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Romero recently released a book, _Doom Guy: Life in First Person_, if you'd like a long-form answer to that question. Other commenters give more substantial answers, but I can vouc…

Hi HN! As a senior software engineer, I have to defend my design decisions from time to time. While discussing design, I'm fairly comfortable addressing specific technical question…

I'm going to give the advice here that saved my sanity in an open office: use headphones with "passive" noise canceling. I bought a pair of 3M WorkTunes with Bluetooth. They're jus…

My comment was a rebuttal to the "single income earner" argument which suggests that in the post-war era we labored half as much as we do today. I've got no other points to defend.…

There are fewer hours of work done at home now. The increase in leisure time reflects a decrease in total labor: income-earning labor, labor around the house, etc. Figures in [1] b…

That's probably one of the caveats and addenda. So, my counterargument doesn't prove that life has gotten better--maybe an additional kid is "better" than six hours of leisure time…

You make a few substantial points, but any use of the "single income earner" argument is incomplete if it doesn't acknowledge that _women were also working at home_ while their hus…

I've found that an emphasis on a clear spec, decoupling, testing, and producing quality code significantly reduce the "spin up" time that gets ever more daunting in an infrequently…

In general, "machine learning" means that an algorithm did it, and that the algorithm engages in some analysis of the problem space or the solution space. Usually that analysis inv…

Respectfully, I make no conjectures. When I say that psychedelics can cause us harm, I mean that psychedelics can cause the individual harm, and I generalize from my own (extremely…

> They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. In mathematical modeling, they say that every model is wrong, but some are useful. Insofar as psychedelics …

It's nice in that it might let you get away with less oil day-to-day. My best answer is that you can get away with skipping oven-seasoning if you follow the daily practice, but not…

Yeah, they've definitely started out closer to smooth than ours. As you say, I don't know if mirror smoothness is terribly important, but it might let you get away with a bit less …

When I first got into cast iron, I spent a lot of time on oven-seasoning. It turns out that your daily practice is much more important than that oven seasoning, and the two importa…

With a metal spatula, you're machining the pan smooth over the course of decades, and also constantly scraping off any good bits that are getting stuck.

It would be excellent to have some better verbage for what the authors are trying to express. There are some components of white privilege that apply in this case, and some that do…

Rejected. Now my startup is gonna succeed...just a little more slowly.

I had similar questions. You're saying that if, for example, the quality among the pool of women applicants were higher than the quality among the pool of men applicants, then you …

Could you give a few examples of these transaction costs?

Another solution would be to allow those interested in PhDs an informed decision as to whether or not to pursue the degree. Major media could make occasional reports on the status …

The central limit theorem shows us that unimodal data with lots of independent sources of error tends towards a normal distribution. That description is a good first-pass, descript…

I apologize, my reply was aimed too low.

Check out Bayesian Model Selection. It's the mathematical expression of Occam's Razor.

Validation is a method to control for over-fitting, but over-fitting isn't a danger to all projects. Suppose we know that our dataset is iid normally distributed with known sigma. …