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by cstoner 5mo ago
Thank your for posting this. I disagreed with OP but couldn't _quite_ find the words to describe why. But your post covers what i was trying to say. I was quite literally asked to implement an in-memory cache to avoid a "full tabl
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by cstoner 5mo ago
Yeah, I interpret "premature optimization" as taking a request that takes 500ms and focusing on saving a couple ms by refactoring logic to avoid a SQL JOIN or something. Your users are not going to notice. Sure, it's faster b
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by cstoner 7mo ago
My friend once told me an analogy about modern software engineering that went something along the lines of the following. There are piles of money just sitting around waiting for someone to pick them up. Unfortunately it's really hard
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by cstoner 1y ago
Generally, when someone says something like "left wing groups" they mean something with a formal organization. "Antifa" is less of an organization than even some loose collective like "anonymous" Are there left
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by cstoner 1y ago
> all i know about these LLMs is that even if they understand language or can create it, they know nothing of the subjects they speak of. As a recent example of this, I was recently curious about how the heart gets the oxygen depleted bl
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by cstoner 3y ago
While it's true that total net energy is what ultimately matters, the article points out that 99% of the energy that goes towards the lasers is wasted. So it seems like a logical next milestone.
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by cstoner 3y ago
I don't necessarily disagree. However, I do think that people spend a lot of time on things that don't actually matter that much in the grand scheme. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be doing tickets that have been a
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by cstoner 3y ago
My takeaway from the article was that "too busy" really means "spending too much time on things that don't actually matter." Or perhaps more concretely, being too inefficient with your time.
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by cstoner 3y ago
Not OP, but I give myself a little reward. Specifically, I "X" out the task on my daily task list. I take this so far as to add items I just completed to my list just so that I can mark them off. It's stupid, but it works. At
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by cstoner 3y ago
The vast majority of people take the standard deduction, so offering a "here's what we think you owe, but if you disagree feel free to do the full return" form would be a huge efficiency gain. Your comment seems like a prime
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by cstoner 4y ago
The only time "tests in a separate repo" makes sense to me is if they are truly cross-functional end to end tests that exercise several systems. Those tests should be as small as possible to verify that everything is still wired t
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by cstoner 4y ago
I'm not saying that there aren't potential problems, but warmer water coming off of power plants in Florida has acted as a bit of a manatee sanctuary. So it's not a guaranteed bad thing. It's actually a bit of a problem
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by cstoner 4y ago
I would say that any sense of sane immigration reform is completely unrealistic right now. By "sane" I specifically mean "acknowledges the shortcomings of the current system, at the same time as we acknowledge our dependence
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by cstoner 4y ago
This article has been widely discredited. The author of the paper says they are misrepresenting the research. I'm on mobile or I'd track down more links, but it was pretty easy for me to find several articles about how this is bad
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by cstoner 4y ago
> More protection in schools could be a starting point to address these awful events. The evidence in this area shows that increased police presence in schools does not reduce the amount of school shootings, but does increase the number
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by cstoner 4y ago
> Now I tend to view fashionable office supplies as productivity fetish items. It's easy to geek out on that stuff, but does a better notebook make me more productive? Seems to make me less productive, if history is an indicator. I
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by cstoner 4y ago
I've been using YNAB since March 2014. I started doing manual entry with YNAB4 and was an early adopter of YNAB5. I manage my own personal budget as well a joint budget for myself and my fiance. Here's my takeaway: * The YNAB mode
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by cstoner 4y ago
I think you drastically over-estimate what percentage of income the rich spend on luxury goods. People don't stay rich by buying things. I consider myself pretty high income. If I was just taxed on consumption, I would bet I'd pay
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by cstoner 5y ago
True, but this source is carbon neutral. Granted, we need to be carbon negative but it could still be used for some of portion of existing supply that is carbon positive.
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by cstoner 5y ago
The carbon byproduct is essentially coke, and coke already has a lot of industrial uses.
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by cstoner 5y ago
> It is easier to right than to read. I just wanted to point out that I found that particular error really funny given the context.
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by cstoner 5y ago
> It’s a huge pity that the state of the art in modern troll combat is behind NDAs. I mean... do _you_ have any ideas about how to fix this sort of thing that would survive being published for the world to see? I don't mean to offen
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by cstoner 5y ago
Seiko's "spring drive" is a pretty cool innovation, though it's not purely mechanical. I think at the very core of the issue is that mechanical watches are really art pieces at this point. Quartz watches are just cheaper
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by cstoner 7y ago
Your examples seem like cases that can easily be handled by a checking account. > Fundamentally, I should not have to explain why I would desire immediate access to my own cash reserves at a moment's notice to excuse broken financia
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by cstoner 7y ago
If you're buying a classic car with funds directly from your emergency fund, then more power to you I guess but maybe you should be less impulsive with money set aside for emergencies. Personally, if I'm expecting to make a large
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by cstoner 7y ago
> I have had to come up with a dollar amount worth several months of expenses on very short notice (same day, life is unpredictable). That seems like a perfect use case for using a credit card to cover the expense and then pay yourself b
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by cstoner 8y ago
They built a messaging platform that could be used by litterally anyone to spread any message, and have done a pretty poor job of preventing its use by outside aggitators. That's definitely a tetanus filled rusty playground if I ever h
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by cstoner 9y ago
Well, usually this comes from written statements right after the event right? It's not like there's a several week gap between the event and the report.... right?
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by cstoner 9y ago
Is that really much worse than what advertisers are paying? I'm only kind of kidding.
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by cstoner 9y ago
Because a corporation should not be considered "effectively a person". Corporations are made up of people, yes, but giving them personhood is a pretty dangerous idea. Should they get to vote? Obviously, the answer has to be "

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