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by SergeAx 4y ago
My personal problem with Stable diffusion moment is that nothing practical came up from that moment. Concerning all image generative models I only see them used in generation of OG-images for mostly uninteresting articles on the internet. I
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Why would we ever need this? We never compare rape and murder, for that matter. We have the entire justice system for that, with judges and courts and prosecutors and defenders and jurys.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Businesses are paying more taxes than people do, so the article's title is eeconomically infeasible. Also I suspect that businesses are creating more jobs, so 2:0.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
And this is the right answer. No way anybody in their sane mind expect an off the bat estimation for a large project to be anywhere realistic.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
This is not about jealousy. When people working second jobs, their productivity tanks dramatically.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> Estimating how long something is going to take is really difficult No one says it is easy, but it is not impossible too. It is okay to change one's estimation after several hours/days of work. But after months working on the
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Maybe this is because companies where managers can confidently measure productiveness are already switched back to work from office?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> The luxury belief class [...] wants to keep you mired in [poverty and chaos] And why would they want that? Author doesn't provide any reasoning about it.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I checked original OSM and it seems to me that most airports there are more or less mapped. I checked Belgrade, Sofia, Vienna and Nurnberg. Every one has icons for security check, car rentals, gift shops and so on.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
By the way, given that porn industry was and still partially is a serious driver of Internet development, using original female nude as a benchmark for compression quality was more than justified.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I can't really tell anymore if this is ironic or not.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Telegram recently implemented some new features, and I was too lazy to update the client. It showed "you need a recent version of Telegram to see this" message instead of new functional. I don't see how other messengers won&#
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I personally live in the world of smartphones. I also tried VR: both Valve Index and Quest 2 and the second one is a nearest thing to what I'd call a breakthrough. Another couple of years - and we may have something really interesting
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Oh, maybe you also want your TV not phoning home with it's usage stats? Or even have a root privilege on your iPhone? /s
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Writing a readable, maintainable and future-proof code is a distinct skill, widely different from writing code per se. One-time contractors with fixed result-based pay are tend to ship "just working" code, thus most of closed-sour
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Author of Pydantic started a cloud product company(pydantic.dev)
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> - TZ=Europe/Berlin OMG, why?! It is even had a daylight savings!
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Apple fanboys really need to convince themselves that their phones are better, otherwise it's an existential threat for their egos.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Wow, that's an exemplary investigative journalism! World will be so much better now. Maybe these guys better spend their energy and funds on tracking Russian oil, which is exported in troves bypassing sanctions?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I actually expected to see a map of insides of the airport: check-in stalls, security control, lounges and shops. Some places even had those, but it is painted over with an orange "this is an airport building" matte plate.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Isn't it interesting that caffeine is the only drug fully approved and even encouraged by the society today?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
They are depicted in "Raise and fall of D.O.D.O." by Neil Stephenson.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> I did very well This is the author's perspective and it's not necessary true. There's a tricky part in hiring process on the employer side, and it is enormously high cost of false positive. If I hire a wrong person, comp
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> I’ve bought a domain (grifel.app) on Google Domains. I use it because they have all of the extensions like app and dev, don’t do much marketing BS They will also flush everything connected to your Google account down the drain the mome
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> apparently text is all you need to create personhood. Yep, since aporoximately the Epic of Gilgamesh. So?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> magically declare that all employees are 2.37x more productive now If this is not true, other companies will include WFH in their offers and will kill two rabbits with one shot: win best talents and will make them more productive.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Someone really well versed will have an understanding of how old English sounds for layperson. Also, we are discussing a situation when everyone is more or less fluent in a given [programming] language, and the probable culprit is just flex
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I just can't shake off the feeling that all those "be productive" techniques are nothing else than means to force oneself to do something one don't want at all. Human psyche will take a serious tall on these activities,
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Code is a kind of language. It is entirely possible to tell if person speaks clearly, easy to understand, or not. You may even train an ML model on Wikipedia section "Simple English". The same applies to code. It is not 100% deter
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I would like you to do two things for me, please. First, find some materials describing mandatory out-of-curriculum patriotic classes, introduced September 2022 in schools in Russia. They call it something like "Important conversation&

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