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Recent writing at https://grantslatton.com/latest Formerly built the world's fastest filesystem at AWS, now the fastest spreadsheet at http://rowzero.com

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RCV is also extra-bad in e.g. 3-way elections since the centrist is almost always squeezed out if everyone votes honestly, leading to much higher regret for the side that didn't strategically vote for the centrist

07.06.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem is the voters don't have to overthink it, strategists within the campaign pass along the optimal strategy to allied news outlets who then publish strategic rank orders for their readers to copy

07.06.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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you're into walkable mixed use urbanism because of some dutch youtuber

i'm into it because

26.01.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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During COVID, the rock climbing gym closed, so built this free-standing climbing pillar in our backyard

25.01.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The classic look is part of the appeal to me! Very nostalgic for my uncle's lakehouse study that had them.

25.01.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just got a $50 on Amazon that looked good

LED bulb, works great

25.01.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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can't recommend enough getting a banker's lamp for your office

increased my IQ by 5 pts

the vibe of working late completely changes

erudite, scholarly, sophisticated

25.01.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re in a country where Trump won the popular vote

Anyone to the left of those people is, by definition, left of center

23.01.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Leftists do more than point it out, they call for her to be primary'd by a leftist who will then go on to lose

23.01.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All the leftists in WA attacking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez need to hear this message

Left of center dem representative in a district Trump won by 7 points and they want to destroy her

23.01.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At a cafe and two ~60 year-olds are telling each other about their physics "research"

Both clearly cranks whose "research" is flux capacitor quantum dimension type stuff

Men will literally invent fake physics before telling their bros they just wanna hang and chat

23.01.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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if i ask GPT to list the countries on the Danube river

sometimes it includes Moldova, sometimes not

decided to get to the bottom of it

probably training data with and without it included due to this weird history

22.01.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You can get up to speed surprisingly fast with YouTube

I built our dining table as my very first project ever

19.01.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Built this record cabinet

Sapele mahogany + white maple accents

19.01.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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You don't understand, this is peak beach use

17.01.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When I worked at AWS I actually got to test the prototype for them a year or so before release β€” just some android phone running a proof of concept app with the camera β€” had no idea what they were for till they showed up in stores

14.01.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know letting Amazon have my palm scan so I can pay with my hand at Whole Foods is probably The Mark of the Beast

But it’s just soooo convenient

Hope Bezos doesn’t wind up being the antichrist or I am cooked

14.01.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

worked on a codebase once where the author had abbreviated all instances of the word "parameter" to "parm"

made me want italian food every time i touched that repo

10.01.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

honestly we’re so blessed that god made 2^10 so close to 10^3

allows estimating thousand = 2^10, million = 2^20, billion = 2^30, etc

08.01.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

when i was in china in 2010 i heard lots of songs that sounded like

_ _ bao
_ _ zhao
_ _ dao
_ _ lao
_ _ yao

like every line had the same number of syllables & ended in the same vowel sound β€” too easy

07.01.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are some languages that are *too* easy to rhyme in and it affects their music

Spanish and Chinese come to mind

It's too easy to write songs with trivial/elementary rhymes, don't have to work for it

07.01.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels

honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is

06.01.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of my favorite geography trick questions:

You're traveling in the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific

What direction are you traveling?

People say West, but it's actually East

Panama is more squiggly than people think

05.01.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

An interesting trend is that hardware is still improving exponentially, but the population of earth isn’t growing much

So services that scale with the number of humans will become increasingly trivial

In 2045, run all of Facebook on a single server, tinyurl on a raspberry pi

04.01.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Post β€” A general algorithm for writing complex software

grantslatton.com/how-to-softw...

01.01.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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wish i was born earlier so i could get some trivial greedy algorithm named after me

31.12.2024 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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As a 90s kid with a stutter I was just glad to have some representation in cinema

30.12.2024 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This little criminal tried to chase the mailman, only to be captured by grandma

27.12.2024 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me: So what's your specialty

Astronomy prof: I study galactic collisions

Me: Sounds exciting

Prof: Not really since they take about a billion years

26.12.2024 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when you teach a kid the rules of chess, they'll start by making legal but basically random moves

junior engineers are like this if they ever read a book about "design patterns" too early

they'll just apply them randomly β€” singleton here, factory builder there, etc

26.12.2024 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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