willhslade

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by willhslade 3y ago
Not to peek behind the curtain, but it's pretty difficult to hold down 2 jobs when you need to physically be in the office 2 days a week. Which, if my anecdotal evidence in my circle is to be believed, that was definitely happening dur
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by willhslade 3y ago
https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-sovereignty-within-a-united-c...
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by willhslade 3y ago
OK. So. There are a few large problems. I'll highlight the basics. Canadians are deeply in debt. Mostly mortgages. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-hou... Causing: house prices and ren
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by willhslade 3y ago
Hmm. Sounds like Canada and Toronto.
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by willhslade 3y ago
Well, Canadian / Anglosphere governments, anyway. https://www.sightline.org/2021/05/27/yes-other-countries-do-...
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by willhslade 4y ago
I'm not going to wade into this flamewar but I will say one thing. Apple is what it says on the tin. It's a curated garden that mostly just works. At a certain point in your life and your career you don't have weekends to spa
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by willhslade 4y ago
How is it necessary to colonize Mars?
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by willhslade 4y ago
This is my current list of complaints. If I'm wrong about anything and there are settings that I can change, enlighten me. Copy + Paste sucks and isn't consistent. On my machine, if you copy a message, it includes a header, indica
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by willhslade 4y ago
How confident is it in it's confidence interval?
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by willhslade 4y ago
Broken is better than unreliable.
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by willhslade 4y ago
To pick a nit, Iverson did this with APL and I still think it's brilliant. Executable math. It's time will come, I hope.
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by willhslade 4y ago
Water is finite
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by willhslade 4y ago
Software is more malleable than, say, a bridge. This leads to a lot of input about how to best do things, which generates a lot of rework, which generates a lot of billing hours, and keeps us all employed. Does it need to be like this? No.
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by willhslade 4y ago
Self learning is part of the university experience. Researching without guidance is not.
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by willhslade 4y ago
I'm no shill but Mirgin Vobile during Black Friday was actually competitive this year.
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by willhslade 4y ago
Hi dang, Sorry about that. I meant it neutrally but that didn't come across. I won't post again anything that suggests snark. Thanks, Will
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by willhslade 4y ago
There have also been many reports of people, mostly disabled, who are unable to work or afford rent in Ontario, who have applied to medically assisted death rather than face homelessness. This might be both brinksmanship and gamesmanship, b
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by willhslade 4y ago
I suggest you do a little reading. I'm Canadian and it's alarming. It's already apparently 2.5% of deaths in Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi... We have cred
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by willhslade 4y ago
> Yes, but now that we have a tool, it will never go away. Tools can go away. They can come back, too. But they can go away. I would also point to the Japanese experience with firearms. But I'm guessing you already know about that t
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by willhslade 4y ago
SBF's still in the news, bro.
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by willhslade 4y ago
I'm having an ok career in this space contorting Excel, Access, SQL, VBA and Powershell. It's going ok, but I do have to point out one thing that this hype cycle is missing. You are explicitly developing software by people who hav
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by willhslade 4y ago
Yeah, but doesn't Ghosn still, uh, have money? Theranos was a massive fraud.
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by willhslade 4y ago
The Antikythera mechanism says hello.
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by willhslade 4y ago
Is your pension a gold plated DB?
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by willhslade 4y ago
You might find this previous discussion informative. The Ivies matter but not as much as you'd think. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30448083 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05222-
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by willhslade 4y ago
Also, to pile on, if I use my brain to read GPL source code and then type it in again on my own, I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of violating copyright.
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by willhslade 4y ago
So how and why do we solve the halting problem?
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by willhslade 4y ago
The trade off isn't in terms of the order, it's that you get back the time waiting in line behind several very slow people.
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by willhslade 4y ago
Federal Reserve is not strictly part of the federal government.
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by willhslade 4y ago
Alternatively, given that the majority of the planet is water and we kind of can't really imagine a biology without it, the universe could be full of fish planets.

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