urthor

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by urthor 3y ago
Most old people would love to be young again. I tend to find, if you want to be young, act like the young. Famous Warren Buffet quote, "I looked up the actuarial tables, and I saw that 6 year olds had the longest life expectancy. So,
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by urthor 3y ago
Because if you've spent 80 hours a week researching, you want some fun in the 85th hour of your work week spent writing the research up.
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by urthor 3y ago
Oh well yes, I just didn't do C as others said.
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by urthor 3y ago
My suggestion is Crafting Interpreters + a different programming language to Java. YMMV, but it's hard to genuinely learn from Crafting Interpreters. All the code is already written for you.
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by urthor 3y ago
Where are these people located and how can I take their jobs. $400,000k for dev + fun at parties, sign me up
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by urthor 3y ago
I own said books. Used NeoVim for years. Said books are genuinely useful, mostly. Drew Neil's explanation and POV on how to approach Vim, gradually assembling all Vim commands into repeatable period commands. Followed by bundling tho
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by urthor 3y ago
vimtutor is free. This is $15. Really?
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by urthor 3y ago
Really? IMO there's an awful lot, they just ask for mid 200,000s.
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by urthor 3y ago
Research. End of the day, everyone at Bell Labs was a researcher with a PhD. Engineering, bringing research to people, trends to CRUD over time.
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by urthor 3y ago
Air gaps are the smart way yep.
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by urthor 3y ago
The financial fraudsters who don't get caught use high correlated, non-linked financial securities. Almost all financial engineering these days is essentially statistics, direct cause and effect relationships are essentially arbitraged
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by urthor 3y ago
For the record, working for these companies. JPMorgan Chase is a bank. Insider trading/financial fraud is a concern. For companies where insider trading is a serious issue. As an employee, you will be key-logged, tracked, spied upon.
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by urthor 3y ago
clone() makes an immutable, deep copy/recursive copy of the original data structure. clone() itself makes perfect sense. Why the programmer needed those clones... is a legitimate issue with Rust. In my experience so far, it's
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by urthor 3y ago
See as someone who knows Rust fairly well. let &mut -- Essential keywords. writer = -- Duh Writer<T> -- Generic types. Important. ::writer::new
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by urthor 3y ago
Bring back the flip phone. Got a kid, give them Motorola. Job done.
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by urthor 3y ago
Most good things in life are like this. Execution. Not originality.
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by urthor 3y ago
Oh I agree. Only, most software isn't customer facing commercial.
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by urthor 3y ago
> would a newcomer even use the programming guides if they weren't down in the archive? Yes, of course they would. If you don't learn multiple different paradigms for acquiring knowledge, you'll be automated by ChatGPT. Na
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by urthor 3y ago
An extreme generalisation. Only a small minority of software has enough users to justify that paradigm.
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by urthor 3y ago
This is brilliant innovation. Minus the need to pay the pilot, surely you just diy.
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by urthor 3y ago
Semiconductor fabrication is winner takes all. Intel won. Everyone else but TSMC gave up in logic. Samsung mostly focused on memory. TSMC got Apple as a customer. Intel choked its lead by paying outrageous dividends and cutting R&D exp
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by urthor 3y ago
Sun Tzu. When you are weak pretend to be strong. When you are strong, pretend to be weak.
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by urthor 3y ago
Absolutely.
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by urthor 3y ago
It's the 5 minutes in Pomodoro. Stand up, walk away. Don't engage in a seperate source of context. Brain dumps short term memory long term memory.
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by urthor 4y ago
It's interesting, and also brings the qualifications of the author into question. An expert in the field would have added to ChatGPT.
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by urthor 4y ago
The problem with recursion is we don't teach people what corecursion is. Corecursion, aka literally just plain looping, is a lot simpler and better for many, many activities. If we taught recursion by contrast, then it makes sense.
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by urthor 4y ago
Not at all. Amazon's edge is the cross sell. The Amazon brand is known worldwide because of the retail. The retail business is an extremely valuable behemoth.
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by urthor 4y ago
Transparent algorithms, software defined private capital markets. The state of the globe's capital markets for a range of non-equity financial products is appalling. Forget cryptocurrency exchanges. The global financial tools availabl
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by urthor 4y ago
Realistically, it seems like the drawbridges will fall down even faster. Open source models like Chinchilla are... not that far behind GPT-4. It's questionable how much of a moat OpenAI will have in 5 years... Bard, Chinchilla, are all
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by urthor 4y ago
The value of book learning/straight ordinary education is underrated in software. Software engineers consistently overvalue the benefits of "I need to be a crazy outlier," and consistently undervalue getting to bed on time, u

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