alexandre_m

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by alexandre_m 8mo ago
I'd rather colonize antarctica than mars.
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by alexandre_m 9mo ago
[1] essentially says that there is no value for people who got infected by SARS CoV-2 to get vaccinated: "our findings suggest that once an individual has fully recovered from initial infection, prior SARS CoV-2 infection protects agai
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by alexandre_m 9mo ago
In [3]: "Nine clinical studies were identified, ..." "All of the included studies found at least statistical equivalence between the protection of full vaccination and natural immunity; and, three studies found superiority of
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by alexandre_m 9mo ago
> You are not giving a metric here so I can not tell why you think it is better The studies: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v... https://academic.oup.com/aje/art
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by alexandre_m 9mo ago
On [2] he said that natural immunity from getting covid-19 is better than getting the vaccine alone, which is factually correct, as many studies demonstrated (note: may vary by strains, but was particularly the case in 2021/2022). Ther
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by alexandre_m 9mo ago
https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-ti...
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by alexandre_m 10mo ago
Was the world stable in 2023 when the font change occured?
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by alexandre_m 10mo ago
Underrated comment.
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by alexandre_m 10mo ago
The key is always feedback loop. If you give the AI the ability to verify itself, then it's able to iterate faster. Sure, it may take many iterations, but at least the iteration spans will be shorter than waiting for a human to validat
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by alexandre_m 10mo ago
I consider this more of a strategic acquisition.
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by alexandre_m 10mo ago
> What hurt open source in the past was its inability to keep up with the quality and feature depth of closed source competitors Quality was rarely the reason open source lagged in certain domains. Most of the time, open source solutions
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
What’s more saddening is seeing intellectually curious people who can’t recognize their own biases. It’s troubling how many accept this half-baked story without questioning the shaky correlations it draws. It’s similar to what happened when
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
Who needs evidence when there’s a good narrative to sell? The addicted crowd will clap on cue.
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
> makes it less secure for EVERYONE if the community now needs to either find a new github repo/company Correct, and that's the most worrying aspect.
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
Emergency powers which were deemed as unreasonable and violated the charter rights by admission of the Federal court. I can't believe that people are defending that. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc&#x2F
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
> public safety minister defended Bill C-8 as a means to crack down on hackers and ransomware fraudsters That kind of threat mostly comes from overseas anyway, so this doesn’t actually solve any real problems. Case in point: the recent S
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
Product != Artifact Artifacts are snapshots of system knowledge (code, builds, docs, configs, etc.). The product is the living whole that emerges from these artifacts working together and delivering value.
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
It seems the best way is to sponsor a seat and not a particular individual. That way you can rotate persons for the same paid h1-b seat.
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
Perhaps if you only need to run some old PHP app. What kind of disk and how much memory is in there?
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
If you buy from china, it’s going to take weeks. If you buy from US and live in Canada, you’re going to pay a lot of customs. In 2007, I bought a used MacBook on Ebay for $870, with shipping it was about $900. That was back when the currenc
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
> When your teams are used to operating with a mix of genders, racial backgrounds, identities, age ranges, family statuses, geographical locations, skill sets, etc — when this is just table stakes, standard operating procedure — you’re b
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
Trump tariffs are a leverage to make better international trade deals. They were always meant to be temporary.
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by alexandre_m 1y ago
Easy, but expensive way. Are you really going to do this for all candidates that make it to the final round of interview? Are you also going to compensate the time for the candidate if he doesn't get selected? Unless what you're p
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
> to justify decisions made out of personal ego Yes, and no. Sure, Trump is using all kind of tricks to put pressure against his trade partners to secure some wins that will solidify him as a change agent to boost America, which will app
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
Zero fentanyl is a fantasy and will never be achieved. That thing is way too small and can be carried around too easily* Tariffs are just a lever to get things done on the international front. Canada has been neglecting security for a long
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
The Fentanyl numbers are nothing in comparison to Mexico, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem. Also it's not only about drugs, but also humans smuggling ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fentanyl-
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
> what is the cli tool I can use to test grpc Use https://connectrpc.com/ and then you can use curl, postman, or any HTTP tool of your choosing that supports sending POST requests.
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
Yes, everything that Trump does is bad. Or then, consider that with his policies put forward the president brings investments to the US.
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
> and I really don't know of any other solution Behavior AI-driven anti-cheat system running on the server side.
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by alexandre_m 2y ago
That would be an aggregator, like allsides.com

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