drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
I find that small, separate, decoupled services make for easier, more complete testing. Designs like that also tend to minimize race conditions. Multi-thread all you like if there are no races! I haven't heard anyone talking about new,
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If an entire industry "is built on" the needs of 1/30 of its customers either they're paying a lot more than the other 29/30 or the 1/30 needs are a superset of most of the rest or it seems mismanaged. Pick at
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I disagree with the author's position that there are no deep intellectuals left Well, there is the problem of the author trying to distance from liberals by calling them "left." Slavoj Žižek is many things, but also deep
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It's a politically-motivated investigation focusing only on the Trump years, a tiny portion of the time this was going on. American Presidents have been known to be on drugs to help them perform for many decades. Consider FDR's co
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It would probably be hushed up and the Secret Service would quickly close the investigation because investigating is hard.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It's not about helping anyone decide anything. Or about news. It's about fearmongering for ratings. And the MSM's biggest money-maker is not Maddow or Stewart, but one Donald J. Trump.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Is this move intended to justify Patreon taking a bigger cut, so that they can justify the cost of our privacy? They could do that and still siphon off much less than YouTube would. Alternately, can this be seen as a chink in their armor an
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Justice" isn't based on factual science, though. It's based on precedent.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Every time I see someone behind the wheel of the absolute largest SUV a company offers, it's a small woman With tiny dogs. Maybe they're the preferred vehicle of tiny dogs.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It was not exactly methodically chosen by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century. Mostly to replace Diocletian's calendar. Jesus was most likely born before 1 AD.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
20 faces and 12 verts is an icosahedron. Both have 30 edges. Geometry magic?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
People were also smaller.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
We called that, among other things, "making a fort." Do today's helicopter kids not do that?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Assuming there's competition, doesn't dominating a market mean your product is the new mediocre? Competitors will try to compete on price but be low quality, compete on quality but be high priced, and you're in the sweet big
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by drewcoo 3y ago
We're not just apes, we're great apes!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Hierarchy could result from self-organization, too. How many small, informal groups have you been in that have done just that? The opposite of hierarchy is flat organization. Anarchy's opposite is authoritarianism.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> In-N-Out was recently ranked among one of America’s best large companies to work at by job review site Glassdoor, and was the only fast food company in the top 10 list, beating out tech titans like Google and Apple I assume that's
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by drewcoo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Inspiration
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> LLM model running for President It would need to be 35 years old and born in the USA.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Or is it suggesting that bad bathroom query code went to production even though the bathroom query story is still clearly on the backlog (otherwise it would have the usual boundary checks)?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
All of that is also an effective way for middle management to create bottlenecks, thus "requiring" more staff, thus growing power. I've seen that in several companies. I can only assume they weren't all feds.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I wonder if recognition of this is why Graeber was taking a more stereotypical liberal perspective later in his life His ideas had gained a certain acceptance. That meant is was time to hone, to refine, to heap on the nuance. What bett
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by drewcoo 3y ago
So if we're only ever presented with simple models like the article, isn't that infantilizing?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> We know what the internet has developed so far, and it's not all positive. A backup communication system in case the Soviets took out the phone system? What's non-positive about that?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Am against this. Over time not only will more people die, but we will, as a community, split over and over . . . over what/who should be celebrated. Regardless, at some future point, assume HN still exists, there will be a point where
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Or maybe he knew, but pretended that he didn't. 1980s, before most people had computers. A teacher. The kind who'd make a kid do repeated writing "to teach them a lesson." That teacher playing "make believe&quo
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Nostalgia comes from . . . Or from remembering the Angelfire/MySpace DIY aesthetic from before the world became consumption-only and flatly Material.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Useful for dementia patients.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Exactly this. It is an exercise of privilege.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
To respond to the highly-editorial HN title with a hot take: "because humans stopped science-ing."

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