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by windward 2y ago
I checked this route, it's very wiggly. Would there really be much to gain, even if the top speed was doubled? It's a train, so: - Accelerating takes a lot of time and space - Braking takes a lot of time and space - Allowing overt
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by windward 2y ago
It doesn't have to be high to be negative EV
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by windward 2y ago
Don't worry, that's the kind of thing that would only happen in a country with a fickle, mercurial government that doesn't value certainty and the rule of law.
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by windward 2y ago
This angle doesn't make much sense in the context of a weapon
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by windward 2y ago
And you'd better not 'delve' into anything
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by windward 2y ago
Agreed. Adding a test that generates a random 32 bit int to your project is adding 4 billion tests to your project and only running one of them.
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by windward 2y ago
The argument falls apart when the premise that you're chasing big O does. Poor cache/memory/disk accesses can result in constant regressions so vast that a 'worse' algorithm actually fares better. Also, we tend to f
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by windward 2y ago
>which does not open in a new background tab when clicked with the MMB. Which you notice because your page scrolls up wildly as you move to click on what should be the new tab
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by windward 2y ago
And the rest of the message. And git-notes. Reducing the human-readability of the most human-presented part of the commit, to make it easier for the can-do-billions-of-operations-a-second machine, seems backwards.
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by windward 2y ago
A typical C program of useful length typically includes a spattering of implicit type conversions that the programmer never intended or considered. It's the consequence of a feature that abstracts away how the type system and memory re
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by windward 2y ago
It doesn't matter. The people in the trenches don't update their standard versions.
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by windward 2y ago
>The police did catch the Golden State Killer by scavenging a used coffee cup or somesuch, however. And it required detectives to follow him around until he left whatever it was that was adequately isolated. It's a little different
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by windward 2y ago
I'm very glad this wasn't productised before my in-laws were my in-laws
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by windward 2y ago
You are correct, and I am being facetious. I would still rather we produce things like AWS, however. While it's more substitutable, it is so because the value is more rational and inherent.
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by windward 2y ago
Unfortunately yes. Our biggest company is Novo Nordisk, a company that sells weightloss drugs to Americans. It narrowly beats out LVMH, a company that sells luxury goods to Americans.
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by windward 2y ago
Who knew those bodybuilders were such history buffs?
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by windward 2y ago
Don't let the Eurozone hear that
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by windward 2y ago
Even on a website that largely self-selects for people with enough agency, pride and autonomy to graduate and go into software development (then choose to discuss it online), we have people like the 'I currently have 10 fully remote en
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by windward 2y ago
I'm glad for you. I'm paraphrasing a previous employer's guidelines.
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by windward 2y ago
So the solution to avoiding a few days of a LHR-sized gap in airport throughput is to build a permanent LHR-sized surplus?
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by windward 2y ago
In big tech these overly-granular, arbitrary systems are designed specifically to avoid this kind of variance in promotability from how managers infer the rules. If they're designed badly, you have to lie to get your example through th
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by windward 2y ago
The books I buy from the Kobo store always have the page numbers match up with the rendered pages. The books I... acquire through other means... do not.
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by windward 2y ago
Out of scope for this article, but: >Most leveling systems are too granular, with the levels separated by arbitrary characterizations. It’s makework. It’s fake science. It’s bureaucratic and encourages a non-thinking “climb the ladder”
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by windward 2y ago
As a user it feels disrespectful to be so overtly treated as an untapped revenue stream for a premium-price product. It's Samsung-esque.
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by windward 2y ago
Paying users are too valuable not to serve ads to. Their clicks are worth more: ad-free tiers are always temporary. Not that it matters: I pay for the bandwidth and hardware too. So I decide what it serves and runs.
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by windward 2y ago
Honest question: why does the HW4 matter? Hasn't FSD been sold as a service all cars with older hardware can use?
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by windward 2y ago
Any company where you're not allowed to force-push to a public branch.
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by windward 2y ago
Work is full of arbitrary hoops
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by windward 2y ago
Devil's advocate: there exists a corpus of questions solvable with a small number of techniques after a few weeks of decicated study. When someone has the right brain, these questions are the barrier to a 99th percentile income. What d
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by windward 2y ago
>Are they just not used to having them so that they don't miss them? The languages that I work in that don't print useful traces are typically strongishly-typed system languages. So I miss them - sometimes having to step throug

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