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GoatOfAplomb
·last month·discuss
> Placing one on a chip is like placing a hair on a surface the size of Paris, accurate to within a few streets.

That sounds very easy, honestly.
GoatOfAplomb
·last month·discuss
I agree with everything in the video you linked (which is not surprising, given it's Ben Felix). That includes the parts about equities being less risky than bonds in very important ways, but also the parts about behavioral loss tolerance and risk capacity, and how they can indicate higher bond allocation.

So I disagree that "If you're dreading equity drawdowns, that's what fixed income is for" is absolutely terrible advice.
GoatOfAplomb
·3 months ago·discuss
Maybe you place a value on your time higher than $1.99 divided by the time it would take you to create it. Maybe you don't care to learn how to create an addon.
GoatOfAplomb
·5 months ago·discuss
All this simulation buys a single vehicle that drives better. That failure was a fleet-wide event (overloading the remote assistance humans).

That is, both are true: this high-fidelity simulation is valuable and it won't catch all failure modes. Or in other words, it's still on Waymo for failing during the power outage, but it's not uniquely on Waymo's simulation team.
GoatOfAplomb
·5 months ago·discuss
I wonder if my $20/mo subscription will last 10 minutes.
GoatOfAplomb
·7 months ago·discuss
Fantastic read. I did most of my web development between 1998 and 2012. Reading this gave me both a trip down memory lane and a very digestible summary of what I've missed since then.
GoatOfAplomb
·7 months ago·discuss
All the Spanish cities I've visited have looked "perfect", but there's a lot I don't see as a tourist, e.g. that Spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe (10.5%).
GoatOfAplomb
·8 months ago·discuss
Looks promising. Thank you.
GoatOfAplomb
·8 months ago·discuss
Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely look into it.
GoatOfAplomb
·8 months ago·discuss
Typo fix: ynab.com
GoatOfAplomb
·8 months ago·discuss
I'll certainly give this another look if you do. Good luck with it.
GoatOfAplomb
·8 months ago·discuss
Right on. In this case, I used "private" to mean "the makers of this particular product don't have a ton of my financial information." I don't expect a product like this to prevent my government, or my brokerage, or my bank, or even a middleman account aggregator, from knowing about my money. But something like this can be one less thing, at least.
GoatOfAplomb
·8 months ago·discuss
I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things worse. I also love the option to write my own plugin or to hack the source code itself (even though I probably wouldn't).

But I don't think I'm willing to give up fully automated data refreshes at this point. I have too many accounts to track.
GoatOfAplomb
·10 months ago·discuss
Pimsleur is the best thing I've found for my first ~30 hours of learning a language (Courses 1 and 2, basically). It gets to the (IMO) most important words/phrases/interactions first, and the spaced repetition works well for me. It almost feels like magic is happening in my brain. In find going past 1 and 2 is still worth my time, but I usually start to sense diminishing returns, and at that point I start to look around for other options to supplement it.

Pimsleur's implicit way of teaching grammar works well for me for the most basic stuff, but as it gets into more nuanced grammar, it gets a bit less helpful for me. It also feels less magical to me once it gets past the first couple hundred words.
GoatOfAplomb
·10 months ago·discuss
In any case, he did fit that into a book! If only barely.

Edit: On further reflection, I suppose he didn't, if we consider the effort to span Gödel Escher Bach and I Am a Strange Loop.
GoatOfAplomb
·last year·discuss
I don't understand how that is ableist. Would you be willing to explain your rationale?