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by nrr 22d ago
Thanks for sharing. I don't work on weapons as a matter of deep conviction, so I'll continue to be concerned about this.
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by nrr 22d ago
The stuff in Airtable seems to be. The lion's share of what's there is research that has applications to, like, sensors and robotics and AI, even if the abstracts themselves don't state that, likely because the PIs behind tho
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by nrr 22d ago
I might be biased, but everything under the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the MPS directorate is important. Math is one of those weird fields that tends to touch everything else even if not directly, and it's impossible to know
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by nrr 22d ago
We didn't have this definition of correctness until 1990 (due to Steele and White), and it wasn't until the past decade or so that we got a published algorithm (most recently, I think, Dragonbox, due to Jeon when he was still work
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by nrr 22d ago
> I implemented float-to-string for my compiler's printf back sometime before 1985. It's a medium difficult problem. It might have been medium difficult back in 1985, but the state of the art has progressed in the intervening 4
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by nrr 23d ago
It's something of a meme that's grounded in reality, but it's honestly less grounded in race and ethnicity than it is in socioeconomic status. That said, there's a joke that the white people version of this is the little
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by nrr 23d ago
> The honestly very poor black community around the area? they fucking hate us white people. like actively, all the time, no what no matter what you have or haven’t done they don’t like your ass one bit. Did you replace folks' smoke
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by nrr 24d ago
To this end, I've long held that Zed Shaw's blindness was in his misunderstanding of how authoritarian inner sancta tend to work in times of social or ideological crisis. Some protection happens, but the lion's share of the w
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by nrr 26d ago
Wait, we had socialism in the US?
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by nrr 26d ago
> Thanks for the insights! Most welcome! > I generalized a bit too wide when I said "social stuff". I was thinking more along the social media angle (GitHub stars, follows, etc.) I figured given the context, but I wanted to
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by nrr 26d ago
I'll add one more thing to this, given that my experience as a math major at SIU was that each hour of lecture was expected to carry four hours of studying: read and summarize the course's texts (additionally, for math courses, at
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by nrr 27d ago
> I'm going to stop right there. Um, OK. > Perfect competition is unnecessary. It is definitionally a precondition to applying the supply and demand model for analysis. > Part of perfect competition is perfect information. Thi
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by nrr 27d ago
I'll flip this around and instead elucidate when it does apply if that's alright. The supply and demand model only applies to analysis of microeconomic systems with perfect competition, namely of systems that lack monopoly and mon
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by nrr 28d ago
Please forgive me. I happen to have a formal background in economics by way of training as an actuary, and I can't take seriously the implication that the standard model is a law. Supply and demand aren't invariant under all condi
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by nrr 28d ago
There are some details here about the history of how generics finally came to Go: https://golang.design/under-the-hood/en/part2lang/ch08generi... The tl;dr boils down to a combination of valuing both compilat
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The Evolution of [Go] Generics Design(golang.design)
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by nrr 28d ago
I'm unsure that I agree. History has borne out a lot of evidence that people will jump to other means of paying for things in the face of the local currency collapsing, even in the face of amped up (but nonetheless impotent) enforcemen
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by nrr 28d ago
As it turns out, I'm not making up my own definitions here. The view of a free market being a market with equitable access is attributable to Adam Smith from his Wealth of Nations. He bases his understanding of this freedom on the abse
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by nrr 28d ago
I fear that this conflates open and closed access with exclusive property rights. It isn't untrue that asserting exclusive property rights on something makes it closed access[0], but there are other mechanisms for achieving closed acce
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by nrr 29d ago
Not at all. Tithing[0] is contributed as one is able, but assistance in the face of hardship is no questions asked. For my congregation in particular while I was growing up, this extended even to non-members, and there was a strong thread o
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by nrr 29d ago
My remark was a rebuttal to the assertion that these contributions were guaranteed. That notwithstanding, I'm unsure that I agree that it amounts to about the same thing; we tend to take care of each other as a matter of due course and
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by nrr 29d ago
Not so. I'm part of a religious community for whom FICA is something we can opt out of via IRS Form 4029, and I can avoid contributions to FICA more broadly (not just SS taxes!) by handing HR the approved 4029 that I receive in respons
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by nrr 29d ago
I can entertain you since no one else has so far. I've been using Fossil since 2009. > My dream "forge" would just be nice-looking frontend for displaying repos on the web, a public issue tracker (with per-issue permission
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by nrr 29d ago
My (actuarial) read on this is that pre-Microsoft GitHub acknowledged that the complexity inherent in their technology stack imparted a lot of change risk, and that probably informed their decisions around shipping new features. My (not-so-
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by nrr 1mo ago
Forgive me. Did I advocate for not understanding data structures and algorithms?
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by nrr 1mo ago
Not really. I'm typically less concerned with how much someone costs than I am with how much time they'll wind up wasting, but I'll admit that this perspective is colored by my experience having run a kitchen in a restaurant.
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by nrr 2y ago
Nothing.
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by nrr 2y ago
No, I left the industry.
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by nrr 2y ago
dang seems to have outright banned him just over a fortnight ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653007 On Hacker News, banned accounts can still comment, but those comments are immediately dead until vouched.
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by nrr 2y ago
"There's no foresight. There's no planning." Couple that with "as an expression of agility," and it really rings true to me. I've worked in enough shops where the contractual obligations preclude any abili

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