JohnCClarke

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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
I tried one these to see how good it was, and whether I could use it for hiring. And it was the best recruiter interview I've ever had. I know, that says a lots about recruiters. It definitely feels odd talking to a machine. On the pos
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
For Apple aesthetics is function. Apple generates enormous value from branding as a premium product.
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
The book "How big things get done" [1] has tables listing the historical cost overruns of construction projects. It's worth keeping in mind that solar and wind farms start generating revenue as soon as the first panel or turb
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
This is a good introduction to the highest quality evidence: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/origins-pandemic
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
And this cuts the other way also: certain things - golang, MySQL - can not be used because of "100% rational reasons". I know, I know, I should let it go [1]. [1] https://xkcd.com/386/
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
So, the Innuit may not have 100 words for "snow" after all. But the Hacker's Dictionary really does contain 216 synonyms for "broken". [*] https://hackersdictionary.com/html/index.html
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
<Not intending to start a flamewar...> MySQL shines for simple OLTP. My PostgreSQL friends all have "paged at 3am to vacuum the database" war stories. I like simple and dumb for transactional data and MySQL delivers.
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
I think that's what they're saying.
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by JohnCClarke 1y ago
IME when AI "hallucinates" API endpoints or library functions that just aren't there it's almost always the case that they should be. In other words the AI has based it's understanding on the combined knoweledge of
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that the same week the government cut £5B from supporting the sick and disabled they also started selling bonds bought during QE for £100B less than they paid for them. Swings and roundabouts: life expectancy
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
It does sound counter-intuitive. However "Post Adventure/Mission Depression" is very common. See e.g. https://worldextrememedicine.com/app/uploads/2022/07/Lukas-H... As a person in tech, I
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
The judgement isn't calculated based on the defendent's ability to pay. Greenpeace USA will be bankruped by this if it is not reduced on appeal.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Well, what's the time horizon? A PE backed outfit, or a CTO looking to move on within a year or so, would be well advised to follow this guidance. Lots of success now, and the problems deferred to later.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
If the USA devolves into a mass of competing micro-states China will just pick them off one by one.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
The USA federal government spent $6.75T in FY2024. This website painstakingly tracks 3% of that. It would be more honest of Doge to say what of the 97% is to be cut, and where that will fall.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Blackman[1] is a 1986 textbook that includes an example of a naval tracking application with observations every 90 minutes. It was obvious to me that the observations were satellite based and TIL they must have come from this system. It&#x2
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
I've always assumed that the babies grown in test tubes and graded into alphas to epsilons in Huxley's "Brave New World" are simply a metaphor for children going throught the UK school system. In that case the homeschool
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
The smarter AI app founders know that more advanced AI will easily replace their current tech. What they're trying to do now is lock in a userbase.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Me too! How fascinating to know the title came from a poem.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
that's a thousand dollars each Even in this populist age, math still counts.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Thanks!
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
This is fantastic. Can you share any details of how you created the pictures? I am trying to do illustrations for a childrens book in a similar style (although I want much more detail on the pages) but all my attempts end up being a complet
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” -- Lord Palmerston (and repeated by Henry Kissinger) It's a dangerous world out there
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Your leadership was impressed by the powerpoint and so it was Vendor A.
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Asimov's three laws were a lot shorter!
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
If only there was some kind of social media devoted to gathering all those folks in one place. Oh, wait
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Question: Could you get the customer isolation by running all console access through customer specific lambdas which simply add a unique (and secret) header to all requests. Then you can run a single database with sets of tables keyed by th
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Well yay for science. Asking for a friend: Does this also apply to sports cars?
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Curiously, the YouTube algorithm recommended that I read "Count Zero", so here I am. I think Neuromancer absolutely nailed the future of business: giant ledgers holding records of every communication, event and transaction affecti
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by JohnCClarke 2y ago
Well congratulations! That's awesome!

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