is proof that you control the given asset and that this can be incriminating. In practice, juries will take a refusal to divulge a password as evidence of guilt, the cops will use
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by saulrh 2y ago
SF traffic fatalities have not been increasing year-over-year. You can't cast blame for an outcome that doesn't exist. Data: https://www.chp.ca.gov/programs-services/services-informatio... . SWITRS hasn't
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by saulrh 2y ago
Now we just need people to treat car crashes like plane crashes even when humans are driving. Unfortunately, given that that would result in dozens to hundreds of fatality accident investigations a day, this is likely impossible. It's
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by saulrh 3y ago
Probably that there's an underlying common cause that means the effect disappears when you analyze the data properly. For example, if screen time is caused by lack of parental presence and lack of parental presence is caused by poverty
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by saulrh 3y ago
> that duty has transitioned to publishers as > journals have switched to a digital format. I think it's important to note that this can be wholly blamed on the publishers, who froth at the mouth at the thought of any o
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by saulrh 3y ago
If you can only afford to hire someone if they're being subsidized by their parents, then the job position you're offering should either not exist or the subsidy should be made explicit. If our civilization's entry-level posi
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by saulrh 3y ago
For the average HNer, a fertilizer spill is unactionable. There's no digging I can do, nothing I can change. At most I can add it to the big list of things I should consider talking to my senators and representatives about. By contrast
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by saulrh 3y ago
Profile guided optimization is, unfortunately, wildly powerful. And it has a hard requirement that a casual link exists from test data (or production data!) to the build process.
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by saulrh 3y ago
Stimulants bring so many other benefits that the risks of cardiomyopathy are outweighed even within their narrow slice of outcomes: taking stimulants reduces non-psychiatric hospital admissions in attention disorder subjects by up to 40%, w
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by saulrh 3y ago
Thanks to things like planetwide bottlenecks through specific canals and locks and design of certain ports, approximately all container ships are within a couple meters of one of only a handful of size buckets, several of which are fairly c
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by saulrh 3y ago
In my experience, human readable file formats are a mistake. As soon as people can read a single file they think that that's the entire format and that it's okay to write it by hand or write their own code for it. And when everyon
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by saulrh 3y ago
kOS is good stuff, yeah. Very... immersive, heh. It has all of these weird design decisions from having been built to do relatively simple spaceship sequencing tasks first, rather than as a general purpose programming language, and having g
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by saulrh 3y ago
You can also do this for Kerbal Space Program using the kRPC mod: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/130742-18x-to-112... . It's a much less polished experience, but you get more of the experience of an act
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by saulrh 3y ago
Doing things I don't understand myself is also a recipe for disaster, and in my experience a rather greater one. The platform team is liable to make mistakes like scaling the service wrong or failing to anticipate upcoming changes. The
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by saulrh 3y ago
It doesn't work on arbitrary data. Hand-crafted metrics on structured data, yeah. Free text, no. Data that you don't know anything about, also not really.
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by saulrh 3y ago
Having written papers like this before, a large part of the problem is that almost all CS research is published in conferences, rather than journals, and conferences frequently have extremely strict length limits, on the order of three or f
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by saulrh 3y ago
I disagree wrt licensed IPs. There's no single right "amount" of structure to provide to inspire creativity. Different works of art, different moods, different people, different days, will all "want" different start
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by saulrh 3y ago
I've always found it... somewhat unfitting, I think... that this is called the "underhanded" C contest, because so many of the winners work by getting trivial type and preprocessor stuff wrong in ways that are concerningly ea
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by saulrh 3y ago
An offshore wind farm by definition uses no land area :V
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by saulrh 3y ago
I think that this might actually be something new - you have the same topology as a microservice architecture, but rather than actually programming and deploying one binary per microservice, you build a single binary with all of the functio
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by saulrh 3y ago
This looks like it parallels the shift from MapReduce's paradigm of one binary per execution graph node to FlumeJava (and Apache Beam's) monolithic binary for all worker nodes that reconfigures itself as necessary for each stage.
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by saulrh 3y ago
They did! Nice! Those definitely weren't there earlier today!
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by saulrh 3y ago
I wish the one-sentence descriptions were displayed in the lists. When I click through to https://terminaltrove.com/new/ , I have to click through every single one of those names to find out what they are. It'd be

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