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by catillac 5y ago
More than five million probable died from Covid, the vast majority since summer 2020. The pandemic isn’t over because someone decided it was. This person’s comment is asinine.
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by catillac 5y ago
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that generally things improving is an affront to people who lived before improvement. To me it sounds like saying we shouldn’t have indoor plumbing because it’s unfair to people who lived wit
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by catillac 5y ago
I was in an interview not long after format strings in Python came out (for example, print(f”Hello, {name}”) rather than print(“Hello, %s”, name)) and the interviewer thought I was confusing languages and features, asserted this fact strong
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by catillac 5y ago
I travel a lot for work and after some setup I have found hertz to be the most efficient. When they’re not efficient, I want to blow a gasket at the line and lack of any urgency from the staff, and another time they canceled my reservation
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by catillac 5y ago
To be completely fair, the printer comment seemed to be tongue in cheek. I’m sure if this really were a blocker, they would have easily solved it with a quick trip to FedEx office, as mentioned.
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by catillac 5y ago
I’m not sure this is fully accurate, but I would like the analogy of vaccines being like an LRU cache.
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by catillac 5y ago
Yes, Tesla owner here. When you buy you’re given the option to purchase “FSD” for $10k. All the caveats reveal that it’s not really FSD though, of course, and you’re essentially paying for these partial FSD features and are a part of the te
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by catillac 5y ago
The Tesla influencers — the explicit and implicit ones — have really soured me on the brand. I have driven in the original Tesla, loved the model S, owned a model Z, and had a cybertruck on order for a while (and intended to follow through
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by catillac 5y ago
NRO is different than Space Force. Space Force is relatively new and has a different mission.
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by catillac 5y ago
This comment has “Dropbox won’t be successful because anyone can use rsync” vibes.
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by catillac 5y ago
No it’s people stealing accounts and running the images through off the shelf deep fake software to pump whatever the cryptocurrency or NFT flavor of the month nonsense is.
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by catillac 5y ago
Significantly less given that they’re on HN, but I suppose there’s no way FB would know that this person posts on HN.
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by catillac 5y ago
Most of Texas is very remote and hard to attract talent or investment to. Certainly cheaper to put the plant in Uvalde or something, but harder to recruit hard tech talent there.
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by catillac 5y ago
I realize this is a mental model thing, which makes it more of a heuristic, and I believe this one is correct. However, I finally had a situation recently where it _was_ the compiler! I submitted a bug report and a patch and now it’s no lon
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by catillac 5y ago
I’d love my Remarkable or Oasis to be in color. I’ve used my Remarkable almost daily since I’ve received it and Oasis several times a week for years. Color on either or both would be great. Even in color, eink devices have largely never bee
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by catillac 5y ago
The thread really jumped the shark when the author shared a “glimpse of the future” and cited an example of some organization that doesn’t appear to exist, and some project the author made. This idea is so bad for so many reasons that other
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by catillac 5y ago
Looks like it’s the first part of a multi part series
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by catillac 5y ago
This is really interesting, I’d love to read more. One thing that’s interesting to me is that when I search HN for Katerra, I see plenty of articles posted that verify the OP story, but none of them have any comments. I guess it’s not reall
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by catillac 5y ago
My word was found and indeed existed on Wikipedia, but I hadn’t heard it before at least.
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by catillac 5y ago
Wow I think you’re right upon reread. I read it as having to account for all that time over the previous period to show how they couldn’t have done a better job/
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by catillac 5y ago
Thank you for Abseil, if nothing else. It’s been my go-to for years now.
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by catillac 5y ago
I will never not upvote stories on Feynman. I’ve read all the books and he was an extraordinary man who brought an ability to describe complicated topics at a layman’s level. It’s true that he didn’t have some of the super core contribution
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by catillac 5y ago
I thought the weird thing was that with that second step, if I drew a broom exactly for example, and it guessed “broom” correctly, it returns images with no brooms in them at all?
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by catillac 5y ago
Doesn’t work when I try to use it, always returns the same thing, and it seems like everyone else is having the same problem. Sounds cool though and I’ll be excited about the day we progress enough where something like this works! GANs are
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by catillac 5y ago
We do, in addition to continuing banning drones in wildlife areas like national and state parks due to externalities such as messing with bird flocks.
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by catillac 5y ago
So, I’m kind of dumb and this article helped me in a tangible way. When I work with jupyter notebooks on an ec2 (where I already have ssh access), I go into terraform or the console and add my personal ip to allowed ips in the security grou
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by catillac 5y ago
Is Monte Carlo approach (versus a gradient based approach) basically trying a bunch of different things until something works, or is it more nuanced than that (perhaps with intelligent optimization of what to try next?)?
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by catillac 5y ago
This seems useful, but they use terms like GTD and never define them, and with the grammar, it’s slightly hard to follow.
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by catillac 5y ago
Law enforcement or fastmail admins reading my personal email isn’t something I want, but isn’t so distasteful as for it to really be in my threat model such that I’m willing to go the lengths required to get an email provider that doesn’t h
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by catillac 5y ago
Long time Fastmail and 1Pass user here. While I agree that it would be best to not be locked in to particular providers, these are two of the providers who have a lot of my trust and to whom I’m paid up years in advance (at least in Fastmai

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