egl2021

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by egl2021 2y ago
Why stop with the executives? Why not throw the shareholders into jail --- they approve the selection of the executives and benefit from whatever malfeasance you are targeting.
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by egl2021 2y ago
I never expected to see headlines like "Authorities investigate Bayesian disaster".
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by egl2021 2y ago
None of the birds look like a pelican, whose "beak can hold more than his belly can."
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by egl2021 2y ago
You don't have anything to apologize for; you did everyone a service.
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by egl2021 2y ago
Has anyone visited these sites in the last few years? (The field trip was in 2006.) Has construction, road repairs, etc. obscured many of these? I know of a few roadway offsets in the immediate Bay area that have been "fixed" an
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by egl2021 2y ago
"...you'd want to work for..." This is a misleading framing. The private equity firm only wants to make the deal work financially and only for them. Anything else is secondary. You shouldn't be thinking about their r
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by egl2021 2y ago
I found Malcolm Wilcock, A companion to the Iliad, and Ralph Hexter, A guide to the Odyssey, helpful when I read Homer recently.
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by egl2021 2y ago
Would you please describe your setup for coding? I'm interested in trying this out, but I need an ELI5. Thanks. PS Anybody is welcome to jump in with a description of their setup.
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by egl2021 2y ago
Phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, and boiling sulfuric acid: I should have paid more attention in chemistry lab. This is a neat project and answered a lot of questions.
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by egl2021 2y ago
Depends on what you learned during that "ton of experience programming." My only regret was that I had, but stupidly ignored, the MIT course notes that preceded publication of SICP. I didn't realize what I had missed until m
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by egl2021 2y ago
I'm working on a code base with lots of #define. I replace them when I'm doing maintenance nearby, but you can't change them blindly: some bit of code may be inadvertently depending on the 0-artifact or something similar. &
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by egl2021 2y ago
For now this might be a project for Fields medalists, like Tao and Scholze, who have the leisure to spend 10x the time on a proof. I recently talked to a post-doc in a top-ranked math department, and he doesn't know anyone who actuall
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by egl2021 2y ago
If you read the article carefully, you'll see clues to why this developer can make it work in spite of conventional wisdom: 1. He picks his buildings carefully. His projects are "market rate", so he has to work out the conv
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by egl2021 2y ago
Economy was not really a consideration. The project developed two different bomb designs (plutonium and uranium) in parallel. They tried three different paths to fissile material: gaseous diffusion and electromagnetic separation for uraniu
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by egl2021 2y ago
This is my candidate for the most influential master's thesis ever.
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by egl2021 2y ago
What is a better book? I don't want anyone eye-rolling when I'm LARPing.
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by egl2021 2y ago
And send their employees to penal colonies.
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by egl2021 2y ago
After all, building turbines is not exactly rocket science...
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by egl2021 3y ago
Geezer alert: forecasts look amazingly good to me. When I was a kid in the Pacific Northwest, it was routine to miss major storms until they hit land. We didn't have satellites, oceanic buoys, etc., and I remember the TV weather guy s
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by egl2021 3y ago
Read up on restarting Stinger production. Retired engineers had to pitch in to train the current generation. So I wouldn't say "totally fine".
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by egl2021 3y ago
The "facts", huh? Like other transactions with fees to a third party, the form ("seller pays") is not the same as the transfer of value. The seller knows the commission will be paid and considers this in setting the pri
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by egl2021 3y ago
Anything that people will do for free is hard to make a living at; think painting and music. Game dev is close.
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by egl2021 3y ago
Different languages had different pools of readability reviewers, so the expectations varied, but readability reviews were generally constructive and helpful. I was thrilled to have Ian Taylor review my go code. The non-readability reviewe
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by egl2021 3y ago
Long ago a coworker told me about his summer job where the computers were at another site. Twice a day a courier would take your card deck to the remote site and pick up any output from your last run. If you were nice to the courier, you
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by egl2021 3y ago
"he's basically going to make top dollar until he's 65" ...unless he fails the flight physical.
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by egl2021 3y ago
"It isn't that high of a bar unfortunately." --> "It isn't that high of a bar."
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by egl2021 3y ago
"If it is perspective in travel sketches that interests you, then don't waste time on classical anatomy." Mild disagreement here. I'm personally more interested in landscape drawing and painting, but for practice I tur
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by egl2021 3y ago
A friend of mine similarly brought some older poultry books back into print ( https://www.nortoncreekpress.com/wordpress/poultry/ ). In his words: "...we discovered that the more recent poultry books were not
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by egl2021 3y ago
the question is: would your boss say the same thing?
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by egl2021 3y ago
Can your boss tell? If they can, then you have no problem. If they can't, then you have a problem. This is the other side of "I'm so much more productive with WFH". Everyone who values WFH should be asking themselves

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