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I use digitalocean for personal stuff because of this

If you want to talk about premiums, the US housing market is out of control right now; just having a roof over your head in any metropolitan area means paying through the nose. It’…

It's funny you mention Boise; that city, and many parts of Idaho/the west, are undergoing their own insane housing price inflation at the moment that's surging through the pandemic…

Also not being limited by G-forces or endurance.

> IQ also predicts or correlates with numerous other life outcomes. If we hire people based on IQ scores/things that correlate with IQ scores, we should not be surprised if high IQ…

Given how prevalent police unions are, and how incredibly quick they are to raise complaints, you'd hope for more self-awareness/solidarity and less hypocrisy.

Taking a single statistic on something as complex and multivariate as "intelligence" is already discarding a lot of information. When you throw in social factors (Who is writing th…

Predicting subsequent words is hard for humans, but correcting typos is easy. I've turned off autocorrect completely because my typos are always immediately decodable to their huma…

The Russian Revolution episodes are truly fascinating. The 1905 section feels particularly relevant to recent American history.

There's good reason to suspect strong regional variation, which means that finding a representative sample of 500 is hard. But that would still be technically possible (look at Sou…

It's not the smoothest, but at least it's fairly stable/consistent with good performance (vs. e.g. an electron GUI app). Once you get things dialed, you can keep your workflow goin…

Contrast with W. Edwards Deming's approach that stresses the systematics of the organization and considers rank-and-yank a symptom of bad management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Yes, this is pretty much what I meant. The "horrid" part is that I would like to do a quick /" xnx (or similar) in vim to delete the quotes on a multi-line block. Even that is anno…

It's not just a browser thing. Apple Books does this with their e-books, which is infuriating if you're working with a coding book and just want to copy-paste stuff into your edito…

From a liability perspective you’re probably right. I just mean it’s Apple that picks the courier, and that that solution to delivery can fail in basically the same way as store pi…

Amusingly enough I've had that method fail while ordering an iMac a few years ago. I requested delivery-with-signature on a $4k iMac and it got delivered to another house three blo…

Though git's interface is highly flawed, I do think a good VCS needs to expose more of its storage model to the user (or at least a model isomorphic to it) than most apps. In vi an…

This is super cool! Could see myself using this when I'm feeling foggy-brained and want to bash keys until something useful comes up. But I also just love how it looks; nice intera…

It would indeed be a bug, which is why any self-respecting operating system should include uninterruptible vi in the kernel /s

> Progress in math often (or usually) isn’t driven by physical problems This is true at the largest scale, but the math classes that most people take are directly applicable to (an…

If your application is allowing users to edit the text, or if you know which languages will be used, or if you don't care about capitalization, then you don't have to worry about a…

Using a markov chain with your stochastic matrix set to I...

But our chief technical innovation was factoring problems into smaller ones. This is such a vital innovation that it's practically synonymous with engineering. So even superficiall…

Yes, I agree that these are often abused tactics. Just saying they have their uses. The fundamental problem is graph literacy.

> the broken programs would still be broken in either language. You need to slap a decode anyway on reads from subprocesses in python3, and files open in Unicode mode by default. W…