Barrera

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by Barrera 4y ago
> Choosing to post anonymously, rather than using my real name, made things much easier. I’ve occasionally commented under my real name, and am embarrassed looking back at my post history. There’s nothing terrible, but I’m sure some of m
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by Barrera 4y ago
I was expecting the author to define "real peer review," but didn't see that. The best approximation is probably gleaned from the conclusion: - integration of preprint servers and alt metrics - tweaking incentives to review -
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by Barrera 4y ago
From the README: > Interoperate with your existing C++ code, from inheritance to templates Somewhere in the docs (can't remember where) is a link to a Rust/C++ interop project sponsored by Google, Crubit: https://git
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Crubit: C++/Rust Bidirectional Interop Tool(github.com)
4 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
Knowing the difference between a project that will provide value and one that won't. This is a very hard skill to learn, but delivers massive payoff. Almost everything else can be learned from books. Build the wrong thing and it won&#x
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by Barrera 4y ago
> The runway also “melted” at the RAF Brize Norton, military air base in Oxfordshire, west of London, on Monday as the UK struggled to cope with the weather. That word "melted" seems unjustified. CNBC reports: > The RAF didn
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Germany’s nuclear phase-out was prompted by Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power disaster in 2011. What's interesting here is how Germany's public policy is swaying in the winds of current events. First it was Japan's experie
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by Barrera 4y ago
Several commenters take the position that the distinction doesn't matter. This is "an old person's battle." What matters is getting things done. I'm not so sure. For one thing, it's of both theoretical and prac
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Writing up my thoughts in presentable state took too much time/effort. What you may not realize is how crucial writing is to thinking. You won't really know what you think about a topic until you try to put those thoughts int
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by Barrera 4y ago
I like the idea, but to echo another comment, the hardest part of running a blog is not selecting the blogging engine or how to host it. The hardest part is keeping new posts flowing through the engine. What blogging platforms focus on this
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by Barrera 4y ago
> ... Given the sorry state of Mr Biden’s approval ratings—by some measures, the worst at this point of a first term of any president since the 1950s—and woeful perceptions of the economy, it is unlikely that the tentative steps that Dem
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by Barrera 4y ago
> But Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears hi
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The House That Came in the Mail(99percentinvisible.org)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
The video clip omits the most important part of Vonnegut's lecture. He does Hamlet and it's a flat line. It's odd because this is the point of the article yet the clip omits it. See this one, for example (near the end): http
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Programming Rust (link to review) is the first book I read for an initial introduction to the language. This book is very much under-rated. If you've unsuccessfuly tried to learn Rust by reading "the Book" cover to cover
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by Barrera 4y ago
> ... I felt like I had to walk away with dignity and just declined. You dodged a bullet. Whatever company this is appears to be circling the drain. The problem you'll face now is: how many other companies are in the same position?
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by Barrera 4y ago
And yet the site apparently continues to accept deposits: https://celsius.network Business as usual. Oh yeah, check out our hello bar for that minor detail that withdrawal, swap, and transfers are "currently paused." T
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Senate bill to guarantee freedom to travel across states for abortions blocked(lite.cnn.com)
6 points by Barrera 4y ago|1 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> PowerCo will use the prismatic unified cell architecture in its batteries which allows for use of different cell chemistries. The cells will be manufactured from 2025 with the factory planned capacity to be 40 GWh which is enough to su
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Nvidia Announces Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing Platform(nvidianews.nvidia.com)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|1 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
The autopilot part of Tesla has never made much sense. Is Tesla the electric car company, or is it the luxury car company? Either way, why does the power train (EV or ICE) come into play at all? Not only that, but Tesla has played the Innov
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Chirodectes(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
The trick is the to get those inflation-adjusted returns you need 100% time exposure. No selling because circumstances force you to. No selling because you get spooked at a 50% drawdown. Not many people can tolerate even a 20% hit, which ex
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by Barrera 4y ago
That is the consensus view. But what if it doesn't work? What if the rate hikes keep coming fast and furious and the CPI keeps rising even faster? Recall that until the late 1970's the thought that inflation could persist through
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by Barrera 4y ago
> This has nothing to do with monetary policy. How can you be so certain? Gasoline prices started rising well before the war: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASREGW I would agree that the war has made a bad situ
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by Barrera 4y ago
Why would that be a measure of "monetary inflation." Shouldn't such a metric actually measure, you know, money?
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by Barrera 4y ago
Define "monetary inflation" and how to measure it. It would also be helpful if you could point to a metric that allows one to distinguish "monetary inflation" from some other kind.
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by Barrera 4y ago
Meanwhile, Gold takes a dump, falling 1%: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=NASDAQ%3ATSLA Remember how gold was going to protect you from hyperinflation? Something nasty is brewing in the economy. It will be ob
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by Barrera 4y ago
> The discussion is not over yet, but we believe this statement is equivalent to the well-known BSD or MIT licenses. That's not now I'd interpret it. "Open Source" in my mind means that the software uses one of the OS
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by Barrera 4y ago
> I spent 22 hours, 18 minutes, and 47 seconds writing and editing “India World” across 42 sessions in Google Docs. (Not including hours more spent editing on paper, revising the story at workshops, or reading critiques.) Given the quali

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