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by clnq 4y ago
We don't suck up all calories from what we eat. We know this because our fecal matter burns. What you have on dietary labels are dietary calories, which is what a typical human body can absorb. Not the "fuel" calories. I thin
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by clnq 4y ago
A lot of upper tech management seems really upset when, despite their best efforts to completely encapsulate themselves with yes-men, people started telling them "no". No to commutes and work in the office, no to unpaid overtime (
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by clnq 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Many senior people (especially those who spent close to a decade at these companies and more) don't chase pay bumps. Some of the best people would leave. That is a much more realistic statement to my mind.
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by clnq 4y ago
The same could be applied to AI-generated work.
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by clnq 4y ago
When you buy a book or some other artwork, it is implicitly assumed you will put it in your brain, or your meat neural net. And that your brain could produce something related to this content. It's not just assumed, it's celebrate
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by clnq 4y ago
We don’t know the code complexity.
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by clnq 4y ago
Looks like the Fortune Magazine is experimenting with ¢25 articles now.
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by clnq 4y ago
On the main page, there are three tabs - "Following", "Explore" and "News". At least that's what I see.
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by clnq 4y ago
I agree with the ideas in this post but I am skeptical about their implementation. Users are shown a headline, an associated picture, and first 2-4 sentences of an article. Then they can buy the rest for ¢1-5. It feels like something that c
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by clnq 4y ago
Year of the Tesla self driving 2023.
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by clnq 4y ago
Since the text is black for most Hacker News readers, and more text turns off more pixels on their screens, my carbon pledge is to increase the number of vowels in my messages by 15% by 2055. To compound the carbon-negative effect of my ple
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by clnq 4y ago
> I hear all the time that bad code slows down development, increases bugs, etc. And that can be true in a number of cases. But most of the time it's just complaining. If a developer takes the time to re-factor the code base, it&#x2
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by clnq 4y ago
Wow… saving the planet by moving half a Watt of power consumption per PC to a greener time slot. I don’t think I have ever heard someone do less about emissions and brag about it. I’m sure it will look good on paper in some report - 500 ton
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by clnq 4y ago
Even after depersonalizing my YouTube account as much as possible, it still recommends software engineering videos to me. These recommendations are not excellent, but they are good. I also watched a lot of videos about gaming before I purge
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by clnq 4y ago
If there were only a way to slow down the internet connection to 1mbps or so, a lot of that instant-gratification habit-forming engagement psychology wouldn't be very effective anymore. Even before YouTube, people could have spent 9 ho
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by clnq 4y ago
Yes, I have shaken my YouTube addiction this way. It naturally makes YouTube less appealing. It also lengthens the habit-forming action->random outcome cycle by 20 or more seconds with pre-roll ads. Enabling ads on YouTube is the opposit
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by clnq 4y ago
I successfully reduced time wasted on YouTube by making the website much less appealing. I unsubscribed from everything, emptied all of my playlists, unliked every video I liked, deleted my comments, and disabled my YouTube history. I also
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by clnq 4y ago
I've worked for a small company that also had one of its products widely pirated. You indeed get some users from piracy. Some of our legitimate users asked for a Russian localization because they've seen images of our GUI in Russi
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by clnq 4y ago
Thanks to dial-up, the 90s internet also couldn't handle all the junk, spam, and tracking garbage we have online today. And video ads or autoplay? Just funny to even think about.
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by clnq 4y ago
> I agree that web development is complex. I disagree that abstraction layers add complexity. Abstraction layers solve problems. True, until there's a bug in abstraction level 6 caused by an upstream change in proprietary abstractio
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by clnq 4y ago
Certainly. Students who care about their GPA will put more effort into maintaining a high one. I am not claiming it is the only GPA determining factor.
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by clnq 4y ago
It feels like you're trying to strawman this. I will reiterate just in case your questioning is sincere - I was talking about the typical TikTok trend videos where a person in the street is ambushed for content. Not all "TikTok fo
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by clnq 4y ago
Not all videos in the "man on the street" format. The typical TikTok trend ones.
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by clnq 4y ago
The ones filming aren't courteously approaching people to ask a question; they are provoking a reaction. This trend isn't new. I've seen people swarmed by TikTokers on the street once or twice, then asked questions to make th
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by clnq 4y ago
The article captures what is evident for many language model users. But it's good that it's captured. I have two more thoughts. One is that many people have plausible but not true knowledge of things. They often share it online. A
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by clnq 4y ago
I always wondered why DarkSky was so popular. Was it the design? It was known to be generally inaccurate among meteorologists, while other apps (METAR+TAF especially) would be remarkably accurate. I don't intend this to be a jab at any
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by clnq 4y ago
No, this was meant to be an intuitive example of weak correlation. It could have been about a correlation between the redness of a fruit and its sweetness. For the entire population of fruit, it is weakly correlated. For some apples, it is
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by clnq 4y ago
If there's a weak correlation in a population, finding no correlation in some subpopulations and a stronger correlation in others is expected. For example, a very weak correlation between GPA and job performance exists. In some discipl
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by clnq 4y ago
In theory. But in practice, the tradesman hours would be so underpaid compared to SWE hours that I'd either want back into SWE full-time or to have those hours completely free of work as personal & family time. The opportunity cost
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by clnq 4y ago
Perhaps it's a case of "the grass is always greener", but before I became a software engineer, I felt much healthier doing a physical job.

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