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So…if we had already been using a base-12 counting system when metric came along, we would have the best of both worlds.

Without necessarily endorsing the article's ideas....I took this to be like the diamond-inheritance problem. If service A feeds both B and C, and they both feed service D, then D c…

Offer non-diluting liquidation preferences for 996 and we can talk.

OOPs = "object-oriented programming", BUT it's a more restrained and thoughtful complaint than just "objects suck" or "inheritance sucks". He cabins it pretty clearly at 11:00 minu…

Ouch: fair enough.

CERN, for managing highly-synchronized beam pulses applied km apart from each other: https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/

Empirically, human-flipped coins have about a 1% bias toward the same side they started on: https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-history/hap7-fifty-o...

I've seen a db mock work when 1) there was a small subteam in charge of the OR-mapping, schema structure, and included a DBA; and 2) also a design policy from the architect that al…

I like this - nice playing around. We usually think of this kind of tree as having directed edges from parent to child, e.g. from set to element. In your graphs, you're erasing the…

They are different: in the U.S. that's why "freedom of the press" is also written down in the First Amendment, and historically, that's exactly how the U.S. courts have interpreted…

Alice is taking a small unfair advantage of every member of the community at once. A community and its practices is a form of commons shared by the members, so it's vulnerable to t…

Tone-of-voice example (not mine): "It. Just. Works." vs "It juuuuust works."

Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with us these past months.

> I'm not sure "it can be generalized to an undecidable problem" really explains why it's hard.... Hah! I agree with this. :)

In fact, according to the Esolang Wiki [ https://esolangs.org/wiki/List_of_ideas#Mathematics ] , Gregory Chaitin apparently has built a Diophantine equation whose parameters encode…

Yeah, this is a little bit subtle. Please ignore the lack of rigor below, but this is my understanding: They aren't looking at a particular polynomial like 4x + 3y = 2. That has a …

Fusion: Turbulence, plus Naiver-Stokes was known to be hard, plus adding in EM fields, plus the exothermic state change of the nuclei fusing introduces discontinuous jumps in the f…

Not OP but for me, it’s that public answers here are available to all of us. That’s great!

I read this as basically arguing that our filters throw up too many false negatives, like Kariko, in a high-risk/high-reward environment. It’s saying the cost of false negatives is…

Danny Calegari's essay "Disappointment" in the Notices ( https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202309/noti2782/noti278... ) is a nice reflection on how to think - and try to feel - …

NEVER assume that information learned because of your job is shielded from insider trading, even for a completely different company. From ten years ago, here are two data analysts …

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap#Individual_cont... "The maximum player salary is based on the number of years that player has played and the total of the salary c…

Quantum key distribution solves the sharing problem and will arrive sooner, for a certain budget.

Thanks, I appreciate that! For you personally, are you thinking more code-focused, what-can-I-do-with-this, or more theory, what-is-a-qubit/quantum-gate kind of stuff?