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by com2kid 6mo ago
When I was 17 I was hired by a startup to write a book. The end product was a complete disaster (don't hire a 17 year old to write a book, also don't enter into contracts with 17 year old high school students w/o informing pa
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by com2kid 6mo ago
You joke, but if you talked to a doctor of radiology odds are they at least took a class covering Fourier Transforms.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Calculus is required for English degrees in other countries. Heck a lot of countries require some amount of calculus just to graduate high school. Same goes for the basics of statistics. A basic understanding of statistics is a requirement
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by com2kid 6mo ago
People forget that prior to Microsoft releasing Defender, antivirus on Windows was universally bad. Like "make your machine almost unusable" bad. This was also before SSDs as well. With local build times already measured in multip
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> Jesus, you have tons of people who are willing to do that, even now. Microsoft just don’t care to hire from non-target schools, or ordinary professionals and train them Microsoft was never elitist about what schools they hired from. Wh
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> I get that "the deal" at Microsoft is lower pressure for lower pay but it really hinders the talent pipeline. The deal used to be a lower cost of living in a major coastal city, an amazing campus (it is seriously lovely), eve
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> From another former Az eng now elsewhere still working on big systems, the post gets way way more boring when you realize that things like "Principle Group Manager" is just an M2 and Principal in general is L6 (maybe even L5)
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. I left Microsoft in 2014. Already back then I could see this sort of stuff starting to happen. The Office Org was mostly immune from it becau
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by com2kid 6mo ago
There are some really funny people who run parody accounts, or who are retired and just don't care. They publish some hilarious posts. If you follow a few of them LI becomes worth visiting!
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I read a theory that we actually evolved cancer to ensure that something kills us. Mortality is a feature when it comes to species level fitness. Sucks for the individual though.
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by com2kid 7mo ago
With gaming on Linux, steam fixes so many middle issues. I can download a game and it just works through some combination of WINE and voodoo magic. And all game controller even works! Steam is a serious value add on Linux.
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by com2kid 7mo ago
Apple only holds on monopoly position on the smartphone market for people with lots of money. They aren't a majority in any other market segment.
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by com2kid 7mo ago
I lost a few pounds doing it because snacking became so annoying. :)
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by com2kid 7mo ago
I installed PopOS (22) and zoom worked fine right off the bat. So did steam and all my steam games. Heck even my printer worked. (It has since become more temperamental and now only works with one of the 3 print dialogues on my Linux box...
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by com2kid 7mo ago
Gamers are one of the few demographics still buying new Windows PCs. There are now so many discord servers and subreddits filled with people discussing which Linux distro to use. Honestly for your average home consumer, there isn't muc
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> Oh yeah, and we hamstring ourselves because every extra property can only be used for "affordable" housing and we paid top dollar for it, then limit how much it can be used and tie up prime property which could have been used
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> 2. WAY lower bandwidth requirements for inference. Means with approaches like this it should run on consumer hardware far better. It apparently requires 1/6th the memory bandwidth of a traditional approach for better results. That
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> I've decided it's safer to just never judge, that parent you see pushing the toddler around in the cart might indeed be a terrible parent, or they might be going through grief and at their breaking point. Agreed, I should hav
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> No, it's not an insane engineering achievement. It's just a normal one, because nobody else has floating bridges, nobody else needed it. It's also years late and costs 10x more than it should. Your other points aside - D
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by com2kid 7mo ago
OP was referring to observations at friend's houses. Presumably they'd be aware of any underlying issues. Judging random people on the street isn't wise. Judge your friends and loved ones instead! :D
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> I've been detained by police under suspicion of "kidnapping" for taking my kid to the park (my kid is a different "race" as me so it was "suspicious"). On another occasion my kid was interrogated beca
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> Before having kids, I expected it to be this huge life changing thing. That it would effectively end the part of my life where I was free to do whatever I wanted, and start the part where I was just Daddy, doing nothing except serving
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by com2kid 7mo ago
There is a difference between kids using bad behavior to get attention or blackmail parents vs kids who have actual behavioral problems they are working through. The first is an actual problem stemming from bad parenting and as a society we
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by com2kid 7mo ago
Yeah, with a kid I still judge. I'd rather see kids running around and playing and being kids in public than on a tablet. Even grocery shopping I see toddlers on tablets sitting in the cart. My son has been actively involved with meal
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by com2kid 7mo ago
Seattle just got done building light rail tracks over a floating bridge. It is an insane engineering achievement. A train literally running on tracks on a road that is floating on water!
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> Ebikes definitely aren't a viable alternative in Asia yet. Most Asian countries either have no charge stations or very few. Range doesn't compare with gas motorcycles. I was in China last year and one apartment complex I stay
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by com2kid 7mo ago
IMHO The writing and acting are much better in this new one. The way the fake agent was revealed is far superior, and so was how the pills were introduced and handed over. The original is fine, but it has a lot of "and now for this!&qu
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by com2kid 7mo ago
> To be more direct on the point: Anthropic has nailed that Opus > Sonnet > Haiku. Holy cow I never realized and I had to keep checking which model was which, I never had managed to remember which model was which size before becaus
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by com2kid 7mo ago
AI voice chat can be done for cheap. Lots of it is RAG and knowledge base lookups, you don't need large fancy models. Indeed you want fast responses, so low parameter models are better. TTS and ASR models are tiny now days, like a hand
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by com2kid 7mo ago
Companies used to charge for support. But if one company stops doing it, eventually everyone has to stop doing it. Then the race to the bottom begins...

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