tomjakubowski

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by tomjakubowski 5d ago
The factory builder game Captain of Industry has a building you can add on to a settlement which sells household goods and furniture to the population. It's a blue building with yellow trim and a big sign on the front that says IDEA. I
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by tomjakubowski 7d ago
The scale factor comes from this number in the article, seemingly an intuited estimate: > Say a research article takes 20 times more effort to formalize than page in an undergraduate textbook. That would suggest formalizing a 10-page res
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by tomjakubowski 7d ago
A college advisor I had 20 years ago was a firm believer that interdisciplinarity was the future, that generalist skills and the ability to make connections between different fields would be paramount in advancing science. I suppose he was
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by tomjakubowski 7d ago
MIT Game Lab made a take on this back in 2012. https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
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by tomjakubowski 9d ago
Certainly a sign of the emotional immaturity and low empathy that's rampant in posters on internet forums like Twitter. Poor reflection on OpenAI.
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by tomjakubowski 10d ago
Wikipedia has a nice visualization of the history of LA's tallest buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_L...
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by tomjakubowski 12d ago
The article spends a couple paragraphs complaining about Amazon not allowing sorting by unit price. This would be a very useful feature, I agree, but I don't think I've ever seen a online grocery or department store retailer whic
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by tomjakubowski 13d ago
Worth noting that according to the data in that article, India is below the world average on a per capita basis, roughly 0.7x the world average. The Philippines is 25x the world average per capita.
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by tomjakubowski 15d ago
Also puzzling: in the "reasoning" section preceding, that is described as an example of "a one-line self-replicating program." When I typed "Are we not pure noon, ergo, we play life; yet, we hate bad fear" into
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by tomjakubowski 16d ago
the dates of his articles (well, month and year) are all here: https://danluu.com/
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by tomjakubowski 17d ago
You wouldn't need to read all of it to glean that it's slop. Merely a skim or even less signal than that is needed, like simply seeing that it's a multi-paragraph post on LinkedIn. I suppose even surface-level engagement wi
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by tomjakubowski 18d ago
For others who didn't know, the APA is the Administrative Procedure Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act
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by tomjakubowski 20d ago
from those numbers it's actually 0.00007%. you missed shifting the decimal by two places when converting to a percentage.
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by tomjakubowski 21d ago
There were malaria epidemics in even quite temperate parts of Europe up to the mid 20th century, including Bavaria and even England, and it was endemic to parts of Italy and Greece. P. falciparum was found in bone samples of the Medicis.
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by tomjakubowski 22d ago
A handful of people I used to work with lost their US manufacturing jobs in 2025 by exactly this mechanism. Their job was assembling products from components built in China, for export to Europe. Their inputs got new tariffs in 2025, and
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by tomjakubowski 23d ago
Head to the shed: https://www.idler.co.uk/article/sheds-in-the-time-of-lockdow...
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by tomjakubowski 24d ago
Fascinating stuff. And what a logo. > Starting a national crusade to cast away coin-operated commodes, Gessel told newsmen, "You can have a fifty-dollar bill, but if you don't have a dime, that metal box is between you and reli
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by tomjakubowski 26d ago
I would also think that unscrupulous scrap buyers would offer a lower price for copper which has obviously been stolen or stripped from public works, since they are taking on more risk by buying it.
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by tomjakubowski 28d ago
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by tomjakubowski 29d ago
It isn't clear to me what advantages OpenRouter has over running a similar router-aggregator locally for ~free. I guess they have stronger bargaining power than a solo engineer or small startup, and can therefore negotiate volume disc
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Strange. The back button in the UI is disabled once you get back to September 2016. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/8l4ygp009s5s?page=40 The earliest recorded downtime for Git Ops I could find is in December 2018
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
DuckDB is much like SQLite, but built for OLAP workloads: it's in-process, with a single file format on a disk, and (unlike SQLite) the data is stored in columns for better OLAP performance. Like SQLite, concurrency options are limited
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Strang's OCW lectures are fantastic. His voice rings "combinations of columns" in my head almost ten years later whenever I do a matrix or matrix-vector multiply on paper. I found the textbook was a good accompaniment for the
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Yeah, I think N_Lens was saying the manager's behavior in that anecdote was too high a bar.
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Would be nice if they did support that, but on a LAN you can always encrypt at layer 3 with WireGuard.
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
(Score:3, Insightful)
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
There's an open source project which is a syslog daemon that stores logs in DuckDB. You can configure journald to forward logs to it. https://github.com/phare/sloggo
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
The author self-submitted a Show HN for it earlier today, so maybe that's out of date. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287604
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Here in the US, on the regular retail side of Amazon, I see a twelve pack of 3.75oz canned sardines in water, Beach Cliff brand, for $18.96, or $0.42/oz. I don't buy sardines but this seems not terribly out of line with prices I
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Shelf-stable foodstuffs like canned sardines can be ordered for delivery from the regular Amazon, the same side of their site you might order a book or a laptop from, outside of their newer grocery retail channels.

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