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pushingice··on Unison 1.0
I know how fraught performance/micro-benchmarks are. But do you have any data on how performant it is? Should someone expect it to perform similar to Haskell?
pushingice··on Intel stock dropping toward 50 year low amid restructuring news
This is incorrect. Adjusted for corporate actions (splits/dividends) it's more like 2010 levels. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/ (click "ALL")
pushingice··on Tesla Makes It Harder for Investors to Ignore Its Problems
Also James Murdoch (son of Rupert) is on the Tesla Board of Directors. WSJ is playing it down the middle, like they always do.
pushingice··on Elon Musk: "Don't advertise. Go f*** yourself"
1. At least since 2018. Remember the Thai cave diver?
pushingice··on Why people in Google hate Go?
When I was there the only complaint I heard was the golang exceptions to the style guide. In no other language would you be allowed to name a variable a single letter like "r" for example.
pushingice··on 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans
Well that, and a check sitting on the desk for whatever amount the employee wants to come back to the office.
pushingice··on You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)
Seems like a perfectly cromulent word to me.
pushingice··on YouTube has become the world's nanny
We use YouTube premium (so no ads) and there have been no snuff films of the pups. But my kids know not only all of the planets, but all of the dwarf planets. I sure didn't teach them that.
pushingice··on SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic
This isn't even an either/or proposition. You can inline SQL in pyspark just fine: df = spark.sql("...")
pushingice··on The Boring Conservatism of Elon Musk
Everyone talks about taxing him. What about not subsidizing him in the first place? Without carbon credits and low emission vehicle credits he'd have gone bankrupt long ago.
pushingice··on “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”
His tweets about China show he knows how to grovel when money's at stake.
pushingice··on Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead of $100
What I find amusing is that they paid her an amount of money equal to her account number. Lucky for them crypto.com hasn't been around that long. My bank account has 10 digits.
pushingice··on Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?
If it makes you feel any better, it's all equally pointless. Might as well do what you enjoy.
pushingice··on The Economics of the Tesla Semi
Because they're supposed to have shipped every year since 2019.
pushingice··on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?
You can get two years of experience as an undergrad. I don't take junior to mean "zero experience".
pushingice··on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?
Hey man, I didn't design the page. That's the tightest filter I could get. Here's an example: https://finra.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FINRA/jobs/details...
pushingice··on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?
That's all IT roles. Anything with no prefix (e.g. "Developer") is a junior role.
pushingice··on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?
We are. Most roles can be remote even if not explicitly called out: https://finra.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FINRA/jobs?jobFami... Feel free to contact me if any of them need a resume put on top of the stack.
pushingice··on Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
The car analogy is the Ford Model T of analogies.
pushingice··on Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?
That "learning styles" exist: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/02/04/the-learning-styles-myt...

https://www.educationnext.org/stubborn-myth-learning-styles-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth...

pushingice··on We will never have enough software developers (2020)
I've suggested this to my lawyer wife more than once. The problem is that she works for multiple partners with no visibility in to each other's tasks. So each partner thinks they can have 100% of her time whenever they want, and get upset when that turns out not to be true.
pushingice··on Bitcoin: Addressing the Ponzi Scheme Characterization
Markopolos was the anti-Madoff guy. Chanos was anti-Enron. Gotta get your greeks in order.
pushingice··on Running a Law Firm on Linux
My wife is a lawyer. The biggest issue is that they have proprietary document management systems for security. G-suite is just as big a risk as O365.
pushingice··on California tries to close the gap in math, but sets off a backlash
Good teachers. But mostly interest. I wouldn't even call it grit because it wasn't hard for me.
pushingice··on Running a Law Firm on Linux
I think the biggest risk here is that one of the lawyers will murder you. And being lawyers, they will find a way not to be convicted for it.
pushingice··on California tries to close the gap in math, but sets off a backlash
Lysenkoism, usually, when people refer to denial of reality in connection with the Soviet Union.
pushingice··on California tries to close the gap in math, but sets off a backlash
My dad barely passed college algebra and my mom studied early childhood education. I had literally zero home enrichment in math. But I was put in "Gifted & Talented" in 4th grade. Ended with Ph.D. in Applied Math.
pushingice··on No, your cryptocurrency cannot work
Which banks are using bitcoin to settle anything?
pushingice··on Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
True. That's why the cross-country autonomous drive that didn't happen in 2017 is imminent.
pushingice··on Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
They just want to give everyone the same experience Googlers get.

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