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sokoloff

44,554 karmajoined 18 лет назад
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sokoloff
·4 дня назад·discuss
> if the key is missing today you'll get nil as the value

You can add a third parameter to override the nil if detecting the missing key matters.

(You almost surely know this, but not all HN commenters will.)

  user> (:bar {:foo 1})
  nil
  user> (:bar {:foo 1} :missing)
  :missing
sokoloff
·5 дней назад·discuss
Most things experience higher demand when the clearing price is lower. I expect that jobs (or at least “labor hours”) would be firmly in this set.

The mechanism would be some business somewhere would have thousands of hours of tasks that were worth around $12/hr to the business. If the market wage was $15/hr, that work doesn’t get done. If the market wage is $8/hr, it gets done, at least to a much greater extent than in the $15/hr case.
sokoloff
·5 дней назад·discuss
Even if literally no new applications popped up, capacity and coverage increases for existing applications require increases in satellite count.
sokoloff
·6 дней назад·discuss
Wild take. They’re not born “used to them,” so at some point they quite literally need to get used to them…
sokoloff
·6 дней назад·discuss
Do you ever use GPS (for navigation or time sync)? Do you ever use Starlink? Do you make use of weather forecasts? Or fly on an airliner that uses any of those three? Watch a televised program from the other side of the planet?
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
Maybe we should start with a smaller prototype and test the theory on your or my assets. Still seem like a good idea?
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
I don’t need the source code to randomly change bytes in the compiled Linux kernel binary either.
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
I’m totally comfortable going out to 12 years on tires. Beyond that, I’m replacing them. 7 seems excessively conservative for road use.
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
Did I just read an argument that it’s easier or safer to manually check your tire pressures rather than having the car do it automatically every time the car drives fast enough to “wake up” the TPMS units?
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
Thinking that all help that you get comes at the direct (even if diffused) harm of others is a fixed-pie mentality. Everyone gets help; most everyone gives help to others; it’s essential to the functioning of our complex society and is how we aren’t living in trees and caves anymore.

Success is impossible without receiving help. I have someone that I’ve never met who helps by ensuring that reliable power arrives via overhead wires to my house. Someone else’s help ensures that my garbage is carted away, clean water arrives under pressure, and 100s of other things that would be incredible drains on my time before I could do the first thing that was valuable to me or my family.

Take the help when you need it.

Give the help when you can.
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
> whether [design flaw] is intentional to deter abuse or if that's something I could fix?

The chance that I know whether or not it’s intentional is extremely low. If I don’t work on that part of the app, I’m not going to go chase down the product person would might know.

I think it’s much, much less likely to get any response, despite being higher effort on the sender. It’s too specific and too likely to step on a landmine of “I don’t know the answer and I’m not going to go on a side quest to find it for someone I don’t know…”
sokoloff
·8 дней назад·discuss
Your "source" is an editorializing HN submitter who took a one-month increase in prices while the military action with Iran and subsequent oil price shock and multiplied by 12.

The BLS (and any economist) knows better than to do that, so you cited the online equivalent of "a dude wearing sunglasses on the back of his hat being interviewed in his pickup truck..."
sokoloff
·9 дней назад·discuss
That doesn't the answer the question of "who is buying these bonds instead of US Treasuries?"
sokoloff
·9 дней назад·discuss
> Annualized inflation this year (in the USA) is 10%

Source? I think that's about 2-2.5x the figure that everyone else is using.
sokoloff
·9 дней назад·discuss
The story seems mixed; you are correct that the specifically 10% raise was back in 2023, but they also implemented additional raises in April of 2026, though not the specific 10% that was tweeted/widely reported.
sokoloff
·9 дней назад·discuss
> In the end it's really just greed. Companies always want to charge as much as they can get away with.

Is it also greed when consumers want to pay as little as possible? (In some ways, of course it is, but at some point, the loaded term greed isn’t particularly helpful towards understanding perfectly ordinary microeconomic behavior.)
sokoloff
·10 дней назад·discuss
I agree with everything you say, except the first. It’s still the government setting the hours for public schools (in the US meaning of public school).
sokoloff
·10 дней назад·discuss
Biology requires two people for the system to work.

Economics could as well and the system would still work.
sokoloff
·10 дней назад·discuss
Uh... Watt-hours per day reduces to Watts in dimensional analysis, which is of course my original point.
sokoloff
·10 дней назад·discuss
Assume that each workstation is lit by 100W of lighting and is vacant 18 hours per day (to make the math easy).

I claim that's 75W of power that could be reclaimed by turning off a 100W load 75% of the time. Explain how you get to energy or how I dropped time, please.