ElFitz

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by ElFitz 3y ago
A 150k-250k analyst isn’t upper class. Nor is it really middle-class (although that would depend on the cost of living). It’s that weird in-between, where one still needs to earn a living and make even more money for someone else. A 25M &
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by ElFitz 3y ago
That’s why I personally only listen to the opinions of people with handles like "Planck54", "The1965PhysicsNobel" or "EconNobel94" on hackernews. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. N.B. I also tried to find some notewor
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Just like this company that deployed by mounting the production server on "the special machine" through SMB and dragged and dropped the files across. You couldn’t drag and drop the whole folder, else you’d overwrite the numerous c
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Something like the algorithm TikTok uses. First probing by offering a variety of content that should match based on what little information you have on the user (ip location, locale, etc). Then use the user’s action to iteratively refine yo
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Some would argue that many real issues, including racial ones, and most debates, such as those surrounding welfare, immigration and drugs, mainly exist to distract from class inequality.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
What about Smalltalk? I don’t recall the specifics, but I remember someone mentioning it having some impressive debugging capabilities on hn. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100708 - https://news.ycombin
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I had some fun results with > From now on, if you aren’t sure about something, or cannot perform a task, answer with "I cannot <requested action>, Dave". Do not provide any explanation. Do not try to be helpful. But then
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e.g. hash collisions.
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In my experience it’s usually often enough been right enough, and has the added benefit of adapting it’s answer to my issue. Which is more than Google, or a previously answered StackOverflow question, can say. But then, it’ll probably gre
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> But when you really think about it, moving on is as pointless as feeling dreadful. Yes. > In fact, anything is as pointless as anything else. Absolutely. > It might seem like an insane question, but why exactly is moving on someh
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by ElFitz 3y ago
That’s because of the "truthy-ish" nonsense mess inherited from JavaScript. You could say the same with 0, "", NaN. That being said, I wonder what was the logic behind the decision to implement that.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I recall someone asking on World Building StackExchange what aliens could find in a few tens of millions of years or so if the human race were to disappear today [0]. The answer was "not much", aside from discrepancies in metals d
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> As a Christian, I sometimes look over into that chasm and wonder how atheists bear it. Personally, it’s been easy. I realised it one day on my own. It felt dreadful. Then I realised feeling dreadful about it was ultimately pointless si
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by ElFitz 3y ago
And so? I’m afraid you are entirely missing my point. Here, I’ll help you. 1) We don’t have to agree with their proposed solutions of technological and quality of life regressions. I am all for sustainable technological solutions that
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Your point being? I fail to see the relevance. Is it supposed to be a rebuttal? How so?
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> The climate alarmists It never ceases to amaze me how these concerns about the climate can be so casually dismissed when other people half-way across the world are literally waiting for their homes to disappear forever. Whole countries
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Hence my curiosity regarding the specifics.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
And how it came to be is a fascinating story too [0]. And there’s a fascinating bit about Xerox in John Brooks’ "Business Adventures" [1]. [0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2023/02&#x2F
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by ElFitz 3y ago
We can suppose endlessly and make all the assumptions we want. I am more interested in facts.
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I’d be interested to know what, if anything, Meta does with WhatsApp metadata.
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That’s how it usually goes. I’ve lost count of all these times a freshly onboarded dev, replacing the old one, decided the système was needlessly complex, nothing made sense, and it’d be easier to just rebuild everything from the ground up.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
And because that’s where those who bought Evernote have always been located. Why bother with maintaining a US office, and the associated admin work?
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I think they are overestimating their reputation. Basically an Italian app publisher with a weird over the top landing page: https://bendingspoons.com/
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> You still need to be able to write a coherent, non-ranting complaint letter. I’m pretty sure that would be right up GPT4’s street. It has done wonders when we had some trouble with some hotels.
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To be honest, their websites fails spectacularly more than half the time, even when trying to look up a flight. Funny enough, it’s even worse when abroad, and easily fixed by using a VPN that exits in France.
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That’s where I think coupling a web clipper with audio transcription, CLIP, & an LLM, can provide a lot of value. Have everything automatically classified, tagged, semantically searchable, and linked. This way when I, for example, write
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Now I want to set up a Patreon or Go Fund Me to fund an open source web clipper by those who worked on Evernote’s. I’ve never really found anything that worked that well.
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Bending spoons is based in Italy. So probably, yes.
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https://weekly.elfitz.com It’s mostly iOS and backend engineering, usually solutions to issues I faced and couldn’t easily find a straightforward answer to online. Along with those, there are also some random thoughts and ideas
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I haven't counted many this page where there is a regulating body that could take away a license to practice as an engineer. The UK seems to discriminate on a per discipline basis. Canada apparently is ambiguous, with self-regulating b

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