draaglom

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by draaglom 2y ago
>Also the "Palestine" side of the warrants are against Hamas which also feels weird (Hamas is also not a signatory nation and many suggest that Hamas != Palestine). The ICC prosecutes individuals not states, so there's no
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by draaglom 3y ago
I'd answer this from two perspectives. As a forecaster: It's fun! It's an interesting way to learn about the world -- rather than gathering inert facts, you're forced to integrate them into a mental model, and then your
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by draaglom 3y ago
I think the article focused on base rates because they're a relatively unusual and legible "trick" to coming up with a forecast, but really they're only one element of a forecast; typically a forecaster will think about
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by draaglom 3y ago
Yes, serious forecasters predict on hundreds of questions & the relevant websites prominently feature "binary calibration" plots. This is mine on Metaculus (mentioned in the article): https://imgur.com/a/d
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by draaglom 3y ago
I don't have any knowledge of IFTTT's budget, but the truth value depends on the exact framing of cost. Your framing is "the marginal cost of any given request rounds to zero" which is probably true. Another likely true
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by draaglom 3y ago
$26 billion (Q4 2022 through Q3 2023)
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by draaglom 3y ago
The primary goal of most large organisations' dev blog is to attract potential candidates to the top of the recruitment funnel. This picture appears to be (presumably) the actual team doing a team building activity. This is both a reas
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by draaglom 3y ago
See also the venerable "why most unit testing is waste" https://gist.github.com/ktzar/596ee5aae7c41f2e585331e4b71d1e... and previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=155
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by draaglom 3y ago
I've just learned, the term of art for energy cost factoring in labor, infrastructure, replacement, etc is "levelized cost" or LCOE and by that metric utility solar is indeed already cheaper than fossil fuels and nuclear powe
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by draaglom 3y ago
how: ice cores (I don't know the answer re: 1600s)
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by draaglom 4y ago
As long as you believe you can acquire customers for some margin less than (you project) they will pay you across their lifetime as a customer, the rational choice to to maximise your money is to spend all the money you have (and more!) on
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by draaglom 4y ago
The decision likely got made before performance was a major constraint. As I understand it, Instagram is a python codebase and (guessing) may be the primary motivator here. Probably the first, say, 100 person-years of effort poured into the
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by draaglom 4y ago
It's not that bizarre. It's path dependence. They have an existing codebase with hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of person-years of effort contributed in python already, so a complete rewrite would be too expensive to con
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by draaglom 4y ago
someone takes what you said to an employment tribunal and makes the case they were fired without the proper dismissal process ('unfair dismissal')
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by draaglom 4y ago
I'm no financier and I don't know anything about a 999 limit, but apparently SpaceX has been doing something to make it possible: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1518408959022968833
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by draaglom 4y ago
I've seen two options floated: - replace RSUs with cash payments on same vesting schedule @ equivalent of final sale price - keep RSUs despite being private (apparently SpaceX issues RSUs just fine & has regular liquidity events)
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by draaglom 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is the _main_ reason, but one thing that makes node_modules size more than an aesthetic concern is serverless. Booting a serverless function with 100s of mbs of modules takes an appreciable time - to the point wher
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by draaglom 5y ago
this is excellent and I will definitely be using it in the future - thankyou!
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by draaglom 5y ago
The relevant terms of art are SAML, SCIM, SSO. There are several providers - Okta, AWS, and more. Fair warning: expect to pay enterprise tax on all your SaaS plans for the pleasure of allowing you to do SSO!
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by draaglom 5y ago
>It seems to mostly be a me problem, on reviews of other coworkers PRs her comment seem reasonable. That could just be not fully understanding scope or task at hand. What do you think explains the difference? * Are there ways you can exp
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by draaglom 5y ago
I don't have answers but some questions that might help: * Are their code reviews _of you_ poor in particular, or are they poor in general when reviewing anyone's code? * Are they reviewing your code in good faith (and are just fi
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by draaglom 5y ago
I can't speak for others, but as a hiring manager I prefer the latter because: * It suggests the person understands the bigger picture behind what they're doing (rather than just "punching tickets") * If your code sits i
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by draaglom 5y ago
The headline figure of "3.8% of global carbon emissions" is currently un-sourced - so I'm very curious to see what it includes. IEA claims datacenters account for 1% of electricity demand and data networks are another 1%: IEA
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by draaglom 5y ago
See also the google results for: "when was running invented" "how many terashits does the ps5 have"
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by draaglom 6y ago
Top line: work out how much value it's giving your clients and then aim to price to capture a fraction of that. Without your app, it'd cost your clients $X in hours worked doing the book keeping, organisation and confirmations plu
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by draaglom 6y ago
_people_ may believe that but I don't think the IRS does. Spending crypto that has appreciated in value on goods and services is still a taxable event for CGT purposes.
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by draaglom 6y ago
The 30 day figure is likely derived from the legal limit under GDPR for a Subject Access Request (one calendar month). Why commit to a tighter SLA than you legally have to?
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by draaglom 6y ago
the 6% is electricity consumption within the home; the second link puts datacenter usage at 1% of global electricity consumption.
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by draaglom 6y ago
See also: Bret Victor's excellent "What can a technologist do about Climate Change": http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
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by draaglom 6y ago
Domestic computer use simply isn't a big fraction of a person's total energy consumption: e.g. this study[1] in the UK puts "IT" as <6% of household electricity use, which is itself a fraction of a person's total

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