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by sixo 4y ago
I've learn a few things about this problem over the years: "Wanting to have done something" and "wanting to DO something" are very different. E.g. "I'd like to be able to play Claire de Lune on piano"
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by sixo 4y ago
They also, iirc, act a bit like a specialized bank for venues, by paying for contracts up front (and I think I read also loaning money directly?) in exchange for the fee upside in sales and resales later. Venues want as much revenue as they
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by sixo 4y ago
Here are a handful of answers derived from personal experience of myself and others: * lack of practice; of reinforcing feedback in the form of pushback when not making sense and approval when making sense; perhaps because etiquette makes u
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by sixo 4y ago
The post links to this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec... so the answer is, a lot of things: * v8 isolates * private processes for debugging/inspection * "cordoned" V8 runtimes o
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by sixo 4y ago
The words "left" and "right" are flimsy and one-dimensional for this purpose, but the basic dichotomy they're referring to in this context has deep roots in historical thinking: whether it's right for people to
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by sixo 4y ago
> their billions in wealth ...they no longer possess billions in wealth. The other response to you got it right... you're not scoring 700M unless you have some tax bill on a 3B income to pay. My whole point is that people keep sayin
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by sixo 4y ago
Why do people keep saying this. They keep some control but they don't keep ownership. It's not like they sold the company and saved 700M on the deal... they still gave away their stake in the company. Why are people trying to spin
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by sixo 4y ago
This equating of what-you-put-in to what-you-get-out is a moral choice you can make, but it's easy not to make it. It's widely recognized as hateful. - people's particular successes depend onthw rest of society, they didn&#x2
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by sixo 4y ago
I think you have a lot of people coming into the general backend/business-logic tech space who are not nearly enough of "computer people" or engineering-minded to actually be responsible for the uptime of a mission critical w
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by sixo 4y ago
There's no way that's right. It's mixing up "t" as the upper limit of integration (S[q] is really S[q, t_0, t]) vs t as the argument of q; dS/dt in the latter sense doesn't even make sense because the argu
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by sixo 4y ago
I find this rather suspect. Write it as: S[q(t), t_0, t] = int_{t_0}^{t} L(q(t'), q̇(t'), t') dt' Formally, S is a function of the upper limit of integration, and dS/dt = L, yes? I don't see why we can't t
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by sixo 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you're answering a different question. I'm saying: - it appears that the "stationary action" is the same as "worldline follows a geodesic of the spacetime metric" ( https://en.wik
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by sixo 4y ago
I've always been unsatisfied with this description of the Lagrangian. I spent some time trying to figure out a better justification, and never was happy with it. Maybe someone reading this thread knows? A few things I have but could no
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by sixo 4y ago
in the tech job market generally, the value of the work to the company puts an upper bar on a salary, but competition with other employers for the same worker puts a lower bar on salary (obviously along with other factors like the company&#
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by sixo 4y ago
Incrementally, building improves living conditions. It's not all-or-nothing.
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by sixo 4y ago
I didn't say "only ever doing one thing and doing it well is good for a person". Learning multiple games is also good; learning many things is also good, my (trite) point is that IMO there is a specific virtue in the pursuit
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by sixo 4y ago
note when you find something that impresses you, it has probably been curated by an editor or an institution with standards, and follow that thread. And look for things written on a slower cadence than daily. To start with, the NYT has trad
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by sixo 4y ago
Getting especially good at one thing is very good for a person.
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by sixo 4y ago
It's an opinion, not a research paper, so just consider whether it resonates with your experience or kicks up anything that feels worth considering. It did for me.
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by sixo 4y ago
> I don't know what Entropy is supposed to mean on the level of individual states/configurations. I don't understand what kind of macroscopic "averaging" function we may use to group up those states I find it hel
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by sixo 4y ago
It's well-aligned with "writers own their audience" - together this positions substack as a platform for monetizing writing, not as more of a publisher.
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by sixo 5y ago
Not seeing how that graph suggests shelter is the biggest story. Shelter looks linear since Feb 2021, but only caught up to pre-pandemic levels around Nov/Dec 2021, and while linear since then falls FAR behind energy, food, basically e
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by sixo 5y ago
Probably in the sense of a graph edge.
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by sixo 5y ago
https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ All of season 10, it's a lot, it's great.
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by sixo 5y ago
More likely than not, you have in your mind (or heart, wherever you feel it) small notions of things you might like to try: ideas to explore, creative visions, or ideas of the kind of person you'd like to be or the people you'd li
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by sixo 5y ago
Likely referring to NYT's piece on SSC ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod... , summarized in https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-t
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by sixo 5y ago
I had no idea this game wasn't beloved. I played it at about the age of 9 and was obsessed. Above all I remember the strangeness of the alien world - for a kid it was incredible.
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by sixo 5y ago
That sounds wrong. Quickly googling, https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/ says the US is around 13% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained&#x2F
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by sixo 5y ago
Not exactly that but take a look at https://github.com/mtrencseni/rxe ("literate regex"). I found this on HN and recall the comment thread being good but I can't find it now.
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by sixo 5y ago
Less astroturfing than being full of children.

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