bcassedy

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by bcassedy 6mo ago
This user has posted the parent post nearly verbatim twice. And the exact same responses about determinism several times.
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by bcassedy 7mo ago
They also did all that expansion with a focus on cryptocurrencies, and the hype has died on those so it makes sense to reel in investments there.
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by bcassedy 2y ago
The some people win argument isn’t even really true for sports betting. Casinos just ban anyone that wins with any regularity. Of course any individual bet can win but casinos stack the deck by only taking action from players they know will
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by bcassedy 3y ago
I've watched the Fedex truck pull up to my house and the guy walk up to the door and slap a sticker on it for missed delivery. Didn't even bother to bring the box, knock, or ring the bell despite my car being in the driveway.
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by bcassedy 3y ago
That same management is the type to set rules where you don't get to assess if you're vulnerable, you just have to fix all the CVEs
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by bcassedy 3y ago
> It's not a matter of "personalizing", it's a matter of recognizing that, just like you, the company is trying to get the best deal they can This is kind of untrue. The company may "want" to get the best de
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by bcassedy 3y ago
Great grandparent comment said roughly "You can make chicken meat at home with just a chicken and a knife." While factory farming may be abusive, that is not what this discussion thread is about.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
For me switching between code and tests is a context switch. TDD approaches that I'm familiar with encourage frequent swapping between them which really drains my productivity. It's much easier for me start something and hyperfocu
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by bcassedy 4y ago
This is just insanely wrong-headed. Tests with no code are always negative value, the time it took to write the tests. Code with no tests might also be negative value, but it at least has the possibility of having positive value. Tests are
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by bcassedy 4y ago
I haven't talked to any teachers about this specifically, but based on my impression of the school system and public philosophy around schools and teaching that I've gleaned from my wife and many friends who are teachers, I think
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by bcassedy 4y ago
I don't know enough about chess mid-game and end-game to know whether chess is the same as poker in this regard, but poker is absolutely not a game of memorization deeper into the game tree even at the highest levels. tl;dr the author
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by bcassedy 4y ago
You have a viewpoint that is shaped by a very niche experience. Your experience was with students that happened into an interest that was itself a project that can drive learning in a handful of subjects. This kind of approach doesn't
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by bcassedy 4y ago
I've used it pretty extensively in Windows to expand text, execute clicks on certain buttons in GUIs, execute clicks on specific coordinates on screen or within a window, and to combine all these things into complex macros.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
I feel like so much of the sentiment boils down to some people objecting to someone else benefiting from government spending and some other people having suffered so they think everyone else should suffer too.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Another interesting one is https://alanaragon.com/researchreview/ For a few bucks a month you get articles by several of the people you mentioned, Alan, and others that evaluate public research on nutrition and trainin
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by bcassedy 4y ago
This is correct. I believe some other countries do use this rule of thumb for their official purposes, but the US never has.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Recommendations I've seen that are targeted at people trying to lose fat are given in grams per kg of lean body mass. I can't imagine a mechanism for fat to increase the need for more protein beyond needing more muscle to carry ar
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by bcassedy 4y ago
If you take "just" to mean "justifiable", sure. That meaning doesn't really make sense in the context of this discussion though, so yes I am invoking one of the definitions related to fairness.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Whataboutism is a valid concern when discussing justice imo
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by bcassedy 4y ago
It's also short sighted right? This was a successful worker that missed a few days of work with a medical issue, boom fired. And then we see memos like this lamenting that they can't get enough workers? By not accepting some produ
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Technically 20 is a number of minutes... But yeah even as a software engineer I'm often torn about wanting to work for Amazon. They have quite a few interesting projects and the pay is solid, but there are a lot of horror stories out t
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Seems negative across the board. A huge swath of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford a $500 emergency. As inflation increases the cost of goods and services those people have even less wiggle room to handle the u
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Or you could argue that they have too much capital and can't make productive use of it. Maybe taxation can help?
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Can you point me to any resources that go into more detail on why the US cannot construct nuclear power stations? I'd love a cliff's notes version if you want to write it up, but I don't want to take up too much of your time
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by bcassedy 4y ago
Of course people are always greedy. The "cover" provided by an inflationary environment just boils down to people are less price elastic when the environment primes them to expect price hikes so those that want to raise prices for
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by bcassedy 4y ago
We're talking economics, there is very little evidence in general. The entire field is essentially observations and storytelling. The evidence is profits increasing faster than inflation and examples of C-suites saying straight up that
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by bcassedy 4y ago
I'm not saying none of those things are factors. I am saying that you can find quotes of executives talking about how great it is to raise prices right now. And plenty of evidence of profit increases substantially above inflation.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
An inflation narrative gives cover for price hikes driven by greed.
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by bcassedy 4y ago
I've had a similar experience when changing mobile provider. For whatever reason it seems like that last bill posts late and never shows up. In the past I didn't have autopay turned on so I just didn't even know about the deb
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by bcassedy 4y ago
In general people want products that will enrich their lives in some way. Sometimes these things aren't necessities, but sometimes they are. Food for example... I introduce a new food product, Soylent Green. It tastes great, doesn&#x27

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