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by anon291 2y ago
My family is part of the indigenous people of Mumbai, and my mom and dad's pictures of their childhood homes and stories are almost unbelievable if you visit now. My grandparents old bungalow is still on google maps, now surrounded by
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by anon291 2y ago
> Kerala has a mix of Western population that decided to stay back after the Indian Independence that brought with them Christianity, education, hospitals, and the Catholic culture. Kerala is also one of the few places in India where you
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by anon291 2y ago
How many companies train on data that contains 'i don't know' responses. Have you ever talked with a toddler / young child? You need to explicitly teach children to not bull shit. At least I needed to teach mine.
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by anon291 2y ago
Nvidia is trading below its historical PE from pre-AI times at this point. This is just on confirmed revenue, and its profitability keeps increasing. NVIDIA is undervalued right now
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by anon291 2y ago
> We're several years in now, and have lots of A:B comparisons to study across orgs that allowed and prohibited AI assistants. Is one of those groups running away with massive productivity gains? You mean... two years in? Where was
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by anon291 2y ago
That's not really true. Just the entertainment value alone is already causing OpenAI to rate limit its systems, and they're buying up significant amounts of NVIDIA's capacity, and NVIDIA itself is buying up significant portio
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by anon291 2y ago
> For some tasks they're still next to useless, and people who do those tasks understandably don't get the hype. This is because programmers talk on the forums that programmers scrape to get data to train the models.
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by anon291 2y ago
It is very difficult to change mass culture.
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by anon291 2y ago
Botswana is a stable democracy, with a pretty good HDI. Satellite tech is extremely important for public safety and agriculture. Seems fine to me.
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by anon291 2y ago
By no means am I excusing Texas, I'm just pointing out I've never seen any national expose on Oregon's lack of public defenders, and the fact that they end up freeing repeat offenders since they can't prosecute.
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by anon291 2y ago
Right but the course of action should be to add on to them, not invent entirely new stacks.
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by anon291 2y ago
There's a major bias by outlets like the NYT to paint red states in a bad light. In reality, the worst state in the country for lacking public defenders is Oregon.
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by anon291 2y ago
This is what we learned in Catholic school. Christians are not delusional about the source of the gospels. There's been this weird push to view the Bible like the Quran and the two really have nothing in common. The entire view on the
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by anon291 2y ago
So essentially we have a VM (wasm) meant to sandbox programs running in a hardware VM meant to sandbox programs running in a user space process (Linux process) which is an abstraction meant to isolate programs. Have we ever thought of ....
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by anon291 2y ago
In reality, many criticisms of suburbia are simply criticisms of HOAs
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by anon291 2y ago
Realistically, what should happen is reusable queries in the database with pre-cached plans as well as planner scripting and eliminating the index chooser for standard transactional queries. For real-time ad-hoc queries, the planners can be
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by anon291 2y ago
This is not-invented-here syndrome extrapolated to the markets.
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by anon291 2y ago
They're still academics...
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by anon291 2y ago
I work with the ones that made the jump to industry, so no, I'm confronted with the divide day in and day out. The academics that either switch to industry or maintain close industry ties, typically do not seem to share these concerns,
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by anon291 2y ago
Then let's just break it down between Jewish descended (Abrahamic) and not China adopted communism which is ultimately a philosophy whose patrimony is European and all that entails. > Eastern Orthodox is actually a great example of
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by anon291 2y ago
I honestly think most Indians eat too many calories, not too little. It's just trash nutritionally speaking, and deficient in protein, which is a large determinant of height. It's cultural > It's a... different development
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by anon291 2y ago
> INMH the interesting questions is « what are the proteins options, considering the ressources of Indians/India? If your poultry is fed with soy you’ll have many times more proteins and other nutrients eating directly the beans ins
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by anon291 2y ago
As someone of Indian descent, realistically speaking, Indian nutrition is going to be bad so long as the upper classes continue to moralize over it. Recently, there was a kerfuffle in Maharasthra because the state government wanted to remov
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by anon291 2y ago
This man publicly stood in Montreal and celebrated October 7 in a grand party. https://tnc.news/2025/01/18/montreal-anti-israel-repeat-oct-...
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by anon291 2y ago
Citizens cannot be deported. In general, if you are a migrant to a country, you are a guest until you become a citizen. This is not rocket science. My own family went through this process. If an American citizen is being jailed for speaking
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by anon291 2y ago
Washington Post's editorializing is a free speech matter and has nothing to do with the first amendment, since it's a private actor, which is the story we were all told during covid and the Floyd riots.
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by anon291 2y ago
Yeah definitely enjoy that as well. It's just so much better than a hand-written spreadsheet. Also, since you're re-using open-source software, I think it's evidence of good faith (whereas if your own spreadsheet's numbe
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by anon291 2y ago
I honestly have concluded that the HN crowd is so far removed from normal America that they cannot understand it. If you think people sign up for the military due to poverty and not pride, you are deluded. The vast majority of recruits into
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by anon291 2y ago
I have used beancount and it is significantly better than an Excel or Google Sheet. For me, the main benefit is tax lot matching and an auditable trail of sales should the IRS come knocking. It's impossible to do this properly in a spr
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Hakyll + CI.

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