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by adamsb6 3y ago
"Accept more defects" sounds like a statement about tradeoffs. Defects being too low could reflect that you're putting too much effort on reducing defects when that effort could be better spent on other things. Getting rid of
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by adamsb6 3y ago
So no kids on Hacker News? How is HN going to verify my age?
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I found one of SpaceX's job postings from 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190513175439/https://boards.gr... The DOJ alleges that they excluded asylees and refugees in their job postings. But thi
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Computer science wasn't ubiquitous in grade schools back in the aughts, and it still isn't. According to this "foundational computer science" is offered in only 53% of public high schools in the US: https://ad
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I think self-directed solo learning on a computer is how a lot of us ended up in the tech industry. I was learning a heck of a lot more outside of school in the late 90's, teaching myself how to make websites, than I was learning insid
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by adamsb6 3y ago
> It’s impossible to both provide the best search results and try to optimize for the highest amount of ad-clicks. And if you’re a public company with an ad-based business model, you are legally required to optimize for the latter. This
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by adamsb6 3y ago
> instigated color revolutions for regime change
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Suppose a team was given a goal of reducing variance in latency on an API. Getting to the root causes of variance and fixing them is hard. Injecting extra latency on the fast queries is easy. Even if the query returns in 80ms, we just wait
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by adamsb6 3y ago
> and continue pocketing record profits–which drive inflation–while their workers’ wages stagnate Inflation does not work that way!
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by adamsb6 3y ago
The more shocking the headline, the more important to interrogate primary sources.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Is that even a loophole? “You only get 28 flights with a final destination of Melbourne, and no cap on flights connecting through it” seems like it was designed to encourage this behavior.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
whooosh
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Probably that Apple's privacy changes made those advertising channels far less effective.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Facebook started its transition to make everything* internally IPv6 slightly before then. It was indeed a lot of work. But worth it. * When I was there we still had a handful of weird things that couldn't be made IPv6. If you needed to
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by adamsb6 3y ago
What are going to be the second-order consequences of such a policy? Are providers going to run credit checks on you before they agree to take you on as a patient? Require that you sign a document that gives them the right to garnish your w
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I'm just a week into using it, but one of the things I've noticed is that for technical queries official docs are ranked a lot higher than random blogs and those sites that just repackage content they scraped from Stack Overflow.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
IIRC it was for election disinformation, not copyright.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
The replication crisis is even a thing because of very strong career incentives. You might think that publishing about the replication crisis itself would be great for your career, but perhaps not. Maybe the incentives to be able to bullshi
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Will that also make existing Sway developers go?
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Given the homogeneity of responses on taboo subjects, there's probably something exogenous to the model at work.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
This is the way it works, the high voltage battery is used for the motors and to feed the 12 volt battery which feeds cabin electronics. I’m guessing by extremely unfortunate luck both batteries failed at the same time.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
They say he's never going to finish. I say he's got 17 years to finish it before he's an adult and can make his own decisions.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Almost as bad as having to dogfood Windows Vista.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
GPT4 is like 100:1 hits to misses for me. Recently I switched to a different case for my home NAS. The drive caddies had a tiny cutout for a label, like 0.75 inch x 1.5 inch. I decided to see if Chat GPT could take care of it. I asked for i
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I’ve found that GPT-4 now fills the role that Google once did for me when learning new things. For whatever reason the Google results just aren’t as useful as they used to be. Highly specific queries return very generalized results, and it
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Same here. Prior to birth my wife and I were told by the medical professionals that baby will be waking up frequently for feedings, and we need sleep too, so we should sleep when baby sleeps. After a C-section once my wife were back in our
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by adamsb6 3y ago
The government decides your small donation to a protest movement is good reason to freeze you out from the banking system.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I do and so far they haven't.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I don't believe it's as organic as all that. There were a couple of very important figures in setting up the idea that there was any conflict at all between faith and science. John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White: https:&
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by adamsb6 3y ago
These are matters of values, not empirical matters. There's no research or experiments to perform to reveal how to weigh the needs of the pregnant and unborn, or what balance to strike between economic growth and increased temperatures

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