Frost1x

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by Frost1x 5y ago
Agreed. Markets are ruled by majorities not minorities, no matter how right or wrong the majority may be. Let's stop pretending consumers always act in their best interests or even have access to: capacity to analyze (time, priority, i
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by Frost1x 5y ago
What technology isn't overhyped and under delivered? It's pretty difficult to get anyone remotely interested in technology unless they think it's going to be revolutionary and/or make them rich. I used to push back again
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I think thee assumption is that the investors have likely stolen from people, through perfectly legal yet ethically dubious means many consider theft but isn't defined in law as theft (deceit, disproportionate reward of effort, etc.)
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There are so many alternative communication systems besides Whatsapp and Facebook owned systems. Had I not checked HN and other news sources, I wouldn't have even noticed Facebook was down. I communicate domestically and internationall
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>But you point out a real problem. There is so much reinvention by people who simply don't know what was done previously. I've often wondered if and where the boundaries of human knowledge will run into this very problem. Mostl
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by Frost1x 5y ago
How could it not be random, dare I ask? I don't agree with the current directions of technology in terms of surveillance and data collection for private and powerful interests, but I find it far more likely that living in SF you'd
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>I tend to encounter the latter in smaller companies that have revenue pipelines outside of tech and aren't entirely tech-oriented. These orgs also tend to treat all tech as cost centers (perhaps, correctly in their context of busin
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by Frost1x 5y ago
You know they do have to fly these things for real testing. Only so much can be simulated with computers and wind tunnels. It's not a matter if it's exposed, it's a matter of when and where it's exposed. Security thr
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone's open photo album in the
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Yea, I don't see the complaint here. It's part of my job to let whomever the client may be that what they're doing may be a bad use of resources (typically in a documented email in a very positive tone with lots of "deci
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The point is that we assume positive effects of more information and ignore negative effects of more information. I wanted to point out that more information is not always better and can lead to degraded decision making. I see it happen o
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The more surprising aspect to this review (maybe I missed this part, I skimmed) is how there wasn't much discussed about having a bigger and more ergonomic hand mount for the phone when shooting. I don't even mean with all sorts o
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There's another one that appears to run through the Gulf of Mexico to the US as well (looks like AL or LA to TX), so I suspect it's surprisingly cheaper and/or easier to get policy approval. It's not entirely uncommon to
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There tends to be an assumption that more information is always better but it ultimately depends on how one interprets and uses that information (time and absorptive capacity is important). Most models that push for more information assume
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>I think the biggest problem with friendships these days is people want friends without all the work that goes with it. We have a very convenience driven "me first" culture. While it's healthy to always keep in mind your n
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by Frost1x 5y ago
How is this different than the Office 365 version of Excel? It produces change logs/version management and real time collaboration.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Graph structures in general are painful in Excel. You can generate adjacency lists or matrices and do stuff that way, but it's painful and non-intuitive. I'm currently helping some people who started modeling such a datastructure
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by Frost1x 5y ago
It dulls the senses and temporarily increases blood flow around a lot of your skin where temperature is monitored, which makes you feel warmer. So it could make a bad situation seem better than it is, could also lead to hypothermia becau
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by Frost1x 5y ago
If we make childcare a societal issue then we need to broaden that to make it easier for anyone and everyone to not only care for children but have children. There are plenty of those who want children but can't have them for a variety
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>2) people got used to living much more cheaply than they had before due everything being closed Not just more cheaply,the lockdowns forced many to become more self-sufficient and in many cases, they either needed or wanted to do some se
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The only no-BS tenet for business decision making is: "will this make the business money or position the business to better make money." All the rest are n-th order effects in the decision making process. The quicker you come to g
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There's this idea that resiliency and efficiency aren't trade offs and I agree some times, they aren't always direct trade offs, but they seem to be a lot of the time. Efficiency usually means cutting redundancy and redundanc
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The US thrives on a precariat class now, though. General safety nets that allow people to contribute a reasonable amount and still live comfortably doesn't create a class of people desperate to do any work to survive, ripe for exploita
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Mushkin used to, but I suspect it stopped quite awhile back now browsing their website. It's apparently now owned by another company as of 2013. I used to exclusively purchase Mushkin memory for systems prior to transitioning to laptop
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by Frost1x 5y ago
In my perspective, yes. A child has needs and there's a baseline cost in resources to supply those needs, not just material needs like food, clothing, shelter but more integible needs like time with their parent. As a parent you have r
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The outrage, I hope, is that Facebook conducted research that made it aware of something negative it was doing that made it money but kept the information tight and continued acting in a harmful way because... it makes them money. Ignorance
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>He writes 20,000 words on a highly abstract and technical subject, and every single hyperlink in the article goes to either one of his own websites, or to Wikipedia. Exerpt: "But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there wa
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Most corporate PR statements are crafted this way. They often give the illusion of saying something because all the key words of saying something are there, but they're often crafted in a way that if read carefully, say almost nothing
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There's a long explanation but the summary is that FORTRAN was one of the first languages that targeted the highest computing demands so there was functional and financial interest in making it highly performant. Hardware was often des
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by Frost1x 5y ago
And after you define this mid-point employment classification between traditionally employed and self employed, businesses who hold the leverage will look at the segments from traditionally employed to the new mid-point as we as self-employ

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