woofie11

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by woofie11 6y ago
Accusing whistleblowers of criminal activity? That's a pretty common ploy. Been there, done that. Early in my career when I was naive enough to try to whistleblow on things over my head.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Very few git tutorials explain how git works. That's the underlying problem. Using git correctly requires knowing how it works. You solve that problem by having a reasonable userspace, like hg, or by having a proper course in college
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by woofie11 6y ago
30% hit to performance isn't the same as 30% hit to power. Right now, I'm typing text into an HTML textarea element. Most of my laptop's power is going to the LCD backlight, I would guess. Dunno, though. Maybe some tab in the
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think classic Intel would. Intel's major cash cow and selling point was trust and brand. Until recently, I bought Intel processors and motherboards through good and bad because Intel had brand credibility. AMD sometimes gave better p
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by woofie11 6y ago
If you want to keep your data safe, it matters how it's done. See MongoDB for the story of a system with a friendly UI and a train wreck back-end. git didn't win mindshare of developers because people blindly followed Linus, anymo
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by woofie11 6y ago
I guess I'd be okay with a Merkle tree stored in SQLite, although looking over the Fossil documentation, it seems like the developers didn't get git, and what made the git data structure so clever. I see pieces like this in the Fo
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by woofie11 6y ago
git. The right storage backend is either git, or a git-like Merkle tree. This is small data. Individual files for objects are fine. Compacting is better, but not critical. You can write git in a weekend or two: https://wyag.thb.
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think it's helpful to focus on dollars per citizen. $428 billion means I spent a bit over $1000 on this failure. My family spend a few thousand dollars. Adjusted for income (I pay above-average taxes), it probably cost my family a mi
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by woofie11 6y ago
Or volume. More likely volume, since the pressure is just a function of how much stuff is above me.
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by woofie11 6y ago
The mixture of Teams, Sharepoint, and OneDrive is like a giant black hole to lose stuff in. Word collaborative editing updates with a big delay, and locks sections of text others are working on. Outlook search is like a black hole where you
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by woofie11 6y ago
Google Workspace is profitable? Last I heard, it generated massive revenue, but lost money. Have things changed?
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by woofie11 6y ago
I prefer Google Workspace to M365, in that the technology still works better. Outlook search doesn't work. Word isn't good for collaborative editing. Etc. I would never, ever, ever run a business on Google Workspace, because of a
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by woofie11 6y ago
GSuite started free. Google's goal is to up-sell me on a $6/month plan. With my whole family on, that'd be many thousands of dollars over our lifetimes. We had an account compromised. We were trying to understand what happene
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by woofie11 6y ago
I created a GSuite account a long time ago for my family members. I've been screwed over by Google every few months the past few years. * My kid can't get Google Voice * There is no support * Google intentionally tries to make thi
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'd want to see an overall calculation. Twice as many actuators means twice as many things can go wrong. I think I prefer KISS. On the flip side, I guess each actuator gets used half as often. I use HDD for bulk storage and SSD for hig
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by woofie11 6y ago
Or alternatively, the odds of a particular mRNA mutation doing something harmful are astronomically low. With 7 billion people being injected with large amounts of mRNA, you have a very small number times a very big number, so I can't
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by woofie11 6y ago
Nope. Most medicines are totally nonlinear. Almost any function is affine if you look close enough, but that's different from linear. If you half the dosage of ibuprofen, your odds of complications rarely fall by 50%. Chest x-ray is pr
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by woofie11 6y ago
This isn't right. Risk from overdoses of drugs, poison, and allergens is *highly* nonlinear. It'd be exceptionally unlikely in the case of mRNA vaccine, but that's the case the majority of the time. There's a specific mi
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by woofie11 6y ago
Let's say a piece of mRNA has a 1E-12 chance of causing you to grow a third arm by virtue of a defect. Two pieces of mRNA would have very close to a 2E-12 chance of causing you to grow a third arm. That's linearity. If you've
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by woofie11 6y ago
Karma doesn't work the same way. Karma tends to: - Promote extremism and groupthink. Try posting any comment which isn't far-left on reddit (outside of the far-right forums, which will be the opposite). You'll be -50. - Be ga
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by woofie11 6y ago
This sounds entirely reasonable. A bunch of web sites went the route of having a bunch of smart, reasonable people get together and make something real. When those grew, they became popular with idiots, with spamming/SEO/astroturf
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by woofie11 6y ago
Yes. It is. One difference is you see all intermediate results. That's huge for avoiding mistakes. In-fix, if you type (5+5)*(9+9), you only see the end result. Post-fix 5 5 + 9 9 + *, you see 10 and 18 along the way. Another is the st
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well: * The law treated illegitimate children as illegitimate. It was harsh to be born out of wedlock. ( https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/inheritance-rights-for-leg... ). No child support. No inheritance. Etc. * Until r
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by woofie11 6y ago
I don't quite think that's the lesson intended here. The lesson taught in a lot of cultures hit hardest by Germany is understanding: * Personality cults * Hate * Polarization ... and the path by which Hitler came to power. Underst
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by woofie11 6y ago
It's not helpful hyperbole. There were different reactions to WWII. The most helpful one is "Never again." That, in turn, leads to understanding WWII. That, in turn, leads to reading books like Mein Kampf. A lot of people rea
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by woofie11 6y ago
Free software was a movement. The FSF was an echo chamber of RMS, and I was comfortable with that. I don't agree with RMS on everything, but it's a vice which needs to be heard. I don't mind having an organization with someon
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think history is helpful here. FSF lost RMS because of a spat where he was falsely accused by SJWs. I'm not going to get into history of all the upsides and downsides of RMS, or whether there were valid reasons for him to leave, but
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by woofie11 6y ago
They definitely do some form of fingerprinting for content optimization. After browsing in incognito, Youtube was sketchily on-topic. (esoteric science/technical topics which wouldn't come up by chance)
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by woofie11 6y ago
Blargh. I wrote that badly, didn't I? Let me rephrase that more clearly: Let's say I expect 100% inflation over the next 5 years. I can buy an investment which will lose 50% of its real value over that time. I come out neutral com
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by woofie11 6y ago
I don't think this is a bubble, but expected inflation, due to COVID19. I am guessing we will see cash devalue roughly 2x in the next five years. As a result, there's a scramble where to put money safely. If the alternative -- cas

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