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by wcarss 7y ago
This may not seem like it right away, but I believe it is a really big data point on a very important curve of the importance of computing devices in our lives. This topic is a bigger deal than it seems to be perceived as. The responses her
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by wcarss 7y ago
This systematic meta-analysis paper[1] may be more convincing. The popular youtube COVID-commentating Dr. John Campbell did a review of it about a month ago[2] and has some good comments on the meaningful statistical power and experiment de
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by wcarss 7y ago
Don Eyles' writing about programming the lunar module (which was something he did!) is fantastic [1]. There's also a gallery of photos on that site and he has a whole book! And, click around on Bret Victor's references page[2
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by wcarss 7y ago
I recall thinking a few years ago that offering batching as a business built atop stripe sounded like a neat business -- effectively letting users choose a batching solution if they desired, but after closely reading the Stripe Terms of Ser
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by wcarss 7y ago
My answer takes from the Feynman approach to problem solving: have several projects laying around that you could easily pick back up to work on a little bit. The progress may not be constant, but it builds over time. This is a variation on
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by wcarss 7y ago
Do you keep any notes or record of the good talks/speakers online? It sounds like it would be valuable!
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by wcarss 7y ago
From the section about how the qualitative difference between the two algorithms was found: "In the second step, we conducted a manual comparison between two diff outputs produced by Myers and Histogram algorithms from all files in the
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by wcarss 7y ago
Very cool! I hesitate to self-link, but this is too related -- I have long had a similar but way smaller, less featureful (just a time-clock), and shoddily written design on my homepage: https://wcarss.ca
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by wcarss 7y ago
this is to protect the health care system and all of the residents of the region, by reducing the density of a very large very dense, externally densely connected and high travel community in advance of a serious epidemic that may (likely w
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by wcarss 7y ago
It's a fair point that you have that ability and hope others will too. They might! I don't know that I would, but I might! I'm pretty stupid sometimes though. My other comment on the nearby thread likely best-addresses why I
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by wcarss 7y ago
Sorry to start popping up on all of your threads! Your points are really good here, and writing code that runs faster and finding a solution yourself faster are clear wins for a language. I think the value of those wins is subjective, thoug
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by wcarss 7y ago
I don't have a horse in the race here but guess that a big part would be things like single-character identifiers rather than descriptive names. A slightly weaker but maybe more realistic example, albeit in mathy terms: pick a language
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I think the thrust of the comment above was that this is not a class of behavior restricted to China or to communist states. Microsoft was secretly wasting electricity to avoid fines -- gaming an economic system designed to encourage effici
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by wcarss 7y ago
+1 to trunk based. There's obviously a lot there, but one of the best bits is the idea that each release deserves a branch. It makes hotfixes, ci/cd, and rollbacks all much simpler to reason about.
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by wcarss 7y ago
this might change my life. thanks!
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by wcarss 7y ago
http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/ is an excellent online version of that amazing book that I believe is hosted with Michael Abrash's permission.
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by wcarss 7y ago
Described in this way, it feels like a reasonable argument that humanity is like a paperclip-optimizing AI that just maybe just chooses random things to go deep on optimizing. We created a problem for ourselves that was fun -- games -- but
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by wcarss 7y ago
This sounds like an amusement source for an immortal being locked in a prison with just an Apple ][e during a randomly selected century (decade? year?) of their existence -- maybe an unexplored subplot of groundhog day? Anyway, that's
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by wcarss 7y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting that every dollar donated to a non-profit entity results in a dollar less of payable taxes -- I'm not aware of a country with a tax/donation trade-off like that, but would be interested to hea
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by wcarss 7y ago
Wow, thank you for that amazing response cr0sh! Very cool stuff to read up a little on.
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What changed in terms of the difficulty of stepping dc voltage up/down, and how recently? Just curious, that sounds neat.
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This may not be a disagreement -- but I was under the impression they moved to Albuquerque to work at/with MITS[1], the manufacturer of the Altair, and Microsoft's first customer. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by wcarss 7y ago
Will definitely read it after this -- as a past reader of Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up, I feel surprised to have never heard of it! On the topic of early cyberpunk, I personally feel Alfred Bester's Tiger! Tiger! aka The Sta
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by wcarss 8y ago
in python: >>> from collections import defaultdict >>> map = defaultdict(int) >>> for word in ['hi', 'there', 'hi']: ... map[word] += 1 I am glad Java has this
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by wcarss 8y ago
Very cool! I started making a very unpolished game based on a similar sort of map design a few months ago for ludum dare -- caution that there are sounds on this link and no volume control: https://wcarss.ca/maze_of_sacrific
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by wcarss 8y ago
Google suggests that was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack in 2013 -- AT&T lines were cut and a "team of gunmen" fired shots into several PG&E transformers, causing substantial d
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by wcarss 8y ago
This was submitted once before that I could tell, around a decade ago[1]! I was linking it to a friend and thought it could stand to be seen again. 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312702
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The Programmer and the Elves: A Fairy Tale (1992)(pigsandfishes.com)
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That's a great question! I didn't mean to imply that we absolutely couldn't have used symbols -- the answer is just because he was able to figure it out without them and it was less effort to try without first. Office and Win
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by wcarss 8y ago
Years ago as an intern at Microsoft, I had code go into the Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and shared Office code. Excel is an incomprehensible maze of #defines and macros, PowerPoint is a Golden Temple of overly-object-oriented insanity

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