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That’s what makes them less competitive: they have to lower pay because they don’t have the cash on hand and revenue to amortize the deductions.
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That’s my opinion: If you exhibit pre-publication restraint, you’re an editor of an anthology — and not an information service hosting user content.
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Is it? Grocery and department stores routinely have brands that compete with those they resell — but they’re not cut off for that. Eg, Kroger operates its own bakery and resells bread. What makes technology unlike those?
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Your last point is what I was trying to get at — eg, reasoning just about your math expressions. https://herbie.uwplse.org/ I think that FM (beyond basic typing) is best used sparingly to address particularly sensitive case
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I’m not convinced they’re that different — there’s a spectrum from type systems to Agda/Coq. Most developers use some kind of formal method (types); and probably correctly conclude that more formality doesn’t aid their case. That’s oka
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I didn’t say that, nor use any self-reference. > When something unusual appears in the news, that doesn’t make it common. This in particular isn’t even close to what I said, which was: rare events can be unsurprising in large datasets —
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
It’s not even surprising without knowing about Pete: the newspaper isn’t going to publish the many that failed, so their own selection bias is the dominant effect. Even if we take the probability of the group to be the probability of indivi
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
The immune system has 1.8 trillion cells which puts it between total brain cells (57 billion) and total synapses (150 trillion); and contains its own complex processes and interactions. I’m not immediately convinced the brain is more compli
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
You have the sides reversed: Russia pulled back on both flanks (Kharkiv and Kherson) to preserve men, while Ukraine grindered men in Bakhmut and Kursk and the “summer offensive”. One of the interesting aspects of this war is that Russia has
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Erlang has its own notion of process — the comment should be understood as equivalent to “when running Typescript, some Promises could error and be restarted without the software crashing”.
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How many people would work their current job if money wasn’t a thing? People of all ages seek rewards — and assessments gate the payoffs. Like a boss fight in a video game gates the progress from your skill growth.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Programming doesn’t require algebra[1], which is about manipulating equations. You only need to understand processes and assignments, neither of which appear in a typical algebra class. You certainly won’t learn how to pass an algebra class
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
About the only two things I’d say are required is Boolean logic and grade school arithmetic (eg, computing the right index). There’s certainly roles that require more — but they’re the minority and you can always be taught on-the-job if i
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I don’t find the same, eg, greenfield AI projects. It can do pieces in isolation, but requires significant handholding on refactors to get things correct (ie, it’s initial version has subtle bugs) — and sometimes requires me to read the doc
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Counterpoint: You’re displaying a form of racism by portraying this as about “lost status” rather than the decreasing material well-being of the public and the collapse of technocratic systems benefitting people in a regime of inflated cred
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
We did the same in apartment maintenance — a career completely unlike tech. We’d stand around the managers office, take thirty seconds to say what we planned to do, what dependencies we had (eg, who needed the truck when) and then went off
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Sure — but the arithmetic mean also captures that case: if you only halve the time, it also will report that change accurately. What we’re handling is the case where you have split outcomes — and there the arithmetic and geometric mean di
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
But reality doesn’t care: If half your requests are 2x as long and half are 2x as fast, you don’t take the same wall time to run — you take longer. Let’s say you have 20 requests, 10 of type A and 10 of type B. They originally both take 10
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Your point is merely a non sequitur: a change in banking isn’t related to paying taxes or the state as a whole, nor anarchy. You’re not supporting your central thesis that disintermediating finance is in any way related to removing governme
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
You can direct an EMP so it’s close to linear losses — the difference between a laser and a lightbulb.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
US isn’t deploying its best SEAD tech against Houthis either, though. I don’t disagree with the general discussion; but it’s worth remembering the US would also change tactics against Russia or China.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I was responding to the person above me who said: > not investment strategy > highest levels of transparency Your comment makes my point, again: Computers only happened when academics transitioned to programs with investment plans to
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
1 Gy ago, life wasn’t multicellular. I don’t think we have the ability to meaningfully predict such scales.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Computer were invented at a lab funded by the military for applied math, with some guys showing up to run mystery calculations over night when the scientists hired to the project were gone.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Also, the screenshot stays within your corporate network, whereas the photo is immediately backed up to iCloud, sent over messenger, etc. The friction pushes the flow into something even worse — while not actually changing the behavior.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
It was worse for people like the Luddites, who had artisanal jobs replaced by machinery. They were so angry about their fall in circumstance they revolted (and have been slandered by capitalists since).
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
WEF is already pitching that, so it would represent a pivot to be “on brand” for fascist elites.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
This is precisely why as a law-and-order type, I don’t care about this particular incident. A rookie gangster shot a high-tier gangster — why is that a me problem? Gang-on-gang violence is a daily occurrence.

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