flazzarino (u/flazzarino)

flazzarino commented on Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices themanual.com/auto/markup... · Posted by u/TreyGuy

zachshefska · 3 years ago

The market is SO inefficient. While you’re right in describing the principles of supply and demand, the reality is that buying a car should be 10x simpler and the price should just be the price. No games, no haggling, no BS add-ons that increase dealer profits. Retail auto is due for a wake up call, and I sense it’s happening right now. You wouldn’t need markups to make extra profit if the cost infrastructure associated with selling cars was lower than it currently is.

flazzarino · 3 years ago

This doesn't address the question asked.

flazzarino commented on To hook diners, an invasive species of carp gets a new name economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/lxm

magneticnorth · 3 years ago

The paywall cuts off before you actually learn the name - "copi", short for copious.

flazzarino · 3 years ago

thank you

flazzarino commented on Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

flazzarino · 5 years ago

The ultimate memory safety PL is rejected because it cannot malloc without blowing up?

flazzarino commented on Goroutines are not significantly lighter than threads matklad.github.io//2021/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

flazzarino · 5 years ago

Would a better comparison let the threads build up a few MBs of non-identical stacks?

flazzarino commented on TLA+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA... · Posted by u/kristianpaul

Taikonerd · 5 years ago

> How valuable is TLA+ for non-concurrent applications?

My understanding is that TLA+ is for concurrent applications, but with a broad definition of "concurrent." For example, it could be...

* multiple hosts messaging each other

* multiple threads in one process sharing a data structure

* multiple API calls that all use the same Postgres DB

In other words, any sort of system where different actors can step on each others' toes.

flazzarino · 5 years ago

You define variables and code that changes the variables over time. TLA+ lets you observe variable states and assert constraints. The amount of concurrency is up to you, it works fine with a single process.

Non-determinism might be a better thing to anchor the value to. For example in a deterministic "normal" programming environment, an if/then/else statement will execute only one out of two possible code paths. You have to run the code with a complementary condition to observe the other code path.

In a non-deterministic environment like TLA+ both possible code paths are executed. You can observe state transitions in both possibilities.

In a deterministic context the combinatorics of code paths can get out of hand quickly. Non-deterministically you have one set of assertions for all code paths, or patterns of paths.

flazzarino commented on Why Italians don't drink a cappuccino after 11am [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7mIcI... · Posted by u/henning

brainlessdev · 5 years ago

It's a good video, full of information. Ignore the snarky comment(s).

Summarizing:

- Italians in the North are less prone to lactose malabsorption than those in the South - They don't drink cappuccinos after 11 because it's heavy to digest - The video includes some information about why milk is hard to digest, and other things

flazzarino · 5 years ago

The causation in your summary was not established in the video, only claimed with some correlations to other phenomena.

Some non-snarky comments provided some really good counter examples, eg they eat ice cream all afternoon.

Also from my own experience in the south: every morning kids eat a bowl of milk with a shot of espresso over cereal.

flazzarino commented on 20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance forbes.com/sites/sergeikl... · Posted by u/xoxoy

flazzarino · 6 years ago

I remember the gate-keeping options questionnaire (SEC mandated?) from RH, comparing to E-Trade:

* RH feels like accepting a TOS or a EULA; * E-Trade makes it that you are reporting net-worth and are willing to risk it.

Can RH be held liable for misrepresenting the regulations? This might have been settled without any loss of life.

flazzarino commented on Slack S-1 sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... · Posted by u/bardworx

robinaero · 7 years ago

Does anyone else find the SEC disclosures format ugly? Might be time for them to adopt markdown

flazzarino · 7 years ago

Trump is on it, he has them working in shifts

flazzarino commented on Foxconn's Gou Runs for Taiwan President, Citing Message from Sea Goddess bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pseudolus

flazzarino · 7 years ago

There are a lot of people on the island that were there before the KMT arrived that don't consider it China or themselves Chinese.

flazzarino commented on Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? · Posted by u/apitman

_0w8t · 7 years ago

“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Taleb. It is hard to compress it into a short summary, but it can be something like “be very aware about unknown unknowns”.

flazzarino · 7 years ago

It is highly compressed! but not in a dense way, distilled might be a better term.

He writes my favorite books.