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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
“The proper relationship between a journalist and a politician should be akin to that between a dog and a lamp-post.” In this case replace politician with the company they’re reporting on.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
But it didn’t win by default, it beat out the other alternatives, sublime and a GitHub editor (prior to acquisition). VS Code (Monaco at the time) was developed by a small team largely in secret to keep it safe from other MS departments so
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
HFT code is unusual in the way it is used. A lot of work goes into avoiding the Garbage Collection and other JVM overheads.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
That was also true for returned goods - though admittedly scammers did ruin that for everyone. I'd rather they didn't have the option, I'd rather not stake my financial future on the good graces of Amazon.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Courts can be rather capricious, I’d rather avoid them as best as possible, even if you are likely to win having to fight something like this in court is punishing.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
“am I hot or not” is a great paradigm for many things, is it porn or not etc. 3 buttons are perfectly sufficient for getting this information from the users for rating systems in general. This is not a rating system as samples are labeled f
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Amazon is currently permissive which splits opposition, this won’t always be the case, they will tighten the screws eventually as they have done in the past in other areas. Amazon because it’s so broadly used undermines the utility of charg
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
This is great, I had no idea how off base I was with my assumptions. It’ll be interesting to keep the usage data to find out what kinds of images people have the most trouble with. As in what kind of mole is the most likely to be missed. Th
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I use AWS out of expedience but I hate the no-hard-cap experience and this is my primary reason for shifting (WIP) to self hosting. Plus self hosting is cheaper for me anyway. In general I would like a legally forced liability limit on unbo
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I’ve not read the fine print but I’d be worried that there would be something in there that allows this.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It’s far easier to open a new tab than it is to change a thermostat, which also isn’t that hard… I still think google is doing itself and the rest of us a disservice when they don’t facilitate off-boarding or continuation of services that w
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
That was my first thought, sounds like a lot of overhead and added risk for transporting drugs. A lot of effort was put into making narco subs operable with as few people as possible and some are now even fully automated. This doesn’t pass
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Another place where functions are approximated is in machine learning which use a variety of non-linear functions for activations, for example the ReLU f(x)= max(0,x)
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It depends on how you define sustained and define excess profits. Being an unusually effective and well managed company can certainly yield sustained above average returns but that hardly means that is a meaningful barrier to entry - the qu
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Perhaps my 'marginal cost' should have been taken to be 'near marginal cost' and as such I don't believe it'll be fully commoditized either, just mostly commoditized in that it becomes impossible to extract mea
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I’m unconvinced that the lessons learned from scaling will constitute much of a moat. There is certainly an incentive for incumbents to give such an impression.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Granted that capital costs are a barrier to entry and that barriers to entry leads to non-perfect competition, but the exploitability is limited in the case of LLMs because they exist on a sub-linear utility scale. In LLMs 2x the price is n
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
That’s like being upset that you can’t dig your own suez canal. So long as there is competition it’ll be available at marginal cost. And there is plenty of innovation that can be done on the edges, and not all of machine learning is LLMs.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
I made a BigCo $130M p.a. with a general improvement but was similarly denied a promotion. Changed my career plan after that and got out of there. These same companies complain constantly that it’s so hard to hire good people.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It is my view that "realization that none of this is science" is very unlikely to happen. Corrupted systems tend to continue far beyond the point of absurdity. Academia is too big to fail so the dysfunction will continue ad infini
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
When I started breaking the build would end up with the person who did it having to wear the dunce hat for the day. This was before git so there are now fewer excuses for breaking the build today.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
With my experience of being written up for constructive criticism the reasoning was that I didn’t give constructive criticism to others and they felt singled out. I only give such criticism in private so of course they were not there to see
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
The current system is not long term stable, and poor accounting is part of the reason more people don't know that. Even worse accounting would speed up the decline.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
As inequality grows, regardless of the mechanism, the proportion who benefit will decrease. The top 10% that benefited from the initial increase will find themselves on the wrong side of it as the process continues. I supply a low cost alte
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Just got back from an In-Person conference, as a vendor the cost was $8K, up from $6K for the same thing last year so a 30% YoY increase. The $6K last year already felt like we were being gouged. I may end up cutting back and going every se
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
During the BLM riots many participants in justifying their actions of property destruction would claim that the costs of replacing the property would come from insurance. Many people don’t have insurance, or self insure, and those that do c
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
The F-14 is twin engine, 40% more plane and can fly faster. Also the F-14 was considered expensive. My main disappointment with the F35 is that it could have been a lot cheaper with modern design technology and manufacturing. That and the s
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Money laundering, visa scams, and probably other criminal activity. The ones I noticed were in an airport so I doubt they were slinging drugs.
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
Overly expensive candy stores that only accept cash and have an excess of staff...
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by cjbgkagh 1y ago
It’s a title that is given to people to get them to present at junkets, a modern socially and legally acceptable way to bribe people. No one should take them seriously.

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