andrewjl

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by andrewjl 3y ago
There's a thing called Hollywood accounting for a reason
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Thinking this way tends to carry a bias against historically underrepresented backgrounds in the tech industry. In some cases certifications might be the only way to get ones foot in the door. It's fairer to just focus on competency, c
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Having used other ELK stacks for logging, but never Splunk, what makes them worth what they charge?
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Why is the physics of climate the sole criterion for discussing an economic issue?
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> you end up "automating" things you were doing by hand and it doesn't "feel" programatic, and you can very easily "peek and poke" the memory of the "program" as you go along. I don't see
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What's incredible is missing the fact that CO2 emissions and most kinds of pollution in general are verifiably multiples higher per individual in the West compared to elsewhere. We're just better at keeping them out of sight and a
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> It's weird to say, but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change. That's a direct path to armed conflict. Those aren't great in the reduce CO2 emissions and cut down on resource consumption departmen
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Do the healthcare and FIRE sectors help the US compete against other economies?
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AdGuard ad blocking is free on iOS Safari. DNS privacy and custom filters do require a subscription.
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> The people that want to program will do so no matter what the end-user environment is. Most people just don't want to. As an example, take Excel and Python scripting. Almost anyone who uses the former can pick up the latter yet th
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> yet things like adblocking are behind a paywall Are you referring to iCloud Private Relay?
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> That fact in itself makes it difficult to unit test. Verifying a tax code implementation is a good place to make use of property based testing.
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> What, specifically, is odd about it? I think the stranger position is the one that allows people to inform policy that affects future generations when they themselves are intentionally not making themselves a part of that future. It&#x
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> This idea that there is some evil conspiracy to screw people is crazy to me. $203 million in wages stolen in the past 5 years, and that's just in New York.[1] The US Department of Labor recovered $3 billion in stolen wages 2017-20
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> Whenever I see your sentiment - that you are choosing to not have kids because the world sucks and you don't see us solving anything - my immediate reaction is that you deserve no voice whatsoever in how the rest of us decide to s
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> It's certainly a nice to have but not enough. Agree, it sounds like peanuts. Probably still better than nothing on net but substantially raising this subsidy is the first thing to do if making a serious attempt to improve things f
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How would you describe the decision that kept their warehouses open and running despite dangerous heat levels?
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Companies already hire (and pay them real money too) people to make stuff up about their products.
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> Was Jane Street searching for product-market fit? In a manner of speaking, yes.
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If you are 40 then you'd have been 33-34 when the "Attention Is All You Need" preprint that laid the foundation for LLMs became available.
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> My gut feeling is that it will either be too little or way too much. We've historically been very good at coming up with new things for people to do. Why would this time be any different? On the other hand it takes over two decade
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Housing, healthcare, and education are the biggest drivers when it comes to cost of living. How does monetary policy drive healthcare and education costs? When it comes to housing, it's pretty clear how the Fed's monetary policy d
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Doesn't sound all that different from minimum wage protections. Any reason a PTO mandate wouldn't also pass constitutional muster under the same rationale?
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> If scientists and engineers manage to implement autonomous cars and robots that can do basic human tasks like clean, wait and take care of the sick and elderly we will wake up in a brand new world. It will put a lot of stress on the ba
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One approach might be to find individuals whose technical acumen you respect and look over their public projects (or alternatively their public contributions to bigger projects).
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All good, was just curious.
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What I found interesting in Meta's paper is the mention of HumanEval[1] and MBPP[2] as benchmarks for code quality. (Admittedly maybe they're well-known to those working in the field.) I haven't yet read the whole paper (nor
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> This could mean using VMs, bare metal or what have you. For bare metal would something like Equinix fit? > Even managing a fleet of VMs is nightmareish today. What about fly.io?
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I didn't know CUDA was in development for that long, thanks! I'm curious if there were serious attempts to create something similar over the years and how far they managed to progress. I've never used OpenCL but from looking
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> This is a textbook situation that would be perfect for a competitor to come in and undercut. Is it? A competitor can enter the market and undercut by producing a cheaper and otherwise undifferentiated commodity-type product. Nvidia&#x2

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