stefco_

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by stefco_ 3y ago
I use digitalocean for personal stuff because of this
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by stefco_ 4y ago
If you want to talk about premiums, the US housing market is out of control right now; just having a roof over your head in any metropolitan area means paying through the nose. It’s rough all over :(
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by stefco_ 6y ago
It's funny you mention Boise; that city, and many parts of Idaho/the west, are undergoing their own insane housing price inflation at the moment that's surging through the pandemic; real estate prices are a serious problem in
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by stefco_ 6y ago
Also not being limited by G-forces or endurance.
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by stefco_ 6y ago
> IQ also predicts or correlates with numerous other life outcomes. If we hire people based on IQ scores/things that correlate with IQ scores, we should not be surprised if high IQ leads to better outcomes. correlation != causation
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by stefco_ 6y ago
Given how prevalent police unions are, and how incredibly quick they are to raise complaints, you'd hope for more self-awareness/solidarity and less hypocrisy.
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by stefco_ 6y ago
Taking a single statistic on something as complex and multivariate as "intelligence" is already discarding a lot of information. When you throw in social factors (Who is writing the tests? What are the challenges faced by the vari
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by stefco_ 6y ago
Predicting subsequent words is hard for humans, but correcting typos is easy. I've turned off autocorrect completely because my typos are always immediately decodable to their human audience, moreso than Apple's seemingly random m
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by stefco_ 6y ago
The Russian Revolution episodes are truly fascinating. The 1905 section feels particularly relevant to recent American history.
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by stefco_ 6y ago
There's good reason to suspect strong regional variation, which means that finding a representative sample of 500 is hard. But that would still be technically possible (look at South Korea and China); we clearly lack to political will
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by stefco_ 7y ago
It's not the smoothest, but at least it's fairly stable/consistent with good performance (vs. e.g. an electron GUI app). Once you get things dialed, you can keep your workflow going for years with minimal changes since nobody
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Contrast with W. Edwards Deming's approach that stresses the systematics of the organization and considers rank-and-yank a symptom of bad management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Seven_Deadly...
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Yes, this is pretty much what I meant. The "horrid" part is that I would like to do a quick /"<CR>xnx (or similar) in vim to delete the quotes on a multi-line block. Even that is annoying. But with the u
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by stefco_ 7y ago
It's not just a browser thing. Apple Books does this with their e-books, which is infuriating if you're working with a coding book and just want to copy-paste stuff into your editor/terminal. You get something like: “
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by stefco_ 7y ago
From a liability perspective you’re probably right. I just mean it’s Apple that picks the courier, and that that solution to delivery can fail in basically the same way as store pickup (as happened to me).
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Amusingly enough I've had that method fail while ordering an iMac a few years ago. I requested delivery-with-signature on a $4k iMac and it got delivered to another house three blocks away. They didn't ask for the signature (tho
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Though git's interface is highly flawed, I do think a good VCS needs to expose more of its storage model to the user (or at least a model isomorphic to it) than most apps. In vi and Word, you're not worried about state changes out
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by stefco_ 7y ago
This is super cool! Could see myself using this when I'm feeling foggy-brained and want to bash keys until something useful comes up. But I also just love how it looks; nice interactive TUI apps are always a pleasure to use. Good luck
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by stefco_ 7y ago
It would indeed be a bug, which is why any self-respecting operating system should include uninterruptible vi in the kernel /s
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by stefco_ 7y ago
> Progress in math often (or usually) isn’t driven by physical problems This is true at the largest scale, but the math classes that most people take are directly applicable to (and often were developed partly to solve) physical problems
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by stefco_ 7y ago
If your application is allowing users to edit the text, or if you know which languages will be used, or if you don't care about capitalization, then you don't have to worry about any of those edge cases, and Unicode is useful.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Using a markov chain with your stochastic matrix set to I...
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by stefco_ 7y ago
But our chief technical innovation was factoring problems into smaller ones. This is such a vital innovation that it's practically synonymous with engineering. So even superficially complex, organic-looking, highly optimized solutions
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Yes, I agree that these are often abused tactics. Just saying they have their uses. The fundamental problem is graph literacy.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
> the broken programs would still be broken in either language. You need to slap a decode anyway on reads from subprocesses in python3, and files open in Unicode mode by default. Wouldn't that fix the majority of silly UTF-8 compat
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by stefco_ 7y ago
I agree that these techniques are often used in popular media in deceptive ways, but a couple of those plotting techniques have valid use cases. Specifically, if you're really concerned about a delta, removing the origin is good for
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I hadn't heard of it bookwithmatrix.com.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
When the touchbar first came out, I thought we'd see haptics in the second iteration. It seems so obvious that pressure-sensitivity and haptics could mitigate a lot of the weaknesses of the touchbar. What I really miss is upgradeable R
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by stefco_ 7y ago
707, 727, 737, and 757 all have the exact same cross section. One of the advantages of the 757 is that it sits higher off the ground and can accommodate the large engines necessary for a longer fuselage. More generally, 757 is designed to b
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Google Flights uses ITA Matrix tech (bought by Google a few years ago) and it even gives you a link to buy tickets straight from the airline. Has pretty much the same usability features of ITA Matrix and none of the cruft of Orbitz et. al.;

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