mfringel

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by mfringel 3y ago
Dave was a friend. He was one of the most intellectually curious people I knew. Gone way too soon.
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by mfringel 3y ago
[vehicle not included]
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by mfringel 3y ago
[citation needed]
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by mfringel 3y ago
The biggest advantage fountain pens have is physics. Ink flow in a fountain pen is via capillary action (touch nib to paper, ink flows), as opposed to a ballpoint pen where you have to apply a small constant amount of downward force for the
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by mfringel 3y ago
It sounds like you missed the point of what parent was trying to say. As one of those people who was in the exact situation the parent mentioned, your concise and incrementally more correct explanation wouldn't have helped me when I h
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by mfringel 3y ago
Quite possibly because they don't want to do any of the things you listed in your first paragraph. UPDATE: Also, sir, this is an Arby's.
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by mfringel 3y ago
Not unrelated: The House of Saud is losing a lot of money on the Credit Suisse rescue/buyout.
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by mfringel 4y ago
"The law doesn't have this exact word in it and therefore none of the observed effects of the law actually exist." is not the airtight defense you may think it is.
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by mfringel 4y ago
> in the opinion of many adults. How many?
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by mfringel 4y ago
So.... let's say that was even possible, and you did that. You pay: $20,000 in $some_coin (ignoring gas fees for the moment) 1/100 of annual royalties is $1,142, taxable at your marginal rate (say 20%), so $913 free-and-clear. Eve
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by mfringel 4y ago
Looking at most of the auctions, this looks like: "these are the deals that don't make the hurdle rate of the typical buyers, so let's make some money selling them to the dentists who like the idea of owning a song and won&#x
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by mfringel 4y ago
That's the free space on the "edgy word salad" bingo card. You're going to have to write out a few more of those phrases to actually win the crappy clock-radio.
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by mfringel 4y ago
The telemetry is concerning, but I'm much more concerned about whoever else decides to use your telemetry hooks to exfiltrate data. I'm 100% on board with trying out a new terminal that is fast and has features, but there's a
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by mfringel 4y ago
Just to put some numbers around that... Density of ice at 0 degC is 0.92 kg/L. So, 1 kg of ice =~ 1087 cubic centimeters of space, or a cube ~4.25 inches on a side. Rounding that down to 4 inches for the moment, you get 27 of those pe
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by mfringel 4y ago
With that kind of attitude, how are you going to get more people to come in and provide you with exit liquidity?
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by mfringel 4y ago
A key differentiator is that airline seats are a perishable good. That is, an empty seat has value until the plane takes off, at which point the value goes to zero. On the flip side, a traveler has an opportunity to be in that seat until
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by mfringel 4y ago
My preferred method is overly broad rhetorical questions that add nothing to the conversation. Also, spatula. Yours?
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by mfringel 5y ago
Sure, but the ability to do so is separate from whether it's a good idea or not.
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by mfringel 5y ago
How does Timescale handle lookup tables? That is, "I have this seldomly-updated list of ~10000 things, and I'm going to need to join it against my time-series data." With other time-series databases I've dealt with, it&#
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by mfringel 5y ago
You only have to go back 19 years for the Zakim bridge in Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim_Bunker_Hill_M...
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by mfringel 5y ago
I've found you can determine a company's values based on who gets more resources: e.g. raises, promotions, etc. Similarly, a company's anti-values could be discovered by who gets less; e.g. passed over for promotion, given a
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by mfringel 5y ago
As far as I know, there is still a configuration I wrote at a previous employer where I left the remark: ----- -- STOP. YES, YOU. -- -- THIS CODE IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT THAT DOES HORRIBLE THINGS TO THE PLATFORM. -- THE FACT THAT
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by mfringel 5y ago
Making an assertion and sticking a question mark at the end isn't questioning anything.
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by mfringel 5y ago
Twitter is a platform that offers a product. Your attention is the product. The part of Twitter required to maintain a decent stock of product has not needed to change outwardly, because it hasn't had to. There hasn't been a new
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by mfringel 5y ago
The typical big-casino rake isn't that large. From memory (it has been 2 years since I've physically been in a poker room), the typical rake at a full 9-player table at the Encore (Everett, MA, USA) worked out to ~$12-15/hou
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by mfringel 5y ago
You cited a page that doesn't split it out by White Republicans or White Democrats, which is a distinction that you quoted in your comment. Wear protection when grinding axes.
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by mfringel 5y ago
What bigger issue were you thinking of? The odds will be good that whatever you come up with, there will be a "bigger" one that you're not thinking of. It's turtles all the way down. Choose your turtle carefully.
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by mfringel 5y ago
Measured in decades.
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by mfringel 5y ago
I still remember being in my AI class and having the teacher say "This course is taught in LISP. We'll be spending one class on the peculiarities of our system, but otherwise you're on your own. If you don't learn it, y
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by mfringel 5y ago
When James O' Keefe tries to run a fake witness scam on the Washington Post, and the newspaper successfully detects it, the community responds with "Well played!" When a university submits intentionally buggy patches to the L

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