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by asah 1y ago
DROP DATABASE :-)
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by asah 1y ago
serious q: how much extra failure rate would you expect from the physical transition to space? on one hand, I imagine you'd rack things up so the whole rack/etc moves as one into space, OTOH there's still movement and things
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by asah 1y ago
um, perhaps it's worth reviewing the stock charts for MAANG whose early investors extracted a tiny % of the their total marketcaps. The subtlety is that you can buy shares on the open market post-IPO, so when you buy "pre-IPO&quot
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by asah 1y ago
How about they ask ChatGPT for help !
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by asah 1y ago
the markets are provably inefficient: companies shouldn't have their total marketcaps jostle by whole percentage points in a single trading day, when the underlying economics aren't that volatile. but "markets" are (and
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by asah 1y ago
I've heard this fear for decades about COBOL programmers, and yet I don't see this bubbling up except higher costs. If there's a shortage, in the free market, humans will retrain.
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by asah 1y ago
"By making the Send button larger and more prominent, participants were able to spot the button four times faster." By making the Send button larger and more prominent, participants were 4x more likely to accidentally press it. Al
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by asah 1y ago
AFAICT it's impractical to keep residential addresses 100% private/secure - too many ways to get an address from any number of companies, organizations and governments that collect it for various reasons. Plus numerous ways to inf
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by asah 1y ago
I hear you! one thing: given that gmail is free includes forwarding and all-but-unlimited storage, I work around these limitations with a (free) new gmail account that I use for notion etc. (this issue also affects Advanced Protection gmail
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by asah 1y ago
-1: this writes down the billions Google invested over many years. It's like saying that a modern car is hitting more than a model T from 100 years ago.
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by asah 1y ago
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis#Infl...
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by asah 1y ago
Port of LA: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-118.168/c... NJ: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-74.148/ce...
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by asah 1y ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/680cb5ae-10d8-8007-a580-b7c3266138... The comment criticizes a chart or metric comparing "performance factor" to torque and degrees of freedom (DOFs) in robotics, calling it "th
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by asah 1y ago
For postgresql development, you run configure over and over...
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by asah 1y ago
is there a way for AI music to become an "instrument" the way synths and drug machines became in the 70s/80s...
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by asah 1y ago
from insider eng sources, the search quality mess is not intentional. I worked on various commerce search engines, and briefly ran Google Shopping back in the day - surprisingly hard problem !
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by asah 1y ago
#proudinvestor (very early angel) in Amplyx pharmaceuticals (fosmanogepix) from many years ago. fosmanogepix has proven anti-fungal activity in 4 of the 5 target classes and is in stage III trials. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
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by asah 2y ago
This is to stop the practice of shipping things to a place, making a small change, then re-exporting from there to avoid tariffs.
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by asah 2y ago
hahaha, Delancey-Essex is now waterfront property!
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by asah 2y ago
get a separate device for work ?
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by asah 2y ago
1.4 hrs/day lol. Same survey probably concluded that young men watch porn once a month.
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by asah 2y ago
As I cross 40 years in this industry, I find that my procrastination often has subtle root causes. I assume others have the same experience. Currently, I've been putting off a long report for a few days and it's because I'm t
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by asah 2y ago
Dumb q: could one stay the catalyst on everything, let the PET break down, then separate from the other polymers?
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by asah 2y ago
It nailed my two hard reasoning+linguistic+math questions in one shot, both the kinds of things that LLM struggle but humans do well. (DM me for the questions)
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by asah 2y ago
This happened to me once. I caught my breath, found an identical server and copied the files over using uuencode and cat, until I had enough working to create a second terminal window and could use better tools to verify everything. 5 minut
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by asah 2y ago
haha, yeah this combo was pretty hilarious and highly inconsistent from reading to reading: https://www.openai.fm/#b2a4c1ca-b15a-44eb-9cd9-377f0e47e5a6
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by asah 2y ago
Perhaps there's some new rice cooker with AI cleaning /s Until then, my Zojirushi is very simple to clean.
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by asah 2y ago
well... in fact... - military is 2.7% GDP for US: https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002099941... vs 1.9% for Europe: https://www.google.com/search?q=europe+spending+on+defense
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by asah 2y ago
Conspicuously absent: China (34.4T), Russia (6T) vs US (26T)
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by asah 2y ago
I suppose it's good news that AI will displace these humans ?

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