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by wegs 6y ago
Microsoft was evil. A pile of GPL code winning was part of what made them stop being evil. Shipping code under Google banned licenses can be thought of as either: 1) Excluding Googlers, which isn't very nice. 2) Applying pressure to de
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by wegs 6y ago
Until there's a sufficient critical mass of AGPL to change Google policies. But from my perspective, I'm fed up enough with Google's anti-AGPL FUD that I don't mind not getting contributions from Googlers for a while. It
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by wegs 6y ago
My opinion is that we've been burned by this enough times that it ain't worth it. Most recently, Oracle rolled back Java. If I'm buying into an open ecosystem, it's because I want an open ecosystem. I don't want a u
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by wegs 6y ago
It looks like they are doing one license, AGPL, without CLAs. They provide a hosted service. Others can also provide hosted services, They can't get a competitive advantage with proprietary "value-adds." Usually, the authors
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by wegs 6y ago
In mainland China, the only examples I've heard of were leading academics. The standard is "outstanding contributions" to China. That's what I mean by "very high bar." Next to impossible is not a bad way to des
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by wegs 6y ago
Thousands of people have made it down the path to nationality in Honk Kong. Acquiring Chinese nationality -- whether mainland or not -- is possible. It's just that the standards are very, very, very exclusive.
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by wegs 6y ago
Does this mean it will work on any motherboard? On the whole, I find these 20% performance memory upgrade (leading to a fraction of that in real-world performance) more obnoxious than anything, but I'd love ECC!
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by wegs 6y ago
Author: The term is 'overengineering.' You used thick wood and heavy bolts to compensate for the stresses placed on a structure which gives exceptional amounts of leverage on the joints. Overengineering isn't good engineering
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by wegs 6y ago
Funny that. I bought heavy-duty shelf sliders for $15 for a pair: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-18-in-Full-Extension-Si... They're rated for loads up to 100lbs, and they're plenty tough enough to hold
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by wegs 6y ago
It is a good start! I look at the first paper as generating a hypothesis. That's the first step in any scientific process. A few replications later, we've got a theory, and then a few more later, a fact. The first papers are as im
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by wegs 6y ago
Nah. The costs are for specialization. Anytime you buy a specialized product, you're going to pay an arm and a leg. If you want to get a proper lab workbench (for just about any scientific/engineering discipline; that's not a
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by wegs 6y ago
Price list: * Bosch drill/driver kit: $100 * Circular saw: $100 * Tape measure: $20 * Square: $10 x2 (one big, one small) Total: $240. That's 1/10th of what you quoted. "Step it up a notch" kit as next step: * Rando
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by wegs 6y ago
I agree with the advice of all the other commentators, but I'll add a recommendation to have a few Irwin Quick Grip clamps on-hand (or similar). They're my go-to for 90% of just holding something in place for a moment (e.g. when d
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by wegs 6y ago
The desk in my son's room cost <$100, and had I bought it commercially, it would have been >$1000. It's customized to his interests/hobbies. If it didn't have all the bells and whistles, it would have been <$50
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by wegs 6y ago
1. Precisely! When you run into catches like actual versus nominal dimensions, you don't want to be working with a $40 piece of wood, but a $5 piece of wood. When you're wrong, you toss it and try again. Or you unscrew it and try
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by wegs 6y ago
> Saying that it might be caused by anything is a low effort dismissal. I am dismissing it as: One paper = interesting hypothesis Multiple replicated papers = theory Multiple replicated papers, with substantially different methodologies
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by wegs 6y ago
It's less expensive than pre-made furniture. A good place to get started is construction lumber -- just 2x4s. They're not bad once you clean them up with a sander and potentially planer and finish them, and they have a certain ind
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by wegs 6y ago
Let's pick this apart: > This is true, but it's true for almost every observational study, and IMO too easy a dismission. It's also a correct dismissal. The vast majority of results don't replicate. It's super-ea
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by wegs 6y ago
I would add that honest specs would help. I'd like to know sensor size. Not "pixel width." Sensor size+aperture, to a first order, is what you want to know about a camera.
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by wegs 6y ago
It's not a hard set of skills for physics grad students to pick up, but it's a bit more than a boot camp. Most of the deep stuff is there. There's a lot of shallow stuff at this point, though. Most don't want to do the w
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by wegs 6y ago
I agree the individual differences are larger than the categorical differences. From my time in grad school, I don't mind working at 3 am (and most other grad students I knew, at least without families, didn't mind that either). T
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by wegs 6y ago
(1) Most don't want to be quants. It's a soul-sucking no work-life-balance career path. You're getting paid better, but it's a hyper-abusive work environment. (2) Quant hiring is super-competitive. most physics students
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by wegs 6y ago
Lack of accountability is part of the power structure. At MIT, if you do something sufficiently nasty as a faculty member to embarrass the Institute, everyone is now pressured into signing NDAs / non-disclosures. If you don't, you
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by wegs 6y ago
Physics and bio departments tend to be the most toxic. Students have no BATNA.
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by wegs 6y ago
Former students too. Talk to them, and look up what they're doing. If a lot of former students ended up where you see yourself in 10 years, that's a great sign. If a lot of former students are in dead-end careers, that's a ba
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, no. My experience is that the technical interview is a noisy fizz-buzz. Good developers need to know algorithms and data structures, and be able to write code. If they can't even do that, they're definitely NOT a 10x'er
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, the problem is in the Typical Man Month. 10x as many 1x developers will deliver a worse product on a longer schedule than 1x as many 10x developers. Even if you assume 150% developers at 300% the cost, it's worth it. The number o
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, it's horrible for me. I was responding to: "I am puzzled why there aren't more split keyboards on the market, they are such a good idea." I would argue, for all the reasons I gave, most are horrible for most people
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by wegs 6y ago
My goalposts are "a keyboard which works for me." That's where they were, and that's where they will be. If I give up a few things I like about my existing keyboard to get what you like about your keyboard, that's a
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by wegs 6y ago
Most are horrible. One of the reasons is overlap. Your hands do occasionally hit keys on the other side. You want a pair of 2/3 keyboards, rather than 1/2 keyboards. You /especially/ want a lot of the "special"

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