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by Test0129 4y ago
Credit scores are probably the most useful metric for a person in general. The reason isn't because it's an assessment of creditworthiness, but it saves the time interviewing each person for each loan, asking for quite literally t
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by Test0129 4y ago
I have no data for this but I'd imagine rents have increased substantially to make up for the eviction moratoriums. Several friends of mine who own an extra house (usually their parents) ran into the problem of being unable to evict a
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by Test0129 4y ago
There's no hard, fast rule for when a weak PRNG is bad except in the obvious use cases - salts, etc. There's no reason you can't use a weak random number generator for generating a password. It only becomes a problem when you
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by Test0129 4y ago
This seems overly pedantic. Yes, the article only discusses photos. However, it's not a far stretch (nor hard to imagine) this same technology is running on every Google-enabled service. If your photos are being scanned the system is c
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by Test0129 4y ago
As with most politicians (yes, he is a politician by definition) the next chapter likely means book deals, talk show appearances, perhaps even a minor honorary "working" retirement in some small office somewhere.
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by Test0129 4y ago
As you pointed out infintessimal manipulation in physics produces the correct results most of the time. In fact, it's almost always correct because Taylor Series say so. In the physical world we deal with differentials that are always
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by Test0129 4y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic here but 6% improvement in productivity is a rounding error. You can achieve a higher level of productivity by just removing the ping pong table from the break room. This would indicate to me there is a non-
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by Test0129 4y ago
> (as others pointed out, check your employment contract's IP clause and the IP laws of your country). This is the most critical part. Using the US for example, this software whether OP reveals or not belongs to the company (even in
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by Test0129 4y ago
You are looking at it from a programmer standpoint rather than a mathematical standpoint. Linear regression isn't just fitting a line, it's a statistical technique to fit a line of best fit. Hyperparameters are a bayesian term for
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by Test0129 4y ago
Unfortunately it seems this way with a lot of higher level math and it's not really unique to differential equations. The difference is, unlike calculus in general, in diffeq you have actual rote formulas to solve most of the known sol
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by Test0129 4y ago
Much like the smoking kills campaign it wouldn't be terribly difficult to have a similar campaign for sugar, fake foods, etc. You don't have to eat like a rabbit to stay a healthy weight, but certainly you shouldn't be eating
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by Test0129 4y ago
I suppose when viewed charitably you could say that healthy at any size had a good origin. However, the quantifier any is the problem with the entire campaign. It's patently obvious having a BMI > 30 or < 18 is dangerous to you
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by Test0129 4y ago
> There's a reason people don't associate drinking or being fat with cancer the way they do with cigarettes. To be fair people are also inundated with X increases cancer risk by Y (typically marginal) amount. So much so the noi
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by Test0129 4y ago
I suppose this comes as no surprise. It almost feels like a conspiracy that With the exception of a few illegal drugs such as meth, heroin and cocaine, the only legal drugs are the ones that arguably carry fairly high risks. Though I suppos
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> so the comfort zone sounded more like being around a crowd like that For what it's worth the "culture war issues" aren't a left vs. right issue anymore. The people in the middle, realistically the swing voters, are
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by Test0129 4y ago
The shot across the bow at the US is kind of old and tired at this point. I'm pretty sure Europeans still use corporate letterhead as a type of legal guarantee. It would be pretty cool if you could make your point without blaming an en
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Science perhaps? Pick a field and you can probably find a lab or project in need of research software engineers. I've been in the industry a long time and OP's realization that most jobs in tech are useless or so-called &quot
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by Test0129 4y ago
Dog for me, but yeah same. I wake up at between 6:30am and 7am after 3 years of my dog suddenly getting the urge to go out right around this time. It's so consistent in fact I've tried sleeping at 10:30pm, 12am, 2am - it doesn&#x2
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by Test0129 4y ago
To be fair I was mostly mocking the line because the implication is that they should shirk their civil duty in the interest of their own safety. Unfortunately, their job is to be unsafe so we don't have to. I can understand how you int
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Shifting to more police and less imprisonment could reduce crime and improve policing. More police and less imprisonment also has the advantage of being a feasible policy. Large majorities of blacks, hispanics and whites support hiring
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> We can go on and on, but it would be too expensive and risky to rewrite everything from scratches. I worked on a project that we developers thought it was unbearable with shit storm of the codebase. We cried and complained and refused
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by Test0129 4y ago
It would actually be interesting, except navigating the streets by celestial navigation might be hard. We've had maps for a long, long time. I'd probably just use one of those and compass :). Otherwise the north star might drive m
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by Test0129 4y ago
Attaching -phobic to everything is really an injustice. The author makes no effort to say they are afraid of technology. Nor do they really hint that they are old school. Just that the technology being USED is old school. Often times, what
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by Test0129 4y ago
While this works with rational actors the experience I have had in the industry is often the opposite. In fact, the company I work for now is probably the only company I've worked for in the last decade that actually correctly evaluate
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by Test0129 4y ago
Well not scientific but it is certainly telling. The kind of people who brag about being members of mensa happen to be involved with questionable and often predictable subreddits. I have personally met people who are members of mensa. It&#x
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Supposing this was even possible, that enough people banded together and said "enough with cars" and decided to change the way of life, it would take several decades, maybe even a century, to turn a town that is primarily driven t
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I think that this is a form of exploitation by car manufacturers to be honest. Consider that ownership can be expensive and so charging subscriptions with walled gardens and lock-ins makes sense for lower income consumers. You might think t
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I am a very big introvert. I've recently realized (and adopted) the convenience of short 5-10 min zoom calls to sort out something rather than typing. Often times there is context that is either hard to explain or something that inflec
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I've realized that extroverts are really, really damaged by the remote work setting. The word "fun" gets thrown around a lot but to me the reason remote is so great is because I don't have to play make-believe with my co
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I don't want to be the downer here because this is a common view and my company does this as well. I personally do not have fun in these kinds of meetings. Even if they were held in person. My goal at the end of the day is to finish my

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