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by avisser 2y ago
Sure, but you led with something that implied the opposite. Were I your editor, I'd've struck it.
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by avisser 2y ago
"a great read" - Almost underselling it. It won the Pulitzer for non-fiction that year.
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by avisser 2y ago
0.5 is so wild. Gen1: 100 people: 50 men + 50 women; 50 women have 25 babies Gen2: 26 people: 13 men + 12 women (for math); 12 women have 6 babies Gen3: 6 people So 100 people end up having 6 total grandkids between all of them. In the US
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by avisser 2y ago
Sounds like an amazing project. Looking forward to seeing what this becomes.
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by avisser 2y ago
My favorite work story is from 10 years ago. We had an internal IRC server for the devs. I'd written an IRC bot to do some basic functions. It was running on my desktop. I get a call from IT on my work phone. My co-workers hear my end
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by avisser 2y ago
I'm waiting for the "you should run the same code on the front-end and back-end" argument to get thrown on it's head. golang on the back-end - golang in the browser.
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by avisser 2y ago
I took the critique as being against OP, not the paper.
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by avisser 2y ago
> Saying we should stop having multiple paths of egress because more fire-resistant buildings save more lives is like saying we should stop having air bags because seat belts save more lives. And completely ignores the housing shortage t
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by avisser 2y ago
Does the erythritol in food products come direct from nature? Not according to wikipedia > Erythritol is manufactured using enzymatic hydrolysis of the starch from corn to generate glucose.[25] Glucose is then fermented with yeast or ano
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by avisser 3y ago
> you’d still need much of what React does > HTMX’s docs seem to hand wave away front-end state management as something that no longer applies. I feel like you're begging the question that you need front-end client & state. I
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by avisser 3y ago
Looks like it's 14 weeks ( https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1235217454/france-abortion-ri... )
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by avisser 3y ago
Same in Providence RI.
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by avisser 3y ago
> Your job will change a bit but won't be gone. > You[r] productivity will grow This aren't compatible at scale. If productivity grows, there will be less people doing the job.
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by avisser 3y ago
> If training data requires licensing fees, ML practitioners will become a licensed field de facto, You know the word "license" has multiple, dissimilar meanings, right?
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by avisser 3y ago
I think lots of folks are skeptical, but I think that's as much because he's challenging the status quo of "build SPAs w/ React" as much as his shitposting.
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by avisser 3y ago
Same - it doesn't help that I read Futamura as Futurama the first 3 times.
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by avisser 3y ago
I-81 through Syracuse NY is being torn down. There is already a bypass, I-481 that loops around the city to the East to connect with I-90. Very similar story - the highway divides Syracuse University from the poor Black neighborhoods. It&#x
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by avisser 3y ago
You can tell GP is under 40 or they'd probably remember cordless phones "Now with 900mhz spread-spectrum technology"
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by avisser 3y ago
The counterpoint is that it's impossible for the seed investor to read minds or force a majority-owning founder to take more funding.
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by avisser 3y ago
Agreed. At this point, if I need GPS, I've probably looked at the map before I get in the car. Love that when I start Google Maps in on CarPlay, the first thing it asks is if I want to navigate to PLACE_I_JUST_SEARCHED_FOR. Hell yeah I
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by avisser 3y ago
Because it's bad business. How much will people spend to save 0.2bps? My guess is $0. Why spend anything on technology with no return?
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by avisser 3y ago
It should include getting rid of the executives who thought this was a good idea in the first place then. Otherwise it seems like "I might have thought you were incompetent, but now you've proven it" moment.
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by avisser 3y ago
> the compression algorithm should be improved There is an obvious third choice: the gain in compression isn't worth the effort of writing code to detect these non-discernible artifacts. People are throwing around 0.2 bits/seco
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by avisser 3y ago
Towards the end of her life my grandmother had a few small strokes. After one, I clearly remember her loosing her pathfinding ability. She became lost in her 4 room basement, unable to find the stairs. At her worst, she seemingly got lost i
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by avisser 3y ago
Her name is Temple Grandin
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by avisser 3y ago
You aren't wrong, but "the science" figured out that Epstein-Barr was connected to multiple sclerosis _last year_. Maybe some skepticism that things aren't settled is warranted - especially with something so new.
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by avisser 3y ago
Perhaps my favorite science experiment, next to dual-slit, https://radiolab.org/podcast/197242-gut-feelings They cut the vagus nerves of rats and see behavior change. Which makes sense to me - when "brains" f
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by avisser 3y ago
GP wasn't explicit, but I think his assumption was that "experiments" are things outside of your wheelhouse - e.g. you want to try out a some node code, or compile a golang app. You've already budgeted to have python on
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by avisser 3y ago
This feels like semantics. If I create use SD/Dall-E and create a comprimising image of a woman I know, and I release it, what difference does it make if it's a photo or generated? Especially as tech gets better and it's hard
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by avisser 3y ago
Old people. Any socialized support system is predicated on growth.

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