AdamN

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by AdamN 1mo ago
His sister (at his behest??) decided to lean into a smaller number of projects for his money. It does seem like a miss that they couldn't keep it going. There's enough money in Seattle that it should have been doable with the ri
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by AdamN 1mo ago
There's a great book from a different line that delves into this as a form of what the author calls 'manifold objectivism'. In short, there are some big concepts like Christianity or Islam that people refer to as if it'
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by AdamN 1mo ago
It seems like the different AI companies should lean into their 'blend' in terms of AI speak. The analogues for me are spaghetti sauce or coffee. Starbucks for instance has a particular roasting style that you can guess 100% of
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by AdamN 1mo ago
Apple is working from the 'desktop' up to beefy servers with 64GB+ RAM. Nvidia is working from the 'datacenter' down to beefy racks with terabytes of RAM. There isn't really an overlap yet. Individual Nvidia cards
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by AdamN 1mo ago
That's their point
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by AdamN 1mo ago
Reminds me of when I ordered Salade Marché in Paris and it was a large slice of paté with a frisson of endive on the side :-)
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by AdamN 1mo ago
accelerometers can do that job. Also it can stop the jamming every once in a while to check.
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by AdamN 1mo ago
My sense (I could be wrong) is that once that amazing engineer really understood the class of problems (i.e. he handled it multiple times) and was really comfortable that they would in fact be able to communicate plainly about the decisions
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by AdamN 1mo ago
kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data and even then there were so many moving parts t
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by AdamN 1mo ago
It is funny :-) Moving to Germany from the US was like entering a timewarp. PayPal is still real??? People use it?? I get it now but it's a pretty big miss that GiroCard couldn't figure out how to displace them after all this tim
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by AdamN 1mo ago
I'm lovin' RTP. I've used it a few times between IBKR and Chase and it works very well, even for some hefty sums.
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by AdamN 1mo ago
Not by default. Deutsche Bank for instance makes you select it and I'm guessing most people are afraid that choosing instant means a fee so they leave it off.
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by AdamN 1mo ago
Agree that nobody considers it a sweetheart but you're wrong on the ex-US issue. Paypal is big in Germany for instance and I literally know nobody who uses Paypal in the US (maybe for eBay stuff??)
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by AdamN 1mo ago
I often think of my experience at Citibank 15 years ago when I closed my account at the branch. The teller said 'sure thing, just put your debit card into the device and enter your pin'. I did that and he said ok I'll close
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by AdamN 1mo ago
Not totally - it's really nice when you don't have to worry about complex cluster scaling and it's all nice and vertical. Everything in those machines is also hot swappable so really the only downtime will be from an applica
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by AdamN 1mo ago
Never read that book but I also agree that safety can be demonstrably improved and it's pretty clear that aviation is safer now than in the 70s. One thing that may have helped is that regulations have been slow to loosen since advance
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by AdamN 1mo ago
That's a bit of a myth - it's totally doable in greenhouses and in fact in NYC you get really good lettuce grown locally with hydroponics. I miss Gotham Greens now that I think about it, really good greens: https://www
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by AdamN 1mo ago
There's a common pattern with other safety improvements that as safety controls improve, people simply push the envelope further. Cars get safer but then the drivers also get more confident doing things that nobody would get close to
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by AdamN 2mo ago
Also the reader may want to support the publisher by allowing ads. What's toxic is the tracking, data collection, and how some ads are intrusive.
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by AdamN 2mo ago
If an activist speaks up about a group of people being marginalized, they're speaking 'for' those people. 'About' would be if it was descriptive speaking (perhaps an anthropologist's article) but if it's
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by AdamN 2mo ago
LOCKSS is a technology and I could imagine it being part of a plan - but archivists still need to consider what entity owns the data and has rights to give access to it, what jurisdiction governs the data, how to transfer ownership/rig
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TreasuryDirect moves authn 100% to ID.me(treasurydirect.gov)
2 points by AdamN 2mo ago|1 comments
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by AdamN 2mo ago
Treasury Direct, "the one and only place to buy and redeem U.S. savings bonds and other securities directly from the U.S. Treasury", will support only ID.me for authentication going forward.
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by AdamN 2mo ago
There's a difference between an archive and a backup it's true. If this really is intended to be archival they need to come up with a plan with the Library of Congress, the US Archives, or a similar institution. There are archiv
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by AdamN 2mo ago
Not if I was that rich, no. Fundamentally Sergey does not have faith that an accountable government merits the money.
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by AdamN 2mo ago
The majority of the population doesn't even have access to a functioning computer. So yeah maybe somebody truly talented can figure their way out of that hole after a few years but that's where alot of people are starting from.
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by AdamN 2mo ago
The book is worth a read - lots of misadventures and musings.
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by AdamN 2mo ago
Oh the text definitely has breadth, depth, and nuance ... just not sure how correct it is.
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by AdamN 2mo ago
My rule: ORMs first, if there are performance problems it's probably the db structure so don't be afraid of reworking the underlying database. In some cases though SQL gets you the specific thing you need so don't be afraid
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by AdamN 2mo ago
It's not even clear that for most sufferers that there is a physical impairment at all. I went to a Tinnitus clinic in Berlin and was surprised at how little is known about it even now and how much is likely psychological (or more ins

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