tmoertel

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by tmoertel 6mo ago
First, ggsql looks awesome. Can't wait to try it out. Feedback: A notable omission in the ggsql docs: I cannot find any mention of the possible outputs. Can I output a graphic in PDF? In SVG? PNG? How do I control things like output di
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> You must be in a position to be convinced yourself, in order to be convincing. This claim is demonstrably untrue. Do you believe that a written argument cannot be convincing? Or do you believe that when you read a written argument, you
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
Check out those wire harnesses! Serious workmanship there.
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Sure, here's the Makefile. Also, if you want more examples of working Hakyll setups, there's a long list of them here: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/examples.html # Binary tool we use to build the website
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> Honestly, I hate that about stock charts. They adjust the axes and scales so that the graph itself provides no information. If a stock chart "provides no information," why do you believe the financial world uses them to commu
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Thanks. I do not have a public, detailed description of how my blog works. But in short, my site build system is powered by a Makefile that invokes Hakyll [1]. My Hakyll configuration has the following rule baked into it for generating HTML
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
I am not the author of the site in question, but I suspect that your guess is right, and that Pandoc is the hub between the spokes. For my blog, I write posts in Markdown. Then the build process uses Pandoc to convert the posts into web pag
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
> I am saying precisely that [the author of that chart is trying to mislead HN readers about the growth of em-dash use on HN]. Well, then, do you believe that the following evidence supports or undermines your hypothesis that the author
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> > If you think it's exaggerating the variation, you are not reading the chart. > That's true of every instance where a chart is criticized for playing around with the axes scale. Indeed. The criticism, however, is only
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Do you believe that there is a large share of people who get their news from Fox News and also trust NPR? And vice versa? More than ever before, people now live in news silos where they get only the news that engages their prior beliefs. An
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
> Visually, this is vastly exaggerating the variation. Actual usage did not even double. No, it is literally showing the exact variation of interest. If you think it's exaggerating the variation, you are not reading the chart. You a
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While it is generally considered a No-No to start a bar chart from a baseline that is not zero, there is no corresponding prohibition, especially among numerically sophisticated audiences, for scatter plots or line charts. In general, we
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
> I feel like every voter was aware of what happened on Jan 6th and still voted for him with some level of knowledge about that. What a particular voter was “aware of” regarding Jan 6th and the events that caused it very much depended on
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
> We voted for the people who gave the power, and we re-elected them. That would be true if We The People were reliably informed when we showed up to cast our votes. However, in recent years, we have become detached from reality. "N
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
For exactly this reason, when I write software, I go out of my way to avoid using external packages. For example, I recently wrote a tool in Python to synchronize weather-statation data to a local database. [1] It took only a little more ef
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
> You’re making exactly the same error as the other guy, just in the opposite direction: you’re judging the profession of software engineering based on code output rather than value generation. But the true metric isn't either one,
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The question serious patch trappers ask is whether you patched the traps used to patch traps to make sure that, when you patched traps, no other INIT could patch those traps after you to get in line before you when the traps were handled.
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
Would you rather forfeit 100% of unvested shares? Because that's what you signed up for. The point is, you're getting shares for 16 weeks + ${years_employment * 2} additional weeks, and you don't have to work those weeks. It&
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
When laying people off, better companies will often accelerate vesting so that the departing employees get additional stock. For example, Google does this: We’ll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for
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> Dumb question, why do “sensitive” spots on the body need more nerves? Couldn’t you just have the normal touch-sensing nerves and map signals from specific spots on the body to stronger/pleasurable qualia in the brain? Think of a t
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AI doesn't change the equation; it makes the equation more brutal for people who don't have capital. If you don't have capital, the only way to get it is by trading resources or labor for it. Most poor people don't have
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
> Historically, what makes people with capital able to turn things into more capital is its ability to buy someone's time and labor. You forgot to include resources : What makes people with capital able to turn things into more cap
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
> LG makes an induction range with knobs. I have one. It's wonderful. It is encrapified with a bunch of intrusive "smart" features that nobody asked for?
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Thanks for your kind words! And thanks for reporting the typo (now fixed).
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The actual study (1) is observational and makes no causal claim, only that there exists a statistical association between caffeine consumption and dementia. Nevertheless, people are apt to misinterpret the finding as “caffeine consumption
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Google announces Firebase Studio sunset and project migration(firebase.google.com)
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> Hell, with commercial printers from the likes of Konica Minolta, the print quality for text is better than offset print. Can you link to some high-resolution comparison scans to support this claim? I find it hard to believe that any to
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
> Because [arriving 15 minutes late to a 30-minute interview] was [nothing]. I'd expect over 95% of both interviewers and interviewees to say that arriving 15 minutes late to a 30-minute interview is very much not nothing; it's
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Quick question: When the interviewer arrived late, did he start by apologizing?
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I agree with the sentiment that gratuitous happy-talk adds noise to what ought to be clear, bottom-line-up-front engineering communications. But the recipients of those communications are people, and most people have feelings. So a good eng

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