drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
Hazing usually happens once you've joined a group - initiation rituals.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> And when the boiler went in the base of one of the place I rented, the landlord had to have it replaced. That type of thing, major expenses, is some of the risk that landlords take on in exchange for collecting rent. Boilers go out. Th
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Culture fit assessment would make sense, actually, if they did interviews at all. That's how companies skirt the law and apply biases during job interviews.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I don't think releasing a messaging app that flops is bad? For an exec, it's a "learning experience." Most startups fail. Take the VC cash, fail, and "learn" on their dime. For any employee, it's s sh
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Electron is becoming synonymous to shoddily built apps Isn't that just because Electron makes it so easy to build cross-platform apps? That's a reason to use it!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Excessive" without further qualification is a qualitative assessment. It's how people feel: "too much!" It's not a quantitative assessment even though it's about numbers.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> It doesn't have to be a good joke to understand the joke. Agreed. It's possible to understand some bad, unfunny jokes. > those are separate qualities. They're related qualities. A good joke depends on its being unders
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Before the inflation The time before inflation? When was that? The middle ages?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
A wonderful example of postmodernism! And not in that disparaging sense that I can never quite understand.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> it's a common talking point in certain [political] leanings: the idea that race is a factor in crime So . . . people with "other" political leanings are known to attribute many problems to poverty. Many more problems tha
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by drewcoo 3y ago
We could use it to more heavily police certain neighborhoods and the police could profile people by race . . . oh! Never mind.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Electric cars that don't make much noise seem more dangerous to me as a pedestrian.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Imagine raises, if they even come, do not keep up with the cost of living, thus employees are paid less year-over-year even if they do get raises. Quiet firing. It didn't take a pandemic for quiet firing to become the de facto standard
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If it walks like a crab . . .
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> in an ideal world LLMs would do my testing I feel exactly the opposite. In an ideal world, I would write tests to define behaviors and LLMs would write and optimize the production code.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
You're not off base. The article was about imagined problems.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
A select with thousands of options sounds like terrible UX. If the new frameworks make the problem blindingly obvious so that someone can actually justify fixing it, all the more reason to use those frameworks.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Did we lose our way in arriving at the file size non-goal? No.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> summers are fine if you grew up in the desert Deserts are low precipitation, not necessarily hot. Austin is not arid. It's not West Texas. > If you've been to Las Vegas in the summer then imagine that temperature In the mi
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> "the needs of the society/family are more important than those of the individual" That's Spock from The Wrath of Khan, right?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking. Radon is the #2 cause of lung cancer in the US. There are high levels of radon in about 1/15 US homes. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basi
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Hispanic generally meant Mexican, Cuban, or Puerto Rican. Hispanic is a newer term, minted during my lifetime. I know older people who used to be white until they were relabeled as Hispanic. https://daily.jstor.org/wher
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by drewcoo 3y ago
So look at banks or militaries - two scenarios involving a lot of risk hinging on identity. What do they do? They use computers for that stuff now.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
The thing is . . . human curation is an algorithm. And businesses tend to seek more profits, in part by cutting costs. So what's the obvious way to cut the cost of an algorithm that involves a bunch of slow, unreliable meat?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> technologists don't think about the consequences of what they do before they do it Software "engineers" are not part of a professional body at all, let alone one that espouses ethics. That only seems to happen in profess
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> We'll always have a ton of laws passed because an industry had enough money to lawyer up its survival despite the technical advancements working against it. That's not what lawyers do. It's what lobbyists do. Lawyers arg
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I could tell there was a decline the level of sophistation of the new films Cost has a lot to do with that. Compare 101 Dalmatians ('61) with Snow White ('37) and the newer one looks cheaper because it's cheaply made - c
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Bluth's "garage band" was re-learning skills that had been off-shored. That's a piece of cont4ext that's sort of missing. Anyone interested in what happened when Disney's off-shored Italian animation team revol
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by drewcoo 3y ago
CapEx v OpEx https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/112814/whats-differ...
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Sheep are shorn but some are also skinned.

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