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by beau_g 2y ago
I don't know anything about this guy or his beliefs, but the biggest red flag for me is he has a normal name with weird spelling. I don't trust anyone with this naming configuration. normal name - normal spelling - ok weird name -
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by beau_g 2y ago
These are inherently dangerous machines and you should distrust them - we don't dress up lathes and excavators to be "cute"
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by beau_g 3y ago
I had an epiphany the other day experimenting with react-spring making some animations - Flash was much simpler, easier, and more performant in doing the exact same thing 30 years ago. The inevitable solution to the JS framework wars is the
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by beau_g 3y ago
Why do residency programs require subsidies, are resident doctors each a large net financial loss to a hospital? I can't think of many other career paths where someone out of school is so underprepared for the job that the business cou
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by beau_g 3y ago
Scrapers of the future won't be ifElse logic, they will be LLM agents themselves. The slow loris robots.txt has to provide an interface to it's own LLM, which engages the scraper LLM in conversation, aiming to extend it as long as
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by beau_g 3y ago
Though it seems like something that could exist, who is doing the technical work/programming? It seems impossible to be in the industry and not have associates and colleagues either from or going to an operation like that. This is what
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by beau_g 3y ago
Mostly suppressive fire, but more generally, providing a steady stream of small projectiles
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by beau_g 3y ago
Is this a joke question? Imagine if we discovered an alien civilization that had a population of trillions - if they subscribed to our SaaS app, the scaling and network effects would be insane.
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by beau_g 3y ago
Perhaps this only happened to me from the difference in market fluctuations in the day or two between vest and the sale (this happened to be in 2020 when my company was on a heater). Or maybe etrade allows you to sell shares from a differen
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by beau_g 3y ago
With my (and everyone else at my companies) setup with etrade, you get a 1099, and then later an addendum with the adjusted values. Turbotax by default tells you to enter the 1099 sales, and after entering and submitting each row, you see t
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by beau_g 3y ago
This article doesn't seem to say anything beyond the obvious, but here's what I wish I knew - - Be conscious of what is going on with sell to cover on RSUs if you go that route, especially shortly after you joined a company or ves
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by beau_g 3y ago
You should probably spend some of your money if you are a billionaire, bunkers and islands seem like a good buy to me (as well as farm land or just large swaths of land in general which other articles have speculated Bill Gates and others a
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by beau_g 3y ago
AI has been able to crush heads up (2 player) No Limit Hold Em for a while now and 6 player for a few years. In that time frame though, a lot of other games have gained popularity, and playing a mix of games in the same sessions. AI/so
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by beau_g 3y ago
Enshitification doesn't happen because of the tools, it happens because the market will bear it. "More apps that use far too many resources", "Interfaces with more friction" Let's extend this to just performanc
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by beau_g 3y ago
Here's my startup thesis for this space, free for anyone who wants it 1. Most delays in tunneling projects are due to elongated decision making processes 2. The majority of the cost of the machines are their initial construction, not
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by beau_g 3y ago
Is there a precedent that suggests there must be a reasonable expectation that if you are contacting someone over the internet or phone and giving them money, that person has some duty to ensure their internet/TV/professional&#x2F
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by beau_g 3y ago
When some branches brought mine down in a storm, I cut mine off on the house side, spooled it up secure with electrical tape, and hung it low on the pole on the street side. Probably shouldn't disconnect it at their box but past there
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by beau_g 3y ago
You are comparing the transaction cost of credit cards/banking/trade to the transaction cost + infrastructure cost of bitcoin. Credit card companies, banks, financial institutes have millions of employees that drive to work, HVAC
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by beau_g 3y ago
It's a treasure trove of data to know the bathroom utilization rate normalized for passenger volume and time spent per session. Maybe train bathrooms are highly unoptimized. Do trains which frequent downtown areas with bars and sports
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by beau_g 3y ago
Is it though? Without products there are no sales at all. A compelling enough product will sell with no marketing/sales effort, so sales is really only whatever that baseline is + (extra units sold from sales and marketing efforts - co
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by beau_g 3y ago
The rural Arizona Mcdonalds kingpin may try to get this site taken down - make sure to archive
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by beau_g 3y ago
In which line of work or venue could a competent person with intentions like these NOT succeed in introducing subtle problems? If there were such a thing where someone could not possibly introduce a problem if they tried, what would that ev
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by beau_g 3y ago
Young males that wear Tensorflow branded muscle tank tops and drive Mitsubishi Eclipse convertibles with the vanity plate OVERFIT. They are everywhere these days.
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by beau_g 3y ago
I don't understand where you are trying to go with this - steam cars have the same primary feature as any other vehicle - longitudinal and lateral control to traverse asphalt bands across the country. They can be retrofitted with any m
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by beau_g 3y ago
You can buy many vehicles today dating all the way back to the turn of the last century. Here's some listings for steam cars if you insist on no electronics whatsoever https://www.steamcarnetwork.com/for-sale Whatever
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by beau_g 3y ago
Volkswagen recently built a software org up to 6000 people (Cariad) and recently announced they are laying of 2000 of them. If they were structured anything like German suppliers I've dealt with, there was probably a 12 person team in
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by beau_g 3y ago
Imagine what these crabs would do to us if they were in charge though
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by beau_g 3y ago
If you think that's bad, just wait until you hear about some of the stuff human drivers do
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by beau_g 3y ago
Someone taking it upon themselves to speak for everyone and determine they know what is best for the masses isn't narcissistic?
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by beau_g 3y ago
How? Their inefficiency is tied to their design of having millions of people being employed keeping it afloat. What does hackernews think about the efficiency of 100k+ people orgs? I don't see much positive sentiment on that. Ultimatel

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