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by belval 2y ago
He's one of those youtubers (everyone seems to have one) that I just don't like, everyone on HN always says his videos are good/educational, but to me he just comes off as confidently incorrect and on the few videos where I a
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by belval 2y ago
Not exactly the same thing, but I recently used a service of telemedecine provided by my employer to get a prescription (not pain medication but still not that casual) and my mic didn't work but instead of waiting ~30 seconds for me to
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by belval 2y ago
Reminds me of people blaming UberEats/DoorDash for their poor financial situation. AWS sells a convenient service, if you cannot afford that service maybe just don't use it?
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by belval 2y ago
> Against DEI and that and more is pretty much the S. I think that's part of why people are disillusioned, because ESG lumps several incomparable verticals and quantitatively rank them. A slightly flippant reading could be "How
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by belval 2y ago
Especially considering the number of "Petrol company is in ESG but Tesla is not" type of articles that we've seen in the last +5 years. The reality is ESG is just another gamed metric, if you want to do ethical investing that
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by belval 2y ago
Genuinely asking, is that true? Sugar or sucrose is a combination of glucose and fructose that can be broken down by water, since glucose is the basic sugar that cell uses wouldn't that be available regardless of the baby's digest
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by belval 3y ago
Pretty sure if the article was titled "The $10k BYD Seagull EV is scaring Tesla" the person you are responding to wouldn't have commented, but the US auto industry is definitely not scared by small affordable cars seeing as t
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by belval 3y ago
Indeed this article uses a weird framing, if anything this seems more like a threat to EU manufacturers that sell small cars in a market where people want smaller cars, not US manufacturers that mostly sell SUVs and Pickups in a market wher
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by belval 3y ago
I wonder if with the advent of LLMs being able to spit out perfect corpo-speak everyone will recenter to succint and short "here's the gist" as the long version will become associated to cheap automated output.
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by belval 3y ago
There will be a fast follow for video transcription and search in videos so that people end up creating videos that nobody watch but get indexed by some internal system and provide a concise 1-pager for human consumption that should have be
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by belval 3y ago
My prediction on this: people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline", people will get crunched and not watch the videos before finally re-scheduling meetings where t
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by belval 3y ago
Yeah I would be fun to do a analysis of commenters, my guess would be that people defending leetcode style interview are probably younger and people praising a real code change are older simply because that's what each group is more us
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by belval 3y ago
> Intel has poorly executed a quite a few things while Pat has been CEO. He's been CEO for 3 years, considering the state of decay of Intel in 2021 that's not a lot of time to turn things around. AMD took ~6 years between Bulld
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by belval 3y ago
If you think about how assisted suicide is applied in Canada (or at least in Quebec) it's really not that surprising. Despite the somewhat negative coverage medical assitance in dying is really given to people with days/weeks to l
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by belval 3y ago
I had the same reaction but at the bottom on the article they say that there are 2000 to 5000 prints in existence so they seem less rare than I thought.
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by belval 3y ago
> they don't care for the work itself, so of course they'll take every opportunity they get to slack off and watch Netflix if they can. Overall you do make it sound like you condone this, I got the same read as the person you a
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by belval 3y ago
It's a weird world out there these days, but only one of them open-sourced their LLMs so maybe?
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by belval 3y ago
That sounds mostly dysfunctional and not really a WFH issue. > Is the server not responding after the recent power outage? Too bad. The guy to turn it back on only comes in Monday-Tuesday. A reasonable company would have some rotating in
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by belval 3y ago
> and it's missing a lot without it Could you clarify what it is missing exactly? Genuinely curious as I read the books before watching the movie and I didn't really feel like the movie was missing anything? > The book is me
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by belval 3y ago
> This secrecy offends one of the central premises of American corporate law: the idea that, because corporations are an exercise of public authority, the public is entitled to know what they’re up to. This seems like a leap or a very bi
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by belval 3y ago
Thanks for that, I learned something today! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire
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by belval 3y ago
> "Basically nobody writes CUDA," wrote Keller in a follow-up post. "If you do write CUDA, it is probably not fast. I am a big fan of Jim Keller, but this is semantics that argues CUDA the language is not a moat, when most
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by belval 3y ago
To defend the general public, landing an unmanned craft on the moon just doesn't sound impressive anymore, it's like SpaceX landing their boosters. The first time it's mindblowing, the Nth time, not so much. EDIT: And for JWS
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by belval 3y ago
> At this point, many of you might be thinking: Zan, you sneaky weasel. Haven't you just cherry-picked your redditors and scientific publications to fit your narrative? Adressing it is good, but ultimately it does not really act as
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by belval 3y ago
1. Have a large amount of oil & gas comparatively to your population 2. Sell the oil and gas to Europe 3. Use the money to finance the Utopia I don't want to be too cynical, what Norway is doing is great, but I feel like whenever a
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by belval 3y ago
They use 10-fold cross-validation, but yes imo this entire paper does not pass the smell test. They used pre-trained Resnet and ViT without specifying pre-training on what so Ièm 99% sure that they picked their weights from the pytorch mode
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by belval 3y ago
If that was true, they wouldn't have named it Gemini 1.5 to follow the half-point increment of ChatGPT, they desperately want "people" to care about their product to gain back their mindshare. Anthropic's Claude targets
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by belval 3y ago
They can't do that because only they are the incorruptible stewards empowered with the ability to develop these models, making them accessible to the unwashed masses would be irresponsible!
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by belval 3y ago
Despite the obviously dystopian undertones, it's truly an interesting time to be alive.
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by belval 3y ago
Beat saber can be played as a group and I found it quite enjoyable. For the more FPS style games Ghost of Tabor is absolutely thrilling and I'm enjoying "after the fall" quite a bit as well. The trick is usually to walk away

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