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Project Pele(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by djoldman 8mo ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 8mo ago
For the folks looking at tools to help manage personal and work identities on the same computer: don't. Never access personal accounts from a work computer or work accounts from a personal computer under any circumstances. This goes fo
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Visible Spectra of the Elements(atomic-spectra.net)
43 points by djoldman 8mo ago|3 comments
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"What's your desired salary?" "A million an hour, obviously (haha). But in all seriousness, I'd expect to be compensated commensurate with the responsibilities of the role, keeping in mind that the salary number i
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by djoldman 8mo ago
Genuine question: why are you interested in buying a brand new car as opposed to a used one given the massive markdown on even 2 year old cars?
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I'm not sure about some of the numbers. PCD is pretty dominant in gas and oil drilling.
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How happy would HN be if, instead of buying location data as an end run around the 4th amendment, states and municipalities bought traffic data and used it to make safer streets and highways?
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Lucky for the Norwegians that they have their sovereign wealth fund, started and significantly maintained by gas and oil reserves. 20-25% of total Norwegian government spending comes from the fund.
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by djoldman 8mo ago
> Civic engagement > The cost of civic engagement specifically is constructed by summing together the Consumer Expenditure Survey’s annual expenditure means for audio-visual equipment; education; fees and admission; other entertainmen
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by djoldman 8mo ago
When it comes time to decide whether or not to take action and what that action should be, I'd say that the total potential risk reduction is more important. One should weigh the cost of the proposed intervention in time/money&#x2
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> Now, ask yourself why these defects happen too often. ... It is programmers who create defects – not languages. > And what is it that programmers are supposed to do to prevent defects? ... TEST! Unfortunately, altering people's
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:( Yes, I think this is definitely the case. So then it becomes a cycle. It's risky to make a high quality initial product that's expensive because it requires the buyer to understand and trust why they should pay more. Eventually
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by djoldman 8mo ago
> > Most users just absolutely do not know about, care about, or worry about security, privacy, maintainability, robustness, or a host of other things. > That is a problem that needs to be fixed in those users, not something we sho
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by djoldman 8mo ago
> New vehicle prices are higher than they have ever been for vehicles with repair costs so high they are going to be an insurance rate nightmare later in their lifecycle. Just a shout out for this one. Possibly the most "irrational&
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by djoldman 8mo ago
For calculating price changes over time, there will always be the question: "is this the same product as earlier?" Without a reasonableness factor, prices can't be compared for anything. An egg from a chicken in 1940 is diffe
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It seems the remaining disadvantage is energy density. If they can figure that out, it should win?
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> For this, I used the Godbolt compiler explorer. > Ah-ha! The generated instructions were ever so slightly different. This would be great news, if it wasn't for me forgetting about one little detail: I have zero knowledge of x86
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by djoldman 8mo ago
> Appliances like Microwaves, etc were revolutionary for its time. Only problem: they lasted forever (>20 years). No 1 needed to buy it again = no business. It was deliberately not made to last as long and possibly not exactly cheaper
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by djoldman 8mo ago
There is an interesting counter balance to this consumer tendency: the business. Businesses/organizations in a lot of ways act much more "rationally" than the individual consumer. So you'll see generally better car/
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by djoldman 8mo ago
Agreed. "Quality" is a shortcut word to mean an aspect of a product/service that many/most think desirable. There are examples of seemingly contradictory high/low cost, high/low durability, high/low reliab
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by djoldman 8mo ago
> nitpick: most users don’t care about these things until something goes significantly wrong and it impacts them, e.g. a massive data breach or persistent global downtime. > then they get angry. very angry. Yes, this has a lot of over
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by djoldman 8mo ago
Contrarian view with a dusting of generative AI spiciness: Generative AI may be just the type of thing to connect these types of previously solved problems across disciplines.
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by djoldman 8mo ago
Studies like this always seem to cite stats in a way that's pretty inaccessible to me. This is more clear to me: * 217,122 participants whose data was extracted from the UK biobank database * Out of those 217,122, 325 got early onset d
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by djoldman 8mo ago
Possibly. But that question is impossible to answer and therefore can justify no recommended changes to the current state.
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Now that generative AI products are becoming more widely used, it's a little depressing how folks don't seem to view the world with a broad historical context. The "AI effect" on the world has many similarities to previo
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I am not "against" AI programming, although I confess I don't really know what that means... coders and business folk are gonna do whatever gets the job done and opinions by and large matter not a whit. However: > ..it can
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by djoldman 9mo ago
That's probably the future; Mercedes currently does do this in limited form: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...
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by djoldman 9mo ago
The basic calculus is that if you decrease the number of minutes of doctor time enough, it doesn't really matter if they are 100% correct (0 minutes of 100% correct = 0 advice). Patients are substituting 15 minutes of 100% correct info
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Next time, try reporting that a crime is currently in progress. Emphasize that it is happening as you speak . Also say that you're thinking of intervening personally. That usually gets them going.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
I'm less interested in what "grade" the AI gave and much more interested in what therapy or remedy it would have suggested. That's curiously lacking here.

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