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by sethev 2y ago
People's intuition is certainly off when it comes to wealth and this article exemplifies the confusion. It argues that income is more important but ignores the connection between wealth and income, which is especially strong at the hig
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by sethev 2y ago
The oldest living person today was born the same year Thomson published The Corpuscular Theory of Matter in 1907. So a long time ago in one sense, but not so long in the scheme of things.
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by sethev 3y ago
If 60 bytes per request is a material overhead, then your workload is unlikely to benefit from general purpose compression of any kind.
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A Mind Is Born(linusakesson.net)
1 points by sethev 3y ago|0 comments
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by sethev 3y ago
$1.5 million in 1912 is almost $50 million today, so he invested pretty heavily in electric before moving on. Without the benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that going differently. I wonder if anyone at the time had an inkling
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by sethev 3y ago
Amazon wouldn't be worth less if someone else owned it and he only owns 10% of the company. So all of it.
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by sethev 3y ago
You seem to be mixing up the file format with how it's used. An application that uses SQLite's file format would use SQLite's library as part of the application. Yes, it would be quite a lot of work to replicate that library
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by sethev 3y ago
There's a BFT version: https://www.scs.stanford.edu/17au-cs244b/labs/projects/clow_...
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by sethev 3y ago
It shows the state of each replica's log. Click on the leader and select 'request' to simulate sending a command. If you take a replica offline, you can see that it falls behind and then gets caught up when it comes back.
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by sethev 3y ago
It's a (selfish) issue for the landowner because previously they could treat this public land as if it was theirs effectively, since other people don't have access to it. This ruling doesn't change that for public land that d
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by sethev 3y ago
Oh, wow! This is the creator of Glypha ( https://boredzo.org/glypha/ ). I spent countless hours playing that game in the mid-ish 90's. Like so many games back then, you could tweak things with ResEdit. Nobody would
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by sethev 4y ago
Everyone withdrawing their money ASAP is what caused the solvency problem. There's a big difference between warning people of a problem and encouraging them to behave in a way that creates it. No bank could survive this kind of run. Se
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by sethev 4y ago
Normally, yes. But in this case isn't it the upcoming payroll that's the problem? That work has already been done by employees, so the wage is already on the books. If they can't come up with the money, they'll have unpa
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by sethev 4y ago
On it's face, it seems implausible that 1 in 50 investors were as successful as Warren Buffet.
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by sethev 4y ago
John Carmack tweeted something that made me noodle on this too: >It is amusing to consider how much of the world you could serve something like Twitter to from a single beefy server if it really was just shuffling tweet sized buffers to
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by sethev 4y ago
It's hard to imagine a timeline where SQLite was more successful.
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by sethev 4y ago
Roaring bitmaps are integer sets with optimized set-wise operations, like intersecting two sets to find out which integers are contained by both. Judy is an associate array (so it's interface is similar to a hash table). There's a
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by sethev 4y ago
This is similar to the argument that you shouldn't set a service-level objective of 100% availability. It's not achievable and people who claim that's the goal don't act as if it is - so it's better to talk about wh
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by sethev 4y ago
Some of this article reads like a criticism of people's second-hand impressions of the books. Their poverty and Pa's poor decisions that made it worse are right there in the books, they're just told from the perspective of a
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by sethev 5y ago
I think the headline is misleading. If you read the article, it sounds like they've increased the salary cap. It seems like a leap to assume they're offering anyone salaries at that cap. The CEO isn't getting paid this amount
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by sethev 5y ago
While you're not wrong about nails vs screws for framing - this a 6x6 box, it's not going to matter.
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by sethev 5y ago
The use-case for a more efficient JSON parser is exactly the same as the use-case for a less efficient one. They're doing the same thing. Daniel Lemire does a ton of performance research like this. He's an unusual case of a profes
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by sethev 5y ago
I think you missed the point of the example. Lemire's example isn't "the use-case" for this optimization, it's just a trivial motivating example. The use-case is more like, "assume you're currently using a
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by sethev 5y ago
Downtown? The entire county that this is in has fewer than 4k people living there. This would be for someone who wants to get as far away from activity centers as possible while still staying in the lower 48.
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A History of Clojure by Rich Hickey(youtube.com)
1 points by sethev 5y ago|0 comments
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Spec-Ulation Keynote – Rich Hickey(youtube.com)
2 points by sethev 5y ago|0 comments
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by sethev 6y ago
I really learned this the hard way over the last year. My company has a client that requires all scan findings to have a plan for fixing them. No assessment is allowed, if the scanner reports it we have to assume it's a real vulnerabil
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by sethev 7y ago
The specifics are often not useful but one thing you'll notice is that people who made it work have some kind of a schedule that they stick to. 'Flexible schedule' can be misinterpreted as 'changing all the time'. W
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by sethev 7y ago
Yeah, people who invested any money in Berkshire in 1964 are very rich now (if they didn't sell). People who invested in S&P in 1964 are not as rich.
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by sethev 7y ago
The thing that stands out in Buffett's letters (including this one), is his commitment to clearly communicating the true health of the company in the most accurate way possible. That's missing in a lot of corporate communication,

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