jfoutz

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by jfoutz 2y ago
I don’t know what readers are aware of this. American football fields are all the same size, but soccer fields can vary. That little bit of trivia makes this extra funny. For me anyway.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
You nailed the key point my muddy intuition (and the article) failed to express. Pro gamblers simulate problem gamblers, so they can bet more. I said, "Casino's can't survive off casual players. They need the addicts to make
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by jfoutz 2y ago
The article appears to break gamblers into 3 groups. 1) casual players 2) problem players 3) professional gamblers. so basically casual players gamble something like 50 bucks a year. Problem gamblers get money however they can (and although
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by jfoutz 2y ago
This is readable and interesting - https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf Dybvig's dissertation (he wrote chez scheme) it's easy to follow. IMHO, it's a lot easier to write compilers in
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by jfoutz 2y ago
100% If I had to put scheme in production, I think I'd pick racket. I think that would give me the best chance at helping other dev's get set up, explain the problem, and show the solution. anta40 asked about packages, and racket
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Friedman's books are all great. All of them. But they don't work for everybody. If you can be relaxed and think of the interaction as play, they're very good. If you're feeling more of a "serious business" mind
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by jfoutz 2y ago
as I read it, it's any struct! Not just strings. which is cool.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Interning is neat. Most of my experience is really dated. Primarily in the JVM, and mostly for class names, for reflection and class loaders. It's sort of surprising seeing this added to go, with its desires for minimalism. But when yo
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Rto is really important in dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes the only way forward is to know a guy. Lean on that personal connection, and unblock yourself.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Ya know, the Roman tradition was, you gotta stand under the bridge while the army marches over it. If it collapses, you die too. Maybe there's something to having nudes of that dev. Real engineering is expensive. And hard. moving atoms
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Eternal September. Everyone starts somewhere, it’s just all the time now. In ten years, the dev will explain to a junior how bad they messed up, and why they have to validate this way. Well, I don’t know, but that’s what I hope.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I wish I could find a better source. My memory is of a wired article, on paper. This touches on the "hiss" from the nervous system - https://www.americanscientist.org/article/quietest-places-in...
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Decades ago I read about NASA's silent room, with the big wood spikes on the walls. All you can hear is your heartbeat and this high pitched whine. NASA figured out the high pitched whine was the nervous system (like, your brain). I&#x
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I think ascents and descents fall under keming. You don’t want a j to bump into a b on the next line. So you have short letters from time to time. But that might be an archaic usage, or I’m wrong.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Ahh, you’re saying something like every sequence containing at least 2 ones, does not repeat. There may be some long repeats, but not all sequences repeat. Thanks!
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Starting from the fourth digit, 01000100 But maybe I don’t understand your example
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I used small numbers to focus on the mechanism. I think the point is, if I purchased the sock for $100M+, that loan shouldn't be taxed. If I purchased that asset for $1M, and take a $2M loan, only the second M would be, in some sense,
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by jfoutz 2y ago
unrealized gains in property are already taxed by "property taxes". If I buy a $1000 dollars worth of stock, and use that to secure a $1000 loan. ok, fine, I don't see why that should be taxed at all. But if the lender believ
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by jfoutz 2y ago
Ya know, this was a some time ago, and memorable for the relation to Carlin's bit. Let's place any errors in terminology on my foggy memory.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
FWIW, I dated a psychologist for a while, and we talked about this specific monologue. She primarily worked with sexual abuse victims, but spent a lot of time veterans as well. Her focus was PTSD, and talk therapy is really effective for PT
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I'll take a stab at it, but I'm not a doctor or a biologist. Cyanide will kill you. Almonds have trace amounts of cyanide. You can eat almonds till you get sick, but that tiny amount of cyanide won't kill you. The dose makes
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I tried for a long time to use this keyboard effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks but I never really could. I like the touchscreen idea, your user interface is the user interface you were trained on,
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by jfoutz 2y ago
When the MacBook got the acceleration sensor, I hacked up a little program to estimate velocity, and a button to reset at stoplights. Some friends drove me around, it worked poorly. it did pretty ok on the highway, but awful in the city. I
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by jfoutz 2y ago
They don't. The rule is clear and explicit. There are rules that are written down, that you agree to abide by. There is a second set of rules, that is not written down, that is the actual standard you're held to. I don't know
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I bowed out of the process. I just couldn't quite figure out how to reconcile what was asked of me. Don't be around people in possession of illegal drugs. Ok, well grandpa died and I know for sure his oxy is in his medicine cabine
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by jfoutz 2y ago
No they don’t. Opinions are customary, but there is no law or regulation requiring that. Lawyers make arguments. Judges make decisions.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I was going to make a pedantic argument/joke about memoization. It is kind of an interesting thought though. A big wall of SSD is a fabulous amount of storage. and maybe a clever read only architecture, would be cheaper than SSD. and a
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by jfoutz 2y ago
sitting on the curb drinking gatorade is what it's all about. you, or I, just sort of accept that it's miserable. but survivable. It's a thing we can do. my experience anyway. your milage may vary.
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by jfoutz 2y ago
It's absolutely lovely that you looked up the spec. First, you could screenshot each page, and print that. That's a lift. Second, It's not that hard to extract text from pdf file formats. That's also a lift. but like, it
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by jfoutz 2y ago
I've run a few marathons. I'm not fast. I haven't done it in a while. But I think I'd like to do it again. You're not wrong, I'm going to quibble a bit because I have a slightly different perspective that migh

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