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by Shrezzing 3y ago
While it's accurate that task complexity is the shoreline paradox, it also has the same obvious solution as the shoreline paradox in day-to-day scenarios: Agree a resolution ahead of time and discuss the measurement in those terms. Nob
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
The MS documentation for Excel is a pretty good resource to learn from these days, with text descriptions for just about every function, and videos for most too. This page [1] is an especially great resource. It's got a "top-10&qu
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
I fully agree with the point you're making, but to be pedantic, clocks and timezones are themselves assistive technologies. The precursor to them was taking a look at your shadow and making an educated guess.
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If a GitHub user fails to respond to a DMCA request, and GitHub doesn't remove the content in question, GitHub as a service provider would then become party to the complaint under the copyright safe-harbor rules (a suit that GitHub wou
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
If someone says they're going to sue you, and it's black-and-white that they'd win the suit, then it's pragmatic for all parties concerned to just skip the time & cost of a court appearance, and just do the thing the
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
$9tn - around 2.1% of global wealth. Equivalent to 4x more than the physical USD$ currency in circulation, and equivalent to around 2x the value held in deposits at commercial US banks.
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YCombinator might be the literal antithesis to the suggestion that $600k isn't a meaningful sum of money in the face of large problems.
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
We could reasonably plant ~1tn trees without encroaching on current food production levels (although we'd have a fairly catastrophic impact on biodiversity). This would sequester around 100Gt of CO2. So far, we've emitted about 28
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
> The technological roots of LLMs go back many years. Yet, today’s experience looks like more than the continuation of a preexisting trend. Something in the zeitgeist changed recently, I think the thing in the zeitgeist that changed isn&
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
So... Indentured slavery?
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SpaceX is benefiting enormously from their supply chain receiving a $50bn injection from the Artemis program.
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I think the downtime associated with other services could just be people choosing alternative sites for their social media time. Facebook + Insta makes up a huge share of the social media market, and when they go offline, it'd be natur
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
What I thought this product was: > a WAF for your website that detects if the site's being scraped for content by an AI. Defending against AI What this product actually is: > A WAF for your chatbot. Defending the AI itself
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
The net after-tax salary in France is €2,450, and in Germany it's €2,750, compared to the €850/mo this kid spends. I can't see how you could survive long-term on around 1/3 of a nation's average salary, even in the
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
The US Money Supply (M2 & M1) has been falling pretty consistently since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. M0 is also down overall since the invasion, though it's gone through ups and downs. I'm not certain
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
>Your site should be completely usable without JavaScript... If your site is not usable without JavaScript, I am not coming back in any way The search page on the site doesn't work with js disabled.
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
That's fair, and you're entirely correct that its nobody's business but his own.
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but does Wolfram have a degenerative muscle illness? He puts his right hand down at around 30 minutes, and then doesn't move it again for hours. That and his unmoving legs are strikingly reminiscent of a fri
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
I'd argue that this article could be read more like "start as a monolith, and then move towards microservices when sensible", except the penny hasn't fully dropped for the author that the sensible time for their organisa
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Oxford Economics estimates that there's a 6.7x multiplier on each new role created in the semiconductor industry[1]. That is, each role in the semiconductor industry supports an additional 5.7 jobs indirectly in other domestic industri
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
Padding's great on my desktop with two 24" monitors. On my one-screen 13" laptop it's less welcome.
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Where did you find the data source for the USA? It'd be amazing to see this data mapped across time, as it'd be a relatively good indicator of grocery inflation.
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Depends a bit on the branch/focus of economics you're looking at, and which nation/region you want to read about, but a broadly uncontroversial list would be: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press (collo
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
In the same theme, something to add to their list of common passwords is the What3Words database of locations https://what3words.com It's something like 50trillion sets of looks-random strings. That's quite a lot, but
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
>So 0.0012% of CO2 in atmosphere caused by humans. Nature is responsible for the remaining 0.0388% in atmosphere. Unless you're discussing literal "human expelled co2", as in "the measure of peoples exhalations during
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
On longevity+userbase I think Minecraft and Roblox might have both beat. Both are 15+ years old, with enormous userbases, crucially their userbases include huge numbers of kids. WoW and Counterstrike have large loyal fanbases, but I'd
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
>“Tell me about you. If your life was a book, give me the chapter titles from your birth till now.” Once you’ve gotten the overview, dive into each “chapter” and plumb the depths for their real stories. Go back to their childhood! I lear
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
> I realise this is a silly thought experiment but the point of comparison should be, at the very most, the human industry generated CO2, not all natural CO2 The pre-industrial levels of CO2 were around 280ppm, while the current CO2 leve
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
There's a table on the 2nd page of the paper that gives a summary of what goes on when the VM's container is initialised the first time: INITIALIZATION PHASE: (1) Start the VM. (2) Fetch the container image and the function's
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
The server in this context is a "warmed" Function VM. The first time a VM instantiates, it goes through all of the setup required to run a function. That includes generic reusable stuff like Operating System setup, but also Functi

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