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by beebmam 2y ago
Why Python? I really don't understand this choice of language other than accessibility.
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by beebmam 2y ago
The US is in a cold war with China as long as China is open to the idea of the use of military force on its neighbors, including Taiwan. A cold war is the only alternative to surrendering the free Taiwanese people to communist rule, and a h
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by beebmam 2y ago
How do you know that writing has improved the way that you think? By what metrics did you come to that conclusion? If someone else showed you that by writing their transformed thinking reduced their quality of life, would you be less prescr
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by beebmam 3y ago
He should have donated these to the Victorville Film Archive, which exists specifically to archive and care for VHS recordings
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by beebmam 3y ago
I'm jealous that you have such flexibility at work that you can do POCs behind closed doors!
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by beebmam 3y ago
> In the United States there is no way to make effective protests, you are immediately detained by the police Pure fiction. I've been protesting for decades and have not once been arrested or detained by police.
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by beebmam 3y ago
I go with 4 for basically any study until it is verified independently. One big reason I tend to avoid science "news"
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by beebmam 3y ago
It seems deeply overvalued to me, as it's pretty likely that NVIDIA's competitors will have parallel computation hardware that competes well enough. I'm personally not a fan of NVIDIA's drivers or the reliability of thei
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by beebmam 3y ago
I love that the Star Wars Holiday Special was probably written before this, making it even more canon than what The Empire Strikes Back eventually became.
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by beebmam 3y ago
I think we all have to face the reality that much of the content we love could disappear tomorrow. Many of my favorite videos and music tracks, almost entirely made by independent no-name artists, have disappeared over the last 2 decades fr
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by beebmam 3y ago
What evidence does he present for this claim?
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by beebmam 3y ago
The levelling system is a joke everywhere. HR needs to be totally annihilated
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by beebmam 3y ago
Never forget the Pixel Pass rug pull. I'll never buy another Google product.
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by beebmam 3y ago
> leaves human societies more or less the same My mom, who is 70 years old, regularly tells me how profoundly transformative the internet has been for society.
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by beebmam 3y ago
The CLI is peak UX for anyone technically competent.
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by beebmam 3y ago
Plenty of goods with substitutes (ex: fast food items) have increased substantially in price since the pandemic. People are more than willing to pay historically higher prices for plenty of items that could be replaced with cheaper items. I
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by beebmam 3y ago
I think that "quality software" is not well defined, so until it's well defined, we're not talking about the same thing.
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by beebmam 3y ago
Income isn't wealth. Please don't conflate the two.
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by beebmam 3y ago
I nominate Talos Principle 2
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by beebmam 3y ago
I'm happy with my Lynx/w3m browsers.
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by beebmam 3y ago
I'm fairly certain IBM Cloud offers S390x as a platform for confidential computing, so there is a very good use case for this.
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by beebmam 3y ago
Microsoft's market cap was ~3T in late 2021, long before ChatGPT/GPT-4 was even announced.
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by beebmam 3y ago
Eventually being maybe 5+ years to build out the cloud tech to do so. The reason GPT-4 succeeded is massive RDMA+GPU compute clusters for training the model.
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by beebmam 3y ago
The people from other countries who are genuine hackers aren't qualified enough to get approved for H-1B visas.
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by beebmam 3y ago
This might not be popular here, but in my opinion, the H-1B visa program has been a disaster for tech companies. It oversaturates the tech labor market with career-seeking individuals, drowning out the hackers who immerse themselves in tech
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by beebmam 3y ago
> Dropping bombs on innocent civilians in a third world country Is this really what political analysis has stooped to on HN in 2023? A total abdication of any attempt at nuance, or framing, or examining underlying intentions. Such a sham
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by beebmam 3y ago
This is easy to rebut. He is wrong about macroeconomics. But that's because every macroeconomic theory is wrong by design . It is impossible to come up with a macroeconomic model that perfectly describes reality because economic reali
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by beebmam 3y ago
My doctor told me exactly the opposite, specifically for weightlifting. I'm curious: do you have a medical background? If so, what is it?
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by beebmam 3y ago
How do you think login works for almost all network/web services? Very few do anything different. I wish they would, of course. Crypto/signature logins please!
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by beebmam 3y ago
For people reading this comment about RSI and considering this recommendation: please see a doctor and a physical therapist first before you adopt a gym routine. It is very, very easy to hurt yourself if you don't know what you're

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