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by thedufer 6y ago
Sorry, your pitch to clients is "throw away all of your leverage (existing job, unemployment qualification, health insurance, etc) to contract for a few months and then you'll get a great fulltime offer"? That's...deepl
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by thedufer 6y ago
There's an imprecision here, but that doesn't break the proof. Note that from step 6 on, all it needs to show is "if P and Q are any members of G, then they have the same age". If P = Q, this is trivial, so we really o
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by thedufer 6y ago
Your question is answered quite directly in the post: > The goal of this post, then, is just to show off what the result looks like – to show you what kind of workflow is possible – in the hope that it inspires similar tools in other eco
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by thedufer 6y ago
> how Rust would have saved you in that case, anyone could have returned 0 for the price instead of a proper type You've missed the problem that was posed. It wasn't returning 0 to indicate an error, it was changing the error
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by thedufer 6y ago
> short means your position is predicated on the idea that the future price of something will be lower than the current price. Yes, but in this case the "something" is the option, not the underlying. This is completely standard
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by thedufer 6y ago
Really? I'm a dev (although not at Facebook) and I travel for work several times a year. Also, all of the remote employees I've worked with have traveled to the office occasionally.
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by thedufer 6y ago
NYC seems to disagree (at least some market makers are currently considered essential businesses).
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by thedufer 6y ago
> Rust floating-point types simply don't have Eq implementations (they have PartialEq only), passing them somewhere where you need an equality-comparable type is a compilation error. While this is true, you can still say `NaN == NaN
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by thedufer 6y ago
Can you actually name a mainstream language that doesn't have NaNs with that behavior? Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, etc all do. Or maybe what you're saying is really just that they shouldn't have them, and every
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by thedufer 6y ago
> any programming language where testing if foo = foo can return something mechanically equivalent to false is just plain broken Isn't this pretty much any language? You're describing how IEEE float NaNs work. I'm not awar
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by thedufer 6y ago
I am definitely open to the idea that the current labeling is actually more intuitive, but note that this is not at all the argument I replied to.
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by thedufer 6y ago
> If pins were numbered by columns, you would have to connect two tracks to one end of the chip and two other tracks to the other end of the chip. You have missed my point entirely. All you have to do is re-label them. There is absolut
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by thedufer 6y ago
Is there something particularly five-y about pin 5? Surely if you called it 8 nothing else would change. No one is suggesting redesigning the whole thing. Just move a few labels.
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by thedufer 6y ago
> Right now, most tests are being performed in response to patients presenting symptoms. This creates artificially high results. You don't think anyone else has noticed this? The estimates have been based on lower numbers than the
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by thedufer 7y ago
> Current predictions put the economic impact per life saved by social distancing at ~$190 million. That sounds, on the face of it, implausibly high. To run some numbers - estimates of how much of the population would be infected withou
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by thedufer 7y ago
I'm a former Trello employee - trellis.coffee is the domain the primary dev server is hosted at. It sounds like they failed to excise your email address from the dev database (at least, that's what we did when I worked there).
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by thedufer 7y ago
I'm not sure what tax treatment you're talking about, but I'm guessing you mean converting short-term capital gains into long-term. RSUs are taxed as income based on the price on the vesting date, so if you sell when it vests
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by thedufer 7y ago
> At the time of OCaml choice at JS (I guess it was circa 2008-2010; I also strongly suspect that it was not at the start of JS) You're right that it wasn't OCaml from the beginning, but I believe it was quite a bit earlier tha
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by thedufer 7y ago
Sure, but it seems to me that improving email is more similar to improving email than to improving HTTP. I think the STARTTLS push has gone more slowly than HTTPS for reasons that are fairly fundamental to email - it requires hitting more
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by thedufer 7y ago
It is, that's the point. Reason is, as was said upthread, a "veneer". It changes the syntax only, nothing else is different (you can convert back and forth between the syntaxes losslessly). TypeScript makes deep changes to th
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by thedufer 7y ago
The thing that's hard to swallow is that you're recommending a plan that maybe solves the problem by 2050. Remember, STARTTLS was standardized 22 years ago and you still can't reject emails from servers that don't use it
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by thedufer 7y ago
Hong Kong has gone further - schools are closed until at least the first week of March.
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by thedufer 7y ago
The estimate requires some extrapolation based on other epidemics. Dying from it isn't going to take as long as recovering so you should expect a particularly large skew this early. But more generally you'd expect more mild cases
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by thedufer 7y ago
I don't think there's very good correlation between generally ugly colors and those that make bad backgrounds. A lot of colors are good accents but would be terrible background - probably anything at 100% saturation, 100% value (i
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by thedufer 7y ago
I think the confusion here is that the first image is generated by rendering a prime in binary. The rest appear to be decimal, though, which leads to the result of 4 digits.
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by thedufer 7y ago
Typically it would be base salary, bonus, and the value of RSUs vesting over the next 12 months. I'd guess this is about the same as W-2 income?
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by thedufer 7y ago
You can't plan to spend your last dollar on your deathbed unless you can predict every expense, the market, and the day you'll die, especially over a retirement that long (potentially 50+ years). Planning to leave something behind
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by thedufer 7y ago
6% in a currency that was inflating 6-9% each year (the comment you were replying to was almost certainly referencing USD, which has recently inflated at a little under 2%). The real rate would've likely been no more than .5% on those
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by thedufer 7y ago
Personal loan rates aren't collateralized, which you're comparing with fully-collateralized loans. That's apples and oranges. Loans that are actually similar run <4%, not 7-8%.

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