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MLB lost the narrative of what it is and what people like about it. It's looking at other sports, seeing what they're doing, and starting to take itself too seriously.
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> My favorite part of watching a baseball game with friends was the heated arguments about what was or wasn't a strike. I think players liked arguing with the umps, too.
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I can't seem to find the blog post, but you generally don't want true randomness because you don't want artists to cluster. You also almost never hear two songs by the same artist play consecutively on the radio.
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Same for Minneapolis, Boston, and Des Moines.
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> The new owner...recognized that the cookware didn't need to be quite as strong, and — to make it accessible to the average customer — it needed to be more affordable. With this in mind, they switched the cookware to soda-lime glas
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Lots of variables, here. How long does the current AI boom continue? If it's a bust in two years, expect a much longer service life for those GPUs. If it's still going, the question's more interesting. Is it more expensive to
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> rapid advances in chipmaking Maybe it's a nit, but the advances are in how the chips access memory and are networked together. > In reality, not all of the AI quintet’s servers would be useless after three years, let alone 12 m
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by dehrmann 1y ago
And "Silicon Valley" (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park, Los Altos). Quotes because that excludes San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, and Milpitas.
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> IRL we try to avoid conflict, and try not to associate with people that hold views that are vastly different to our own... This is what I love about the Iowa caucus system. It's messy, it's physical, it's real, and you m
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> why does it seem that millennials share more opinions worldwide than any prior generation? Not to doubt you, but is this actually the case?
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Socal says "The 101" because its a holdover from names like the Hollywood Freeway, before freeways were numbered. No idea why Norcal didn't do the same; you still hear "The Bayshore Freeway" or "The Nimitz Free
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What's "other pay?"
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https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2022/news20220708-2 The larger engineering lesson from that is you're probably better off making standard solutions work for your situation than custom solutions. The w
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You could also say Trump won because Biden ran.
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Ideally, you'd set your asset allocation some time ago, and you'd mostly be in or out already, with surplus income going in every paycheck (or so). You only sell when you shift your asset allocation or need money for something, an
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As an engineer, I had a job at a small company where I sat by the office phone, answered it sometimes, and had to get the door for deliveries. Not in my job description, but it needed to be done.
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Occupied offices are more expensive to operate than vacant ones (more power, more HVAC, more janitorial). Those buildings might be expensive, but using them is more expensive.
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> I'm sorry, but this is the exact same insight that MSN Explorer had The internet wasn't fast enough. There are a number of dot-com era ideas that were before their time for various reasons. There's also Wordle. That game
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A nearby comment repeated the quote "the browser is the OS." The OS game is over. Desktop computing is becoming a professionals-only thing. We can talk about pros and cons of Windows, MacOS, and Linux, but it's a shrinking ma
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by dehrmann 1y ago
At the same time, I remember most of high school math barely needing calculators outside chemistry and physics. Look at some of the SAT math questions: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/digital-sat-samp..
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Every election, while I'm working on filling out my sample ballot, I visit the candidates' websites to see what they claim to stand for. Almost without exception, there's never any depth or nuance to their stances, and it&#x2
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I've been seeing a lot of articles asking about AI on news sources like the NYT, but even during 2020-2021, I didn't see that level of articles of GoF. Maybe biotech is having these debates internally.
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Property tax is the only common wealth tax in the US. All the issues people have with it like arbitrary appraisals and wildly variable taxes during market swings would also show up in more widespread wealth taxes. But I wonder what the best
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The lab leak theory is plausible. That's enough to not label it a conspiracy theory. It also meant there was never broader discourse on if gain of function research is a good idea.
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I guess CBC and IVs (or similar) weren't invented yet?
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In most assembly languages, the instructions are essentially load and store, arithmetic operations, and branch and jump. Almost everything is abstractions around how to handle branching and memory.
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AR/VR was always a side project for Zuck (like the Aquila airplane or the Libra cryptocurrency or AGI) that he works on because he's bored. It was pretty clear from the product's popularity and Metaverse experience that it di
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Carmack's best work was between Keen and Quake, and it was mostly optimizations that pushed the limit of what PC graphics could do. He's always been too in-the-weeds to have a C-level title.
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This is almost a best-case for AI. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech are pretty good, a human can take over when needed (they can even be remote), and it's low-stakes.
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This one may or may not be a big deal, but bitcoin has a number of unknown and poorly understood long-term risks. There are tail events like a SHA-256 attack, 51% attacks while shorting futures, and long-term behavior of an asset where the

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