Matt Ranger

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[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

What is 2 + 3?

Mainstream economics: 5

MMT:

CONSIDER for a moment the expression 2 + 3. Now this expression is perhaps best considered in the form of an accounting formula 2 + 3 = 4 + 1, in which the left side represents assets and the right side represent liabilities.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@lemire The problem we have is that we use these as reasons to disinvest in the infrastructure rather than to invest in it.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@coryfromphilly @besttrousers @staffcommenter @oscredwin @soncharm @wanyeburkett @besttrousers Thanks for the recommendation, I'll write one out.

You join the BE whatsapp group as payment

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

I thought AWS S3 had a shitty, user hostile API.

But, wow, Google Cloud Storage is so much worse. You can't even download files without downloading a command line tool

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@ChShersh mfw your logging library makes network calls and gets a bunch of fortune 500s owned

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@jruderman @ryxcommar I agree, the issue in his post was which LLM he's using

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@ChShersh Could have been Yazi + Helix all along.

It supports the Haskell LSP and anything else: https://t.co/CsVyTeDp4M

[Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers]

@jdcmedlock Time to repost a @vhranger classic. https://t.co/KtAvDgHXyb

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@ryxcommar (Marginal product of labor) * (bargaining power)

The bargaining power factor actually dominates the result for most job's wages.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@willigula @ryxcommar follow better people on there?

The algorithm here was "sort posts from follows by newest" until 2019 and twitter **was** the zeitgeist, back then too.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@gh345632214 @ChShersh Always start any fresh windows install with this powershell admin command:

irm https://t.co/LoT1eVJ3fH | iex

Best automated debloater/config tool I found.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@CasPiancey the grifter axis keeps surprising me by aligning on the most unrelated issues

[wint @dril]

most of the posts on here are like what you would see if a dog could post

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@lemire r/redneckengineering material!

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@monkey_reg @JosephPolitano Arguably more this

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@lemire FWIW I would have gone for a PhD if I didn't see the sorry state of academia in economics.

The publication process and career incentives are such that anyone with a PhD outside a top10 school is effectively wasting 6 years of their lives.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@lemire Andrew Gelman is a big fan of post publication review. I'm also a huge fan of preprints and using those to vet papers (arxiv, NBER working papers, etc.)

The issue is changing the academic incentive system.

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@swap357 @cmuratori WSL:

- Wont network if windows host is on a VPN

- Installing CUDA drivers still is a 2h process that sometimes requires a full WSL wipe and reinstall

- All the weird IO bugs

... so yeah, it's a nice tool but doesn't replace a real linux machine

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@diplo_thomas1 @qxmmm44 @edzitron Reddit is a public company now

[Matt Ranger @vhranger]

@Jonathan_Blow It inspires people to do related things by contemplating the process that gets you there.

In a sense the talks encourage craftsmanship, not building rewind systems.