tomjakubowski

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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Gilbert Strang's lectures on linear algebra work this way. He typically first gives a simple example (like for least squares, fitting a line to three points in two dimensions) and then over the course of the lecture susses out a broade
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> This has nothing to do with how he worked with rust developers, and even Graydon made it clear in that thread that strcat was always justified in his interactions with them. No, Graydon really said nothing of the sort. https:/&#
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> with a story about how someone was declared to be dressed as Stallman because they held a printed email. As an intentional Richard Stallman costume, a single printed email would be great. Although maybe too easily confused with a Knut
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
A common pattern is something like: fn main() { if let Err(e) = real_main() { let status = status_from_error(e); // print the error message, or whatever std::process:exit(status); } }
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Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises(theguardian.com)
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> The pareto principle guarantees that lower IQ men in aggregate, have more kids I'm sorry, what? I am familiar with the Pareto principle but I do not see how this follows from it. Could you elaborate?
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
as another totally useless data point, I read fiction and non-fiction books, magazines, and newspapers, constantly when growing up, but since I was about 15 or 16 I've had serious issues with concentration + attention. The reading tap
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Rust and OOP are no more related than Go and OOP. What "advanced" OOP features of Rust are you talking about?
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Your comment rings so true for me. I have had nearly the same experience with depression, talk therapy, and ritualistic self-care. > (I still suck at cleaning the shower often enough, and I never make my bed) I stopped using the top&#x2
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> Uber started as a way to fill the downtime that professional drivers had between clients and jobs. They said, "Hey, there is a workforce with 50% of it's hours idle. I bet we can turn the into cash." Yeah, black cars wit
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
What are the state zoning laws? As far as I know, the state constitution leaves zoning as an issue for the cities/counties to handle. Is that your beef or are there laws on the books I'm ignorant of?
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Total attendance, NYPL system in FY2016: 13,867,000 (2M library card holders, 729,000 active) Total attendance, New York Mets in MLB 2016: 2,460,000 Total attendance, New York Giants in NFL 2016: 630,312 "Nobody" uses libraries, i
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Da Vinci designed siege machines and other weapons of war for his patrons. I suppose you'd consider him an idiot for doing so? I'm as anti-war as they come but of course you have to recognize there are smart people who nevertheles
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Reminds me of the guy who taught me to drive stick. On the last lesson, he had me drive a few miles from the parking lot we'd been practicing in, and then right as we turn around to head back he goes into, "So, Tom, I was wonderin
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
https://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ is pretty good and, for some reason, always hard for me to find again when I need it. This time I'll just bookmark it.
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Absolutely. And many of their docs can be imported to Dash.app. :-)
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
that situation is called "payroll fraud", "wage theft" only applies to employers keeping wages owed to workers.
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Shunning someone for being an asshole isn't equivalent to genocide.
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
To be clear, despite this announcement being posted to gitlab.com (i.e. the "hosted GitLab", which can and will remove you/your/repo any group at any time), the GNOME project is self-hosting their own gitlab instance. S
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
He also promoted the idea that fluoridation of water was a Communist plot.
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Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage(opendemocracy.net)
492 points by tomjakubowski 8y ago|100 comments
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
US courts have arrested plenty of reporters for contempt, in recent years too.
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Yeah, switching from the "Go stack" to the "C stack" is quite expensive. See this post from Dave Cheney: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> Sure, assumptions don't make rumors true but them flat-out lying about audits and transparency speaks louder than anything else and we're not even getting into how it took the Panama papers leak for the public to find out tha
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Ah. I guess that my reading was "vulnerable to [bank runs, due to] fractional reserve."
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> What can be said about Tether: it's a trusted third party that's vulnerable to fractional reserve What? Isn't the entire friggin point of Tether that it's _not_ a fractional reserve system? From their own FAQ (empha
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
> NASDAQ would probably run its own Plasma chain If they're running a blockchain on their own, doesn't that defeat the point? > To eliminate _single points of failure, siloing and centralized control_.
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
There is no "conviction" for a civil case, and the standard of proof is far lower in civil court than criminal. Has Yelp ever lost one of these lawsuits? Mostly they seem to get thrown out of court. Anecdotally, I knew a busines
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
Fortunately, that means the "pie crust" name is still available for a Pike[1]†-Rust project :-) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language) †: I have a particular fondness for Pike, because
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by tomjakubowski 8y ago
It's a bit of a pun too, since crystallography is, in essence, shining a light on something and studying what comes back.

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