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by efficax 3y ago
science in the modern sense is far less than 1000 years old, and emerged in tandem with systems of publication which no did not use the contemporary review system but did have editors who decided whether or not to publish submissions. not d
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by efficax 3y ago
Right? my wife is tenured at a big college and I make more than double her salary as an SWE. we're not going to have children so the benefit doesn't apply to us but i've seen it used to, for example, get a janitors kids into
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by efficax 3y ago
Admission for the children of faculty and staff (esp. if tuition is waived) is such an incredible benefit for the people that work at these institutions that I hope that is not also being abandoned. Legacies/big donors/alums sure,
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by efficax 3y ago
it's kind of amazing how there's a post like this on every single substack link. Just click continue reading people. It's right there.
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by efficax 3y ago
I have only ever applied to 2 jobs at once, where one was a definite fit and another was just to have an option. Except one single case, I've always gotten interviews and offers at both companies. We're out there, just weirdly luc
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by efficax 3y ago
lol, imagine telling Bill Shockley: "oh, you invented the transistor? well I built an iPhone app that dispatches a pizza order". The only thing here even close to a real invention is OpenAI and even they didn't invent the cor
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by efficax 3y ago
it's used for data center cooling
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by efficax 3y ago
just click continue reading…
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by efficax 3y ago
> Even if we accept the CEO’s lie that running the API is costly compute isn't free man. it probably costs millions of dollars a year just to pay the cloud providers to support those apps. i doubt that's a lie...
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by efficax 3y ago
the map becomes the territory here. if you have enough information to accurately estimate a project then you've already done the bulk of the work, and all you have left to do is type. The reason estimates are hard is because the work s
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by efficax 3y ago
going public and focusing on building a "platform" has definitely changed sqsp, although i wouldn't say they don't care about the customer experience anymore.
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by efficax 3y ago
This is the right answer. A panic is a bug. It's always a bug.
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by efficax 3y ago
when you raise capital you've got to give it a return, and an IPO is the classic exit if the amount of capital you've raised is huge. Early investors get their payday.
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by efficax 3y ago
This sort of question comes up a lot when people are talking about big social media sites and there are two answers, both related to scale. First is that things really do just go more slowly when you are larger. There are more stakeholders
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by efficax 3y ago
it's true that the Essays was published in three versions by Montaigne over his life but they did not have copyright regulations until much later (in the 18th century) and there are a number of critical and scholarly editions the Essay
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by efficax 3y ago
redis being single threaded is actually a feature since you have guarantees about consistency and serializability
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by efficax 3y ago
oh but switched on bach is so delightfully analog
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by efficax 3y ago
status pages are rarely automated and it looks like slack was down at like 1am pacific. somebody got woken up by a page and groggily escalated and they sat there fighting the outage for 30 minutes before someone said “what about the status
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by efficax 3y ago
there’s no evidence that seed oils lead to obesity, it’s just a fitness fad
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by efficax 3y ago
plato is specifically thinking of the social impact but he's also not actually arguing against writing. after all, he's making his argument in writing . he's trying to push the reader to look into their souls for the truths
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by efficax 3y ago
half? not likely
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by efficax 3y ago
sometimes people can know just enough to make them stupider than they’d be if they knew much less
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by efficax 3y ago
but that's exactly why multiple implementations are a good idea, because it will help encourage further specification and standardization of the unspecified and heuristic behaviors.
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by efficax 3y ago
the simplicity of c is an illusion the moment you start using pointers and define macros. nothing is harder to understand than a big C program, imo
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by efficax 3y ago
the book uses golang
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by efficax 4y ago
the algorithms that use ML are useless without the weights. What's the point?
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by efficax 4y ago
Ran it for a long time, mostly I liked the simplicity of it over linux, which with systemd + udev etc has become much harder to configure easily just by reading through the files in /etc. The way you configure FreeBSD has been basicall
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by efficax 4y ago
> So be careful what you scream for. We already have enough un-repairable items. Couldn't the keys for decryption be stored in a trusted module that can only be unlocked with the presence of the actual car key? Yes, this means key c
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by efficax 4y ago
? he’s one of the most original composers of the post war period
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by efficax 4y ago
i agree that the plug-in chaos of vim and even emacs is exhausting. there’s so much churn, abandoned packages, and all this decision making that you have to do to get started. but at the same time you can’t expect to be able to build all th

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