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by tacon 5y ago
Unless I am legally required to give my correct SSN, I just fill it in with one digit off. If they catch it, then they obviously were able to learn my SSN by another method. Otherwise, I'm doing my part to salt my public records with
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by tacon 5y ago
As long as we still bend the curve to not overwhelm the hospital system. Even vaccinated, I may need an ICU bed from a car accident or a heart attack. I wish there was data on fully vaccinated people being able to spread infection to other
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by tacon 5y ago
I had a deja vu moment in the article, when the banks realized that the first one to sell would have an advantage. Then overnight they dumped their positions, done by the time the market opened the next day. That is pretty much the plot o
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The story BCG offered me $16k not to tell (2010)(thetech.com)
261 points by tacon 5y ago|182 comments
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A Jailbreak Artist(gq.com)
42 points by tacon 5y ago|11 comments
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Epistemology Wars(danielbmarkham.com)
3 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 5y ago
Kent Beck became a former Facebook employee because he wasn't in to proving he was moving the needle on Facebook's key metrics. He was only giving world class mentoring to young Facebook engineers and improving the development cu
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How Coining a Phrase Can Lead to an Inigo Montoya Moment(quickanddirtytips.com)
1 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
This seems to be another example of the trend to AI based hiring, where the candidate interacts with zero humans until they have invested a huge amount of time and energy[0]. Good on you for telling them off. [0] https://www.ask
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The Decline of Heroku(infoworld.com)
246 points by tacon 6y ago|142 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
ML for the Working Programmer https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/
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by tacon 6y ago
Back when Felleisen was at Rice, he was the faculty sponsor for the Houston Java User Group. I attended some of those meetings, and Prof. Felleisen was mostly sitting quietly in the back of the room. Then a few years ago I ran across HtDP
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Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort (2012)(blogmaverick.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|1 comments
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Five Geek Social Fallacies(plausiblydeniable.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
I think the Black-Scholes option pricing model reapplied a well known result from neutron transport in nuclear engineering.
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Programmers Should(n't) Learn Theory(mailchi.mp)
1 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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Some Thoughts on For-Profit Psychedelic Startups and Companies(tim.blog)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
Since the Texas Legislature is in its once every two year session right now, and four million Texans are pissed off, it will be fun to see if new laws result this cycle.
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Marketing BS: Selection Effects(marketingbs.substack.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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Psychology Beyond Technocracy: Marshall McLuhan and the “Meaning Crisis” [pdf](digitallife.center)
3 points by tacon 6y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
Category theory jumps out of its software silo and is applied to ... well, everything else. This looks like a fun course!
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by tacon 6y ago
You missed the point of this story. This was in the very, very early days of vaccinations in Harris County. There was hardly any system. Harris County Public Health had to toss their first vaccination registration system, when it turned o
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by tacon 6y ago
lowendbox.com was great to start, but they got popular, and then profitable, and finally were bought by a low end hosting aggregator/rollup, and now almost all the different offers on lowendbox.com are coming from essentially the same
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by tacon 6y ago
With "mountains of evidence of fraud", and more than one person alone who could have pulled this off, that means there was a conspiracy. Let's say there were a hundred people minimum in this conspiracy. When someone tells m
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by tacon 6y ago
It really isn't a minor point. Lack of eye contact is really important. I pulled out a gooseneck webcam mount I had bought and never used from years ago. I can position it almost right in front of the Zoom window and achieve almost
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by tacon 6y ago
>Pardon is by definition an admission of guilt That is one of the oldest myths about pardons. While you do not have to accept a pardon, your acceptance is not an admission of guilt. All the soldiers in the Confederacy did not have to a
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by tacon 6y ago
Back for my first hackintosh, I bought MacOS on CD, which came with a big Apple logo sticker. A careful reading of the EULA allowed executing MacOS on "Apple logoed hardware". Done!
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by tacon 6y ago
I have been running my own mail server since the 1980s, using Debian/exim4 for the last eight years. With the weird patches for greylisting, etc., I never wanted to update it. In the last week, I jumped to docker-mailserver[0]. O.M.
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by tacon 6y ago
The Universal Troubleshooting Process has been a web site since the mid-90s: http://troubleshooters.com/tuni.htm
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by tacon 6y ago
>I'd love to see a star[v]ing obese person. Most obese people are suffering from something called "internal starvation", which is a byproduct of insulin resistance. The mini-lecture on fat biochemistry is here[0]. [0] ht

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