sigstoat

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by sigstoat 5y ago
all i had was 6 weeks in middle school, which covered cooking and... embroidery? i think? there was a 7 week segment some time in high school that discussed economics, but it was a sort of math-free intro to macroencomics, as i recall. (&qu
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by sigstoat 5y ago
hopefully the final exam includes working out a post-college graduation budget which includes student loan repayments, and expected earnings.
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if it became effective enough that any politicians even heard of it, let alone started trying to game it, that would be great news.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
FYI racketcon 2018 had a "Friendly Environment" policy: https://con.racket-lang.org/2018/ so did 2017. i can't find anything for 2019. didn't look for 2020. the project as a whole has https:/&
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by sigstoat 5y ago
huh, felleisen didn't strike me as any pricklier than your average college professor when i met him. certainly wouldn't have been in the top 10 racket contributors i'd expect to drive anyone away.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
(without expressing my own opinion on it:) most policy folks seem to want a few percent of inflation. it motivates you to spend or invest your money instead of just stuffing cash into a mattress.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> What is the best way for me to start doing remote work? send out resumes. hiring is so hot that if you can do the work, nothing in your history besides "embezzler, intellectual property thief & saboteur" would slow you do
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Turns out the PC was an accident of history > The end goal was never really to empower people whose end goal would that have even been? you're talking like history possesses some sort of inherent narrative, instead of just bein
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> People aren't stupid. They'll have questions i interview and i've never looked at the dates of employment on someone's resume. i don't care one whit when you did what in the past, just what you're capable
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i’ve gone back in to the office a few days just for change of pace. i’d forgotten that they buy the cheapest kleenex, and the cheapest toilet paper. but hey there’s an endless supply of sugary drinks to tempt me all day.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> your boss could call your new future boss and you could lose the job and say what? "hey yeah that guy who worked for us until leaving of his own accord is total garbage, you don't want to hire him"? they'd sound lik
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by sigstoat 5y ago
now consider this in terms of eschatology, and end-of-the-world cults.
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they might not have to work during every planned downtime, but they're going to have to work during some of them, or what was the point of the downtime?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
from the training sessions they made me take ages ago, most everything about space-flight hardware and control systems is ITAR-restricted.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
read the original paper. the gambler's formulation is garbage, which obscures all insight.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
if your transactions are conflicting heavily with each other, yeah, you'll have a bad time. and if everything synchronizes on some small set of keys, you'll have a really bad time. monitoring the transaction conflict rate on your
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if a company wants to advocate the case for proceeding as an independent entity, they will make it abundantly clear. This is not that. certainly. i'd interpret it as though they conside
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> But, also for the same record, thinking you can implement a reliable, globally-replicated key-value store on top of FoundationDB that is cheaper and better than Cloud Spanner may be evidence of the same cognitive bias. man, good thing
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by sigstoat 5y ago
peruse the fdb forum. they produce document and record layers now. there are community layers of varying quality for a network block device, a filesystem, and a few other things.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> There weren't any, which is why that particular shop elected to roll their own distributed system on top of rocks. that's nuts. rocks could've been added as a storage engine to fdb far more easily.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
this is limited by your creativity and willingness to make tradeoffs. the only really general statement i can think of is that the "larger"/"longer" your transactions are, the harder a time you'll have getting
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Unfortunately, this should probably be viewed as a negotiation on price. They certainly don't have the door closed. very few sane organizations would ever completely refuse. everything is a negotiation.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> > blue color work is honorable and needed and they can be productive and get a job that will support them and their family > Able to support a family? Not without a secondary income from a spouse. now i suspect that you simply do
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i hope that any of that has any bearing on engineering practice in our lifetimes.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> i don't believe in physical limits for computation there are limits, we're just not close to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation > when i read about 50MHz being the fundamental i
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i use electronic SRS flashcard stuff, and i hand write the material onto scrap paper when i first encounter it. i don't have to worry about keeping it neat/legible, i still get the physical connection, and it doesn't take up
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> I have very high antibodies and my physician actually recommended that I hold off on getting the vaccine. what was their reasoning?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> They want everyone to get the vaccine so that people aren't missed who had a mild case. i feel like "mild case" (also) subtly refers to all of the folks who said "oh, yeah, i had a cold in december 2019, that was pr
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> You will win more friends with a "never correct others" policy. However, what if belief in the misinformation has deadly consequences? where do you think the line should be drawn? dying is pretty clearly terrible. what if som
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by sigstoat 5y ago
the iCE40HX4K is available in TQFP-144, which can be reliably hand soldered after some youtube videos and practice. i think there are still xilinx CPLDs in TQFP too. should be boards floating around for any of them. if not, well, only reaso

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