drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
Google is a big company which buys other companies to grow. Does this AI actually improve their M&A somehow? Does it allow them to AI-write new software instead of buying it? I don't get it.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It's called "title case." https://www.scribbr.com/academic-writing/title-case/
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Gates was CEO during the 90s.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The maintainers of the automation, who've probably been trained to dislike unionization?
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I would also prefer your children were uneducated.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
They were in sorta different places then . . . Remember that big hot war in the 90s? And there was that thing in the 40s, too . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Understanding biology or that nouns decline is not "simple memorization."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Zero was not a "counting number." It wasn't used in early calculations. To an ancient Roman, tomorrow is 2 (ok, II) days from now. Today . . . one . . . tomorrow . . . two . . . two days! > Because the first few numbers, e
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Restaurants. Grocers. Cheese shops. Businesses with tight margins that might be willing to consider something that "fell off a truck." You'd have to be pretty bad at reselling to resort to selling it out of the back of a car.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Someone making ~$80M who "feels" a 6.5% difference in TC is somehow doing the millionaire version of "living paycheck to paycheck."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Now if we only knew why aliens who've developed the technology to visit earth haven't also invented clothes! Maybe there's STEM funding for that.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
TIMTOWTDI! Pythonistas, feh!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I don't think we can say "whitelist" anymore.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Agreed about learning a new language starting with PE. After that, I like to invent a big gnarly scenario that I don't have to completely solve, but one that takes me well out of the range of typical cookie-cutter tutorials. I want to
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If you're trying to model those "puzzlers" on actual dev work, then doing any of those things without a library/framework is a wrong answer. Or is that your point? That coding like a pro means gluing those things togethe
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Elon Musk seems to have two skills: being rich and naming things X. https://qz.com/1026167/elon-musk-just-bought-x-com-the-domai... I don't expect much of this renaissance.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Execs are paid to change reality, not to be dominated by it. What else should we expect?
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> The comparison between a skilled software engineer and a skilled assembly line worker is a flawed one. And the difference is that we engineers design and maintain the assembly lines, as opposed to being line workers.
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> I absolutely hate heroes I dislike the heroes' bosses. They're to blame for the situation. Managing a team of engineers is not like being a dungeon master.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> The problem is that anyone can learn to leetcode. If you're interested in doing something new and not just warehousing CS lawyers, you're gonna have to ask better questions than that. I think the problem is that everyone thin
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by drewcoo 2y ago
IQ tests are known to encode cultural biases. DEI troubles and possible lawsuits down that path!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Those are called Fermi questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
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by drewcoo 2y ago
And to choose to send a prospective employer Pizza Hut pizza in NYC should disqualify any applicant.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
13 states https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/abortion-access-tool...
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There's also the Bernays approach: sell your design as filling some emotional need and convince the stakeholders that they have that need. Automobiles will make you free! This kind if free software is "free as in beer" and wh
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I have no idea what fair beer means. I think it's deep fried. https://www.wikihow.life/Cook-Deep-Fried-Beer
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I would normally expect "the grocer's apostrophe" to refer to a single grocer and "the grocers' apostrophe" to refer to a plural group of grocers, which I assume is what you intended.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
See also Japanese Unit 731. War criminals make good weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Not playing a new game on a smartphone and clinging to older ways may be an early sign of dementia. Seeing dementia slowly crawl over a personality is much scarier than elders with phone game addictions.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler Someone sleeps alone.

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