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by djoldman 1y ago
Can a rich westerner with no stake in China write text of value about Chinese politics? Is it necessary to suffer to create something worth reading? I'm not criticizing, I'm curious.
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by djoldman 1y ago
> Our developer brains scream at us to ensure that we’re not copying the exact code three times, we’re creating the header once then “including” it on the three (or a thousand) other pages. Interesting, my brain is not this way: I want t
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by djoldman 1y ago
The terms "shortage" and "surplus" are usually meaningless for most economic situations. Generally, your chosen price determines how much you get (unless you set your price at 0, where you get nothing, OR if you set your
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The end of compounded GLP-1 drugs leaves many patients in a ‘lose-lose’ position(statnews.com)
38 points by djoldman 1y ago|64 comments
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Court sides with Fortnite maker Epic as Apple sanctioned for defying order(apnews.com)
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by djoldman 1y ago
A variant of this was done for 4chan by the fantastic Yannic Kilcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT4-Chan
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by djoldman 1y ago
https://archive.ph/brZmg
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by djoldman 1y ago
It would be amazing if there was regulation requiring the display of a "total tariff" line item to every product and service offered or listed for sale. Perhaps subject to a minimum total price, so that buying an apple didn't
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by djoldman 1y ago
Is it possible to fix EHR without drastic changes in the health/pharma/hospital/medicine regulation environment?
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by djoldman 1y ago
On one hand, there is probably much value locked up in things we don't understand whose research is unlikely to be funded. On the other hand, humans are pretty terrible at organizing and planning projects without pressures like profit.
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by djoldman 1y ago
This is the kind of thing that leads technical folks like me to do absurd things, like creating a 1x1 pixel jpg/png of the color they want just to be put into the normal-and-thus-tested-and-maintained parts of code.
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Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2003–2023(cdc.gov)
21 points by djoldman 1y ago|8 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
Topic-adjacent: do tariffs exist for cross-border services like consulting, accounting, legal, cloud services, etc.?
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by djoldman 1y ago
This. Tests are important and they're about to become overwhelmingly important. The ability to formalize and specify the desired functionality and output will become the essential job of the programmer.
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by djoldman 1y ago
> In theory, calibration is supposed to be the sanity check that keeps us from grading on a curve, but too often it’s just performance review theater. Performance reviews' primary value to a business is to defend against lawsuits.
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by djoldman 1y ago
Searched for tom murphy and was not disappointed.
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by djoldman 2y ago
> The A.I. tools my students and I now engage with are, at core, astoundingly successful applications of probabilistic prediction. They don’t know anything—not in any meaningful sense—and they certainly don’t feel. As they themselves con
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by djoldman 2y ago
From what research I've seen, the phrasing here should be that non-citizens were deported and chose to bring their US citizen children with them. The children themselves were not deported. This in no way excuses any of the other issues
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by djoldman 2y ago
The arrest itself (not necessarily the charges) is best described as a publicity stunt. If you want to charge a lawyer or judge or anyone unlikely to run of a non-violent crime, you invite them to the station: > “First and foremost, I kn
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by djoldman 2y ago
I was curious so I dug into what's involved for placing a product in a particular "efficiency class." Here's the section on "electronic displays": https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/E
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by djoldman 2y ago
The part where many may object: > First, the majority might say that Shopify should not engage in privacy-invasive activities. I didn’t invest the energy to figure out the irreducible privacy elements of the plaintiffs’ claims, but if us
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by djoldman 2y ago
Here's the FEMA estimate and plan: https://mil.wa.gov/asset/62bc6bf87b6dc
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by djoldman 2y ago
Is it possible to construct a meta-system or constraint-system under which it's impossible or very difficult to construct 2 functions that effectively result in the same outcome? Does this exist? It seems to me that CSS suffers from th
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by djoldman 2y ago
This is wild and something I didn't know about: https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/advanced-python-features/#2-... def bar(a, /, b): ... # == ALLOWED == bar(1, 2) # All positional bar
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by djoldman 2y ago
I'm genuinely asking (not trying to be snarky)... Why are these robots so slow? Is it a throughput constraint given too much data from the environment sensors? Is it processing the data? I'm curious about where the bottleneck is.
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Year Homesteader Shares His Gardening Through Out the Season [video](youtube.com)
2 points by djoldman 2y ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 2y ago
For what purpose? https://xyproblem.info/
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by djoldman 2y ago
https://archive.ph/RfT4V
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Maps of Projected Change(cal-adapt.org)
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by djoldman 2y ago
I looked for a source for this statement in the article: > Granting permission takes the median hectare of land from £20,000 to £2.4 million - a 139x uplift. I couldn't find one. However, I did run into some interesting viewpoints b

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