RookyNumbas

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by RookyNumbas 5y ago
The crack vs. cocaine comparison is no good, we should stop using it. Free base is a very different drug than cocaine. An equivalent "white" version of crack would be crystal meth, which has had similar sentencing guidelines to c
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
I am not convinced that you have ever worked at the average startup. Your points are incredibly divorced from the reality most face. Years worth of runway is not the norm. Having your choice of senior engineers to hire right away is not the
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
Doc may have been a weirdo, but he was also the most popular and liked person in the entire town. The plot revolves around people trying to throw parties for him because they think he's so great. Today, no matter your weirdness, it&#x2
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
Sure, that's all correct. But before showing it is dead it would be useful to have empirical evidence that it was ever alive. And the evidence is very mixed at best. The history of the EMH is a battle between those showing where it bre
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
Yes, 99th percentile quant compensation is significantly higher. But it's a bad comparison. Google alone hire mores more people into these positions than all quant firms combined. 99.9% at FANG might be more comparable.
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
Will Durant has an interesting quote that has stuck with me, something along the lines of: Out of every 100 new ideas, 99 of them will be bad, and inferior to what was replaced. My impression is that "It's better now than before&q
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
I think that someone in your position could shift a dial a few degrees. And the resulting consequences, compounded over time, would be absolutely staggering. I'm guessing you did shift a few dials while working there, and probably in a
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
Companies like Amazon were not always in the position you've described. It took decades to get there. And there would have been numerous opportunities along the way where a single engineer could have had a massive impact. A single engi
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
I'm not sure that is actually a counterpoint. It think they are somewhat in agreement. The blog states that there is very little evidence that people of the ancient and medieval world experienced PTSD from combat the way modern soldier
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
When I think of the very successful people I know, all have gone through life events that would absolutely flatten most people. The loss of a child, a partner committing suicide, 6 businesses failing, 2 weeks in an induced comma. And yet a
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
I have no visual imagery in dreams either. I still have spatial awareness and can move about unimpeded, but there is no visual element to it. Other dream senses are uninhibited. While conscious I can play back long complex pieces of music i
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
> Don't know why you think my emails are spam! Remember, we don't know anything about your site yet. We haven't read any of your content yet. How would we possibly know that your emails might be worthwhile? It's like
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
Wii was the third best seller, and the only non-portable in the top 5.
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
That insight happened 30 years ago. Nintendo's best selling consoles and games have always been portable systems.
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
I like to start by thinking about cache locality and ensuring linear layout. Next focus on one-time, or minimal memory allocation. Then there are a bunch of small, systemic things you need to get right. After that you can start worrying abo
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by RookyNumbas 6y ago
My partner has had a few airs over the years. Never once has she ever wanted to plug anything into any port, other than power. I think a lot of users are the same. It's a very pretty facebook machine that she has never needed tech help
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
> total abstinence isn't necessarily the goal that everyone who has a drinking problem is aiming for I guess you're technically right. But statements like these make me chuckle. They are very common, and a dead giveaway that yo
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
I'm positive you can find many therapies and other methods that end up working better than AA. I went through some of those methods and they are very effective. It also cost me around $10k, and that's after very good insurance. Ma
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
It's a tough balance. My partner teaches grade 2. They focus on play and exploratory based learning. Parents are furious that their kids aren't instead memorizing times-tables.
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
I wouldn't be too sure. The author, Jia Tolentino, has made a career exploring, and often ridiculing mass trends like these. Yet by the end of the article she is admiring women who had the procedure done and avoids looking in the mirro
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
There are a few steps to consider before you are loading data into ram. Can you partition the data in any useful way? For example if queries use separate ranges of dates, then you can partition data so that queries only need to touch the re
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
Definitely not simple. But the pill is probably the most important invention of the past century or two. Maybe the transistor comes close.
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
> iOS, ASP.NET Core, JSP and JSF (Java based frameworks), Ruby on Rails, and Django (Python) are all based on MVC. Don't all of those have two-way data binding? > Why is it that MVC works for all these other frameworks, but does
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
Banks don't want to lend to startups because they actually like their loans to be repaid. VCs don't want to lend to startups because you can't make 100x return on debt.
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
In the case of a go-playing AI, and maybe even things like self driving cars, then yes I agree. But we are quickly moving beyond the types of applications where you can simply test in simulation. Self driving cars are probably right at the
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
I'm surprised he made the drug analogy. It takes decades and hundreds of millions dollars to be able to test a drug on humans. I'm curious if he thinks we need a similar safeguard for all AI-human interactions.
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
Do we know yet if it has it resulted in an decrease in the gender pay gap and other effects?
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
Heh, you do need a better descriptor. That is the media's idea of the autistic savant. A very small minority of people on the lesser end of the autism spectrum may have some of those traits. The reality for the other 99% is vastly diff
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
Hint: it's a joke.
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by RookyNumbas 7y ago
It would be really nice to have a "start here" section. What are the 10 parameters I should look at and understand first?

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