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I don’t know what readers are aware of this. American football fields are all the same size, but soccer fields can vary. That little bit of trivia makes this extra funny. For me an…

You nailed the key point my muddy intuition (and the article) failed to express. Pro gamblers simulate problem gamblers, so they can bet more. I said, "Casino's can't survive off c…

The article appears to break gamblers into 3 groups. 1) casual players 2) problem players 3) professional gamblers. so basically casual players gamble something like 50 bucks a yea…

This is readable and interesting - https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf Dybvig's dissertation (he wrote chez scheme) it's easy to follow. IMHO, it's a lot easier to w…

100% If I had to put scheme in production, I think I'd pick racket. I think that would give me the best chance at helping other dev's get set up, explain the problem, and show the …

Friedman's books are all great. All of them. But they don't work for everybody. If you can be relaxed and think of the interaction as play, they're very good. If you're feeling mor…

as I read it, it's any struct! Not just strings. which is cool.

Interning is neat. Most of my experience is really dated. Primarily in the JVM, and mostly for class names, for reflection and class loaders. It's sort of surprising seeing this ad…

Rto is really important in dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes the only way forward is to know a guy. Lean on that personal connection, and unblock yourself.

Ya know, the Roman tradition was, you gotta stand under the bridge while the army marches over it. If it collapses, you die too. Maybe there's something to having nudes of that dev…

Eternal September. Everyone starts somewhere, it’s just all the time now. In ten years, the dev will explain to a junior how bad they messed up, and why they have to validate this …

I wish I could find a better source. My memory is of a wired article, on paper. This touches on the "hiss" from the nervous system - https://www.americanscientist.org/article/quiet…

Decades ago I read about NASA's silent room, with the big wood spikes on the walls. All you can hear is your heartbeat and this high pitched whine. NASA figured out the high pitche…

I think ascents and descents fall under keming. You don’t want a j to bump into a b on the next line. So you have short letters from time to time. But that might be an archaic usag…

Ahh, you’re saying something like every sequence containing at least 2 ones, does not repeat. There may be some long repeats, but not all sequences repeat. Thanks!

Starting from the fourth digit, 01000100 But maybe I don’t understand your example

I used small numbers to focus on the mechanism. I think the point is, if I purchased the sock for $100M+, that loan shouldn't be taxed. If I purchased that asset for $1M, and take …

unrealized gains in property are already taxed by "property taxes". If I buy a $1000 dollars worth of stock, and use that to secure a $1000 loan. ok, fine, I don't see why that sho…

Ya know, this was a some time ago, and memorable for the relation to Carlin's bit. Let's place any errors in terminology on my foggy memory.