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by dehrmann 1y ago
This gives me strong Scrum vibes.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It wasn't the educated guess that was the problem; it's that he altered his guess to "nudge" up the vaccination rate.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The mistake was mandates. They might have saved some lives in the near-term, but Americans don't like being told what to do, and the long-term policy consequences could be much worse than the extra 5% coverage mandates brought.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Fauci also lied about herd immunity estimates to increase vaccination rates. > When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent ... Then, when newer surveys sai
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It's 20 years away.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> he'll trash your business one day and then the next day he'll reverse course TACO, as the saying goes.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It's probably obesity, lack of opportunity, and cultural normalization.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Flights that depart from a gate only leave their gate once I went on a vacation to New Zealand just before new visa requirements took effect, so while I entered legally, at some point, I couldn't reenter. As I was going through pa
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I'm fuzzy on how FPGAs actually work, but they're heavier weight than you think, so I don't think you'd necessarily get the wins you're imagining.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> I'll point out that some of its early whitepapers are explicitly calling out ARM and x86 as the kind of architectural weirdos to avoid emulating. Says every new system without legacy concerns.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I'm far from an expert here, but these days, it's better to view the instruction set as a frontend to the actual implementation. You can see this with Intel's E/P cores; the instructions are the same, but the chips are o
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I hadn't put this together, but "The Great Mouse Detective" is a riff on Sherlock Holmes, but that didn't enter the public domain until much later. Would it have been better if it used the character and not just the ge
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The things that hold modifications back from being upstreamed are getting consensus with the OSS developers and sometimes the internal legal team. Occasionally, the issue is proprietary information. Usually, it's the time commitment or
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I don't get most of the hype around end-to-end encrypted messages when the app's source code isn't available for audit.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I know airlines are a cutthroat business, but wouldn't the copilot add no more than $1 per passenger for the average flight?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
If you're not specifically concerned about memory use, why would you use a third-party library?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I would have guessed it's boxed primitives.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I remember strolling through there and seeing all the weird hardware childhood me drooled over. Adult me did not walk out with a Snappy video capture thingy or a Jaz drive.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
They had one in Santa Clara in or near the Mercado shopping center until around 2012.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Ah, so a straddle.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> I worked on 0-1 products that if the company was more disciplined would not (or should not) have attempted. You said you were at large companies, so this is a hard call to make. A lot of large companies work on lots of small products k
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> character flaw It's usually greed. The aphorism isn't entirely true, but you can't cheat an honest man.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
A sibling mentioned GraphQL. That works, but it was really built for clients interacting with Meta's Ent framework. The web layer is largely a monolith, and user objects are modeled as "ents," linked to each other, and stored
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by dehrmann 1y ago
What's different is compilers do deterministic, repetitive work that's correct practically every time. AI takes the hard part, the ambiguity, and gets it sorta ok some of the time.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Could you explain this more? At first glace, a large endowment should either free you from worrying about revenue or move your focus to managing an endowment with a school as a side hustle.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Wouldn't spending $300 on a laptop to cheat on an exam for a class you're paying thousands for make sense? It would probably improve your grade more than the text book.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I attended Purdue. Since I graduated, it launched its "Purdue Global" online education. Rankings don't suggest it's happened yet, but I'm worried it will cheapen the brand and devalue my degree.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The only real financial benefit to home ownership is it enforces savings.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This is a good listen on the topic: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-professional-licensing-a...
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Three Amazon engineers said that managers had increasingly pushed them to use A.I. in their work over the past year. Three?

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