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by alanh 2y ago
I agree. In the code it looks like the value is (job_post_count / job_seeker_count) but I don’t know where '1' is, etc.
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by alanh 3y ago
Isn't that cherry-picking? That was the peak of the oil crisis
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by alanh 3y ago
Sorry, but in what sense are they in the same vein?
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by alanh 3y ago
Awesome, now three-letter agencies can crank thoughtcrime prevention up to FAANG scale. What could go wrong?
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by alanh 4y ago
This is so silly. Just because radical change is alienating doesn’t mean that smaller improvements wouldn't be positively received. For example, an end to silently swallowing emoji would be an improvement, not a regression. Poor design
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by alanh 4y ago
"Ideological oppression is good because you’re stupid and the oppressors are right" Also, I didn't define "woke," if you want to be a pedant. But we all know what it means. Are you unaware of the famous examples of
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by alanh 4y ago
I know I will be downvoted for this, but there is something sinister about two companies that inject woke values into everything they do, Duolingo and Open AI, teaming up in the area of education. It is a sort of insidious, invisible brainw
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by alanh 4y ago
I hope you consider HomeKit compatibility :) Most new tech i would buy for my home would need to integrate into my smart home system which is currently powered by HomeKit (although I am slightly wary of lock-in)
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by alanh 4y ago
Studies have shown that people that grew up listening to compressed audio tend to rate it as 'better' than lossless, which is kind of sad/amazing. Anyway, not to take this sub-thread too seriously, but obviously it depends ho
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by alanh 4y ago
Are all of these really the same? Some examples look quite different
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by alanh 4y ago
maybe but... it seems clear enough they did not do this given that it seems to have been piloted through a very nice high-value course across the US
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by alanh 4y ago
Hmm, do we even need trig? Naively I would imagine that simple proportions would hold — e.g. same visible size @ twice the distance = object is twice as big
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by alanh 4y ago
You might enjoy the Triggernometry podcast. Some of their guests discuss what society seems to be losing. Some are more optimistic than others.
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by alanh 4y ago
Bay Area residents should really consider Sonic as their internet provider. I have gigabit speed, fiber direct to my unit, and a bill lower than Comcast's, with no data cap
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by alanh 4y ago
That’s not what ambivalent means.
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by alanh 4y ago
Annoying to use acronym "WASI" and assume that everyone knows what it means. Apparently it’s Web Assembly System Interface. But what does that mean? To quote from https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI : >
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by alanh 4y ago
Call me petty, but I’m downvoting for your use of the word "just" to introduce paragraphs of highly technical work-around.
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by alanh 4y ago
Hmm, did _danilo block threadreaderapp? I get an error trying to run this thread through it
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by alanh 4y ago
That’s real. I once wrote a quick & dirty bookmarklet to disable all GIF animation on a page because even fairly unremarkable-to-most-of-us GIFs are uncomfortable for an epileptic friend. It is still on https://alanhogan.com&
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by alanh 4y ago
This sounds more like incompetence than censorship at first glance, but FYI, there are alternatives with explicit ambitions of being more trustworthy partners in payment processing: https://www.paralleleconomy.com/
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by alanh 4y ago
> Although I don't know much about how DALL·E works, I have the feeling it shouldn't be too hard to add this No offense, but this gives me flashbacks to bad clients and non-technical managers :D
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by alanh 4y ago
absolutely fascinating. great write-up!
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by alanh 4y ago
My front door is not a 'public area', not really
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by alanh 4y ago
I’m sympathetic to your privacy concerns (neighbors shouldn't be recording much of your space although some may be unavoidable if you are close by). You really lose me with this, though: > I believe these cameras haven't decr
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by alanh 4y ago
100% correct
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by alanh 4y ago
Pure blue light does the least to stimulate the rods that help you see shapes clearly, only activating blue cones. This is why compression algorithms and some screens use 2 or 4 times as many bytes or phosphors for green as they do for blue
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by alanh 4y ago
Squirrel intelligence may not be so great, see the videos my Tesla caught :D https://share.icloud.com/photos/05bbZpb4aXm3xouXPv0zICfXA
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by alanh 4y ago
they don’t make enough off ads anyway
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by alanh 4y ago
What could go wrong?
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by alanh 4y ago
Upvoting because this post shouldn't have a negative score simply for being confused. Treating it as a reasonable question.

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