Bjartr

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by Bjartr 1y ago
It's a kind of context about the person's life, since this is a local community publication, not a news wire service. One that is palatable to a wider audience than religion or political affiliation for a feel-good story like thi
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by Bjartr 1y ago
It is, and it's not equally intuitive for everyone.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Just a link to the app store page? If you're going to advertise a product at least go the content marketing route to give the discussion here a bit more to chew on.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
This article describes financial instruments that were niche a few years ago that now dominate. I wonder what are a few more instruments which are niche today that might have a similar trajectory.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
> Everybody Not everybody everybody. Some people want to charge/pay/receive the maximum reasonable amount. Where "reasonable" is informed by social norms. The existence of so many amoral corporations, and sociopathi
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Their very long HN bio ends with "PS: definitely not ElReg's aMfM"
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Well yes, what I meant was that there are phenomena within these procesess that work because they leverage quantum effects that are not available in the newtonian regime of physics.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
I've always read the phrase "within a generation" to mean "within a generational lifespan", not "the time between groups we distinguish as distinct generations". Which is to say that under that interpretat
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by Bjartr 1y ago
I agree. I'm pretty sure both photosynthesis (superposition) and our sense of smell (quantum tunneling) involve quantum effects, so it's not that wild to think that quantum effects are at play in the mechanistic operation of the
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by Bjartr 1y ago
What makes that more true today than, say, 40 years ago?
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by Bjartr 1y ago
> Say what you mean. Mean what you say. It is far from that simple. It takes understanding how people will read between the lines of what you say, seeking unsaid meaning where there was none. I fight this constantly in my life. It would
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by Bjartr 1y ago
It's interesting how polarized the response to this idea is. On the one hand, there are responses like that describe this as bizarre and tone-deaf, accuse it of LLM levels of fake empathy, or say how if they were laid off they would ab
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Not saying it's a good approach to solving the problem, but surely you'd want to do the filtering at the water utility level. It would be a lot more cost effective that way.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Some people find this process intuitive to the point they don't realize they're doing it, and others have to be actively thinking about it or it doesn't happen at all. Those with autism are more likely to tend towards the lat
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Lombok hijacks the compiler to do it's own thing, and violates the contract Java compiler plugins are supposed to follow. See this comment by an OpenJDK tech lead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37666793
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by Bjartr 1y ago
It can be further refined to "to most developers who are most likely to interact with this code over its useful lifetime." This means accounting for the audience. Something unfamiliar to the average random coder might be very fami
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Losing out on 2.4% of profit isn't nothing. It's not an existential therat to the company, sure, but this seems a more real consequence for wrongdoing than many other penalties I've seen against companies over the years.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
> only as capable as it is at promoting American interests in the world because it has many of the biggest winner-take-all corporations in its jurisdiction. At a glance it seems this would only remain true so long as American interests a
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by Bjartr 1y ago
I'd never use hashids/sqids for anything secure. It's reversible by design. However, it is fit for purpose if your purpose is showing user-facing ids that can't be trivially incremented. For example, in a url, or in an a
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by Bjartr 1y ago
> like we all do Do we though? Sure, we communicate sequentially, but that doesn't mean that our internal effort is piecewise and linear. A modern transformer LLM however is. Each token is sampled from a population exclusively depe
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by Bjartr 1y ago
More importantly, it does not add to the conversation. If humor alone is what you want, head to Reddit. Humor is welcome here, but it needs to have some substance behind it.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Guilt by association is much more a social construct, than a legal one. The bar for legal consequences is expected to be much higher than mere association. It has never been perfect, nor uniformly applied in all circumstances, but it is and
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by Bjartr 1y ago
If the track played though a cassette is that much of an improvement, couldn't you have a mastering step that runs the track through a cassette player? Or is there a je ne sais quoi that even that would fail to capture?
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by Bjartr 1y ago
I mean, I definitely have some money invested in gold to hedge against partial collapse. Certainly if all of society crumbles to the point contract law goes caput, it doesn't mean a damn thing. In the case things "merely" get
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by Bjartr 1y ago
That's moving the goalposts. "entirely useless" and "not enough to make much of a difference in terms of volumes traded on markets" are very different claims.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Not entirely, it's used in integrated circuits. Electronics is one of the places it's actually a functional good.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
> How is AWS suppose to know whether you want to immediately scale or not? Ask? This is not some impossible problem. Yes, there is a UX challenge to be solved. But also, doing so is well within the capabilities of a company like Amazon.
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Not when I want my notes to contain my own thoughts or reminders to myself. That's only in my head and today I either have to miss out on what is being said next to type it out, speak up in that moment (even if not really on topic), or
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by Bjartr 1y ago
Yes, but having the discipline to practice enough to get faster than my normal typing speed has been an obstacle.
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Personal anecdote: I do find typing to be a bottleneck in situations where typing speed is valuable (so notes in meetings, not when coding). I can break 100wpm, especially if I accept typos. It's still much, much slower to type than I

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