Forty-Bot
6mo ago
What is it with old books and these interminable beginnings? It doesn't take that long to set the scene.
Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880.
I do not believe that these are unrelated.
Forty-Bot
8mo ago
That drove me nuts when I played paranoia, since the more you roll, the more 5% chances you have to have something horrible happening to you. It makes you never want to do anything, since even opening an (untrapped) door can be hazardous.
Forty-Bot
8mo ago
Shustek: Let’s take a short diversion here. The Arpanet that you had worked on eventually becomes the Internet and the World Wide Web and is obviously something that’s changing all of our lives. I think I remember correctly reading that you politically tend toward libertarianism, the idea that small government is best. Yet all of this early networking work with ARPA was funded by the government. Do you think in retrospect that that’s a proper role for government? Should they have done that and if they didn’t would anyone else have done that?
Metcalfe: No, I think they should have. I think one of the few things government should do is finance research. I have learned, from many years, that the only companies that can afford to do research are monopolies. Real companies can’t afford to do research other than monopolies. There’s some famous ones, like the telephone monopoly, [AT&T] Bell Labs; the computer monopoly, [IBM] Watson Labs; the copier monopoly, Xerox PARC. And on it goes. In retrospect, the monopolies aren’t worth it for the research they do. It’s nauseating how much we hear about how cool Bell Labs is, or was. But other than the transistor, UNIX, and the Princess telephone, what did we get for all that money? And then for years AT&T as a monopoly sat on innovation, and IBM after that, and Xerox after that. It’s just not worth it.
Forty-Bot
8mo ago
chicken feet
I had these earlier this year at a Korean place. Mine had a kind of spicy barbecue sauce. They're not bad, just a lot of work. Something to share as an appetizer maybe. They're uncannily like miniature human hands.
Forty-Bot
8mo ago
Then you find out that running A B C, each comes with its own A's B's, and C's and then they recurse forever. You just pray this is the last time you run random terminal commands from StackOverflow and this time it will work.
After programming for long enough, you get really good at installing software and fixing build errors.
Forty-Bot
8mo ago
Forty-Bot
11mo ago
What do you like to do for fun/what to do get up to in your free time
I don't like this question since I spend my free time doing low-status things :)
Forty-Bot
11mo ago
And if the supply curve is X people can use the road at 0 congestion, but X * 1.05 people can use the road at high congestion ... if the demand curve is in the wrong place, everyone can end up with high congestion.
I wouldn't be surprised if past a certain point congestion decreased capacity.
I'm not entirely sure what a 'full capacity but not max throughput' road looks like? (genuine question as opposed to rhetorical)
A traffic jam.
Forty-Bot
11mo ago
I think the induced demand idea comes from the observation that while travel times for things like trains are fairly stiff as utilization approaches capacity, roads tend to see a large increase in travel times when approaching capacity. I don't think it's aptly described by induced demand, but it is likely rather frustrating that an increase in capacity is just that, with no decrease in travel times. This is an especially bitter truth because the total throughput may be maximised at less than full capacity.
Forty-Bot
1yr ago
He was supposed to be trustworthy enough to have such access; this is what the background investigation is supposed to determine
I thought the background checks are supposed to determine if someone could bribe/blackmail you into disclosing secrets.
Forty-Bot
1yr ago
All Day by Girl Talk
Thanks for the rec; 5 minutes in and this sounds absolutely fire.
Forty-Bot
1yr ago
The only way to get a fair offer is to have at least 2 other competing offers. Assuming a rather optimistic 30% interview success rate, OP would have to schedule ~9 interviews to have sufficient competing offers for the next negotiation phase.
I don't understand how you can even leverage that for 2 interviews let alone 9. Every time I've interviewed at multiple places, one place has been done in 2 weeks, and the other is on round 2 of 5 or whatever.
Forty-Bot
1yr ago
DDG has been my default search for a while and most of the time I end up having to go back to google to find what I want. Google's getting worse but is still the best out there.
Yeah, somewhere along the way DDG stopped recognizing quotes, and doesn't make any attempt to ensure quoted words are in the results. At least google is only a !g away...
Forty-Bot
1yr ago
Damn it, we need an alternative to FPTP.
I favor approval voting. You vote to "approve" as many candidates as you want; the candidate with the most approving voters wins. Unlike RCV, there aren't situations where you win by being less popular, there are no spoiler effects, it is extremely simple, and you end up with centrist politicians instead of maximally divisive ones.
Forty-Bot
1yr ago
I first met a significant number of people who smoked when I went to uni...
I want to see an oil-refinery sim. Like factorio but with capitalism. And you have to tune the control system so that nothing explodes. I know sim-refinery was prototyped, but it never got released.
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