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by tmoertel 2y ago
That's essentially the thesis of Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
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Product Recommendations Broke Google And ate the internet in the process(nymag.com)
10 points by tmoertel 2y ago|1 comments
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Over four decades ago, when I was in my pre-teens, my family had a TRS-80 Model 1 (or was it a 3?), and I created a simple game for it in BASIC. In the game, a maze-like wall of blocks would be built as you watched, each block one of the sy
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Ask HN: Are there any hardware manufacturers that can be relied upon not to have big security problems?
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by tmoertel 3y ago
But even that isn't the true bottom line. If you want the true bottom line, you have to ask: What is the net effect on utility for the entire population?
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Lego's 3,745-piece D&D set comes with its own playable adventure(theverge.com)
3 points by tmoertel 3y ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 3y ago
To make daemons easier to write, more uniform, and secure, djb created https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html and used it for many of his projects In the corresponding FAQ list, he says this about daemons that detach themselves:
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Here's Oleg's great explanation of continuations in terms most programmers already understand: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2008-05-05-olegs-great-way-of...
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Yeah, deducing the incremental computation to work backwards can take some practice. I take completely different approach to explaining how to do it in https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-05-14-recursive-to-itera... .
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by tmoertel 3y ago
In distributed systems, there's even a broadcast hash join, in which the hash table is not distributed across shards and assigned to workers but copied in full to every worker. That way, the other side of the join need not be sharded
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by tmoertel 3y ago
> But how to you systematically deduce the tail recursion version? Here's one way: https://gist.github.com/tmoertel/5798134
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Muscle abnormalities worsen after post-exertional malaise in long Covid(nature.com)
3 points by tmoertel 3y ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 3y ago
There are options such as Google's ScaNN that may let you go farther before needing to consider specialized databases. https://github.com/google-research/google-research/blob/mast...
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by tmoertel 3y ago
> They drew histograms, which are hard to compare. Like you, I'd suggest empirical CDF plots for comparisons like these. Each distribution results in a curve, and the curves can be plotted together on the same graph for easy compari
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Please share this story :-)
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by tmoertel 3y ago
One straightforward approach is "Test & Roll: Profit-Maximizing A/B Tests" https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00457
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Geothermal also works for carbon-free base load, and newer drilling techniques made it viable in areas without high surface heat.
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by tmoertel 3y ago
I don’t think it’s controversial to claim that resilience helps both to prevent and to adapt to mental challenges such as anxiety, nor is it controversial to claim that resilience can be learned. This is not to suggest that resilience is th
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by tmoertel 3y ago
One might also consider options that don't require sweeping societal changes, learned resilience for example.
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by tmoertel 3y ago
I believe it's called "frost heaving."
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by tmoertel 3y ago
> As a shareholder, I'm curious why others aren't more furious to hear that this is how things are run at Google. Probably because most people understand that horror stories reported on the web are likely to be outliers and not
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Do you know of any offerings in that category that also support ECC?
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Interestingly, recent research suggest that you can make better decisions by combining experimental and observational data than by using either alone: https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r513.pdf > Abstract: P
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by tmoertel 3y ago
@dang: The year 2012 in the post title appears to be incorrect. Several slides in the linked-to deck refer to events in 2015, and the deck's filename is slides-djb-20151005-a4.pdf, suggesting that the correct year is 2015.
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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow(nytimes.com)
91 points by tmoertel 3y ago|134 comments
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by tmoertel 3y ago
I think that the price of those tests was about $70 each, however.
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by tmoertel 3y ago
What is "human damage from mold"?
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Another use of popcount: generating binomial random variates corresponding to n coin flips in early games. Rather than looping n times, flipping coins and counting heads, you generated a new random number, masked off the bottom n bits
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by tmoertel 3y ago
Kudzu? Japanese knotweed? Invasive plants, in general?
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by tmoertel 3y ago
What it means is that I just buy it on Amazon rather than wasting my time to see if my local Costco has it in stock.

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