twinkletwinkle_

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by twinkletwinkle_ 3y ago
It sort of exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Dragon,_Cancer
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by twinkletwinkle_ 4y ago
I think your summary is spot on, but how could you miss listing the premier (in my opinion) example, Wine?
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by twinkletwinkle_ 4y ago
Without going into too much detail, I once encountered an Experian identity verification question on behalf of someone else. This person was an Uber driver making ~$20,000 per year. The question was: "According to our records, you purc
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by twinkletwinkle_ 4y ago
I think you nailed it. If the question were posed as "Two envelopes with $A and $(A+1)" then there would be no talk of ratios and no "paradox" would ever emerge.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 4y ago
The helicopter is already outside its original mission parameters. It was only supposed to make 5 flights - probably the engineering team didn't want to invest money or weight or complexity in something they knew wouldn't be an is
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
It's not about minima/maxima, it's about the rate of change. Xkcd has a beautiful illustration: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
It's kind of like junk food. A little bit is enjoyable, too much makes you sick.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
I think that's just Andy Weir at this point. I enjoyed The Martian, but Artemis was horrible. Characters were indistinguishable from one another, they were all just Andy trying to emulate the success of the cocky sarcastic hero from Th
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
There's a song by one of my favorite artists, Peter Mulvey, which touches on this point. It's more of a spoken word poem, titled "Vlad the Astrophysicist". In the song, Peter asks Vlad if there are aliens, and if there a
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
I once worked at a tiny startup where we were trying to sell a dataset to GS. Before we could even send a sample, they sent over some boilerplate forms for us to sign. I remember two distinct stipulations - anything we sent them was immedia
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
Anecdotally I have a French acquaintance who dreads his trips back home because the food is so terrible. Paris might be famous for fine dining at the extreme top end, but that doesn't necessarily make for the best eating.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
The rate of change. There's a climate science "gotcha" which is that the Earth's average temperature has been much higher in the past than it is now. No one disputes this. The problem is not so much the absolute level as
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
For some reason this criticism reminded me of one of my favorite Heinlein quotes. I set out to google it so that I could reproduce it correctly. I searched for "Heinlein a man should be able to" and was pleasantly surprised to lea
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
My company takes a reasonable approach to this I think. The hackathon itself takes place Thursday and Friday, so it happens on work days. But the judging takes place Monday, so there's an obvious opportunity to continue to work over th
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
I think if I'd instead written "This is what people mean when they say 'Crime is a social construct'" it wouldn't have been downvoted from the outset. "X is a social construct" is heavily associated w
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
Crime is a social construct. edit: A poor person who steals is charged. A rich person who steals behind the facade of a company is not. We call the poor person a criminal. It's entirely divorced from an actual moral framework, but simp
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by twinkletwinkle_ 5y ago
Agree that ugly is subjective. But adjusting spaces when things get refactored is bad, not because it's tedious but because it pollutes history. Changing whitespace on surrounding lines to my change makes eg `git blame` less informativ
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by twinkletwinkle_ 6y ago
You know the adage usually applied to Facebook, "If you're not paying for anything, you aren't the customer, you're the product" ? . Daytraders and WSBers and other small fish like you and me aren't Robinhood&#
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by twinkletwinkle_ 6y ago
Better off just playing Powerball. Order of 1 in 10 9
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by twinkletwinkle_ 6y ago
It's not "impossible", just not natively obvious. The solution I remember using is 0 * * * * foo() 0 * * * * sleep 30; foo() It's not the prettiest but is a reasonable imitation of a 30 second cron.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
I think of those as "logical" merge conflicts, as opposed to "literal" merge conflicts, the kind detected by git. Having good integration tests is crucial!
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
What exactly happened to Experian? Their stock is up almost 100% since the breach announcement, and no one went to jail. If I were an executive looking to Experian as an example I would conclude that the market as a whole does not care abou
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
The key word is definitely "only".
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
Is it made up? I thought they meant "Of content identified on Facebook, 99% was identified by Facebook's own systems". Not that Facebook captures 99% of terrorists. Just that it does the bulk of capturing terrorists _on Faceb
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
Sure, but the flip side is that if you had a billion dollars you couldn't acquire this many BTC because the price would move against you the other direction.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
It's a pretty well recognized phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
Pour one out for the SREs who had plans they were looking forward to this evening.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
I'm giving that driver 1 star every time, until my rides are ad free or I can't take any more rides.
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by twinkletwinkle_ 7y ago
I would love to meet the author of that line. I have a bridge to donate to them!