lackbeard

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by lackbeard 1y ago
This was a super-interesting read, but I'm disappointed there isn't a description of what, exactly, was wrong about what he did, and what one should do instead. The only thing that comes to mind is the obvious one: you don't
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by lackbeard 2y ago
This is a very interesting, very well written post. The part that stands out the most is: > if you needed venture capital to produce a viable small-scale business, you didn't really have a viable small-scale business to begin with.
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by lackbeard 3y ago
Isn't ASML a Dutch company? I can't seem to find any evidence they've ever been sold.
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by lackbeard 3y ago
Good comment, and, basically, I fully agree, except, I really dislike your attempt to appropriate the words "programming" and "coding" here. Like, can you just explain what you mean without trying to redefine terms that
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by lackbeard 3y ago
I'm not sure what is meant by "data-oriented programming" (I know what "data-driven" means...) but, yes, "Data-Oriented Design" has a distinct (if somewhat nebulous) meaning which comes from game programme
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by lackbeard 3y ago
I agree that "tiers vs. continuum" has no bearing on the question of whether or not Magic: The Gathering is pay-to-win. I was merely pointing out that what tedunangst was describing was a continuum, not tiers. Obviously, I'm
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by lackbeard 3y ago
I would say, in that sense, there aren't really tiers; it's a continuum, and you can attempt to compete at whatever price point you're willing.
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by lackbeard 3y ago
No, it's just a really expensive game with a subscription model. What's the price to pay to get four copies of each card in every standard set? That's your quarterly subscription fee. It would be pay-to-win if you could do st
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by lackbeard 3y ago
The time-honored (or "lindy") solutions here are joining a gym and going to church.
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by lackbeard 3y ago
Accelerometers and IR sensors were advanced tech in 2006?
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by lackbeard 3y ago
The Wii is actually a perfect example of that philosophy. It was built using outdated, underpowered tech, but in spite of that, was a huge success because they did something unusual and innovative with it.
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by lackbeard 3y ago
Wasn't SVB an S&P 500 company?
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by lackbeard 4y ago
I guess that's what you normally do when you're overweighted that asset class and you must cover withdrawals!
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by lackbeard 4y ago
It's well known that long-dated treasuries are highly volatile. I think the lesson we've all learned here is that they didn't have a viable business. It seems like they were offering a product that was not profitable given th
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by lackbeard 4y ago
I wonder why that didn't happen in this case? Perhaps fear that would just trigger a run on the acquiring bank?
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by lackbeard 4y ago
> the point of the FDIC system is for customers not to have to do this kind of risk assessment themselves It seemed self-evident to me, based on the explicitly stated limit on FDIC insurance, that if you had an amount of money over that
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by lackbeard 4y ago
> YouTube Originals flopped Maybe as a whole, but Cobra Kai was excellent and very popular! Also, in the long-run, will having "missed" streaming & shorts necessarily be a bad thing? Time will tell. I wish they never introd
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by lackbeard 4y ago
>And why is it legal for Amazon to be the prime competitor of the economy’s whole retail sector while not having to make a profit? I wish the author had elaborated on why it should be illegal. (Or maybe, how it is?)
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by lackbeard 4y ago
Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses, but they were removed by the Roman Catholic Church because they determined it violated their community guidelines.
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by lackbeard 4y ago
Menlo on MacOS, Ubuntu Mono on Linux.
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by lackbeard 5y ago
Poker and 3d-platformers & first-person shooters.
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by lackbeard 5y ago
Don't kids in Singapore and Taiwan only wear masks when they're sick? (Rather than the entire class at all times; at least, up until the start of the pandemic.) If so, it seems like a mistake to use that as any precedent for how k
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by lackbeard 5y ago
Start with Ziglings: https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings and then after working through all the exercises read chapter 2 of ziglearn.org.
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by lackbeard 6y ago
Assets are not a good protection mechanism if you buy them at the height of a bubble in asset prices!
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by lackbeard 6y ago
The only advice I have to offer (which may be terrible advice!) is to keep a big chunk of your investment portfolio in cash (10-25%.) If you maintain your target weights in how you allocate your contributions and also by rebalancing a coupl
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by lackbeard 6y ago
> When I came back to visit for a project later on, someone told me about a new thing called HTML, which was, as he described it, a derivative of SGML. Markup language enthusiasts were an occupational hazard at Interleaf and I ignored hi
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by lackbeard 6y ago
What's wrong with that excerpt? How would you improve it?
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by lackbeard 6y ago
That's interesting because I use DDG by default but I find it terrible for tech searches. I wind up using it for everything except tech stuff.
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by lackbeard 6y ago
Example masters: John Carmack, Jeff Dean, Bram Cohen. What do they do? I think they're all extremely effective at getting things done. So be smart, hard working, and laser focused on shipping. A long time ago I saw a good talk by Jonat
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by lackbeard 6y ago
I think the vast majority of JVM users won't even need Loom. OS threads perform well enough for most use cases. You can go a very long way with just a ThreadPoolExecutor.

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