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> Isn't a band's purpose to produce good music and aren't people supposed to like musicians because they produce good music? There are two definitions of "good" here, that are diff…

As he's mentioned, he has given this talk a few times, aimed at different audiences. One version of the talk has its slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzis5MXW83vCdUdXY…

Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: backend web for >15 years. I've worked recently in Kotlin and Java. I've also done some Go, and in personal projects hav…

Your link includes this quote from Stevens: > "The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the ultimate symbol of human excellence. I do not believe that financial insecurity should stop …

The stated goal is that the money will help people do better in the Olympics. I don't see how it will do that. It might be good to do, but it won't help people perform better.

How many of these normal careers pay a single paycheck of $100k that can't be cashed for twenty years? That's what this offer is.

Do you think a 21-year old fencer will be more competitive because of this money? A 17-year old swimmer? A 16-year old gymnast?

Is your argument that, if she knew she was going to get $100,000 in 2010, she would have been number 1 in the world in doubles in 1990? That's how I understand the stated goal of t…

> “I do not believe that financial insecurity should stop our nation’s elite athletes from breaking through to new frontiers of excellence,” Stevens said upon the announcement of h…

My personal site is https://zck.org/ . Mostly textual posts about Emacs, Linux, programming. There are a few pages that are games, and I also have a page for my my generative art: …

> one of the most annoying things to me are managers who pull the "here's what I'm evaluating you on...now write up this self eval what you've done over the last year that fits the…

Someone else has given you the Common Lisp version. Here's one for Clojure: (printf "x = %6d\ny = %.8E\n" x y) If I've understood everything right, and your example is in C, the fo…

> there's also the dubious, or trivial, or dunno (gotta generalize this pattern as well) of the first "consecutive" twin prime but they overlap which is 3,5 and 5,7.... which remin…

Weirdly, the hats remind me of things used for the opposite purpose -- diaphragm birth control (c.f. https://healthjade.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/coil-sprin... ), or rolled co…

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I also made some number-based wordle-variants, which I call "numberdle". I found that it was hard to come up with good ways of guessing because wordle has the restriction that most…

>...if you substitute fuel "burning" process with subsonic propagation used in every conventional engines with fuel "explosion" process with supersonic wavefront... This fragment c…

I understand implementing words as you think they should be. However, you need the core first, and that's where I'm working right now. I'm trying to get the central loop, dictionar…

Writing a Forth myself, I find it somewhat frustrating that I have relatively different design restrictions than these guides. I don't need to be incredibly low-power, so I'm using…

I'm not sure this exactly is what I'm thinking about. Yes, `at time zone "UTC"` does the proper conversion, so all times will represent the exact instant they should. But in no cas…

One place I've been bitten lately is storing timestamps in Postgres. Postgres lets you store time with a time zone -- but what that means is that upon receiving a timestamptz conve…

One thing that this article talks about, but could be more explicit about, is the different kinds of clown. There's the kind we all think of -- white face, red nose, at the circus.…

> However, in pretty much any language, it's hard to avoid the user having some ability to fill out even "mandatory" fields in some invalid manner. I 100% agree. It's just that go …

I'm also bothered by half-constructed objects. In my previous job, I was on a team creating a Go project that integrated two different parts of the company. It was an HR company, w…