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by asah 2y ago
Gentle reminder to please attack the argument not the speaker. Also, please read the (numerous) studies that refute these arguments: https://www.google.com/search?q=congestion+pricing+study+eff... In NYC, people with $10M+
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by asah 2y ago
"Contractors who work with the MTA on these projects already charge a premium for having to manage the substantial risk that construction is delayed or canceled—introducing “the Governor might suddenly decide your job is over” as anoth
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by asah 2y ago
"The immediate vicinity of the North Berkeley BART stop in California is surrounded on all sides by parking lots, and thus the station currently sees only about 1,700 riders per weekday." ?!!? No: 1. North Berkeley is extremely l
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by asah 2y ago
LOL people on the thread whining about MTA efficiency. Individual personal care are insanely inefficient, double when you consider all the roads and parking required. I gave up my car when moving to Manhattan and now subway, walk and bike e
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by asah 2y ago
You misunderstand the power of organized labor, the oligopoly of skilled labor able to maintain and adapt the legacy infrastructure and the shocking cost of bespoke manufacturing. I'm on the boards of two Manhattan buildings and see th
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by asah 2y ago
SQL is the opposite of teenage sex - everybody does it, nobody talks about it.
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by asah 2y ago
"Does Betteridge's law of headlines still apply in 2024 ?" no.
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by asah 2y ago
s/SQL/advanced SQL/ FTFY - SELECT/FROM/WHERE/GROUP BY for int/float/string is not hard or niche. 2c as DBA & researcher: advanced SQL is becoming irrelevant because LLMs are better at writing comp
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by asah 2y ago
seems like a startup opportunity - start with a well-defined subset of consumers where you can beat FICO in accuracy, then expand out. Don't compete on price, win on detail and quality.
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by asah 2y ago
1000s of people leaving a stadium faces the same latency: not a WFH/WFO issue
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by asah 2y ago
FTFY: ONLY 3 million times. At the current pace of development, AI will catch-up in a decade or less.
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by asah 2y ago
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
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by asah 2y ago
"I'm sitting here in NYC. It's hot AF but the pastrami is pretty good." I got some simplistic regurgitated philosophy about how the industrial revolution has been terrible for humanity, obviously written by someone who h
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by asah 2y ago
The lesson: deal access matters more than selection.
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by asah 2y ago
These are human nature (unfortunately) - tech creates new methods and channels to conduct and amplify these evil behaviors. Please don't paint bike sheds. Drones are a new threat, obviously with humans manufacturing, arming and flying
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by asah 2y ago
The issue is the rise of mass surveillance tech, which makes it too easy. Also, tech creates new threats (including terror plots, protecting children etc) which drive demand for the surveillance.
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by asah 2y ago
It will force western r&d and production to ramp.
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US House of Representatives passes ban of Chinese drones including DJI(tomshardware.com)
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by asah 2y ago
I thought the issue was emissions at high altitude ?
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by asah 2y ago
LOL, I open my Samsung phone and everybody is instantly jealous: twice the screen is a big boost in productivity and of course photos and games. Android is just fine and I still can't find anything I need from iOS.
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by asah 2y ago
"Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?" Gemini nailed it with no extra prompting. https://g.co/gemini/share/6946d20c0a4d When I gave it numbers, Gem
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by asah 2y ago
-1: Waymo has proven itself adept at avoiding jaywalkers, bicycles, etc.
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by asah 2y ago
I don't know about red tape, but NYSE/NASDAQ have multi-year backlogs: https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE+Nasdaq+ipo+backlog Assuming the backers can attract capital to this new market, then I can see a win for
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by asah 2y ago
MORE private, not completely private. I'd argue that anything entered into a computer is not completely private, and since location can be inferred from environmental signals (e.g. cell towers, other devices, webcams, etc) location is
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by asah 2y ago
While there's of course risk in SaaS-hosted anything, it's not true that Google is only an "ads company" - they take gsuite/GCP deadly seriously and these products aren't going away.
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by asah 2y ago
Sadly I agree: NYC users will trash the cars.
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by asah 2y ago
-1: mark-for-deletion is generally best practice, where it doesn't create meaningful overhead in storage or performance. To optimize performance, consider a move-type operation, so expensive operations don't need to scan deleted d
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by asah 2y ago
I'm a bit more optimistic: the CI/CD pipeline can include adversarial model(s) which probes for the worst behavior. We already have codebases of sufficient complexity that attacks can be inserted into the software supply chain. Ob
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by asah 2y ago
speaking practically, I'd start with open source repo and (somehow) a chain-of-custody proving that this is the (only) code that gets to production.
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by asah 2y ago
parallelism is an important consideration on modern systems. While the memory clearing step parallelizes, the inner loop seems hard to parallelize? also, how do we combine two sketches? (another form of parallelism)

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