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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I do think an important part that we leave out when we analyze datapoints like "people who test well in one subject tend to test well in other subjects" is that "test taking" is itself a skill that people can be good or
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I think the essay does a really good job of examining that question, and concludes that you shouldn't. It does, however, start off by explaining why people tend to think that it should.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I can't believe his lawyer didn't explain all of that to him? An important role for an attorney in this situation is as a counselor, to explain the actual reality and the possibilities.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I bristle as well when essays like this state that he "was effectively assassinated by our legal system" While I think there are a lot of good arguments that the prosecution was excessive and meant to create a chilling effect, it
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Seriously, of all the complaints for a coding agent, "I don't like the explanatory prose" seems pretty far down on the list.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
We don't need a minimum wage if your minimum needs are met.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I was so sure that a CPU wouldn't suddenly fail that I ended up replacing every other part in my computer before getting a new CPU and realizing that was the issue.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> Hospital spending tons on administrative duties fighting with insurers on coverage, which this would reduce Would this go away, though? Instead of fighting with insurers they would be fighting with the government insurer? I am very pro
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
No, because that cost is included in the $300 billion increase in spending that is part of the calculation they do.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
You don't sacrifice decentralization when you use Github. You can still do all the same decentralized stuff, have other copies of the repo, do everything offline, directly pull from other checkouts, etc. Github can just be ONE of the p
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I think you are misunderstanding the meaning of 'the cat is out of the bag', although I also think the OP misunderstands it, too. The saying means that you can't un-tell a secret... once a secret is known to the public, you c
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Yeah this was kind of where I was going. Gitlab is great.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
This is what I wonder… the author says that: > The highest-yielding ad my publisher has tested so far is the search “Seth Godin The Knot“ But that doesn’t mean the ad is a good investment. It isn’t just about the yield from the ad, but a
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I really like the point I read somewhere the other day; instead of sending me the AI output, just send me the prompt you used to generate it. That is the only part that contains only the information you are trying to convey. The rest is jus
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Because they want quantity, and they don’t need specific titles, so they have no reason to pay more than the cheapest bulk prices.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
This sounds great for personal projects, but what about open source work? Or if you want to collaborate with more than a few people?
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
They obviously aren’t priceless if Amazon is buying them for pennies.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
If collectors cares about them, the sellers wouldn’t have sold it for pennies.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I find the gitlab runner registration process a lot simpler than the github process, and a lot more flexible when you are self hosting the gitlab instance. We used kubernetes runners for both, and gitlab was clearly better. The worst part a
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> That said, I wish we hadn't migrated to GH, our self-hosted instance had WAY less downtime despite being perhaps a bit slower (mgmt saving money) and required a bit more toil The key thing that drove our decision to self host gitl
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I agree it is a bit confusing, but it makes sense if you think about the expected default use case, which is enabling the cloudflare CDN for customers. They expect people to be using their CDN. I use them for my registrar, because they offe
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Oh, I agree. He should have been partnered with an investing expert, clearly.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Yes, it’s real, and the failure is much more about risk management than about having wrong fundamentals. His fundamental thesis is as an AI maximalist, with expertise on who will be the winners. His fund completely blew up, even though his
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I would recommend getting one of the small cable testers, like the one from Treedix. Gives you all sorts of information very quickly, including resistance levels and capabilities.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
Yep, I probably have the same one. Insanely useful, and it is also crazy how much variance there is in cables. You can’t believe what the sellers claim, so many times they end up being less capable than claimed.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
I am more creeped out by an individual stranger knowing my habits than a faceless corporation.
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> Data that exists or is collected by your action or lack of action, or delay of action or plain existence should belong to you. This seems a bit over the top? If you and I interact, I am not allowed to remember anything about our intera
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> We hot-linked to all those image hosts because we couldn't imagine them disappearing. No, we hot-linked all those image hosts because we didn't want to pay to host it ourselves.
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There are a number of small cafes and shops I frequent. The owners / people who work there know me, know my habits, and will know my order before I even ask. Those people all have a profit motive, and use their knowledge about my inter
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by cortesoft 2mo ago
> While the sheer amount of data McDonald’s stored over the years caught me off guard at first, the way it was used by the company’s predictive algorithms was what I found most concerning. The company predicted how often I would visit in

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