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by zck 6mo ago
> Isn't a band's purpose to produce good music and aren't people supposed to like musicians because they produce good music? There are two definitions of "good" here, that are different. 1. "good musician&qu
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by zck 7mo ago
As he's mentioned, he has given this talk a few times, aimed at different audiences. One version of the talk has its slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzis5MXW83vCdUdXYnFIVDVOSkE...
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by zck 8mo ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: backend web for >15 years. I've worked recently in Kotlin and Java. I've also done some Go, and in personal projects have worked with a lot of different Lis
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by zck 8mo ago
Your link includes this quote from Stevens: > "The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the ultimate symbol of human excellence. I do not believe that financial insecurity should stop our nation's elite athletes from breaking throu
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by zck 8mo ago
The stated goal is that the money will help people do better in the Olympics. I don't see how it will do that. It might be good to do, but it won't help people perform better.
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by zck 8mo ago
How many of these normal careers pay a single paycheck of $100k that can't be cashed for twenty years? That's what this offer is.
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by zck 8mo ago
Do you think a 21-year old fencer will be more competitive because of this money? A 17-year old swimmer? A 16-year old gymnast?
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by zck 8mo ago
Is your argument that, if she knew she was going to get $100,000 in 2010, she would have been number 1 in the world in doubles in 1990? That's how I understand the stated goal of this gift.
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by zck 8mo ago
> “I do not believe that financial insecurity should stop our nation’s elite athletes from breaking through to new frontiers of excellence,” Stevens said upon the announcement of his gift. So his goal is to prevent money issues from bein
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by zck 8mo ago
My personal site is https://zck.org/ . Mostly textual posts about Emacs, Linux, programming. There are a few pages that are games, and I also have a page for my my generative art: https://zck.org/art .
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by zck 1y ago
> one of the most annoying things to me are managers who pull the "here's what I'm evaluating you on...now write up this self eval what you've done over the last year that fits these items and I'll copy paste it
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by zck 1y ago
Someone else has given you the Common Lisp version. Here's one for Clojure: (printf "x = %6d\ny = %.8E\n" x y) If I've understood everything right, and your example is in C, the format string in Clojure is identic
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by zck 1y ago
> there's also the dubious, or trivial, or dunno (gotta generalize this pattern as well) of the first "consecutive" twin prime but they overlap which is 3,5 and 5,7.... which reminds me of how only 2 and 3 are both primes
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by zck 1y ago
Weirdly, the hats remind me of things used for the opposite purpose -- diaphragm birth control (c.f. https://healthjade.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/coil-sprin... ), or rolled condoms.
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by zck 1y ago
https://archive.is/5kYUW
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by zck 1y ago
I also made some number-based wordle-variants, which I call "numberdle". I found that it was hard to come up with good ways of guessing because wordle has the restriction that most combinations are invalid. You won't ever h
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by zck 1y ago
>...if you substitute fuel "burning" process with subsonic propagation used in every conventional engines with fuel "explosion" process with supersonic wavefront... This fragment confused me, because it looks like the
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by zck 1y ago
I understand implementing words as you think they should be. However, you need the core first, and that's where I'm working right now. I'm trying to get the central loop, dictionary, and threading model functional. Which brin
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by zck 1y ago
Writing a Forth myself, I find it somewhat frustrating that I have relatively different design restrictions than these guides. I don't need to be incredibly low-power, so I'm using C, not assembly. I'm not a great C coder, an
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by zck 1y ago
I'm not sure this exactly is what I'm thinking about. Yes, `at time zone "UTC"` does the proper conversion, so all times will represent the exact instant they should. But in no cases do you know what time zone the data c
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by zck 1y ago
One place I've been bitten lately is storing timestamps in Postgres. Postgres lets you store time with a time zone -- but what that means is that upon receiving a timestamptz converts it to UTC and stores that instead. Which is fine, i
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by zck 1y ago
One thing that this article talks about, but could be more explicit about, is the different kinds of clown. There's the kind we all think of -- white face, red nose, at the circus. But there's other kinds too. I know the most abou
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by zck 1y ago
> However, in pretty much any language, it's hard to avoid the user having some ability to fill out even "mandatory" fields in some invalid manner. I 100% agree. It's just that go seems to make it easier to make inv
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by zck 1y ago
I'm also bothered by half-constructed objects. In my previous job, I was on a team creating a Go project that integrated two different parts of the company. It was an HR company, with lots of random fields in objects. The API given to
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by zck 2y ago
Just to respond to the Whatsapp part of the comment, apparently Whatsapp made about $1.7 billion in 2024. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/whatsapp-statistics/
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by zck 2y ago
Whatsapp was $1/person/year for a license. Wiz is "contact sales for pricing". Presumably that's more than $1/year. According to Amazon's Wiz integration ( https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
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by zck 2y ago
I wanted to: 1. Write HTML in org-mode. Org-mode is great for thinking. 2. Publish clean HTML. The other libraries I was seeing were about exporting arbitrary org files for being consumed online. For example, the built-in exporter has a bun
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by zck 2y ago
This pack contains one pencil of each hardness 9H through 6B. There are 17 hardnesses in that range.
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by zck 2y ago
I think they meant non-monetary personal expense. As in "I'll book the crappy motel that requires me to take the subway for 45 minutes, rather than spend an extra $25/night for the lovely hotel that's right next to whe
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by zck 2y ago
Location: Boston, MA, USA Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Historically Java, but recently I've been working in Kotlin and Go. Mostly backend. Personal projects in Clojure, Arc, Emacs Lisp. Website: https://z

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