kristjansson

For a variant that represented 0.0% percent of cases a few weeks ago, that CI is pretty astounding.

Unikernels are a thing e.g. https://mirage.io . AFIACT uptake has been ... slow. You give up a lot to erase most or all of your OS, and only the most performance sensitive applications rea…

Yeah that wasn’t very clear. I was trying to say that I think most women probably don’t share GPs view.

Sexual advances should be inappropriate in most places? I think at least half of the population (and hopefully most of the remainder) would disagree that proscribing sexual advances from shared place…

See also: Ann-benchmarks[0], Annoy[1], ScaNN[2] [0]: http://ann-benchmarks.com [1]: https://github.com/spotify/annoy [2]: https://github.com/google-re…

Surely its $51/month (8 + 8 + 35)? Not that that isn't outrageous, but it's not 275/month outrageous

Obviously the transfer agent bears the lion's share of blame here, but 'lack of printer' feels a bit helpless. It's hard to imagine that a scan of a wet signature on a printed ema…

Right … open source doesn’t guarantee an absence of problems, only that, in the worst case, a user can repair a problem herself. As you note, that’s strictly preferable to closed source, where a prob…

Does it matter that other products don’t patch something that yours does? Like, sure, it’s unsatisfying from an ecosystem perspective, and one would hope for fixes to be incorporated upstream. But i…

The referenced paper from 2001: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/504083.504085 …

Rate arb is the just about the most reasonable way to make money that I can imagine. Seems like execution is the hard part though, what's your system like?

The clearest non-scam answer I’ve found for ‘who the hell is funding these APYs’ is fiat denominated loans against BTC, ETH et al. People with long, appreciated crypto positions want to take profit&#…

This verdict already requires he pay $1e8, which presumably he doesn't have?

+1 for Wallace. Basically everything in that collection and Consider the Lobster is worth reading. Absolutely unrelated, but I'd recommend Vaclav Smil in general - Energy in Nature and Societ…

Probably the least worst way of doing it, but still creates an enormous amount of stress for everyone, regardless of their ultimate status...

Not uncommon in these circumstances? Everyone gets an all-hands invite, some people get room A, some get room B. Then the only uncertainty prior is which side is which.

There's a critical distinction to your complaint - the linked doc addresses how one teaches math, not the math one teaches. It's not unreasonable to suggest that curricula authors maybe cho…

While I do appreciate the cross-species cargo-cult metaphor, I don't think Agile, Scrum and their ilk qualify as engineering in that sense. The program either compiles and does what it says on t…

I mean, faking out a mechanical music box with electronics, and then driving the only physical part with a decapitated, silent music box is sort of outrageous.

There’s also the reverse: writing as a loopless operation forces the programmer to write code that can be easily vectorized.

The obvious analogy being childhood vaccine requirements for schools, sports college, etc.

There's a substantial leap here from 'Intel might be temporarily able to / trying to exercise a degree of monopolistic pricing power' to 'market capitalism is illegitimate…

Which is why intellectual property rights are time-limited? One can make a strong argument those rights are protected for _too much_ time, and the length of that restriction can be attributed to regu…

Oh man Safari (15.1, macOS 12.0.1, MacBookPro15,1) is _unhappy_ with this page.

It's funny, but ... what business would that be?

There's also just straight up demand for worse products at a lower price. To wit: many luxury goods 'outlets' now sell lines produced exclusively for the outlet market rather than unso…

This is a great reference, thanks for digging it up!

This is where the JetBrains pricing model is exactly right. If they sold licenses, people would upgrade every few years, after some needling^W marketing. Instead, they sell as a subscription with the…

They still offer stuff like this in the mainframe machines, right? I recall that their z machines have full duplicate processor drawers idle and locked out so that if one dies, IBM can remotely activ…

Is the marginal cost of providing a copy of software really $0, or does the marginal user ask questions, have feature requests, uncover bugs with new usage patterns, ...? Does that non-zero marginal…