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by yomly 7y ago
Any idea what people at BAT earn? 30k rmb isn't bad for being in China but also isn't great at global level...
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by yomly 7y ago
What industry do you work in now? What kind of salaries are developers of 5ish years experience earning?
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by yomly 7y ago
Indeed - the cooling requirements of maglev don't seem to have prohibited it from existing
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by yomly 7y ago
30-50 years ago people still used shillings!
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by yomly 7y ago
This is the write up I was looking for as this is the use case I've had in mind for Racket of late after reading Felleisen's LOP paper. Would love to know more about your experiences with doing Racket FFI. How hard were the bugs a
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by yomly 7y ago
Yes this is along the right lines - thank you!
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by yomly 7y ago
I seem to have awareness that people have redirected the auditory and visual cortexes as an experiment and found that sight and hearing were recovered eventually? Unfortunately I can't find a source to verify this so hoping someone wit
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by yomly 7y ago
Fair enough, but gambling can be social and other times it can be a "cheap" thrill
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by yomly 7y ago
Luck is lumpy. Weirdly I seem to do quite well in the casino and often have evening where I leave the casino 2-3X ahead of where I started. My luck at football betting is terrible, I'm even worse at horses. When you're up it'
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by yomly 7y ago
Funny there's a conversation about the ThinkPad 2015 going on - my x240 was the generation that had the buttonless trackpad (which screwed the trackpoint). Credit to Lenovo, they backtracked within one generation, but I am not nearly s
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by yomly 7y ago
I met someone recently who had to do pretty high performance JS to ship webapps targeting feature phones - presumably every bit of performance helps there and as someone else mentioned, the compiler can probably do this bit for you
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by yomly 7y ago
>If you're intellectually driven then looking after two young children isn't fascinating. I've never understood this viewpoint - children are simply the most fascinating things! They're born with next to no inborn kno
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by yomly 7y ago
For any chemists out there - the tl;dr is that the chemists worked out how to break C-H bonds and replace them with a radioactively labeled C-18F bond for on aromatic rings which is pretty cool. The molecule can then be traced through the b
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by yomly 7y ago
Are people employing this pattern without static typing - curious whether people find the increased complexity in monad combination is worth the reduced complexity of coding for the happy path
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by yomly 7y ago
Not to be condescending, but I should hope area of study should influence expected earnings of an academic. I hope it's not too much of a stretch to see the difference between a professor of medicine and medieval tapestry or Viking the
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by yomly 7y ago
Right and that's fine - I agree an optimistic way to look at medicine is that we have yet so much more to discover. But I look at the massive pro-medicate industry that is incentivised to get us to take medicine which is built upon dis
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by yomly 7y ago
After studying pharmacology and medicinal chemistry, I lost a lot of faith in our current pharmacological medicine. The tl;dr is that chemistry is incredibly complex and then biology is even more complex and messy. Even if we think we under
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by yomly 7y ago
Worth noting that France has no legal alcohol consumption age, and Germany has it set to 14 if a guardian is present. Alcohol is deeply embedded in French and German culture (and surely other nations) - I have seen a 3 year old sipping some
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by yomly 7y ago
Other people I told this to had a similar reaction. Believe it or not, cows can on the rare occasion acquire a taste for meat. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-herbivores-ar...
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by yomly 7y ago
I've seen people "get away with murder" - corny jokes, terrible cliches. The term "sheer force of character" comes to mind - if you're confident enough in yourself, you can usually lead social situations/p
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by yomly 7y ago
>I saw a BBC doc yesterday about drinking in the UK. They have stores selling 3-liter bottles of 7.5% cider for four dollars. That is ridiculous. 3-liter bottles of dirt-cheap alcohol, cheaper than coke, are not bought by happy social dr
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by yomly 7y ago
>It's kind of ironic that all those messages basically orchestrate the illusion of global mutable state Presumably because for certain things it was easier to reason about when things were mutable... And now we're taking this f
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by yomly 7y ago
whoops mental arithmetic fail - you're totally right, not an order of magnitude more. Still 3x is pretty impressive, and it's still disappointing (IMO) that Sony failed to launch a relevant streaming service given their expertise
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by yomly 7y ago
Look up Joan Ginther - ex-Stanford statistician and she won scratchcard lotteries multiple times (I seem to recall by arbing non-uniform geographical distribution of winning cards). Unfortunately I can't find a technically satisfying a
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by yomly 7y ago
I get your point, and that kind of thinking is probably why they didn't go for it - understandably the risk appetite and innovative culture of a MNC is different to a burgeoning startup. For the record, Netflix is now worth about an or
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by yomly 7y ago
The thing is, especially with juniors, cleaning up code leads to a few things: - poorly executed cleanup (aka regressions) - misunderstanding of requirements (new bugs) - "standardization" of naming (now you have two standards ht
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by yomly 7y ago
Sony owns a content distribution network, record label, gaming studio, film studio, tvs, phones, media players and storage medium - basically they own the _entire stack_ and yet Netflix and Spotify managed to wade into their territory and o
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by yomly 7y ago
This is loose reasoning - it is true that photons are the same, but completely over simplifies the problem Some addition things worth considering Effective intensity of observed object (last I checked, paper isn't a mirror and doesn&#x
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by yomly 7y ago
On a plane, I have a terminal on my laptop. Mosh? Less likely...
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by yomly 7y ago
My (personal) tl;dr from it was: - Some light style rules about having no qualifiers e.g. words like "really significant" were banned - Keep language super concise and non-flowery. Don't try to sound clever, Keep It Simple, S

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