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by taeric 3mo ago
Is NYC the first just because every city in California does it by state rules? I'm confused.
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by taeric 3mo ago
Legitimate question, in the early days was this a large distinction? Specifically, my understanding was that the earliest raids where this distinction is most accurate, they didn't actually change the local societies much. Mostly wer
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by taeric 3mo ago
If it helps, https://taeric.github.io/CodeAsData.html was my attempt at exploring "code as data" and what makes lisp different here. My specific focus was more to point out that "eval" in lisp doesn&#x2
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by taeric 3mo ago
Largely agreed. I do think it is worth highlighting how many advanced parts of hot-reloading have already been covered in Common Lisp. Same with highlighting how the REPL is largely not used to directly type into, but is instead a very pow
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by taeric 3mo ago
To be fair, this is no different than any other thing people might want to do more of. Increasing the amount you can bench press, cycle, run, read, write, cook, whatever. Most will allow you to progress at something that most people don&#
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by taeric 3mo ago
Largely fair. This is one where the specific goals, I think, work against people. I know most coaches will attach "attainable" to goals, to combat that. To that end, if your goal is just to read more, there is no reason to worry
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by taeric 3mo ago
To add to this, it isn't "doing it bad" if you aren't out there reading deep texts. Just as it isn't "doing it badly" if you can't run a 4 minute mile. As you say, you get better at what you are doin
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by taeric 3mo ago
Wow, it is hard not to immediately think of that meme. There are indeed dozens of them!
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by taeric 3mo ago
I've become a huge fan of the secure knot. Holds easily as well as any double knot I have ever seen, with the massive advantage of easy release.
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by taeric 3mo ago
Right, but you are just relying on a different form of random, there. The whole point of making controls and then building experiments on changing them, is to get more power from fewer observations. No? Again, it is off to think that one
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by taeric 3mo ago
This feels off. In medicine, any evidence can also be blinded by confounding factors that are far easier to miss without adding specific controls. Really, in any field this will be the case. Should we demand an RCT before we accept eviden
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by taeric 3mo ago
Everything that grows does this, to an extent? Consider software that gets more development effort. If it is getting more updates, it is likely getting "stronger" than that which is not getting updates. Now, you can also argue t
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by taeric 3mo ago
Thanks! And yeah, I knew a few markets were tanking. I was hoping there was evidence that people were starting to offer SRO style places. Alas, I think there is such a heavy anti-landlord attitude around that nobody wants to be said landl
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by taeric 3mo ago
Right, I should have been clear that my assertion was not that there is lack of demand. My assertion is we don't build and offer this style. Outside of school dormitories. And even then, there is still a preference for bigger. Would
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by taeric 3mo ago
When I was younger, this was only doable in larger US cities if you had roommates. And was quite common in that scenario. Doesn't change that it would be nice to have such offerings without having to navigate all of the extra stuff th
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by taeric 3mo ago
Apologies, on that I agree. What we don't seem to have, is a willingness to build and offer these places. That is, I was specifically saying there is a lack of appetite to offer these. Not that there is lack of appetite to buy/r
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by taeric 3mo ago
I mean... You are looking at a place that is about 250 square feet? There isn't an appetite for offering units that small in the US.
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by taeric 3mo ago
The stats on "living paycheck to paycheck" are notoriously rough. With some people that make 300k a year claiming they fit that category. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with your given scenario. I actually lost my car whe
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by taeric 3mo ago
I would fully get behind us paying service providers far more than we do. To wit, it baffles me when people are upset about how much we allocate to pay for services that go to older people, but then we don't do any effort to make sure
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by taeric 3mo ago
I'm going to go on a limb and say half of the US is not living in abject poverty? Nor can I get behind the idea that quality of life for folks is on the down trend.
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by taeric 3mo ago
Absolutely! I always have worries when posting on my personal doubts on any technique, as I genuinely look forward to people making progress in spite of my doubts.
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by taeric 3mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what this is showing people don't understand? Especially when going with such silly ill defined concepts as "financial conservation". Just what? Now model in that it was shipped, but an earthquake
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by taeric 3mo ago
As described, the Apple version is that they won't remove local copies you already have? They just can't facilitate copying a new instance to your device. I still think this is crazy, mind.
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by taeric 3mo ago
Apologies for not responding earlier. I am honestly fine with where this conversation ended and was worried about it never ending. That said, I also find it fun to discuss. :D Conflicting feelings! (To that end, fully understood if this
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by taeric 3mo ago
My humble apologies on missing this way back when. Checking my init, I seem to just have: ;; TODO: Remove? Maybe. For now, trying the following. (icomplete-vertical-mode 1) (setq icomplete-delay-completions-threshold 0)
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by taeric 4mo ago
I think the trick is to make sure the compiler knows you are doing the math with a constant and such? They likely won't branch on arbitrary numbers to sometimes do it as a shift and other times do the multiplication. But compilers fo
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by taeric 4mo ago
Right. My point is that I wish more people would reach instead for a fixed point lat/lng library. It would almost certainly be easier to reason with for most people. Similar for most people doing financial math should probably use s
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by taeric 4mo ago
I am a little confused. My assertion is that most languages don't offer fixed point trig functions. Am I wrong on that assertion? If you have the trig functions already implemented for the fixed point you are doing, what you are sayi
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by taeric 4mo ago
Funny, though I think the main measure most people actually pay attention to is how complicated your code is to do the distance functions.
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by taeric 4mo ago
Agreed. But I'm assuming we are in the minority on this one? Bad assumption?

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