vertak

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by vertak 5y ago
Regarding inflation: Ray Dalio has a bit in his latest book Changing World Order where he points out what nations/empires in the past have done when faced with similar situations that the US now finds itself in. When debt is high, and
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by vertak 5y ago
Thank you for sharing a counterpoint. IMO this act of skepticism is the most important trait of the HN culture. That being said, I read through the counterpoint article and found it pretty hollow. In fact it seems to strengthen my belief th
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by vertak 5y ago
All software is an abstraction and that’s what makes it useful. It sounds like you have a particularly vindictive axe to grind against all the “pointless abstractions” people have poured hours of their time into so I’m sure I won’t convince
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by vertak 5y ago
It is an abstraction that can save any users from having to think about shell scripts. This is incredibly valuable. We should not waste human time on writing and thinking about shell scripts, there are much bigger problems to solve.
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by vertak 5y ago
The article and numbers are right, it’s just not clearly worded. I had this same question a couple years back when I read this stat, so I messaged the Cornell Lab Ornithology and one of their reps explained how these numbers make sense. “We
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by vertak 5y ago
I find it hard to sympathize for the poor plight of the $200,000/month healthcare-less twitch streamer working 2 more hours a day than the average person. Was this article written entirely to provoke outrage or is there some oppression
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by vertak 5y ago
This was an informative counter-argument to what I normally read about US healthcare, thanks for taking the time to share this info. This site gives several survey findings related to medical bankruptcy. The data is complex and conflicting
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by vertak 5y ago
It says in the abstract that this data is preliminary, and the size of the sample was 950 American adults. I don’t think we can take much away from this study, except that it deserves further investigation.
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by vertak 5y ago
To any Fe developers reading this: please put a non-trivial code snippet of Fe, with code comments that highlight the improvements over Solidity, front and center on the README. I am a longtime smart contract developer who has been burned b
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by vertak 5y ago
This is very well done. I've been hobby researching learning tools for the past couple years and this looks like one of the best. @ai_ia have you seen Andy Matuschak's Orbit project? https://withorbit.com/ You bot
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by vertak 6y ago
Yes. Check out this article that is half an essay on quantum computing and half a call to action for using spaced repetition (the main idea behind supermemo) as a new medium for learning. https://quantum.country/
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by vertak 6y ago
This study is from 1987. Might it it be slightly outdated? This article from 2009 addresses the lower age estimates from the 1980’s era, saying reactors could last for 80 years or even more. https://www.scientificamerican.com&#x2
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by vertak 6y ago
Any source for this statement?
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by vertak 6y ago
How often do you need to be the filter? I’m genuinely curious because your experience is very different from my own, where I’ve been using DDG for years and I only notice poor results roughly 1 in 100 of the times, and then I’m just a quick
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by vertak 6y ago
I will soon begin working on a somewhat similar problem involving personalized self education. So far I've thought of it as a search engine for YouTube which allows a user to lookup something like "home improvement" and then
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by vertak 6y ago
You can give this article by Chip Huyen a read. Mayhaps you will find a niche for a solo or small dev team. Though it is focused on MLOps if that makes a different for the type of niche you're looking for. https://huyenchip.
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by vertak 6y ago
This was a good read about an area of computing I’ve only heard about in passing (specifically crypto miner design). But it was definitely over my head as someone who has never had to work with FPGAs. Can anyone suggest a good online cours
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by vertak 6y ago
This is an important but deeply tragic point. I have friends who I would bet heavily will be unwellbeing their entire lives. Even if it is true though, is it worth the total loss of hope that would accompany the resignation to the endless n
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by vertak 6y ago
TIL that “ hupomnemata” is the term for when you take personal notes on the important happenings in your life and periodically you review those notes. I’ve been noticing recently that folks in this community have been sharing software tools
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by vertak 6y ago
I cannot find the original paper anywhere, if anyone finds it please post a link here. Thank you!
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by vertak 6y ago
Can anyone grow why in the first 5 minutes of part 1 he shows a 3 by 3 matrix multiples by a 1 by 3 vector yet verbally he pulls out of no where this idea that if you have _two_ 1 by 3 vectors that pass through the origin then their linear
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by vertak 6y ago
> this is terribly useless for for anyone else I bet this was terribly useless for you, but for the wider set of readers here its near impossible to generalize as you have done. I haven’t dived deep to search for “here was my job search”
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by vertak 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I’m always grateful to read some of Dalio’s thoughts on the future.
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by vertak 6y ago
This is very cool. This is faster than postman for me if I was to use something like you showed in the jq example for quickly playing around with a public api’s json response.
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by vertak 6y ago
Thank you for posting this, it made me look up narcissism of small differences and it sums up this article well. Maybe it would be a better idea to start infighting once bitcoin and other crypto’s make it mainstream. https://en.m
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by vertak 6y ago
You should give rust-embedded's `cross` project a look. https://github.com/rust-embedded/cross/ I can't find any iOS related directories in their list of targets but there are a couple issues related to
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by vertak 6y ago
Doing this is very difficult and exhausting. Several years ago I signed up to follow 3 politicians I cared about using this site https://www.govtrack.us/ . Give it a try, and I think you'll see the deluge of laws, bills
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by vertak 6y ago
Thank you for this! I've been looking for a decent REPL to use since rusti was deprecated.
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by vertak 6y ago
I recently read of an alternate measure of inflation called the "Cost of Thriving Index" which aimed to capture the astute point you're making. See page 18 of this document: https://media4.manhattan-institute.org&#
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by vertak 7y ago
This is one of the most succinct ruminations on meetings and I agree with almost every point. Meetings are obviously useful, but they are difficult because there are many ways to do meeting poorly and few know what steps they need to take t

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