ycombobreaker

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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
I believe this attitude goes hand-in-hand with the idea of jumping ship every few years. As an employee, your impact only extends as far as the projects handed to you. You offer no growth potential to an employer. Similarly, management th
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
AML regulations are real, though. Crypto exchanges' fictitious claims wouldn't fool anybody if it wasn't already "a thing" in the more-regulated side of the world.
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Nobody parks cash at a bank looking for returns. They're looking for a stable store of value. ETH appreciation is not a selling point for replacing a bank, even if the return happens to be positive (right now, with hindsight).
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
But even if it's a copy of your essence, it's not a slave. Mortal-you has goals and family to care about. Mortal-you has been living and planning with the constraint of mortality for its entire life. Immortal-you will eventuall
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
The wiktionary link in a sibling comment covers both use cases: the dependency chain and the pointless activity. I also learned Yak Shaving as a general "waste of time": you shave it, the hair is just going to grow back, so don&#x
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
I think I agree with you, but I'd take it a step further. The plan from management may in fact be various projects in development, few of which will see the light of day. Those few pay for all of the spent effort on the others. This
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Nah, the "everything is securities fraud" trope is qbout some (usually immoral) behavior that a shareholder argues would materially affect the stock price, and which was not disclosed to shareholders. Elon Musk announcing some M&a
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
The authors of the tool created something that can be used for copyright infringement. The tool itself lacks agency, it did what it was programmed to do. If you took the tool's suggestions and proceeded to published a derivative work,
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
No we should not, nor am I advocating for that.
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
This is pretty good for illustration to a layperson, thank you! Filling in a few other examples could be useful. For instance, why do 1/4 and 1/8 work in base-10? I imagine you could create a table of the fractions 1/2, 1&#
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
I see a lot of this (generic approx-comparison functions) at work. It can catch some problems, true, but it becomes very cargo-cultish. They understand that the hardware rounds calculations, but they behave as if the hardware is nondeterm
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
IMHO this does not follow, for a few reasons: - An experienced programmer would know that IEEE FP hardware is ubiquitous. Why would a language eschew that hardware capability by default? If anything, I would assume that any unfamiliar gen
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
There are a LOT of hair restoration ads in a particular commute path near me. Like it's a self-referential trope. I used to thing it was just funny. But then, I thought a bit about how a series of similar ads about breast augmentati
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Purely from a maintenance perspective I would rather somebody use popcnt instructions (if available) over hand-rolling a bit counting algorithm.
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
> Rather than hiring permanent people or upping salary, Hospitals have instead elected to just use travel nurses and an extreme premium so as to avoid any salary increases. Hearsay from the nurses I know: a large hospital near me has a s
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
That throws out the baby with the bathwater. I frequently merge feature branches with changes still split into a small number of commits, each representing an atomic step associated with the overall change.
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
In the great schism of England, the meeting organizer fled to central Europe, and one of the primary stakeholders died. The meeting had to be rescheduled.
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Same happens in the US, people use EST/EDT interchangeably (and incorrectly) when they mean Eastern timezone. Or Central/Mountain/Pacific.
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Is that really true? On traditional exchanges, the exchange itself is a mostly neutral party, a technology-and-marketplace provider. If a clearing member becomes insolvent, the other clearing members have agreements in place to "pitc
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
This post openly advocates being an accessory to fraud to maximize profit. The true value of exploits is NOT the cost of the damage they could do, because that externalizes various costs to the perpetrator: evade law enforcement for the res
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Yeah these subthreads always remind me of the Money Laundering subplot in Office Space.
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
> least historically it's been reliable to get a fixed income "Fixed Income" is more about structurally reliable and consistent returns, rather than historical average returns. An outlier bad year can easily wipe a huge pe
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
From what I've read about ML solvers, if you know the solution dictionary (2500ish words) you should be able to never lose, and solve in roughly 3.5 rounds on average. So, from a mechanical perspective you are underperforming the robo
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Plus, the "share" mechanism is obviously not an invasion of privacy or a tracking beacon. It just puts a cute unicode game board in your clipboard, as far as I can see.
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Agreed, but heck any appliance. Email client moving sruff around? It should be for a reason, I don't want my daily tasks opting me into their idea of neuroplasticity training. I would also be irate if my coffee maker or microwave rea
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Yes it's interesting, precisely because it's intuitively "solvable" by machines. There's joy in solving by hand, and joy in creating a solver, but probably no joy in running your solver every day and sharing with y
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
I've seen a number of solvers; but my partner has forbidden me from writing one, forcing me to do everything in wetware. 3-4 guesses seems right intuitively. I saw some speculation that the dictionary was well-known, is that true? Se
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
> nobody cares that an employee doesn't learn, it is irrelevant. I have learned shitloads as an employee, and that's why I get paid more now than ten years ago. If you aren't learning at work, something is wrong.
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Do you really care that you made HR unhappy though? Seems like you shouldn't, the company/team management is probably happy to pursue references over the funnel of random candidates, and the unhappy HR staffer is better off learn
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by ycombobreaker 5y ago
Isn't that the same as natural language? "Bone Apple Tea" gets corrected both because it's wrong, and because many people know so. "Begging the Question" is used incorrectly _so frequently_ that even dictiona

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