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by a-dub 4y ago
ok. for passthrough agency or other W-2 co-employment/peo arrangements, what you say makes some sense. for business to business billing it's basically offensive. i'll also note that those passthrough agencies, peos and co-em
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by a-dub 4y ago
what is the difference between contract to hire and business services in the time before the contract is up?
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by a-dub 4y ago
this is correct. direct contractors without agencies typically pull 1.5x-2x annualized base salary in hourly rate form. this is because contractors are estimated to spend 40% of their working hours in a non-billable state (like waiting on c
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by a-dub 4y ago
also, the reason why they're all good is because they're not trying to sell you anything. they're for people who are at work, know what they need, know they have options on where to buy. therefore it's streamlined as muc
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by a-dub 4y ago
digikey, jameco, mcmaster, ingram... most of these online catalog parts houses have excellently functional websites. but like, even back in the day distribution warehouses had excellent terminal based inventory search and ordering interfac
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by a-dub 4y ago
you have to jump through hoops to do basic auth (even over SSL) for IMAP/pop with gmail as well. (this has been true for some years now) on one level, it's sad to see the open protocols go... on the other, google passwords are a b
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by a-dub 4y ago
every once in a while there's a lenovo default windows image/hardware security controversy, but never one that has affected me directly. i don't care what they put on the default windows partition (i replace it on arrival) an
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by a-dub 4y ago
yeah it was actually a TUI. the screenshot looks right but the name "smit" doesn't sound familiar. i want to say it had a three letter name (this was circa 1996). motif... lol
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by a-dub 4y ago
same. it's been rock solid on thinkpads because thinkpads are some of the strongest pc laptops and as such have been popular (and well supported by) oss developers.
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by a-dub 4y ago
i remember every error message from every unix tool spitting out some unique identifier code... i presume some ibm documentation standard. i also remember a weird gui for administering everything. i assume that was the result of ibm's
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by a-dub 4y ago
that would work. i would be utterly shocked if an experiment like that still found related ads. (you'd probably also want a prior on the baseline prevalence of various topics.) assuming that's all true, good news is that they&#x27
732.
by a-dub 4y ago
try an external source of true randomness for choosing your test topics. choices that seem random to you may be totally predictable. i know that's wild, but also often true. humans are bad at randomness. there may be no direct leak at
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by a-dub 4y ago
in the era of high fidelity generative models, i suspect that the future of media formats will be security forward with built-in protections against length extension attacks. i'm having a hard time imagining any other future than one w
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by a-dub 4y ago
hm. would be interesting to see if any of the perceptual image compression quality metrics could be inserted into the vae step to improve quality and performance...
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by a-dub 4y ago
absolutely! came here to say just that. also the excellent book "windows internals", which is kind of like the bsd red book, or the magic garden svr4 book, but for systems derived from the windows nt kernel. but perhaps his best w
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by a-dub 4y ago
succeeding in college calculus is highly dependent on a good precalculus foundation. (it's the actually hard part). consider picking up a good precalculus textbook. (if the author or publisher of the calculus text has one, definitely g
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by a-dub 4y ago
does zoom have auto-captioning yet?
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by a-dub 4y ago
dbm is an ancient unix thing. better in class are gdbm and berkeleydb... or these days of course, sqlite.
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by a-dub 4y ago
wireshark/pcap/scapy last i played with this, i had to hack up scapy to handle the windows usb packet capture format. (windows and linux usb packet captures are/were in different formats, unfortunately) when you're on wi
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by a-dub 4y ago
it's really complex, and quite interesting! "Video game crash of 1983 - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
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by a-dub 4y ago
i thought there was an industrywide videogame crash in the early 80s that was blamed on the atari consoles being too open. (everyone was making cartridges, even companies like ralston-purina, quality fell under the flooded market and consu
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by a-dub 4y ago
ooh this looks nice. although teaching a course with such an emphasis on decomposition in 2022 that doesn't include vae/nn/transformers methods seems... behind the times?
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by a-dub 4y ago
it will probably be replaced as part of a paradigm shift on the order of the web itself. what that will look like is hard to say, but maybe it will be a move towards more privacy oriented computing or high level specification languages for
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Even though I have only been working on machine learning for around six years, it's crazy to see how the landscape has changed so fast so recently, including diffusion models and transformers. it's pretty wild considering how
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by a-dub 4y ago
some custodians like to shoot the shit. others do not. same with lobby staff. when they do i've found that it's worth listening, they sometimes have very interesting things to say. same used to go for nyc cab drivers, although it&
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by a-dub 4y ago
there's a whole industry that does this. they're called agencies. taking responsibility for quality and ensuring no subs or staff do anything sketchy is expensive and hard, as such they typically add a 100% cut to what gets billed
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by a-dub 4y ago
here's upwork's suggested contract: 3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYEES AND SUBCONTRACTORS, INCLUDING AGENCY MEMBERS If a User subcontracts with or employs third parties to perform Freelancer Services on behalf of the User for any Eng
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by a-dub 4y ago
"The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done." independent contractors are free
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by a-dub 4y ago
i'd like to read the code our team is responsible for, can you give me a list of pointers to all of it?
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by a-dub 4y ago
> I don’t think there’s a way to learn it aside from millennia of multi agent survival competition. i think that millienia of multi agent survival competition in a sufficiently high fidelity world will you get there, and certainly all ou

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