doe_eyes

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by doe_eyes 2y ago
If you're joining a company of 15 people? Probably. If you're joining a company of 50,000? Absolutely not, because they're not going to vastly increase the complexity of their HR or payroll just to close a single hire. Money
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
You can't easily make a high-quality firearm a hobby mill, chiefly because the barrel needs to be made out of good steel and needs to be rifled. But the quirk in the US is that federally, only the receiver is the regulated part, and ma
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Mostly because most spam isn't going to be reported. Traditional anti-spam works because once you have a handful of reports, you can probably generalize it to an entire class of spammy pages generated using a particular technique, and
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think it's the other way round. You're a respectable individual, you're buying some low-brow ads - and you don't want a newspaper to publish an expose about you, your employees throwing a hissy-fit, or a neighbor getti
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
No, they used a semi-custom chip known as an uncommitted logic array (ULA). It was basically a bunch of building blocks on a die that were designed once for a variety of possible applications, and then reconfigured by the factory to custome
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think Linus has short temper and there are examples of his remarks that are borderline toxic (or cross the line), but this really isn't one of them. The situation is pretty clear and calmly explained by Linus in the quoted messages
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I generally side with the EFF, but I find the article weirdly duplicitous. It's framed as a criticism of government waste, but would the EFF be happy if the government built a more effective surveillance system at the border? Of course
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> It’s a shame that Arduino has effectively truncated kids learning with a full MCU as the “building block” of their learning Why? I think the vast majority of hobbyists used the 555 as a "black-box" chip. They now have a more
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Except, it's not an advantage in any practical sense. Programmers cost pennies, toolchains are free and easy to use, and there are ample examples for simple tasks such as "toggle a pin in a particular way". The overall learni
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
In some respects, it's a testament to how much the world of electronics has changed over the past ~25 years. It used to be that 555 was this Swiss-army-knife IC that you had to learn about. Multiple people published entire books about
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
With kitchen appliances, it's already a thing. For example, there's a "retro" brand that sells microwaves with a timer knob: https://www.amazon.com/Nostalgia-NRMO7YW6A-Countertop-Microw... The problem in
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
But... that's the model of the US space program from the get go. We're just trading one private company for another. Apollo 11 was contracted out to Boeing, Rockwell, and Grumman. The Space Shuttle was the United Space Alliance (R
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Following the Reagan era, the GOP had a period of wanting to reign in the federal government, but I don't think that's quite true now. Folks like Trump or DeSantis are not pro-small-government, they just want to use it to advance
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
This works wonderfully, but is obviously not sustainable. It's not just that you miss out on newer content, but content rot progresses pretty quickly. Old Reddit accounts are deleted or blocked, Flickr users stop paying their subscript
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Of course they will, just like they did in the past with C11, GNU extensions, or some of the individual features that are now rolled into C23. For example, the 0b notation for binary numbers is widely used in the MCU world. The microcontrol
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
By borrowing against their holdings. The framing is deceptive. You can do this too: there is no requirement to have billions in collateral. If you own stocks, your brokerage will lend you money at a very low rate, secured by the equity -
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Sure, but... how often do we object when fellow techies make analogies between just about anything and their field of expertise? We feel that our knowledge makes us quite qualified to explain the economy, to chime in on microbiology, and
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The jailbreaks are not doing anything worthwhile right now. They're fun to toy with and they give us insights into how LLMs work, but they don't unlock any superpowers. It's just a brand safety bypass, you can get the model t
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
It's one of these areas where people (including medical professionals) hold strong beliefs, but then it turns out that there are other highly-developed countries where this is not routinely practiced, and the outcomes aren't neces
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> The Nobel is now controversial because after all, Nobel invented dynamite and he wanted to expunge his guilt. It's not controversial for that reason. It's actually a fantastic origin story for the prize, especially since he a
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> Is there any reason Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk can't endow a Prize in Computer Science? Even without searching, I'm sure they back a number of organizations that do endow various awards, scholarshi
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think it's a pretty good and well-argued video, but how many folks watched it until the end, where the clip seamlessly pivots to plugging some commercial antivirus as a "cure" for the very problems it talks about? There&#x2
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I've gotten traffic from HN and /r/programming, and the influx from HN is larger. I think it's a function of two things. First, /r/programming is higher-volume (i.e., more front-page links per day). Second, Red
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
HN is small as a discussion community, but it is huge in terms of the traffic it generates to top-ranked URLs. There are fairly mainstream publications that optimize for HN, and I have spoken to marketers and PR people who described HN as b
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
There are surprisingly few venues for video content outside YT, at least not on a scale that would matter on YT! For example, if you want to get to the top of HN, non-video content has much better odds. Many tech- or science-centric subredd
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
It's also what bums me out about YouTube. There is an insane amount of effort that goes into producing high-quality videos - orders of magnitude more than would go into putting together a well-illustrated blog post. As with blogs, a
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Commercial LLMs generally have input and output filters to prevent "bad" prompts from reaching the model (instead returning canned text), or to nuke output if it appears to violate certain criteria. But then, you have two independ
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I'm addressing the parent's proposal, which is to "why not just keep selling fractions of the asset to cover taxes". Yes, if you're rich, you might have other ways to cover the liability, but that's not what th
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> All it means is that a percent of your investment becomes "realized" every year and you sell a portion of your investment to cover it. Because there is a ton of investments that aren't liquid, aren't trivial to va
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
That's a good argument in favor of the federal TikTok ban. This particular lawsuit isn't about that, though. It's about harming children, and it's quite similar to the recent New Mexico lawsuit against Snapchat. The geop

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