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I see the value in a lot of these, but I also have to say one common thread across almost all tooling is bad interfaces clearly designed by backend/generalist engineers doing their…

eh, you can buy a great hardtails for 800-1.2k, even less if buying second hand. the main thing to point out is that at $700 including all the electronic add ons the components wil…

adding on some recs that aren't necessarily 'good for the mind' but great from a gaming as art perspective and not designed for addiction - co op: terraria, Deep Rock Galactic, and…

The New Yorker has always had high quality investigative journalism (albeit with varying levels of left leaning bias depending on the writer) in my opinion, and seems to be quite d…

Why do you associate learning and diving deeply into topics exclusively with research? A phd program will only require you to dive deeply into your topic of research. You can get v…

As someone who listens to numerous genres but is also selective with what I listen to, I am confident that spotify simply doesn't cater to my demographic. They are really about sca…

Most trading firms such as susquehanna, citadel, and two sigma have London branches.

At the risk of being trite, the response to FAANG employees being underpaid is also more or less 'you're underpaid, brah, go get another job!'. The bar for hiring and compensation …

I think it's more simple human nature. When you have billions, it's so easy to delegate work that tax avoidance becomes as simple as flipping a switch that says 'pay less taxes'. A…

work on linux, daily driver is windows. how exactly to these commercial parasites 'spoil the original experience'? Sure theres preinstalled bloatware and telemetry, but you still h…

Okay, so if we're using energy consumption per unit 'utility' as a metric, how much energy should bitcoin consume to be in line with its utility?

Let's not commit the fallacy of comparing unrelated big numbers. How does the energy and time per usd transferred compare between btc and the traditional banking system?

Even assuming this is true, this is just the 'if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about' argument, which has been shown to have numerous flaws and counter…

as a windows user as my daily non-development driver unless that percentage hits 98%+ AND can maintain that I don't think many people are going to convert

Thanks for sharing, props to you for getting out of your situation. I fully respect doing what has to be done to get by, but I think its still worth pointing out that achieving wha…

Do you know down to the penny, how much credit you have remaining on your credit cards? Have you ever lived in a state of fear, wondering which thing you've been putting off – the …

AWS uses an in house tcp-like protocol optimized for distributed computing. Said protocol is implemented on a hardware nic. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber…

Reading through incident reports of major cloud outages is very informative. Both the scale and the speed at which engineers root cause, implement fixes, and safely deploy is reall…

the recent emergence of many quality games from china might start reversing that trend thouugh...

eh, the 'truly rounded education' can generally be attained through the internet, and I've found those who aren't interested in them in the first place tend not to gain much from t…

To be fair, python has many robust features beyond gc. For example, dicts, which are bread and butter for python abstract away 1000s of lines of C, which leads to very confused stu…

A more statistically rigorous assessment of the odds of a lab based origin places the likelihood at 6%-55% [1]. However it understandably does not account for circumstantially susp…

For approximations based on multiplying numerical estimates, the overall standard deviation (or error) of the final result is proportional to the square root of the number of estim…

doesn't Greenwich have a good amount of quant shops?