taeric

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by taeric 5d ago
Absolutely this. The game is a prime example of how characters can drive engagement.
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by taeric 10d ago
This always feels odd to me. It would seem a fairly straight forward optimization of the interpreter to special case the different types that it can reduce. That is, why couldn't they have done the essentially same trick that you refe
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by taeric 12d ago
Amortized is a bit different, though? It largely implies that there is a heavy cost periodically. Average just implies that it varies. Which, fair that "massive cost periodically" is compatible with that. Just seems to have a
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by taeric 16d ago
I used to think of it more as O(1) being the expected average of the cases. My guess is I'm probably thinking of it more as an amortized cost, in that framing? (That is, not that it is the average case. Is the average of all cases.)
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by taeric 17d ago
I'm growing increasingly confident that this is how people often work, as well.
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by taeric 23d ago
I maintain my, "what is abundance good for, if we can't make it safe for kids to walk places?!" stance. :(
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by taeric 24d ago
This is true of a ton of online discourse. Worse, when the headline of a claim doesn't even match the article it is fronting. I've seen more than a few articles that basically contradict the headline, but end in a "despite
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by taeric 29d ago
Yeah, what bit me was the place we were staying was off a JR line. Oops.
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by taeric 1mo ago
Huge shout out that if you are going to be in Japan, you need one of these cards. I had thought I could just buy a two day pass in Tokyo. Which, you can, but you are almost certainly going to be limited to what routes and lines you can us
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by taeric 1mo ago
I think, in general, one should have the view that anything that can miss, will miss. Agreed that it is better to have something with a lower miss rate.
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by taeric 1mo ago
I always assumed it was a bit of a common practice from image based development practices. I'm now assuming I was incorrect on that being the case? I'd love to read a good history of the different development styles. I know we o
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by taeric 1mo ago
This is silly. Fun. But silly. Is like claiming that math on the numbers that everyone knows is actually typed. Ignoring that that is only true if you do the effort to also do your operations on the types.
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by taeric 1mo ago
There are CDNs everywhere, true. It is not true that everyone deploys to them all, though. Also it dodges that the networks available to everyone are still not equal.
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by taeric 1mo ago
The deficit has far more closely followed tax cuts than anything else.
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by taeric 1mo ago
I'm sympathetic to this; but hard for me to really think this is actionable. Odds are quite high that someone did push for these perspectives a few times, but someone didn't have the vantage point to appreciate them at the time.
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by taeric 1mo ago
I'm curious that the latency of these is actually worse than the latency of floating operations. Yes, they are worse than many integer instructions, but they seem to be on basically the same order as the equivalent float operations?
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by taeric 2mo ago
This feels like an excessive hate of "Silicon Valley" that is just awkward. Yes, it turns out it is easier to do easier tasks. No, it is not cheaper to pound the table with claims that all infrastructure should be better.
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by taeric 2mo ago
This feels wrong. Did the vacuum make cleaning worse for employees? What about sewing machines? Modern looms? It is probably a safe case that most tech revolutions reduced the number of needed employees for most things. But even then, i
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by taeric 2mo ago
This is great news! That was such a fun game.
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by taeric 2mo ago
Right, but that about halves the age of JavaScript as noted in this thread. I fully agree that it is reaching a more stable place now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It is still nowhere near as old as elisp.
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by taeric 2mo ago
Also notable that the way changes are introduced to the different languages is so different that this is just hard to really look at. Notably, elisp of today is not dramatically different from elisp of 20 years ago. JavaScript? Basically
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by taeric 2mo ago
Many people that do this are almost certainly freelance contractors in some facility? Probably, though, many are just using personal as not strictly personal, but the kind of personal things you might do while at a desk job.
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by taeric 2mo ago
Heavily agreed. The supplement industry has such a low level of reliability that it has really soured me on so many practices people have. And I flat out do not understand how some of the supplement stores survive.
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by taeric 2mo ago
This depends heavily on the industry of the area. Go to a college town and you will find owner occupancy is not that big of a deal. Go to a luxury resort town and they literally make their money from non-residents transiently moving throu
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by taeric 2mo ago
I highly challenge this. For a region, industry booms drive upward movement. And regions that are only held by one industry when it busts build rust belts. Ideally, you have industry for a region treated like a well balanced investment po
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by taeric 2mo ago
To be fair, I think they just meant the stock price shape post IPO. Jumped up, then fell back down. That said, I'm also not sure how accurate that is.
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by taeric 2mo ago
This feels apples to oranges. There has to be a "cost of inventory" consideration that applies to non digital goods far far stronger than to digital ones. To the point that expecting electronic book sales to give any insight to
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by taeric 2mo ago
The numbers just don't support this, though? Social media remains at an all time high in engagement numbers. And climbing. What is also growing is the number of people signaling that they are out of it. This is extra pernicious becau
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by taeric 3mo ago
I confess it has been awkward to see the pearl clutching on this one. Like, the folks that were flat out proud of the implications are now offended at being tied to them. Just, what?
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by taeric 3mo ago
That isn't really addressing my question, I don't think? The assertion is that most of the Arab mixing into region came at the same time as the later invasions. Yes, they would have remained fewer in absolute numbers. But they

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