fsckboy

>It’s funny you picked 160.

no, it's not anything like a coincidence or a quote of Buffet.

People always say "160" as the example number because the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler series IQ tests are among the most commonly used and they have a maximum score of 160.

That alone is not enough, you also need to know the std dev is 15 or 16. Therefore, 160 is 4 sd's above the mean which, regardless of the thing you are measuring, is very difficult to measure without massive numbers of sample points because the population density becomes very sparse.

there are other intelligence tests, some top out at 200, but you have to know the SD for that to be useful.

cheap laptops are cheap, simply don't use your "real" computer.

how about they do what they want, and you do what you want, and you don't collaborate with each other if you can't get along? no reason to be angry.

if one of my hiring practices would reliably generate that many f-bombs, i'd consider it a success and stick with it!

there are people out there who don't want to hold your hand.

stop advocating that we discriminate against them because you feel you need your hand held.

the mention of laptop was not adding a laptop requirement to the original question

waist-to-hip ratio already took us beyond BMI, a long time ago.

>When the sun’s rays shone through the glass, they were amplified by four metal plates positioned at 60-degree angles; triangular mirrors between the plates further amplified solar wavelengths

sorry, there was concentration, but there was no amplification.

usage:

>I draw a line on advertising for myself

the typical phrase in English, "I draw the line at advertising for myself" would mean that is the thing that has gone too far, something you will not accept. you used a slightly different phrase, but it is still where I draw the line.

there are different flours available which vary in suitability for different purposes and in cost. King Arthur Flour has a computer controlled mill and they offer a service to bread makers to let them specify their own "recipe" for the flour they wish to order.

https://www.cooksinfo.com/flour-grades

excerpt:

"French bakers will use straight flour in their bread making; North Americans and British generally don’t.

"Straight flour is separated by sifting in other grades. The straight flour is passed along a roller over different sieves. Different grades fall through the appropriate sieve along the roller. In the percentages given below, the lower the percentage of straight flour that falls through a particular grading sieve, the more desirable the flour."

>It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program

it is guaranteed in Scheme, and it affects the semantics of programs in a completely positive way.

Much of computer science is "pure" and "abstract" like mathematics. However, programmers are still taught to use loops to calculate factorial rather than recursion in order to avoid stack overflow. In Scheme you can use recursion without flinching. That is a semantic difference.

>People in these jobs don't live long enough on average to get diagnosed

not to mention the other devil in these studies: some professions are statistically going to have the lowest rate of every possible disease. you can't just cherrypick outliers and declare "causal!"

>I take the point

interesting, because if you want a steak medium rare in France you order it "au point", "at the point"

>Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to master... and knowing about reverse searing is about all it takes

but discovery (or rediscovery?) of reverse searing was just a few short years ago.

"not spreading infection between patients is easy, just wash your hands" was a huge discovery, not an "oh, everybody knows that"

the reporter was "hacked" in cooperation with the hacker in order to write the article

humans evolved to have risk seekers and risk avoiders. some people try it, the other people watch.

even if you "scorch" a field with too much manure one year, that field is going to come back with a vengeance at some point. There are all sorts of natural disasters that scar the forest (like fire), but it is a renewing process

>everyone else flies to whatever country offers the best tax breaks for them to film

once people are arranging plane tickets/charters, then they fly to the best place financially.

But LA/Hollywood.gov priced themselves out of the market first.

marine life is unphased by salt; this fish sauce is former marine life

it is sitting right next to the ocean, which is where all that salt came from, just put it back

>I've seen two pound jars of it in Costco.

I took pictures of empty 100 lb (45 kg) MSG containers in the trash outside Bao restaurant on St Marks in NYC

I grew up in a seaside port and fishing community. 1st thing, what landlubbers think is stinky is not operative here, your thoughts are moo, like the opinion of a sea cow.

The seacoast smells like rotten fish all the time, it's called low tide. The most vibrant sea biomes are shallow coastal waters. The capacity of the North Atlantic, rich with oxygen, to handle fish parts is basically limitless. Hell, you can probably sell this stuff to lobster- and shellfish- men. The quantity here is one whale carcass (yes, that's a mammal, but you get the idea) and whale carcasses happen all the time.

Dump it in the Bay of Fundy, one tide will get rid of all of it. Worrying about the environmental impact of dead fish is like worrying that dumping manure on a field will leave it fallow.

What you are really smelling here is a govt funding boondoggle.

also, allergies pride parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhaUKnt1Zmw

>If a company is violating no laws and...

according to the article, he alleges Apple was doing something "without required customer releases"; there's at least the implication that a regulation is being broken, do you know something extra about this?

>Jacobin is more like social democrat

they always tell you who they really are: look up les jacobins in the French revolution.

yeah, and imagine living without decameters and hectometers, unthinkable!

bean counters are better at establishing asset value than you are, and as I mentioned elsewhere, income streams are assets also

you're describing risk that's a future worry, you don't get debt in the present without assets

contracted revenue streams and subscriptions are also assets. Having first claim on those has tangible value.

bankers do not engage in "impossible to evaluate", they simply don't. bankers are reductive.

the rest of your post says "there's risk". equity and debt investors understand risk, and either engage or don't. If they do a poor job of understanding risk, they either get lucky or run out of funds to participate.

no, today's hollowed out husk of internet is what is cringy and self conscious, as well as namby-pamby. the attitudes of those who created the internet cannot be called cringy.

you won't get debt if you don't have assets that can be repossessed, so having debt means these AI companies have assets: that's a strong thing, not a weak thing. interest rates are what they are, and they go up and down for reasons exogenous to your industry; debt regardless of interest is always "cheaper" than equity, and the shareholders expect to make their money from equity, paying interest on debt as a type of impedance matching and cost of keeping more equity.

so everything is going according to plan, and nobody knows the future, and predicting collpses has never been a profitable business.

I didn't have to read past the first few confusing contorted and convoluted paragraps of this article to decide to come over here and explain it, this is all straightforward corporate finance 102 and the article is fluff