belval

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by belval 2y ago
Haha no I do not, I work on an AWS AI service. If I could get some pull on other teams it would probably be the kindle one to fix the scribe syncing feature or the fire tv one to remove the god-awful ads.
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by belval 2y ago
They have these big dinner-style machines that you can use to brew a large batch of coffee and then put it in large thermos, but honestly the taste is pretty bad (but it is free!) and it requires you to babysit the process. We also have fre
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by belval 2y ago
I like working there, but Amazon definitely has the worst in-office accomodations. No snacks, no free coffee, for-profit (like 4-5$ for a chocolate bar) vending machines on every second floor, no cafeterias in most building and when they ha
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by belval 2y ago
I guess I am in my grouchy old person phase but all I could think of what the Gilfoyle quote from Silicon Valley when presented with a talking refrigerator. > "Bad enough it has to talk, does it need fake vocal tics...?" - Gilf
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by belval 2y ago
Yes, I don't really expect anything beyond "Woah eating sugar raises my sugar".
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by belval 2y ago
Yes and it's fairly intimidating (but I am a bit squeemish), the "painless" they refer to is that the applicator will have a lot of surface area which pretty much drowns out the pain of the needle prick. It was painless, but
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by belval 2y ago
I'd go through them faster for sure but absolutely. Things changed so much in the last 100 years, even just the car pictures would be super cool to see. Might be cultural or even a me thing though, I grew up with a grand-aunt that love
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by belval 2y ago
Are you referring to the Dexcom Stelo? I ordered mine recently, really excited about the idea of tracking glucose levels.
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by belval 2y ago
I think for coffee in particular the GP is missing that a lot of people are buying lattes every other day for 5$+. In a year that's +900$ which is definitely enough to get excellent gear. My mignon grinder and rancilio silvia set me ba
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by belval 2y ago
As with all thing Musk I feel like there's a need to separate the artist from the art. If this happened in a liberal democracy there is due process, you can't unilateraly freeze a corporation account, they would prevent whatever c
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by belval 2y ago
Pursuing legal action against the person (Elon) and not an unrelated business he owns (Starlink)? Wasn't the entire thing caused by a disagreement over X anyway?
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by belval 2y ago
I feel like the click-bait like title is actually detrimental for an article where the conclusions stand on their own. 1. In mice and flies, sleep deprivation causes an accumulation of ROS molecules in the gut. 2. When this accumulation is
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by belval 2y ago
The first part of your comment was pretty spot on, but the rest I think is biased from living here in a different time, the populated areas around Montreal (Brossard, Laval especially) all have significant English-speaking-only populations.
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by belval 2y ago
It's quite literally our main export partner. Entire industries in Canada (Airplanes, cars, wood) live and die by US policy.
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by belval 2y ago
This article made me aware of this monstruosity: https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-smart-oven/ honestly this gives such a weird unfocused company vibe. Regarding the Echo show displaying ads, I would advocate an
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by belval 2y ago
Seems like he is testing how impervious rich people truly are to justice. Fortunately for our society seems like there are still limits to what you can get away with.
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by belval 2y ago
> not true for any modern MP game Pretty big claim > at least a few examples Reasonable claim Comfortably doesn't mean everything will be at 60fps, it means that most things will be at 60fps so someone with a 7700k will not be fe
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by belval 2y ago
Well there are several reasons: - Intel is still competitive for gaming and productivity (albeit at a somewhat higher power consumption) - AMD does not have a good budget offering (competing with i3 at ~120$) - People don't refresh the
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by belval 2y ago
Fun fact, in the French speaking part of Canada, "French drain" are fully translated to "Drain français" because of this quirk even though we don't usually translate proper nouns.
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by belval 2y ago
> How many times has this happened? Not commenting on this specific case, but presenting your work as novel when there is a pile of pre-existing art is pretty common in ML/AI. Some of it is due to trying to get into conferences, but
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by belval 2y ago
That's a misconception of what the LP are for though (in my opinion). They exist to provide a shared vocabulary that helps with meetings/interviews/reviews. "Deliver results/bias for action" are often at odds w
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by belval 2y ago
Some commenters are pointing out increased AI usage as the cause, but I think it's probably this as well: > While those are actions that should help the world tackle climate change, experts have found that the purchase of the emissi
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by belval 2y ago
Not sure if I am understanding correctly but getting power consumption and being able to turn the switch on and off is definitely available in even cheap ZigBee switches: https://www.amazon.ca/THIRDREALITY-Real-time-Monitori
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by belval 2y ago
ZigBee could definitely do it but as someone with a lot of smart wall plugs (I have a total of ~40 ZigBee devices in my house) that data is just not really useful because it's just a drop in the bucket compared to cooling/heating&
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by belval 2y ago
As the unhappy owner of two bad knees myself, it's important to do a lot more reinforcement of all the auxiliary muscles in the leg daily as a complement to running (usually 3-4 times a week is plenty). This will stabilize your knee an
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by belval 2y ago
I'd just go with Occam/Hanlon's razor, the author is somewhat inept (at least when it comes to Amazon returns) and wrote a piece on it because being anti-Amazon gets clicks like being anti-Walmart in the early 2010s (2000s?).
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by belval 2y ago
You can be broadly for cities rolling out their own broadbands while still pointing out that on the long term your local government growing its spending can be an issue. 10Gbps is absolutely great, but then the city might create an entire b
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by belval 2y ago
While it's cool that they chose to showcase full-resolution videos, they take so long to load I thought their videos were just a stuttery mess. Turns out if you open the video in a new tab the smoothness is much more impressive.
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by belval 2y ago
> it will scale up on a single machine to make use of all the cores (unlike Nodejs, Python, or Ruby) Python definitely does "use all cores" on a machine with the multiprocessing package, not sure what you mean?
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by belval 2y ago
> Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. Respectfully, this is the type of true-that-sounds-deep statements that are absolutely shallow and pointless. Yes money the "paper" is not worth anything, but the same c

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