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by Salgat 2y ago
What's interesting is that there is no strong proof that flossing actually helps. The U.S. Health department had to take down their recommendation to floss because they couldn't produce evidence of its efficacy.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Comparing spoken language with programming is such a terrible comparison to make. The two even at a fundamental level have almost nothing in common. The brain uses completely different parts for programming and human language.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Learning assembly on the 68HC11 was the keystone moment in understanding programming at an intuitive level for me. What I learned applies to this day.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Regarding the other bidders dropping out, what exactly was the primary expense that gave it an estimated $1B total cost? $600M can build out a greenfield software platform, so there must be more to it.
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by Salgat 2y ago
It's not weird that people don't want to be lied to. And no one cares except for the lying part.
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by Salgat 2y ago
HR will bring it up, because it's a KPI they track. They don't tell you this and you have no idea what the threshold is, so the manager can't help you beyond a vague "HR won't approve the higher rating I want to giv
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by Salgat 2y ago
Not disclosing that the beneficiaries are friends and family under the guise of charity to get more views seems pretty scummy to me. In general I'm sick of the fake charity we see with influencers, including the classic "show up t
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by Salgat 2y ago
My wife's company does this hybrid office bullshit at a fortune 500 and they not only track the days you come in, but they will bring it up in annual reviews if it hits a certain threshold.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Hardest job I had was a part time job working the cash register. Standing in one spot for hours on end, extremely repetitive, mind numbingly boring when not handling people, it was torture for me. I still get irrationally angry how most sup
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by Salgat 2y ago
Same here. I can do all my family errands when I want and plan around them. The best part, at least with the company's interest, is that I work when I feel most productive. Usually 3 hours in the morning, along with a few hours in the
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by Salgat 2y ago
Depends, data preprocessing is often done on the CPU though.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Except that it sometimes does do those tasks well. The danger in an LLM isn't that it sometimes hallucinates, the danger is that you need to be sufficiently competent to know when it hallucinates in order to fully take advantage of it,
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by Salgat 2y ago
It's interesting how it basically generates a larger sample size to create a regression against. The larger the input, the larger the surface area it can compare against existing training data (implicitly through regression of course).
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by Salgat 2y ago
If you ever trust comments over code you really need to adjust your approach. Comments are there to help guide you towards the intent of code, not to let you ignore code. Same reason why if a function has a bug, you don't ignore that b
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by Salgat 2y ago
Code that breaks is much more likely and damaging than comments that are out of date. In my life I've never had a case where the bad outweighed the good for comments.
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by Salgat 2y ago
We only do TV on the weekends (Miss Rachel mostly, sometimes a movie), but 1 hour a day seems like nothing considering they're in daycare learning and playing for 8+ hours among the many other things they're doing throughout the d
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by Salgat 2y ago
Incognito mode until it goes away on its own.
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by Salgat 2y ago
At least with ladder logic, at the steel mill I worked at, even electricians with no programming experience could look at a ladder logic program and troubleshoot the problem, even remotely adjust controls and do overrides.
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by Salgat 2y ago
In electricity we do the same. Measure continuity at the halfway point to see if the wire is broken on that half. Rinse and repeat.
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by Salgat 2y ago
There's a base amount of power overhead the device will use no matter what, even if it does nothing. They even provide benchmarks that show that current consumption for turbo increases 10% but reduces boot time by 11%, for a small but
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by Salgat 2y ago
What you're describing is no different than a linear regression describing the predicted value between two data points. Sometimes the regression is close if enough data exists, other times you get wild hallucinations, with the model no
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by Salgat 2y ago
The true irony being that elasticsearch would be no where near what it is now if it wasn't opensource and receiving contributions in the first place. AWS had employees dedicated to contributing to Elasticsearch (same as Redis).
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by Salgat 2y ago
Sounds to me like they're trying to cover up a bad case of regret. At our company we've fully shifted to OpenSearch, so there's no going back to ElasticSearch even if we wanted (not that we would want to). Also there is a lot
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by Salgat 2y ago
LINQ is so incredibly intuitive. I wonder if this will make creating C# LINQ providers for databases that support this syntax easier.
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by Salgat 2y ago
PEC never paid greater than market rates, they simply gave a net credit since solar was only reducing load at the service drop for a neighborhood. The cost to them was swapping the meter for a bidirectional one. Now at some point if enough
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by Salgat 2y ago
The only change needed for solar users is a different meter swapped at the house that supports bidirectional metering. Solar power at the residential level only lowers overall demand in the neighborhood and on the grid, and in the very rare
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by Salgat 2y ago
I'd argue that burning energy for bitcoin is far more frivolous than for air conditioning.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Texas has a lot of gas plants (51%) that we want to idle when possible. Just because it's cheaper power doesn't mean we should be generating it when the only customer is cryptocoins.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Here just north of Austin, PEC implemented one of the most regressive solar programs in the country. Their argument in their study was that they make less money off solar since they can't sell as much power.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Market rate is based on the responsibilities of the job, not on what a single candidate might want. My advice is to not try to negotiate down on what you're going to offer a candidate, just state the responsibilities of the job, the ex

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