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> The alternative is also not getting what they want: a cold yoga space. The alternative was using the phone call with the manager to calmly explain the situation and try to negotiate. The blog kept talking about using "no" as
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I thought this article was supposed to be about negotiating, but this person doesn't want to listen to or negotiate with anyone. The closest they came to negotiation was when they were doing yoga alone in one room and "decided&quo
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In app categories that bring a lot of low-effort submissions and clones, Apple requires new submissions to bring something new to the table. Before these requirements the app store was filling up with thousands of flashlight apps, todo list
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3mo ago
> actually say "the thing" instead of using a new random phrase Apparently the phrase is very old, pre-dating the internet. It came out of the CIA. In this context hangout is a clipped form of "letting it all hang out"
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> Imagine suddenly a new taxi business was able to come into your city and provided taxi rides for 5 cents on the dollar. What would happen? I literally lived through this situation. It was not 5 cents on the dollar. The taxis continued
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3mo ago
This is the Bluesky thread that Gruber linked where the original author calls out the copy: https://bsky.app/profile/mmmeh.bsky.social/post/3mslc3b3u4c2... You can trace back to the original repo from that th
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3mo ago
Interesting! I had never heard that phrase before. The words are non-intuitive, but that's exactly what's happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout Now that you've introduced the phrase I
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3mo ago
> It then turned out that the developer forgot to mention that originally he did upload an astrology app for review. Gruber felt duped, and noted that it's unclear whether an updated build containing the new astronomy app was ever s
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> The reason uber didn't loose that much business is because it replaced the established businesses and left most consumers with little alternative. The established businesses were awful. There was not a thriving and beloved taxi se
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3mo ago
You will spend thousands of dollars on hardware to run those at lower quality (quantized) than the benchmarks where they match March SOTA performance. Source: I have the hardware to run those locally. I would never recommend it to anyone tr
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3mo ago
MIT license does not mean you can copy everything around the software, like the name of the product , and strip the license. There are still requirements in the license for the copyright notice to accompany the software.
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3mo ago
Daring Fireball is doubtful: > Whether Godier ever submitted a build of “Asterly” to the App Store that contained no occult horseshit and only the hard-science astronomy features that were present in his “Dark Hours” website that was ava
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3mo ago
I doubt it. Did you read until the end where it was discovered that the new web app this person put up was plagiarized from an open source repo? He even used the same name “Dark Hours” as the open source project. The original author called
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> In an uncomfortable exchange between Beher and Godier on Bluesky, Beher pointed out that Godier’s Dark Hours had the same bug as Beher’s that routed people to “random fields in Mexico”. Stealing an open source repo and launching it as
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3mo ago
> or is it fine to just limit the charging to 80% LiPo batteries will fail over time if left fully charged. If you don't need the battery it's best to keep it somewhere around 40%. If 80% is the only option, that's usually
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> i. Would it be sufficient if they proved they understood what addition, subtraction, multiplication and division was? Or do they need to be able to correctly calculate what 4592 * 314 is? What if they could show you using diagrams of s
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3mo ago
I've known people with net worth in the $100m range and even someone in the three commas range. They are indeed just people doing their thing with their families. All of them dressed normally and drove upper middle class cars most of t
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3mo ago
Every time I’ve worked at a company where teams started picking their own hardware and expensing it, it ended like this. It usually started with reasonable orders, but once some teams notice that expensing hardware is working they try to pu
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3mo ago
> In my opinion, the bulk of traditional education has been a mix of memorization of facts, knowing inference rules, and applying inference rules to those facts, coupled with recall. These are important skills to develop, even in a world
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> I have no idea why you'd want to be taking a test a second longer than you already have to. The theory was that ADHD students have trouble sustaining concentration, so extra time allows for thought breaks and distractions. The ide
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> then ... in some places (maybe cars that people care about working on) it became cleaner again Those cleaner looking engine bays are usually worse to work on. Not better. When you open up the hood and immediately see lines everywhere,
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3mo ago
Why not name the company?
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No, you can’t force people to continue working at your company by contract. These agreements work like signing bonuses. The compensation is given up front, but if you leave before N months then you need to return the compensation or some ti
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3mo ago
I don't know if the moderation team's collapse is indicative of anything. The first blog post complains about the Steering Committee for doing, well, steering . The moderators complaining that the Steering Committee is "inte
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> This is why reputable journalistic outlets disclose financial ties to entities they report on Where is the financial tie between this organization and the AI companies? The throwaway account's comment above implied some financial
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> IMO, Migrating to small-scale local LLMs would be a significant improvement over using data centers. LLM serving is most efficient when you batch a lot of parallel requests together. Data center solutions also have the advantage of col
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3mo ago
What does “AI booster” mean? From this comment and username I thought you meant they were funded by AI companies or doing marketing for them, but the most I see is that they filmed some interviews with filmmakers about AI? The about page sa
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> Your pessimism belies a distinct lack of experience, if not also a dearth of imagination. You keep missing the point and trying to insult my experience in the process. We're talking about a university student and CPU opcodes. The
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> You might be thinking that the hobby-level logic analyzers you're used to, are what folks who are serious about doing this kind of work would be using. Just, no. No I'm not. I'm referring to the logic analyzers and prob
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3mo ago
Yes, but the impact will be small. The average consumer isn't purchasing a lot of products with a lot of RAM every year. Their 8GB of RAM phones will go up in price a little bit, but people aren't buying phones every year or even
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