crunchlibrarian

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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This mindset is a bit too fascist for the modern workplace. I still see this attitude a lot, so I think it's good to recognize and call it out for what it is.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I'm so tired of this decision making process in business: well our statistics say <5% of people want feature X so lets just kill X to streamline. Just stop. Please. Analytics != insight. Meetings should stop being won by whoever pri
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Google in China censors results for democracy, human rights, or free speech(bgr.com)
7 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
My understanding is that everything in the car is network dependent. You can't run it offline, at least not long term.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I don't know the details about how different engines detect air flow and oxygen (and I doubt anyone outside of a few dozen engineers who work at the companies do) but some of the auto transmissions seem to randomly upshift and downshif
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Energy independence achieved. Except it hasn't been at all, because much of the oil is more profitable to sell and refine abroad than use domestically. So if we actually wanted to force independence we'd need to prohibit companies
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I have not driven any Mercedes in a looong time, I'll have to try that. I also live at 8000 feet and regularly drive up to 10000 feet so that might be part of why every transmission seems horribly confused. Some car makers don't s
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I've tried lots of autos and CVTs and still haven't found one that isn't terribly confused about what gearing I want. The worst is when you floor it and it thinks for two seconds before actually downshifting, it can be outrig
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Google's AI Cloud Star Leaves After Pentagon Deal Protests(bloomberg.com)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
It's consistent with the wage trends in the economy at large: if you're at the director level you can expect stratospheric wage increases year over year. Everyone else, well real wages have been flat or declining, with some recent
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Tesla aggressively trying to increase Model 3 deliveries as demand wanes(electrek.co)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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Economists Gear Up to Challenge the Monopolies(bloomberg.com)
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Not really, there is endless fuss and noise about the Model 3 not being very high quality, as well as demand for it drying up. Then there is the whole looming debt payments issue. The tech media has completely wiffed on paying attention to
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
When I took my first networking class a billion years ago (the 1990s) the kindly professor who had written most of the networking textbooks in use at the time started the first week off by teaching us how to use the ping command. But first
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Increasingly some departments decision making processes are actually being run by some faceless AI. Even worse, the humans pretend the problems they created will go away if they just sprinkle some magic AI fairy dust on it. Either way it&#x
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
#1 is huge, I've seen way too many women try to be one of the guys and do things like tag along to awful events like lunch at the strip club or hooters because they want to seem 'fun'. Just a disaster of a strategy. I mean if
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Seems like a lot of "social network bias", in that angellist is wildly popular in California, but here in Colorado it is little utilized and often derided as out of date and useless. Depending on a single social network like this
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IBM secretly used New York’s CCTV cameras to train its surveillance software(theverge.com)
37 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|6 comments
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Serverless costs explained: 2.6c per day to handle 141M monthly requests(troyhunt.com)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This "hide the url from the user" is exactly what America Online did back in the day to try and keep everyone from leaving their garden. I remember being offended by it and trying to explain to people what that meant and that they
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Denver/Boulder is the sunniest spot in the USA that actually has a decent job market for everything. Even more sunny days than Los Angeles.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Even the Wells Fargo execs responsible for actually breaking laws and stealing from customers got their compensation. If you can afford a top drawer law firm then why not steal everything that isn’t nailed down? There is no rule of law once
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I'm so confused, we already spent how many billions on the F-22 and there is no carrier capable version that outperforms the F-18? How on earth did that happen?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Previous discussion on the .au link was pretty interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17898498
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Google realized this a decade ago and knows that the search engine is becoming a relic of the past, that's why they tried to pivot to social networking/media so strongly. I suspect they are still working on this pivot in various n
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I'm pretty sure they're going to define it as: if it's in the interests of the US State Department then it's very good. Everything else is disinformation. This is utter insanity. Do they have nobody in the room willing t
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I have seen some specialized image classifiers find a market in analyzing scientific instrument data in academia, outside of that literally nothing else. But there sure are a lot of stories about adversarial bayesian multi-model deep net re
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I think he really boils it down to the fundamental question everyone should be asking themselves: do you want to define yourself through the eyes of others, or not?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Reversing the NSA's latest bad idea to figure out how to stop it from taking over your network.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
It's a lot easier for me to find oxy and heroine than weed if I wanted to today, and I live in Colorado. I have three neighbors who deal pills openly, and one who has pretty good heroine. I have to get in a car to find weed. The effect

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