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by spopejoy 2y ago
> The fact Hacker News of all places is going to bat for the RIAA and US Industrial Complex leaves me disappointed. The real trend on HN is low-effort comments like this that generalize about HN. How about making an actual argument defen
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by spopejoy 2y ago
I like many things about Mac OS but I do wonder about the quality of the low-level software engineering. The preponderance of bespoke NIH is glaring: filesystems, network protocols, "resource forks" (this one goes WAY back to pasc
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by spopejoy 2y ago
When it comes to corporate malfeasance, juries seem more inclined to punish malfeasance than judges alone. Most corps try to avoid jury trials.
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by spopejoy 2y ago
The technique in the article of googling the exact threat text is really powerful for restoring a sense of safety. Threats become pretty pathetic when you find they're entirely copypasta.
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by spopejoy 2y ago
The article mentions Spring, although I couldn't see anything in the output that would tip me off (like massive java.lang.xxxException traces) ... plus I've seen other mentions of singletons in this discussion -- Are you describin
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by spopejoy 2y ago
I've heard plenty of complaints over the years, and only within quant, unsurprisingly since that is the only field you'll get paid to use K. A brilliant programmer I met who came from DE Shaw said he reimplemented a K-based portfo
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by spopejoy 2y ago
> most profitable programmers This more than anything demonstrates the hothouse-flower mentality of K stans. Quants have long since stopped being the best-paid or most value-generating engineers, and since K has zero application outside
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Animal self-medication with plants observed and emulated by humans for millennia(theconversation.com)
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by spopejoy 2y ago
You have to enable Siri for carplay, which is really obnoxious.
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by spopejoy 2y ago
> Rhythm, tempo, rubato and ornamentation can be freely combined. This gives rise to a large inventory of distinguishable codas — a “sperm whale phonetic alphabet” that makes it possible to systematically explain observed variability in
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by spopejoy 2y ago
I don't think that's relevant to this discussion though, as open- and closed-source subversion would seem to follow really different paths. - Open-source subversion has the big advantage of having the code, testing and build proce
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H5N1 bird flu outbreak in India; 2 doctors, 6 others quarantined(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by spopejoy 2y ago
Not web, but https://musescore.org is free software that reads and writes musicxml.
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by spopejoy 2y ago
Are you sure your experience really maps to McKinsey? There are countless garden-variety Office Space bean counter management consultancies that are called in as RIF shock troops etc. My experience with McKinsey is them being strategic cons
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by spopejoy 2y ago
When I worked with McKinsey folks (in a group directly under a C-suite who was ex-McKinsey themselves), it seemed pretty clear that for mega-large companies, external consultants can call shots and "get things done" because they d
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by spopejoy 3y ago
Personally I don't like the fragility/IDE-specificity of a lot of LSP setups. I wish every language just came with a good ctags solution that worked with all IDEs. When this is set up properly I rarely need more power than a short
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by spopejoy 3y ago
How is "Walk GPT through changes like you might with a junior dev" not a horrific waste of time? Usually you do this with a human as an investment in their future performance, with the understanding that this is the least efficien
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by spopejoy 3y ago
Sorry but that's just false for a huge number of successful male CEOs who not only have stable marriages with supportive wives, but even that the model of the ideal (male) CEO is one in a stable marriage/with a family as part of t
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by spopejoy 3y ago
I don't think the article portrays the decision as disrespectful or disregarding of Lore's opinion, just that they took the wrong bet on the future. While she says later on that she made a mistake not "forcing" that rout
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by spopejoy 3y ago
I think it needs to also be acknowledged that insurance itself is a moral hazard. Focusing on the "efficiency" and moral hazards of only the insureds is an incomplete analysis. Insurance is a for-profit enterprise and as an expe
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by spopejoy 3y ago
I'm in Brooklyn and felt it while on a call with an NJ resident who was the first to say "are we having an earthquake??" Do earthquakes have a propagation speed? Might she have felt it before me?
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by spopejoy 3y ago
> their Armada of lawyers made a possible follow-up rather unsavory Understood, but you should also know that EPLI deductibles are often in the mid-to-high five figures usually, which is an incentive for the employer to settle for anythi
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by spopejoy 3y ago
If you include entire paragraphs without citing, that's copyright violation, not fair use. If your blog was big enough to matter NYT would definitely sue. A human makes their own choices about what to disseminate, whereas these are sin
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by spopejoy 3y ago
Even better: get a loan to buy a ship that's collateralized with the ship itself, destruct the ship to sell for parts, and default on the loan! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-13/yields
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by spopejoy 3y ago
I understand the temptation to blame the FDA when some exciting, revolutionary therapy seems to be slow getting approval. In my case, the therapy that finally worked for my cancer was only allowed as third-line after I had gone through two
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by spopejoy 3y ago
> Not an easy issue to think about or discuss from an objective viewpoint, if one can even exist. Certainly so, if one has blinders to the history of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Of course a global empire is also going to export it&#
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The biggest threat to Nvidia isn't coming from China(restofworld.org)
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Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China(theguardian.com)
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Starlink will only operate in the Gaza Strip with the approval of Israel(thehill.com)
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A new kind of 3D-printed carrot(aljazeera.com)
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