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by alephnan 3y ago
OP rediscovered "Dead Internet Theory"
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by alephnan 3y ago
The finance industry expects people to work way harder then tech, but the E.V. is usually less. Yes, there are stories about quants making 7 figures, but that's exceedingly rare now compared to the early 2ks. The people who had this ap
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by alephnan 3y ago
> "don't worry about it - you aren't responsible for fraud". Have fun trying to dispute an atm card transaction. The agent actively dissuaded me from doing it and said it was not possible.
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by alephnan 3y ago
SMBC prestia requires your password to not contains more than two alphabet characters consecutively nor two numbers consecutively. Invalid: abc123 Valid: ab12cd34a4f9 Obviously, no uppercase or ANY special characters like “.” Allowed… Every
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> No single team will be the focus of the cuts, according to a source at the firm So stackrank?
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Don’t you remember how painful it was to import/export an mp3 file into an IPod? It was especially painful on a Windows PC. The biggest selling point of other mp3 players for me was the ability to transparently copy and paste files int
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by alephnan 3y ago
It's a private company that does not have a legal or moral obligation to extend free speech to employees. Employees are paid to produce value for their bossses and are free to leave if they don't like it.
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by alephnan 3y ago
When OP refers to region, they’re not talking about Japan as a whole. This region is sometimes referred to as Toyama bay and coast.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> Instead, consider StimulusJS, which allows you to add behaviors to elements in your DOM. It's the sharpest tool you're not using. Give it a shot before smashing that down arrow I did. And that’s exactly why I’m smashing that
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by alephnan 3y ago
By time, they’re talking about the writing style of a specific time period. Feels like a click bait title. Of course language model weights encode different writing styles. The fact that you can lift out a vector to stylize writing is also
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> Indeed, GIMP did much the same thing. They messed up a few things (like color models), which continue to haunt it (even the ones which were retroactively fit back in), but it's not any more work to do it right. If they had, it&#x2
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> because the laws they're using never imagined this precise scenarios These scenarios precisely avoided the law
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What would have happened if Google didn’t agree?
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Photoshop is one of the best pieces of software, period. Premier is, well, the premier photo editing app. Every designer knows illustrator. UX/UI is just a subset of design. Many web developers who were around before the HTML5 era will
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by alephnan 3y ago
> What on earth is this article trying to accomplish Most of these articles are for the author to promote themselves
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It’s not a good cloud if they built the wrong abstractions that aren’t generic
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> Don’t fret if you’re a fan of central authority though, Figma successfully uses CRDTs server-side to handle the collaborative aspects of their product, as well as Soundcloud and many others. Why bother with CRDTs if you’re doing server
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by alephnan 3y ago
> The development workflow on linux is an order of magnitude better than on OSX. I guess your workflow doesn’t include getting Linux to work. As in, if you run into an issue, you’re somewhat on your own because of your unique Linux setup
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> The only way this is socially acceptable is if you get a piece of paper at the end which says you did it. That’s true. Or if you’re really rich I guess.
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You’re saying this as if I am condescending on Japanese people. Something tells me the people negatively reacting to my comment are those who armchair worship the idea of Japan and its cultural exports, then put Japan on a golden pedestal.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Hakodate and Fukushima is not that far apart. A torii gate washed all the way to Oregon. https://japanesegarden.org/the-gates-of-hope/ > Experts have speculated Yes. Are experts the only ones who are allowed to spec
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> Town officials in Hakodate urged local people not to consume the stranded fish amid reports that some were gathering quantities to sell or eat. A sign of the times compared to Japan’s days of excess peaking in the 80s. If you talk to o
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> I got a masters degree in ML at a good school. I will say there’s pretty much nothing they taught me that I couldn’t have learned myself. Are people actually going into masters degree to learn? I thought the whole point of paying for m
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How come Zombiezen came out faster ? I’d expect the opposite
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> yet many other award recipients have no service and no rollout and no speeds to even measure: Unfortunately, most of the public won’t know or care about this blatant corruption and crony capitalism The revolving door between regulators
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9 months ago in this thread regarding fake GitHub stars, someone mentioned at the time that Discord was a better indicator. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208363 The fact that this blog post made sure to bring up th
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Originally, Amazon was great because the most popular/reviewed products were usually the best one. The opposite has become true. For a while, websites like fakepsot.com that analyzed and rated the credibility of these reviews worked we
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> All the dysfunctions you mention are symptoms of large population - of which I too have been a victim of. But I have seen some very good engineers in this country too. Me too. One of the best Indian candidates I interviewed was the one
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There’s other options. 37signals and BaseCamp built products that works for their own processes based on their experience as a software team. They productized it and sold it. I’m not contesting that the product couldn’t be sold. The issue h
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The problem isn’t that stars are imperfect, but they have become gamified. The emphasis on GitHub stars as a form of authority makes me trust this project even less. You’d expect VCs to do due diligence on the authenticity and quality of Gi

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