taeric

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by taeric 1y ago
To add to the sibling, I've seen this with Java enums a lot. People will add it so that the value is consumed using the enum as fast as they can. This works well as long as the value is not retrieved from data. As soon as you do tha
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm more than a little curious what event caused such a strong objection to protobuffers. :D I do tend to agree that they are bad. I also agree that people put a little too much credence in "came from Google." I can't
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by taeric 1y ago
Apologies, I misread some of this yesterday. The easy way to justify why corporations get to deduct their spending, is it encourages corporations to spend. Something that a for profit company would not necessarily do otherwise. With the o
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by taeric 1y ago
I don't know if I can get behind rhetoric like "further than common." It is just common. Period. And you can be opposed to it, just on principle. It would help me oppose if you showed places that were not seeing benefits.
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by taeric 1y ago
I confess I don't know how to contextualize this. The article says that PJM claims this should be a 1.5% to 5% increase in bills for folks. And it notes this is the first time capacity has been added in the last four auctions. Is you
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by taeric 1y ago
Do you have numbers showing that data centers have eclipsed this? Quickly looking at search results on this it seems transmission/delivery is estimated to be half of a consumer's bill. Even the high estimate for increased costs
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by taeric 1y ago
Most data centers almost certainly pay property taxes, as well. It is still a deeded plot of land, after all? I'm curious what data center you know of that doesn't have to pay any. I know incentives are common, but they are usu
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by taeric 1y ago
My understanding, the last time rising electric costs came up, is that a large part of the cost increase was finally paying for the infrastructure maintenance that companies put off for a time. Is that no longer the case? That is, it is sp
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by taeric 1y ago
Same way I feel about any rules. Worth trying and seeing how they can get the desired outcomes. I should have said that rent stabilization may work out some day. Just it is not my expectation that it will, as it has a record of not. As s
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by taeric 1y ago
This feels misleading to me. I accept that data centers generate more load for a system. Which will make the overall system need more maintenance, which is something that others paying into the system will also have to support. But, I&#x2
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by taeric 1y ago
That is precisely a path that would lead to you not having a coherent support network, though? My assertion is that they did mergers to consolidate manufacturing. Any support orgs that they acquired along the way were not the aim of the a
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by taeric 1y ago
Maybe? It is as likely that the company focused on manufacturing for so long that they decided to keep their focus there.
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by taeric 1y ago
Does TPDE stand for anything? I clicked through quite a ways, and didn't find anything.
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by taeric 1y ago
Fun read. My take on the "special something" that causes people to care about implementation is that you want to specifically control parts of a computer. Yes, this is typically for run-time performance; but crucially it is beca
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by taeric 1y ago
Right, this is why I think people assume "first principals" means "first [learned] principals." It is almost always super high level and used synonymously with "back to basics." And fully agreed on your reason
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by taeric 1y ago
For a fun somewhat related topic, it was neat to see the hierarchy of strings and characters in Common Lisp the other day. Can be used to illustrate a bit of the shortcoming of using ancestry to answer if two things are related. https:&#
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by taeric 1y ago
My stance is somewhat similar, I think? Arguments that try and precisely define "fish" in some sort of "context free" space are doomed because people don't think of terms outside of context.
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by taeric 1y ago
I think a good argument can be made that the standards somewhat move a bit too slowly to add things? (Or, conversely, can be too eager to add some features.) Probably a bit of a struggle between de jure and de facto. It can be frustrating
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by taeric 1y ago
My guess would be more that they don't have a support org in house. Were likely running very lean on a manufacturing pipeline and are adding a lot of other services on through partnerships.
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by taeric 1y ago
Wouldn't this be like asking why bit packing/flipping isn't more popular in python? In general, it just isn't necessary for the vast majority of programs people are likely to write using python. Which isn't to argu
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by taeric 1y ago
It isn't just computer science people that do this, either. My gut is it was a common thing in MBA style classes as a way to approach a topic in a field you are not expert in. Specifically, it is common among management talkers, from
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by taeric 1y ago
Fair. I think my ultimate preference would probably be to have the string validated against the parameters. So, something like: (define-http-get-route ("/hello/:who" who) (format #f "<p>hello ~a&
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by taeric 1y ago
It matches the Open API specifications, is about the only reason I would try to support it.
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by taeric 1y ago
Apologies, was away from computer for the extended weekend. The crux of my view on this problem is that I can make an "at least" or an "at most" statement only knowing what one of the coins is, specifically. So, we both
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by taeric 1y ago
But in the monty hall, the "discloser" is limited by my choice/observation. It is literally part of the framing. In this framing, there is no limit based on my choice. Consider, if you tell me that the Smiths have at least
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by taeric 1y ago
I think where this fails for me, is it seems to change the odds of one of the flips? (And again, to be clear, I fully expect that I am the one that has this modeled incorrectly...) Consider. You flip a dime and a quarter, one of them is h
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by taeric 1y ago
The annoying thing is this sits with my teaching fine, it is more my intuition that is failing to withstand trying to break it. :( So, in the original: "a family has two children. You're told at least one of them is a girl."
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by taeric 1y ago
Well, sorta? You were either in the world where dime was heads, in which case the space has TH, HH, or the Quarter was Heads, in which case you have HT, or again HH. Both with 50% probability, no? You were never in a scenario where HT an
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by taeric 1y ago
So, my problem with how this is modeled is it assumes order doesn't matter in one aspect, but that it does in another. Simply stated, if you allow the possibility space of "boy-girl" and "girl-boy", you have to also
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by taeric 1y ago
Oddly, this is a part I'm sticking with on this problem. Specifically, if you know that one is a girl, then the unordered options seem like they are back on equal footing? That is, it isn't twice as likely if you know that one or

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