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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I’d for sure take the high SAT scores. I think the SAT has more correlation with/is more predictive of work success than leetcode.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I only had one company (D. E. Shaw & Co.) ask for my SAT scores. I was late-20s and had to have the recruiter repeat herself two more times before I understood what she was asking. It was also the single highest density of talent I’ve e
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
If you think it matters (I don’t) and think you scored unfairly low at 17, you can take (or retake) the SAT at any age.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
It also can’t be unwisely adjusted to the situation (usually in the form “too much for too long”). I tend to think the benefits of unbacked currency exceed the downsides, but it’s not exclusively upside.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Give it to anyone in an identifiable way. Tax it back from the people you don’t want to be able to keep it. In a lot of cases, getting the money out there quickly matters a lot and taxing it back 1-3 years later is fine. > if my home bur
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Totally! And it drives me crazy to get very few questions and mostly positive ones if I underspend by 5-10% but going over by 1-2% is a massive problem. It’s little surprise what happens under such a system: logical people over-reserve.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I feel like Worldcom got a modest amount of press coverage at the time but probably would have gotten a lot more if it hadn’t been front-run by the Enron scandal.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I work with people who are well smart enough to know that. It’s also still a reasonable question to ask “well, last year we budgeted $15M and you got acceptable results while spending only $14M; perhaps you only need $14M/yr…” And desp
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
It is. If you incur less than $30 in PACER charges in a quarter, they waive the bill.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
What’s the alternative? Governments pass regulations and all buildings must be adapted within 12 months? 36 months? What of the buildings that don’t comply in time? Or can’t find trades to do it in time? Or we notice to our eternal shock th
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
The extortionate renewal rates I saw as a gift from Broadcom. It made it very easy to price the risk of doing nothing and be sure that the cost of outages during and immediately post-migration would be lower. (Yes, we had a few, due to obsc
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Just as you wouldn’t use the asphalt parking surface of an open parking lot as the floor of the house, there’s no obligation to use the actual garage structure. 25+ years from now, if it’s more economical to use for housing, knock it down a
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
25 years from now, if half the cars are then capable of autonomous nav-and-park, we could convert some of the excess parking lots to buildings. (Any lot large enough to have “aisles” will also be large enough to build on.)
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Because there’s a heavy bias for people who have use for 4+ bedrooms to also not want to live in an apartment building. The reasons vary, but I have lived in Boston/Cambridge area for 40 years and can’t think of literally any of my fri
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Who gets to be the builder who is allowed to be one of the minority to not have to put an elevator into a building where only a majority must have it?
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Smaller units rent for more per square foot in general, so if the building project is limited by gross-floor-area ratios, developing it into more, smaller units produces more rent than fewer, larger units. There’s also a pretty strong effec
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
If Tesco needs character witnesses that Broadcom has done this to many other customers, I think they’ll find plenty of willing participants. Broadcom’s marketing for Proxmox is extremely effective.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I expect my APs will be the last things to convert away from copper because of the need for power. (I just deployed new WiFi 7 APs with 10G PoE++ links.)
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
In most cases, you are granted a notional dollar amount that is immediately turned into a concrete and fixed number of shares that then vest over the next 4 years. Then, any share price appreciation on the shares is captured by you at vesti
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I agree it’s not a perfect measure, but I conclude “it is the best we have, and usually close enough to the truth” makes it a good measure.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
> maintains a standard following distance (ideally 3 car lengths on an interstate) 3 car lengths is a ridiculously too close following distance at freeway speeds.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
Restarting at 1 makes sense only if you think you’re going to run out of integers. I can’t fathom why part of the deployment of the new system wasn’t to re-seed to the current ticket number or an easy-to-remember integer (hopefully via data
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
When driving, I need to see things far away (mostly) but also on my dash/instrument cluster. I am near-sighted overall and have needed distance glasses all my driving life. I got progressives last year and driving is safer now as I hav
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
I got my first set of progressive lenses in safety glasses earlier this year as a way to try them out. Based on that experience, I switched my daily glasses to progressives in May and love them. Once or twice a day, I notice a visual artifa
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
But a number from a ticket system you are using is helpful and vastly more log messages will be read during the time when it’s active than after it’s been retired/replaced.
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by sokoloff 4mo ago
But what if your dad had a closely-related sheet company that you regularly transacted with but isn’t public because he was barred for life from giving public demonstrations but owned tons of shares in your demonstration and sold millions o
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> it's totally possible to (by, say, 2036) train 100% of teachers to perform at a 90th percentile as compared to teachers from 2026. That's how improvement works, which is what people are describing here. I doubt you can pull t
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I’m not sure GP’s point landed. As I read it, it had nothing to do with who created the curriculum or even how much the student learned. “Anyone who applies the smallest amount of effort gets a B and anyone who really tries gets an A” is a
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
My feelings about front-end code are that I have a stronger feeling of craftsmanship, in the sense that I can ship a much more polished product because all the small nagging annoyances are things that I can eliminate (second-hand), where I’
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
It also could be to provide room for enterprise discount pricing without it being money-losing for one of the companies.

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