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by belval 3y ago
> Flowers recommends building a community on a chat platform like Discord, Gitter, or Slack to make it easier for people to get involved informally with a project. Sample size n = 1, but I saw a lot more engagement on my projects when I
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by belval 3y ago
> I recently dusted it off to give friends a demo and they were floored, reminding me how great it is. It just didn’t hook me. Maybe it was the solo aspect. I don’t have friends who do VR so there’s no one else to play with. Convincing m
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by belval 3y ago
In software engineering the FB codebase would definitely be considered >50% maintenance. While we don't have a good fundamental for software as we do for electrical engineering, we do have some basic studies showing that refactors i
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by belval 3y ago
> He was one of those people who, when he went to a new company, simply tried to reinvent everything he came from with no care or consideration given to what's already there. You have to have a very bad case of god complex if you lo
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by belval 3y ago
> Processing Ad creatives posed some new challenges: media formats of Ads are quite different from movie and TV mezzanines that the team was familiar with, and there was a new set of media processing requirements related to the business
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> Although the title of legal personhood is a unique way of approaching conservation, it can draw questions about how the Magpie will manage the intricacies of the legal system — especially since it can now theoretically sue and be sued.
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by belval 3y ago
Especially considering that the author seems to be using some Azure specific features anyway: > While being vendor-agnostic is a great idea, for us, it came with a high opportunity cost. After a while, we decided to go all-in on AKS-rela
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by belval 3y ago
Sure, perhaps that was a bit too succint. What I mean is that, as a customer of 23andme, I'd much rather know about some known genetic disease that I may or may not have than about wide-ranging things that affect everyone like stress a
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by belval 3y ago
As someone who paid for 23andme+, it was pretty much a scam anyway, I got maybe 4-5 more reports over the year, all of which were for random popular ailments like "Anxiety" where the link between your genes and the disease(?) are
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by belval 3y ago
The thing is, the political climate is very toxic and the absence of anonymity can have a real impact for things that are basically wrong think. Say for example I held the opinion that immigration threshold should be lower. No matter how ma
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by belval 3y ago
It's so incredible how we went from "Netflix has everything for 7.99$, TV is dead" to "You need 6 subscriptions and they all have ads" in about 10 years. I guess everything does move quicker in tech.
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Even in with large scale data Hadoop/Spark tend to be used in ways that makes no sense, as if something being self described as big data means that as soon as you cross some threshold you SHOULD be using it. Recently had an argument wi
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by belval 3y ago
While the comment you are replying to does sound a bit cynical. The reality is HF already signed similar agreements with AWS and Azure several months ago.
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by belval 3y ago
Considering that Meta is probably selling the Quest 2 and 3 at cost (or even subsidizing it) I'm pretty sure it's intentional as a cost-cutting measure that has an easy and somewhat inexpensive aftermarket fix. But yeah, as someon
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by belval 3y ago
> a person's record of charges that did not lead to a conviction is not publicly available, but rather requires an individual's consent. Unless I misunderstood isn't that almost the exact same thing though? When getting hi
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> Canada > good policymaking As a Canadian, seems like we just have good PR.
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> Don't use your credit card on websites you don't trust The person in this article bought stuff from Amazon with their credit card and did not have their account compromised. Unless you are arguing against buying stuff on the
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by belval 3y ago
Hot take, but I feel like Norway gets greenwashed a lot as better than everywhere else, when they are basically a northern Saudi Arabia in terms of exports with over 70% of their exports being oil and gas.
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by belval 3y ago
> If you left your front door wide and were robbed the public would have 0 sympathy for you Not sure where you live for that to be the case, but someone coming in because I left my door open is not normal, even if I left my door open. Ev
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by belval 3y ago
Yes that would make sense. I'm in no way arguing that models can't be more open, just that overloading a commonly used expression such as "open-source" and then complaining that projects are not complying with your new d
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by belval 3y ago
> if you can’t reproduce the model then it’s not truly open-source. Open-source means open source, it does not make reproducibility guarantees. You get the code and you can use the code. Pushed to the extreme this is like saying Chromium
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by belval 3y ago
> "At this point, the accused admitted he was the one who started the fires and, as his main motivation, claimed he was doing tests to find out whether the forest was really dry or not," Surely now that he's burned down so
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by belval 3y ago
Sure but I feel like you are taking game theory and applying it to real life. See for example https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/by-usage/gaming they do a lot of actual reviews with tests and al
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by belval 3y ago
We should also ask ourselves if affiliate links are really that bad. Someone could be making honest complete reviews and monetizing those with affiliate links, does that inherently mean that the search results are lower quality? That approa
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by belval 3y ago
I'm probably missing context or I'm desensitized by all the blatant copyright violations of the last year, but this is the outline of a bear that, by your link owns admission is not exactly the same, is flipped, has a different co
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by belval 3y ago
It's supposed to be, but GPT-4 was released almost a full year ago now.
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by belval 3y ago
I feel like the AI debacle with Google having no good answer to ChatGPT was only the tip of the iceberg and it's becoming clear that the company does not have a good leadership structure in place. Some blame Sundar, personally I have n
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by belval 3y ago
> This didn't seem right, as I pay more than double that here in San Francisco. Their data might be a bit outdated but the December 2023 average is $0.168/kwh according to [1]. [1] https://www.bls.gov/regions&#x
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by belval 3y ago
I feel like that's unfair. It's normal in a company to answer to someone and its normal for that someone to want some way to answer the question "are we on track for X" when asked by their superior (whoever that may be).
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by belval 3y ago
Frankly I'm a bit torn on this one as f(x=x) is indeed a common pattern and having just f(x=) reduces the need for multiline invocations but I feel like adding syntatic sugar to python at this point is just giving the snake diabetes.

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