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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Sanjay has been Google's most tenured IC since forever and is basically as immune to politics as you can be in a megacorp. He is also rich beyond dreams of avarice and can do basically whatever he wants, but apparently he decided to go
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
It's not just gatekeeping though. The reason you get a qualified, credentialed structural engineer to sign off on your house instead of just YOLOing the build is so that you (and your insurance company) can sue their pants off if it
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
How are they "far worse"? Steam trains are noisy, polluting, require tons of coal, kill animals and people in their way, and crash fairly regularly (when built with 1800s technology). A data center is a big grey box that sits ther
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
It doesn't, GP was responding to the Gwern story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 but posted in the wrong place.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
> Crumbling, faulty technical infrastructure with unmanageable heaps of AI slop that no one understands Replace "AI slop" with "legacy code", and you've got basically any large enterprise today. The timescales
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
> That meeting that you spent an hour in to understand the requirements? You don't need that meeting if you're not writing the code. How are you going to prompt the LLM or validate its output if you don't understand the re
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
I think you meant to post this in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 ?
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To Save Japan's Heritage Homes, People Are Shipping Them Across the World(nytimes.com)
3 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|1 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
We have a much higher level of tolerance for things that benefit us while posing a risk to others ("should my own car have FSD") than we do for things that benefit others while posing a risk to us ("should Waymos be allowed i
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
We have a LLM bot in chat that analyzes bugs when.you drop in a link and anything else if you ask it directly. It's actually quite effective: all the slop is now localized and can be ignored/blocked easily, and people no longer fe
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Not anymore, but around 10 years ago it absolutely was, because for a short period you could literally print money with them.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Tesla wins on charging because Superchargers are ubiquitous and they just work: you can pull up to one and be pretty much guaranteed that you'll be able to charge. This is manifestly not the case for any of the competition.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Bitcoin mining is powered by ASICs. Random shitcoins are not.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
I'm hardly a fan of the WMF, but the headline is clickbait. The WMF has used a law firm called Jones Day for brand and trademark management for over a decade. The firm is one of the largest legal firms in the US and it also does unio
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
FWIW, prices have exploded in Japan as well. Ramen used to be ¥500 in a standard Chinese restaurant, maybe a few hundred more for a fancy one, and no restaurant dared breach the ¥1000 barrier. Fortunately for the traveler, this has been mor
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
The average ramen, yes, but in the same way that many people in the US obsess about the perfect burger, there is a serious ramen scene in Japan with obsessive ramen devotees and chefs pushing the envelope.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Blame the US for that one, not FIFA.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Yes.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Rebracketing strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Fun fact: even today, kimchi (and food in general) in North Korea is less spicy than the South, because they've basically missed out on 50 years of culinary evolution. https://www.youngpioneertours.com/north-south-korea
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Japan unveils 'human refrigerator' to combat extreme summer heat(globalsouthworld.com)
23 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|12 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Left in previously boiled water for 4 min. We can deduce this from the second sample, which simulates forgetting your tea bag in the mug for 15 min.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
To be a bit more precise, the Nankai ("South Sea") Trough is a tectonic subduction zone to the south of Japan, roughly the entire length from Izu to Kyushu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankai_Trough And Nan
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
In test-driven development, you're supposed to write out the tests first to specify the desired behavior, then write the code to confirm to that.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Google has a strong interest in everybody getting better internet (see Fiber, Loon, Fi, etc), which lines up well with Starlink.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Yes. And as far as any future owners are concerned, that's perfectly true.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Now you just need to find their contact details. Beware the Leopard!
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
No, but that's really the least of the problems in getting this thing into commercial flight.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
> Coördination A few years ago, I would your use of diaeresis an admirable quirk. But now, especially given the em-dashes, I'm wondering if you're an LLM overtrained on the New Yorker.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
I presume the previous poster is one of many interviewers, not the recruiter. As an interviewer myself, I get where they're coming from. My email is not shared with applicants, so finding it requires some stalking or at least digging m

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