michael_j_ward

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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
Who is "we"?
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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
> Dealing with every possible source of non-determinism, re-writing services to be testable/sans-IO [2], etc. takes a lot of engineering effort. Are there public examples of what such a re-write looks like? Also, are you working at
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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
From the abstract, it sounds more like a toolkit for "Interactive / Hypermedia" papers. The paper itself is still dead. I was hoping more for "Living" as in "active, uncertain, will grow over time". A tool
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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
And in the context of discussing "whole word" vs "phonetic" systems of learning the English language, it seems like outright deception.
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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
My kids love that book, and my oldest had me read it to his preschool class earlier this year. Here is a much more creative reading by Ludacris [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFtHeo7oMSU
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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
Pointing out a few outliers in such a large system like the English Language and using them to justify reclassifying the entire thing is braindead.
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by michael_j_ward 3y ago
It's an alphabetic writing system where the letters largely correspond to sounds, in contrast to logographic writing system where the symbol corresponds to the entire word (like Chinese or Japan). Yes, there are special rules and outli
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
I highly recommend famed computer scientist Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" [0] which covers "creating luck" from a researchers perspective. [0]: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Yo
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what grade-level, decade, location were you taught this? The key part about the pizza example is the demonstration of mathematical thinking completely disparate from what I experienced at a Catholic high-sc
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
TIL what an "SMT Pick and Place" [0][1] machine is. Summary: $1000 and with open source hardware and tools, I can make custom computing hardware for your projects. Seems pretty cool. [0] https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Do I have this Napkin math correct? 400 tons produced per year (original article) $1000 per ton (generous [0], current index at $770) $400k per year revenue (calculated) $25M Euro investment (original article) ~63 years payback on *revenue*
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Despite seeing myself almost precisely described in that video and the original article, and despite having been diagnosed with ADHD as a college student... It's hard for me to believe that there exists persons that won't / d
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Having suffered through learning highly configurable software tools independently enough times, I agree completely with "digesting one or few commands" at a time works better for me too. Spitballing: We could probably make a gener
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Is Ilograph open source?
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
heh - you're obviously correct and now I'm kicking myself for forgetting the #1 difference. FTT does not offer any sort of interest like Terra did. The benefits of holding are strictly discounted use of the FTX platform [0] [0] h
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
What the argument misses / why FTT is different than Terra 1) Alameda Research owns FTX, one of the largest and arguably most important crypto exchanges. 2) FTX offers fee discounts to FTT-stakers and additional discounts if you pay
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Just want to say congratulations to the team! 2 years and 9,500+ commits is a hell of a feat. https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
> (1) I can have multiple domains for the same device, say gitea.mytsnetwork.com and netxcloud.mytsnetwork.com can go to the same device I tried setting up caddy on a machine and then using caddy to reverse-proxy requests to each service
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
I think you underestimate the selling power of "Green" options, particularly among those with dollars to spend.
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
I bet lots of schools would pay up for "sustainable" laptops, actually.
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
I'm very interested in the contours of this relationship with Google. - What kind of commitments did each party make to each other? - Did Google request anything of Framework? What requests did Framework agree to? Which did they deny?
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Yes- there is a life-year cost to bringing death forward. But there has now been no excess mortality in Sweden compared to it's neighbors Finland and Norway (and all 3 blow the US and Europe out of the water.) https://ourwor
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Sweden was the well publicized "control group." It was not selected post-hoc, it was selected in 2020. The result was more death early and less death later, while suffering no learning loss or adverse effects on the children and l
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
if litestream ever enables logical replication, I think you could do `SQLite logical replication --> embedded materialize-db --> back to SQLite`
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
For others like me that wondered "Wait is proof by induction not induction?" > Although its name may suggest otherwise, mathematical induction should not be confused with inductive reasoning as used in philosophy (see Problem o
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
If one does not need petabytes of scale, but am otherwise interested in the data lineage / observability / workflow being sold by databricks, what would you suggest? Some evaluation Criteria: - Ease of maintenance and operation
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
This may interest you https://www.edgedb.com/docs/edgeql/
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Sounds similar to xtdb https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
Given ~67k deaths under 50 years old total from COVID [0] and over 100k overdose deaths in 2021 alone [1], I'll wager heavily that is not true for the under 50 crowd. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr&#x2
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by michael_j_ward 4y ago
> 1 in 350 Americans died of COVID in the past two years Putting 1/700 a year death from covid into context of our overall mortality rate: 1,027.0 deaths per 100,000 population [0] I know more under 40 that have died from overdose i

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