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by andirk 3y ago
Great for Mastodon adoption for sure. And even better smarts on NWS for diversifying their alert systems, especially outside of a large corporate-owned platform.
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by andirk 3y ago
These headlines read like owning a Tamagotchi virtual pet. Will it become popular to have ones own LLM, name it, and battle others!?
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by andirk 3y ago
A really awesome on-the-ground website for information about specifics in collectibles was allexperts.com (now defunct). They got bought by something about.com who then got bought by a Thought Company? and they straight up deleted all of th
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by andirk 3y ago
> There comes a time when data analysis becomes astrology. Excellent quote. It's counterintuitive but looking at what is most likely to happen according to the datasets presented can often miss the bigger picture.
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by andirk 3y ago
I have been on a mission to figure out why Mexican food falls off a cliff after going north of LA. Plenty of Mexicans, plenty of amazing produce and proteins, what happens after LA that says put rice in my burrito?? Exception: Best SF Mexic
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by andirk 3y ago
Without comparing to more common forms of ID, I don't see how this data proves much at all. Furthermore, with a large black population like Baltimore, if they mostly ran the software on black people, then yeah the false IDs will also b
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by andirk 3y ago
Similar to the unique heartbeat each of us have, the way people type may be another fingerprinting method. When I type passwords and PINs, I often make motions to keys that I'm not hitting to fool the invisible stalker behind me.
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by andirk 3y ago
> Organize hackdays! We do these at work, and they're a source of a lot of the ideas for and prototypes of major features that get into our product. When a feature comes out of one of these, it's already vetted and prototyped.
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by andirk 3y ago
It often outranks MDN official docs which these days are very readable, in-depth, with examples, and a simple UI and the only time I click to inappropriately named W3Schools is by accident because it's the top result and I'm expec
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by andirk 3y ago
A couple jobs ago, when I realized I was doing all of the non-trivial front-end work at about the workload of ~4 of the other engineers, I just went golfing half the time. That way I was getting paid the same but for half the time at work!
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by andirk 3y ago
Air Combat was the best jet game ever. It taught me all about how to lock on to targets and how to escape lock. I cant forget that beep-beep-beep sound in my head. Now my car makes that sound when I'm parking in a tight spot. I hope th
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by andirk 3y ago
Earnings call is a review of the quarterly earnings document usually released earlier that day. The stonk price fluctuates almost entirely on how accurate the guidance was and what the future guidance is. Even doing excessively good in a qu
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by andirk 3y ago
And as of today, here it is: https://stackoverflow.co/labs/
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by andirk 3y ago
Are there similar payment systems out there similar to this? If it has truly surpassed credit and debit transactions, and there are no serious flaws that need addressing, then why don't we all start Pix in our countries? Disclosure: I&
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by andirk 3y ago
What are these shorts? It looks like common video that is very narrow vertically.
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by andirk 3y ago
Great links! Thank you for this comparison. I am a huge fan of spreading content across platforms as to avoid a monolith. I will be looking in to this Tiktok. And I truly cannot stand the "smash the like" whatever every. single. d
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by andirk 3y ago
What kind of knowledge are all you getting from Tiktok? Technical knowledge? Philosophical? I thought the app was for lip syncing + lazy cheerleading and the occasional Chinese data mining. But I am perfectly happy hopping on the bandwagon
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by andirk 3y ago
But did you even _try_ to read the manual? Did you lift a finger to figure out what the issue is? Some of the best answers are ones that directly quote the manual and then add clarity since manual language can be terse.
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by andirk 3y ago
We're already losing ton of indexable, searchable content from knowledgeable people due to the content being created and shared via private chatrooms, and now that chat bots can collect a handful of results and put it in a cute spoken
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by andirk 3y ago
What kind of spam do you get when searching something specific and technical? Who is trying to SEO their way to the top for "how to set redis max memory"? A lot of comments here saying the spam is beating out SO, but what spam and
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by andirk 3y ago
I went to a university that basically just handed me the Comp Sci manual and said RTFM. I almost failed out, but then I learned it. I have only had great experience with SO, but regardless, don't get dissuaded by those with less than m
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by andirk 3y ago
Let us all increase our questioning, answering, voting on Stack Overflow! With private chats like Discord and Slack, and chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT, a lot of the shared knowledge is not indexable. That's bad.
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by andirk 3y ago
I have seen similar. I wonder if a new set of people are old enough to use SO now, and their style is different than the original community.
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by andirk 3y ago
And possibly that you may not fully remember after the 3 but you got your feet wet on 4, 5, and 6 and voluntarily go back to notes and additional research to get it all.
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by andirk 3y ago
Much like cliffhangers in fiction, sciences should be taught this way as well. Cause the student to anxiously seek out what happens next. Some will, some won't. Those who do are the ones the program should want to keep.
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by andirk 3y ago
Can't say whether more or less is better, but I got a D grade in my Advanced Bio class in high school, then I retook that semester but did regular Biology. Got an A (maybe B+) and I remember almost everything from the regular class. De
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by andirk 3y ago
The searching of data doesn't need to be controlled by insanely powerful insanely rich entities. Ex: Wikipedia, Craigslist, polio vaccine. If this LLM arms race leads to an organic solution that anyone can grow their own, it might not
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by andirk 3y ago
No opinion either way, but a quote I have always thought was useful from maybe Steve Jobs "A level people hire level A people, B level people hire C level people" ... and C people tank your company. Point is mining for the best ta
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by andirk 3y ago
> Reflections on the Java side. Am I reading this correctly meaning you send a "some_variable_that_i_know_about=deleteAll()" via Javascript and it will just run `deleteAll()` method on a Java applet that has god knows what acce
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by andirk 3y ago
Moving illegally parked cars for the myriad reasons it is necessary is completely understandable. The fuckery, though, is beyond the pale. It should be a fine of the cost of doing business of moving your piece and not a penny more. Instead

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