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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I'd say I've been fairly luck as far interviews go. The vast, vast majority have been about as straight forward and by the book as they come. Completely predictable ones. But I've had some iffy ones. One was for a small bouti
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Had my first colonoscopy 4 months ago, after going for a couple of years with every red flag symptom under the sun. The procedure was a piece of cake. As the standard is where I'm from (Norway), I was only administered some sedatives -
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Most workers are just that, workers. They don't have a say in their work, bullshit or real. Only the lucky ones have the opportunity to say "Hey, I've been thinking about this [task/report/whatever] - do we really
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Did we stop letting kids leave the front yard, or did they simply stop doing that themselves? I grew up in the late 80s / early to mid 90s. We were allowed the roam around until dark. But that was also a more natural thing to do, as th
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
My biggest gripe with it are the restrictions, indeed. When searching through the closed newspapers, you have to apply for access manually, which gives you 8 hours of access. Great. Only that the access is seemingly manually granted - so if
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
I'm a Norwegian, and I use the national library almost every day for searching through texts. They have truly one of the best working user interfaces (and functionality) for searching through the massive amounts of text.
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
At school we had a bunch of older machines with windows 3.1, which had some touch typing program installed - it was the only thing we were allowed to use Our first family computer was bought back in 1995. IIRC it was a 166 MHz Pentium &#x2F
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
It takes time. Hence whey Microsoft has a stranglehold on big gov. customers in other countries. From my own experience, big changes can take place in smaller gov. organizations, and pretty fast too. I've worked at a place where we swa
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
At least in Europe, The Shadows were HUGE in the late 50s and early 60s. Like Beatles levels huge. In many European countries Fender weren't sold / distributed until the early-to-mid 60s, so genuine Fenders were rare and expensive
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
We can go even further: One hallmark of fascist regimes is selective enforcement. They start with making laws and rules so opaque and convoluted that pretty much anyone will break them at one point. But they will be extremely selective on w
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Guitarist and a hobby luthier here. So to give some quick history, big traditional brands like Gibson and Fender entered a slump back in the mid 60s. The companies were bought out by Norlin and CBS at the height of the electric guitar popul
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Many years ago I found myself unemployed, and had a year where I pretty much took any job I could find. One of these were in a sorting facility for one of the largest shipping / postal companies. On my first day, the very first thing I
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
As others have written, Erdős was a lifelong curator of mathematical problems, from high-school level problems to the types that will land you a Fields medal. Like the Collatz conjecture. Most new math problems appear in other papers, docto
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Yeah, it is incredibly tone deaf. I can fully understand some executives trying to hype up AI with the "It'll create more jobs!" mantra, but as it happens, the AI boom coincided with the post-COVID layoffs (from the hiring
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Just a couple of years ago I worked for a client who had a computer with Solaris 2.x running. It was quite a critical piece in the system.
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Well, one big difference now is that you need to billions to become the next big player. The barriers to entry are incredibly high, if you plan on competing against the big players. Of course, there could be some future lab or startup which
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Seems to me that you need incredible amounts of money to be competitive in the frontier model arena. I don't know how much money Karpathy has to spend, but I'd imagine that the money needed would almost certainly mean investors
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
There's this myth that only the absolute best, the crème de la crème of European engineers will emigrate to the US to work in tech there. That is simply not true. There are tens of thousands of extremely competent engineers here that e
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Purely anecdotal, but in my team of 20 data analysts, we've seen a bunch of them become quite productive in producing tools and apps. These are analysts with mostly domain knowledge, and not so much programming knowledge - meaning that
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
The real danger is that many humans never learned how to justify their existence except through labor.
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
I'd say that the main challenge for vibe-cloning big and known programs comes down to cost. Plenty of extremely competent devs and companies out there are porting FOSS programs from one language to another, while offloading all the hea
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
I do believe that due to security concerns, European countries at the state level will try to detach themselves from relying on US infrastructure. Not only AI, but all critical things. For decades we've lived under the pretense that US
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
I use Jauce for buying stuff from Japan, a bit more pricey, but their shipping is exceptionally good. I buy instruments, so care is a bit more important for me. But, yeah, I found it interesting that literally all used listings in Japan are
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Question: Was this website made with Claude? I've seen that exact font and color scheme a dozen of times the past weeks.
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Which is why, I believe, the big AI companies are starting to focus and roll out vertical products more. They know that the models themselves aren't sticky, people can easily switch between different models with not much hassle. I thin
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
Is it just me, or is it extra unethical and self-serving when crawlers from say Amazon(Bot) decides to incessantly crawl AWS hosted websites? Same goes for Google and Microsoft crawlers crawling GC and Azure. By that, I mean the types of
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
This is why I think many of the current application-layer AI startup valuations are a bit iffy. When the big AI companies like Anthropic start expanding their vertical products, the calculus changes. I'm just wondering how committed th
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
For the past days I've been participating(albeit over Teams) in a conference relevant to my industry (intel), basically startups and established companies showcasing their products to a closed audience of EU gov. officials. One thing I
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
My first part-time job was at this old appliance store, I was 14. In the back they had a small repair shop, from ye olden days when such stores actually repaired stuff. The repairman was this older gentleman that used to work in telecom, bu
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by TrackerFF 5mo ago
I'm not familiar with the Maryland power grid, but I've observed in other places that putting data centers in places with older / inadequate grids can / will require upgrades to handle the new load.

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