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by shoo 6y ago
Seneca's essays & letters.
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by shoo 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
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by shoo 6y ago
> [...] the graph below plots US stock market returns against real GDP growth in the United States, using quarterly data [from 1960 to 2020] Note that there is almost no correlation between stock returns and real GDP growth contemporaneo
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by shoo 6y ago
it is pretty cool how open they are about the business: https://hellocode.co/stats/
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by shoo 6y ago
Maciej has written a lot of interesting stuff about pinboard: * pinboard's blog includes financials https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ * general advice to neither use nor run free services that don't have a busin
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by shoo 6y ago
I remember being baffled for an hour or two after accidentally putting a trailing opening { in a c++ file and then getting thousands of compilation errors all through the standard library headers my application included.
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by shoo 6y ago
> [...] it took until 2009 for something (really) interesting to happen, a program called ‘pocket Fritz’ achieved parity with Deep Blue in terms of strength while running on a mobile phone and evaluating only a small fraction of the numb
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by shoo 6y ago
maybe you can start a business to provide this kind of undercover intelligence to VCs, e.g. you get paid a monthly retainer by some prospective investors to work undercover at a sequence of maybe-joking-startups and write dispatches reporti
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by shoo 6y ago
make is for expressing a directed acyclic graph of transformations that produce output files from input files. this is a good fit for compiling libraries & applications and also other things like data processing pipelines where you need
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by shoo 6y ago
Is there any research that supports this claim that access to consumer credit is primarily responsible for decreasing worker power?
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by shoo 6y ago
The giant sunshade idea is much more expensive and fragile than relatively dumb alternatives such as spraying SO2 or water into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight, I don't really understand how sunshade could be argued as a "bette
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by shoo 6y ago
I think this is a very important point to understand: regardless of if you believe particular geoengineering approaches are too dangerous or too little understood to apply, at some point when the threat & the damage from global warming
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by shoo 6y ago
> Here's my (admittedly whimsical) working hypothesis [...] The rot set in back in the 19th century, when the US legal system began recognizing corporations as de facto people. [...] Corporations do not share our priorities. They ar
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by shoo 6y ago
At one of my past jobs there was a fingerprint reader system to enter the office. It didn't work reliably to recognise fingerprints of employees, so after a while people settled on the solution of having a large brick next to the door
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by shoo 6y ago
> Debian ssh key vulnerability was among the worst vulnerabilities ever seen in general-purpose computing interesting, I wasn't aware of the history of this vulnerability. For anyone else curious, here's an analysis of what hap
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by shoo 6y ago
Tangentially related book recommendation, not about gambling, but about development economics: "Poor Economics" -- by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Economics
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by shoo 6y ago
Complementary to this handbook, if you maintain one or more debian servers it is useful to learn and adopt a configuration management tool -- assuming you are not already using another state management technique that gives you even more con
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by shoo 6y ago
this corresponds to sad scenario where the database itself is leaked and the attacker has access to it. the blog describes how the salt is stored as prefix to each hash.
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by shoo 6y ago
I reckon this is a relatively simple explanation & demo of how simple it is to crack passwords if you have access to both a database dump of salted passwords, provided the password itself is relatively easily guessable (present in some
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by shoo 6y ago
> the primary goal for many [new professionals] becomes, in essence, getting compensated sufficiently for sidelining their original goals. Robert H. Frank, a Cornell University professor of economics, tried to find out exactly how much c
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by shoo 6y ago
A reasonably sound place to start for investing as an individual is the Bogleheads wiki: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page The general Bogleheads approach isn't to try to estimate value of individual stoc
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by shoo 6y ago
i am unfamiliar with kernel TLS offload [1], but superficially, it looks like that may be supported: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/43a70f02022ebbc29aa7... `SOL_TLS` referenced here https:/&#x2
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by shoo 6y ago
large enterprise companies can be reasonably challenging to sell things too, but for a whole range of different reasons ( not in sales, do work at an enterprise that will take 18 months to arrive at a decision that it is acceptable to start
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by shoo 6y ago
I agree. I think of this as a functor pattern: object that supports some params being bound at constructor time, and other params set when the function is called later. In languages that let you operator overload function call syntax, you e
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by shoo 6y ago
if you've got an IT ecosystem with enough monoliths / macroservices calling each other, being able to trace across service boundaries is still pretty useful
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by shoo 6y ago
Current employer basically offers no perks apart from paying salary, which I reckon is a neatly decoupled way to structure life. BYO lunch, BYO social life, BYO health insurance (largely covered by public system). Employer offers salary in
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by shoo 6y ago
It is hard to understand before noticing it is part 5 of a series, and going back to read part 1. Part 1 sets the stage far better: > if you join me in this rather long journey, we’ll end up with a replacement function for Array.Sort, wr
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by shoo 6y ago
Having offers for alternative employment that you'd be willing to accept puts you in a strong negotiating position. If instead your current employer only had the information that you were searching for a new job, but didn't have a
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by shoo 6y ago
at some point you end up with path dependence -- you're in the situation you're in, and it would be big-bang rewrite or incremental migration to port all the code to a new stack, not to mention the costs of retraining existing sta
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by shoo 6y ago
> If every time I take a sample it's slightly higher, does this still hold? I don't know enough stats to give a firm answer, but I'd reckon there is a key assumption that the samples need to be drawn i.i.d. from a single u

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