mattcwilson

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by mattcwilson 3mo ago
I think you’re right, however, I think the person you’re replying to may also. And is shorthanding “everyone without direct experience of the influential power of market forces” into “most of us.” I think it’s fair to say that the fact that
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by mattcwilson 3y ago
Almost as though there should be a “Capability Maturity Model.” Man, I wish someone had come up with that 40 years ago.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
As a quite successful shark, I was initially pretty cynical and amused at the idea that “marine biology experts” with no shark experience had anything of merit to say. What brought me around was when I actually looked at some of their obser
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
What’s your point? Personal spiritual beliefs are bad because they encourage people to speak out in defense of potential life? Having personal spiritual beliefs automatically qualifies you as, and lumps you in with every other, “unhinged r
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
The paid version of Monosnap has a built in storage manager with multiple options for backing stores to use.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
So, I made this last night. Having no clue what proportions you typically use, I just winged it. Turned out not bad. Not quite beef stew, maybe more like a soupy shepherd’s pie. I did end up with a considerable amount of unnecessary broth
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Warning: potentially biased opinion. Speaking only for myself, but informed by my job. There are lots of problems with scraping-based approaches. One, yes, you need some really good tech to scrape data from menus, which, even though they a
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Did you intend to share a recipe for the 4-Layer Dinner?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion's_Seed
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Individual performance isn’t the critical attribute for a company / hiring manager though. You can be an exceptionally talented developer and still be a complete asshole no one wants to work with. You can also be someone who just does
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Do they also think that Lamborghinis are “market cars?”
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Interesting that you know it as the SSC community, because Scott (TFA’s author)’s original site was Slate Star Codex. The new Substack where this was posted is Astral Codex Ten. Both are (near)anagrams for his nom de plume, Scott Alexande
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
There can be cost bloat in all of those services, and if additional spend in those areas nets marginal or negligible additional outcomes, they might be “overgrown.” There’s an analogy here to code bloat and minimum viable product, I’m sure.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Aren’t you two the fellows I brought in to help out with my legacy Java desktop app’s UI layer? The ‘Sultants of Swing?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
You may also appreciate: https://devonzuegel.com/post/we-should-be-building-cities-fo...
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
3-4x higher sounds like a good bit of the distance between $1500 and $9200. Maybe you implicitly agree with the premise, and are mistakenly thinking TFA is talking about Austin when it’s not?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
If you aren’t willing to look at the data, and are admitting you’re closed off to even considering the idea (“I have no interest”), how do you know your head isn’t fully in the sand, or that you’re not part of the problem?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I dunno about the 90s, but it definitely feels to me like the industry largely stopped giving a shit about undergrad degrees at some point
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I’m pinching your face!
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Rereading the thread, perhaps we’re both agreeing with each other? The data wasn’t there at the start, was there three months later, and that’s when updated decision making could occur? I think I mistook you as agreeing with the GP that we
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Sure, I respect that. If it seems like I don’t think you’re a good person, my apologies. I am enjoying having this debate with you and wish you the best. But I stand by the assertion that your previous comment does not make sense.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Nonsense. Yes, at the very earliest part of the pandemic, we had no data. We had to prepare for the worst. Very quickly, we started to see the relative impact of different measures taken in different jurisdictions, we learned about the rel
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Handwringing cowardice and whimpering inaction got people killed in this pandemic. Refusing to take action as soon as data were available to justify better methods got people killed. (Thanks for the link, btw. Had no idea “dildo” dates to
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
“Remote schooling is the proven no-risk solution” - where are you getting that? The abstract you cited is talking about the harms of remote learning. The paper concludes that an effective testing regimen can, in fact, contain spread. This
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Except then it also becomes a label to classify the undesirable as extremist.
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
Thanks! A little confused though, the protocols run here all assume the classroom stays in-person and just goes into different isolation measures. Most of the protocols (besides the baseline, do-nothing protocol) have some effect, but aren
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
It’s not, though. “Dilemma” implies only two possibilities, but “varying degrees” implies many. This argument is incoherent. There were lots of alternate futures, ranging from “the whole world, everywhere, utterly locked down schools for
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
... and twelve or more months after that, many schools were still fully virtual. What’s your point?
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
I would change “doesn’t” to “didn’t”. Hopefully, going forward, acting from such an assumption would be seen as exactly that - uninformed by past events. You’re also talking like we only get one chance to make the decision, rather than upd
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by mattcwilson 4y ago
If you can’t evaluate decisions or experiments on outcome, what can you measure them on? And why would you bother to? How would you learn from those decisions? The worst case scenario is bound to be horrifying, by definition. That’s no

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