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by arawde 11mo ago
From personal experience making the same comparisons during undergrad, I think it just comes down to the availability of conceptual models. If the brain does X, there's a good chance that a computer does something that looks like X, or
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by arawde 2y ago
It's incredible just how long the Iberian fascist regimes lasted. I imagine that if you polled a set of random people from the street, and asked when they thought the last war for colonial indepence from a European power was, very few
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by arawde 3y ago
Only a bit related, but I recently learned that André Weil's sister Simone was a noted philosopher and fought in the Spanish Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil
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by arawde 3y ago
All of which occurred under the management of Toshiba, no? And Westinghouse is now owned by Cameco, as a more vertically-integrated uranium & nuclear company
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by arawde 3y ago
Depends how insolvent it is
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by arawde 3y ago
Location: Vancouver, BC, CA Remote: Much preferred Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Résumé/CV: https://extendedmind.notion.site/prior-work-eb010114b61c4fba... Technologies: Typescript, PHP, Vue & Reac
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Marc Rubinstein: Worldpay Reborn(netinterest.co)
1 points by arawde 4y ago|0 comments
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by arawde 4y ago
Here's a few: * Matthew Klein & Michael Pettis - Trade Wars Are Class Wars * Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern * Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (had never read it before, probably book of the year for
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by arawde 4y ago
Afaik the bonds are issued by the PE firms executing the deal, and it's taken many months to close. The debt has sat on bank books for a significant portion of time, so the yields are reflective of the price needed to unload them in th
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by arawde 4y ago
I've become more and more fond of Notion over the last few months. The composition of "blocks" is very nice, and even things like how indentation is done makes a huge difference in taking notes. I can manage meal planning, gr
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by arawde 4y ago
Location: Vancouver, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Preferably no Technologies: Typescript, Go, React, AWS/GCP CV: https://oikonomia.notion.site/cv-eb010114b61c4fba995a90635cb... Email: hn username at gmail dot co
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by arawde 5y ago
Most surprising part of this FOMC had to be when Powell said "we would like to slow demand" during the press conference, you don't usually hear the quiet part out loud like that from this Fed chair. Also shift upwards in PCE
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by arawde 5y ago
I think the reason is that LibraryThing is significantly less UX-friendly than Goodreads. I use both; I use Goodreads to track what I consider "personal" reading, and I use LibraryThing to track what I consider "technical&quo
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by arawde 5y ago
This is something I've seen with copilot with market data. I was creating a unit test in a Go codebase and I had dumped the JSON that I was going to be decoding at the top of the file, and when I started writing the assertions, Copilot
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by arawde 5y ago
tachyons is excellent, nice to have a small library and build from there
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by arawde 5y ago
Event page on USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000fd9v...
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by arawde 5y ago
> Once you have a developer [who does everything], development time to get a superior product will drop massively I feel like you're just going to get stressed engineers who are stretched thin across multiple domains. This sounds ho
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by arawde 5y ago
They didn't announce it. The projected rate increase is the result of the dot plots, which is the assessment of both governors and regional members of the FOMC. It is not binding and it serves merely as a projection. If you watch the p
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by arawde 5y ago
I started a job recently where I'm working for a company in a time zone 3 hours ahead of me. I bought some of the Hue bulbs and replaced my alarm with a gentle synthetic sunrise. My sleep habits have gotten much better since
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by arawde 6y ago
> Okta will issue shares to Auth0 shareholders at share price of $276.21, close to 20% less than the current share price (at the time of writing). The screenshot immediately under this statement shows an Okta share price of $226. Am I mi
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by arawde 6y ago
core CPI last month was 1.4% and has consistently been under 2% for a long time
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Statement on Fat Fritz 2(blog.stockfishchess.org)
4 points by arawde 6y ago|1 comments
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by arawde 6y ago
Citation?
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by arawde 6y ago
It was my understanding that this is more of a seasonal thing than on a day to day basis. That is, during the summer, southern California uses a large amount of electricity for climate control, and so power is transferred along the Pacific
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by arawde 6y ago
My main reason for using bspwm over herbstluftwm was that I had issues doing certain operations between two monitors, such as dragging a window in floating mode between two monitors.
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by arawde 6y ago
This is actually a good idea, I've been meaning to turn one of my old laptops into a media server, but it hadn't occurred to me to use it as a development server as well. I'm in a similar boat as the Macbook Air, but I was go
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by arawde 6y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on the shareable app instance (or just share links to its documentation)? That sounds really useful but I hadn't heard about this use case before
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by arawde 6y ago
My primary workflow on side projects right now is VS Code with an ssh connection to a GCP instance. It's very quick, and I can run it across both my desktop and laptop, so if I want to go work in the living room I can get up and get to
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by arawde 6y ago
The work add-ons for slack is something which is a strong selling point, but I've found Discord hooks to be straightforward to set up for my use cases.
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by arawde 6y ago
This is a good point, one of the points that my friend made is that without a comparable revenue model you always run the risk of Discord shutting down whereas Slack wouldn't. With that said, I would happily pay for an enhanced nitro s

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