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by squibbles 6y ago
It is unfortunate we do not strive to make "work" as enjoyable and as addictive as some games, while also allowing employees to share significantly in the wealth they help generate. It feels like many video games show us how much
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by squibbles 6y ago
A series of charts plotted by Wolfram Alpha (for US data) shows that debt seems to go up, steadily, forever. [1] The steady rise of debt seems to be a phenomenon independent of specific events. Perhaps this is simply a long-term effect of i
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by squibbles 6y ago
I have seen many people fail to realize (and sometimes to understand at all) that taking measurements of large numbers of people is always fraught with errors of all sorts. No matter how hard you try, it is like the universe always pushes b
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by squibbles 6y ago
Apple has kind of herded me into zsh for work in the terminal. So far it has been pleasant, with interesting plugins, but it's periodic updates are a little annoying. Despite remaining in zsh while in a terminal, I still find myself wr
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by squibbles 6y ago
For reference, Judea Pearl won the ACM Turing award in 2011 "[f]or fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning."[1] [1] https://amtur
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by squibbles 6y ago
In the US, the judicial branch is the arbiter of truth. And yet, even judges write opinions. The world is a messy place and it is only hubris that makes us think we can organize it neatly.
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by squibbles 6y ago
This post was quite a surprise. I have an old copy of Paradise Lost (illustrated by Gustave Dore) on a bookshelf next to me. (Digitized version here: http://digital.auraria.edu/AA00006467/00001 ) The cover of my copy is
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by squibbles 6y ago
For me, personally -- I cannot think of a sufficient justification to put a production database in a container. A good database server is designed for performance, reliability, scalability, security, etc., without containers. Putting a prod
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by squibbles 6y ago
Definitely a good one: "Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes - Gravitational - blog post 2018" For anyone who thinks running a database in a container environment is a neat idea, think again. I am guilty of using cont
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by squibbles 6y ago
I mostly want to point out that, when discussing ancient history, objective data are only one facet contributing to the interpretation of past events. Most people prefer simple, straightforward answers or interpretations (i.e., the "co
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Shape shifting lizard people, Israelite slaves, and other theories (2008)(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by squibbles 6y ago|2 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
I still cringe when I think back to some C projects from long ago, where the dependency chains of headers and libraries where unfathomably byzantine. On a related note, lately I have been looking into some biochemistry topics and their rela
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by squibbles 6y ago
> There was a brilliant programmer at Digitek who had completely novel and now unknown ideas for software development; he never published anything, but you could read and analyze his source code. Does anyone know about whom Knuth was ref
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by squibbles 6y ago
The Motorola 6809E[1] and the MC6883[2]. The 6809E was a 0.89MHz CPU (with external clock) used in the TRS-80 Color Computer[3] sold by Radio Shack. The MC6883 was the Synchronous Address Multiplexer (SAM) used to drive the display. [1] ht
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by squibbles 6y ago
> The pending disruption for DDoS-Guard and Parler comes compliments of Ron Guilmette, a researcher who has made it something of a personal mission to de-platform conspiracy theorist and far-right groups. While this may solve immediate p
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by squibbles 6y ago
>The whole article is a bad-faith farce, and should be treated as such. Ignore it. > >There are real points to be made about how the behavior of these companies might impact discourse, whether they have too much power, and more. Ho
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by squibbles 6y ago
I do not mean to either encourage or discourage the taking of any kind of nutritional supplements, but I strongly caution anyone from looking to lists like the one on LessWrong for specific advice on health issues. > 23. (~This is not me
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Oxford–AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine efficacy(thelancet.com)
1 points by squibbles 6y ago|0 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
Speaking from many, many years of experience: Cash is king. Nothing is more important than cash flow. A runway is not a development budget -- it is a loan in the form of opportunity cost. Always look for income at all times. And never, ever
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by squibbles 6y ago
My words were meant as a light-hearted message of hope, with an allusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; not a philosophical argument to reject self-improvement.
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by squibbles 6y ago
"...an irrational, flawed monkey..." Remember -- "If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey." Embrace the inner ape. Instead of looking at our limitations, look at how well we have done. We have microwave ove
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by squibbles 6y ago
I disagree that conservatism is a major flaw of human thinking, or even a flaw at all. I would argue that conservatism is one of the core principals of science. Although the quantity and quality of data sufficient to change one's views
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by squibbles 6y ago
For those that may not have noticed, the article provides a link to a good document by Kennth Hodges with a list of prices for medieval items. http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html If a fourteenth century charcoa
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Single Cell Genomics Reveals Viruses Consumed by Marine Protists(frontiersin.org)
1 points by squibbles 6y ago|0 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
The Social Dilemma is a film currently showing on Netflix. The film focuses on how large tech companies exploit society for profit. If you can see the film, I highly recommend it. If you do not know what the inner workings of tech-fueled
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A European Spacecraft Is About to Fly Past Venus(forbes.com)
74 points by squibbles 6y ago|8 comments
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Cloud Hypervisor – Open source virtual machine monitor written in Rust(github.com)
60 points by squibbles 6y ago|3 comments
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Can We Measure a Covid-19-Related Slowdown in Atmospheric CO2 Growth?(dx.doi.org)
1 points by squibbles 6y ago|0 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply that theorists don't produce valuable work, or that theory does not necessarily lead to practice. The distinction I intended is that some people prefer to work off of an underlying model, while others are co
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by squibbles 6y ago
> I never had to shift a bit in a C array in my life! I have done (and continue to do) quite a bit of work involving bit shifting, along with various other bitwise operations. Is it really that unusual? Should I feel guilty? Humor aside,

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