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by tinym 4y ago
Are there any architectural blogs you recommend?
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by tinym 4y ago
To your point they also, like, wrote their own PHP interpreter. If you asked your Facebook interviewer about PHP you'd probably get an interesting answer!
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by tinym 4y ago
I think the example of video games and movies is instructive - there's always a ton of "cut content". In software, we can always change the requirements to meet a deadline :)
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by tinym 4y ago
No, the mysteries that "are deep, hard to understand, and not worth the effort" are why Scientific American is publishing this junk article. My lay theory is that SA hasn't been worth reading in decades and basically nobody c
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by tinym 4y ago
The skill-based matchmaking that's popular today is optimized for setting up a fair game, ie. theres a roughly 50/50 chance of either side winning. It makes logical sense, but it turns out nobody actually wants a fair match!
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by tinym 4y ago
Rather the opposite - us-west-2 is big but not the biggest region, or the smallest, or the oldest or newest, it's not partitioned off like the China or GovCloud regions. Because us-west-2 is fairly typical it tends to be one of the las
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by tinym 4y ago
They're different doctors! Surgeons are a subset of doctors, and plastic surgeons are the ones who decided to chase money over glory
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by tinym 5y ago
It's hilarious that the replies in this thread are mostly people arguing bitterly about how to make pancakes
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by tinym 7y ago
It's probably been in a lot of movies, but I've always loved this scene in THE CORE where they land a space shuttle in the LA river: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1RwE_x6Vg
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by tinym 8y ago
Well, at least once, recently
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by tinym 9y ago
People here know offhand what they weigh in pounds, and the packaging on food lists macronutrient content in grams. The article could've listed g/kg as well, but for a US audience g/lb isn't particularly wacky.
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by tinym 9y ago
Only slightly pedantic: The United States has been at war for just over 16 years now.
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by tinym 9y ago
This isn't the first round of AI that's been useful for "large-scale profitable applications"
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by tinym 9y ago
Well; good?
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by tinym 9y ago
At the very least: * What people buy * What people want * What people say they want * What people would actually enjoy * ...
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by tinym 9y ago
The current theory is that particles are waves, or rather localized excitations ('bumps') in a field. One of the surprising things from quantum theory is that these bumps have a finite minimum size, and they can only increase in
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by tinym 9y ago
http://www.thegreenmicrogymbelmont.com/about/
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by tinym 9y ago
Would pessimism help?
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by tinym 9y ago
I had a bramble of related ideas in mind, and instead of putting in effort to untangle them I lazily let them came out as a pithy aphorism. But: - Even if all of Musk's enterprises were aimed at colonizing Mars (like gp suggested), the
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by tinym 9y ago
By the time we've learned how to live on a planet as inhospitable as Mars, maybe we'll know how to make a home on Earth.
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by tinym 9y ago
He maintains that attitude deliberately (it's part of the joke).
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by tinym 10y ago
I agree with you very strongly, but I want to reframe it a bit: the fact that there is no "true self" and "we are in control of who we are" is basically the modern condition, and the 'be yourself' mantra is one
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by tinym 10y ago
You've seen their merits, then - now think about when they would be worth taking...
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by tinym 10y ago
The article was posted October 18, 2016.
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by tinym 10y ago
Woit's language is usually so measured it's actually shocking to see him straight up call someone 'embarrassingly incompetent'
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by tinym 11y ago
There's a lot to be said about the vagaries of workplace romance - but don't just fucking grope your coworkers!
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by tinym 11y ago
>I'm also taking the view that raising the prosperity for the lowest individuals will in turn increase the prosperity for everyone else. This is an aside, and I don't particularly want to evaluate it as good or bad, but this st
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by tinym 11y ago
One hopes Betteridge's law is in effect
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by tinym 12y ago
Eilenberg & Mac Lane needed a word like 'set', 'group', 'class', etc, except of course those were all taken. They claim to have gotten the word 'category' from Kant, although they didn't inte
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by tinym 12y ago
At least within mathematics and physics, 'the properties of one defines the properties of the other' is a pretty good explanation of what's meant by 'duality'. Looking at that wiki list it explains all of the dualit

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