jt2190

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by jt2190 6d ago
The video is about congnition specifically, and not necessarily about communicating with analogies. > I get unreasonably upset when people nitpick holes in good analogies… What you’re describing is exactly why I strongly recommend avoi
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by jt2190 7d ago
Your analysis is fundamentally flawed because you’re conflating the Tailwind’s business model, which is based on the actual realities of the market, and your ideal for how frontends should be developed. There are millions of Single Page, an
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by jt2190 11d ago
Interestingly, financial markets are a good place to see the “price” of some environmental issues. A made up example: “Should I buy bonds that are backed by electricity sales from a yet-to-be-built hydroelectric dam? Will there be enough ra
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by jt2190 13d ago
> Instead, they felt compelled to make a trivially false claim, the claim that prediction markets do not accurately predict the future. It's trivial to prove that this claim is false, because if it were true, it would be very easy f
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by jt2190 13d ago
The costs of “hospital overpreparedness” should still be clearly understood (and should probably be funded by taxpayers and not by people who need elective procedures).
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by jt2190 17d ago
Is the Norwegian government’s theory that a modern company might never realize their gains, and avoid taxation indefinitely, and thus this is a forcing mechanism to extract some tax revenue?
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by jt2190 19d ago
> Note that this definition of “config” does not include internal application config, such as config/routes.rb in Rails, or how code modules are connected in Spring. This type of config does not vary between deploys, and so is best
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by jt2190 19d ago
The unwritten assumption in 12 Factor is: the environment is secure . For example, a production system should always have a secure means of setting environment variables. Said another way: If a random dev can change an environment variable
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by jt2190 21d ago
> AI can create the illusion that you understand a system because it can make the system work for you. You ask a question and get an answer. You encounter an error and get a patch. The patch doesn't work, so you provide the new erro
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by jt2190 25d ago
For some perspective about what’s being negotiated: “What’s at stake in the Canada-U.S. trade deal? How looming tariffs could cost Canada 90,000 jobs”. Trevor Tombe, professor of economics at the University of Calgary https://th
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by jt2190 25d ago
Clickbait is a form of Spam. Flagging is expressly recommended for spam.
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by jt2190 26d ago
OT: Please refrain from commenting and just flag the article. This might seem harsh but it’s a strong signal to the submitter to find better content.
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by jt2190 27d ago
> . How do you think that lowers the value of an intern The article shows that the market value of the intern is lower: Work was not prioritized and given to a higher-cost junior engineer. > … pre-AI that feature would not have been
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by jt2190 27d ago
> This summer, we assigned the problem to an intern (that’s less tenure than a junior engineer). The intern led the development of this feature. They talked to the product manager to understand the problem and requirements. They wrote th
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by jt2190 1mo ago
> Jane Street has generated more than USD 40 000 000 000 in net trading revenues in the year to Friday, even accounting for the July loss, which exceeds its entire haul for 2025, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
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by jt2190 1mo ago
I believe you’re trying to articulate the act of witnessing from the act of investigating, and where the boundary between the two is. To me it seems like the boundary should be “does the general public have access to this information?”. If
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by jt2190 1mo ago
Yeah sorry I was in a hurry. I’d originally vouched for your comment (it was dead/flagkilled), then threw up that link as a quick support for your numbers.
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by jt2190 1mo ago
> the average is around $96,000 https://www.cps.edu/media/community-updates/2025/january/neg...
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by jt2190 1mo ago
https://apnews.com/article/romania-europe-nuclear-danube-dro...
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by jt2190 1mo ago
Yeah it's sort of weird that people are so used to using their computer to interact with other computers across the internet that the whole thing has become invisible to them: They completely forget that they're using a computer a
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by jt2190 1mo ago
> Why would it want to? Because well behaved applications play nice with their host system. I have a strong suspicion that you’re thinking about application configuration, not environment configuration.
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by jt2190 1mo ago
> Yes, the problem .env files try to solve is having "environment variables" be injectable from a file so that different applications can have different environment variables by default. This seems like a misunderstanding: The
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by jt2190 1mo ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-mary... tl;dr After 20 years of legal battles abandoned factory containing tanks of rotting fish in St Mary’s NL is getting cleaned up, paid for by prov
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by jt2190 2mo ago
You repeating vague claims over and over is not clarifying your point at all.
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by jt2190 2mo ago
It sounds like you’re proposing that individuals should have to pay court costs, in full so that the “taxpayer” doesn’t have to pay the bill
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by jt2190 2mo ago
- “Purchasing”: The attorneys that are taking these cases for $0 in the hopes that they’ll get n% of $SETTLEMENT - “paid for by tax payers who fund the court systems”. The alternative would mean taking away the right of private citizens to
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by jt2190 2mo ago
This is an essay that discusses the following works: - “Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most” by Steven Johnson - “Big Decisions: Opting, Converting, Drifting” by Edna Ullmann-Margalit (2006) https://www.cam
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by jt2190 2mo ago
I strongly suspect that they used oil, not grease, so they could flush the dirt out of the gears, and that this would have been done very frequently.
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by jt2190 2mo ago
There’s a credit agreement that will spell out those details: > To turn cattle into trusted financial guarantees or collateral without requiring inspectors to visit the property, Cowmed equips cows with an AI-powered Smarty Collar. These
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by jt2190 2mo ago
It would find it clearer if: - “up” and “down” was explained. If I bet “down” I’m betting my stock will underperform the monkey index? And if I am correct, I will make money (short the asset) or simply loose less than if I’d invested

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