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by cj 2y ago
What version of Gemini is built into Google Workspace? (I just got the ability today to ask Gemini anything about emails in my work Gmail account, which seems like something that would require a large context window)
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by cj 2y ago
Services like Spotify will probably be around forever unless there’s easy ways to migrate playlists and “loved/liked” songs between platforms. 1st world problems, but I’m paying for Apple Music since my running playlists are on there (
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by cj 2y ago
For the uninitiated, what is the main advantage?
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by cj 3y ago
The talking parrot can only answer by repeating something it heard before. Another question you could ask is “What’s the difference between a conversation between 2 people and a conversation between 2 parrots who can answer any question?”
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by cj 3y ago
That’s actually pretty smart if your goal is to weed out people who used ChatGPT without caring to understand the output, while also weeding out fake candidates who outsourced the project to someone else. (The latter issue with fake candida
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by cj 3y ago
95% of tech companies do not require 10-15 hours of take home interview work. Edit: adding additional context, any company working with a recruiter will constantly be told by the recruiter repeatedly that the company should simplify and sho
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by cj 3y ago
This is kind of cute, in a dystopian way. "Waymo you're going the wrong way!" and the human uni-cyclist steers in front of Waymo, knowing that it will brake, in an attempt to force it back into the correct lane.
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by cj 3y ago
> the most forgettable revolutionary new product Apple has released. Ironically, being in tech, I myself am not an early adopter. I only joined Facebook once everyone was already on it, switched to iPhone once the majority of people I
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by cj 3y ago
Screen recording probably won’t take off in this context, luckily. I think employers would be more interested in basic things like “did this person login their computer today, between what times were they active, how many hours in the day d
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by cj 3y ago
Can you elaborate? In my experience, more windows = more light (and more climate control needed)
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by cj 3y ago
Doesn’t matter. Generalizing topics and/or adding caveats about how something may not always be true is the easiest way for a LLM to increase the rate of providing factually accurate responses (aside from refusing to answer). Both of t
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by cj 3y ago
The points to comments ratio on the first few on the list are out of whack. I’m pretty sure if # of comments exceeds the number of upvotes, the story is down-weighted automatically. Flagging stories also automatically downweights if enough
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by cj 3y ago
Now I understand why Capital One pushes their chrome extension [0] so hard every time I login my account. Just took a peak at the TOS for the extension [1] and yep, they're collecting a selling price data. It's crazy that by insta
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by cj 3y ago
If you’re willing to spend a couple weekends on it, I’d recommend anyone (who’s tech savvy enough) using consumer Gmail to buy Google Workspace Enterprise for personal email. Been doing this for years. It’s something like $25/mo and gi
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by cj 3y ago
The best engineer I ever worked with had 3 full time W-2 jobs remote in the US. It was really unfortunate when all 3 companies found out at the same time and he was fired from all 3. Not unfortunate that he was fired, but unfortunate that h
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by cj 3y ago
Is it node that still limits all processes to 2gb or something by default? (I think their rationale was “it’s a v8 flag so we don’t touch it”)
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by cj 3y ago
> Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider The whole project is really interesting but this line caught my eye. For spreading DNS p
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by cj 3y ago
This seems irrational. 1/3 of the company actually quit because they were discouraged from talking about biden/trump/jan 6/etc on slack? If that were happening I could see why a ban would be beneficial. That sh*t's
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by cj 3y ago
> In 1971, President Nixon terminated the convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold. Gold-backed currency seems suboptimal for a country unless you have enough trust in the government to honor the "backed by gold" guarantee.
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by cj 3y ago
> What is your price elasticity for your childrens' future? This is a silly question. Silly answer: I would want my kid to be able to retire happily. If college debt prevents that, let's ditch it.
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by cj 3y ago
And even if it doesn't hallucinate, current-age text generators are very good (in a bad way) at following a leading question. For example, questions like "Tell me why I should use semaglutide for weight loss" gives widely dif
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by cj 3y ago
Trying to improve EBITDA (profitability) in advance of an acquisition perhaps? Or the company knew the deal was going forward and Cloudflare was unlikely to retain new employees?
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by cj 3y ago
The Apple alert came in at 12:05pm warning of aftershocks but not the primary event.
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by cj 3y ago
> its interesting what cases make headline news and whats relegated to law journals It certainly made headlines to people its impacts. 2 of my law firms sent out alerts. (They send out alerts maybe 1-2 per year whenever a significant leg
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by cj 3y ago
> The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited. If we found anything resembling this today (presumably in some language we don't understand or by a
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by cj 3y ago
It works until it doesn’t. I’m sure there are also more complexities, e.g. not sure how much control local franchise owners have over price.
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by cj 3y ago
Sometimes at work I’m concentrating so hard my Apple Watch logs a sleep session… Definitely not 100% accurate but as someone who checks their sleep log (and time in each stage using the Pillow app) daily, it seems pretty accurate and I can
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by cj 3y ago
My company was on the receiving end of $500k syndicate from AngelList in 2015-16. Part of the problem re: updates is companies aren’t required to provide them. We’ve had individual syndicate investors reach out to us demanding to see our fi
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by cj 3y ago
Google themselves recommends sending different types of emails from different subdomains of the primary domain to help Google differentiate between transactional, marketing, newsletters, outbound, etc Any half decent marketer will 100% use
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by cj 3y ago
As a sys admin, what do you do when you see 5% of your email hitting spam because the recipient’s Office365 mail server is misconfigured? Agreed it’s a net positive, but it kills me when the reason emails land in spam is misconfiguration at

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