efsavage

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by efsavage 4y ago
Yeah, people always underestimate/forget the ability of artists to use everything for art in novel ways, I see no reason AI is any exception. I'm sure it's already happening and I just haven't been exposed to it yet.
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by efsavage 4y ago
> Look at early WhatsApp until they were aquired. Look at what they didn't do, which was make any revenue, or support any customers, or moderate any content.
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by efsavage 4y ago
I'm not defending registrars/registries per se, but... > A domain isn't much more than a key/value pair in a small database. No, it's often a huge investment and important part of security approaches (certificate
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by efsavage 4y ago
We require ramps on buildings, but we don't ban stairs. Accessibility is very important, and you wouldn't want to use a palette like this as a default theme, but that doesn't mean everything has to pass every test. Many apps
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by efsavage 4y ago
Yes, this already exists. Pre-installed apps don't have to ask for the same permissions and defaults to sharing.
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by efsavage 4y ago
I think you mean "Apple made it significantly harder for anyone but Apple to track macOS and iOS users". To their credit, it's a strategic masterpiece, as their hardware market growth slows they've built an impressive
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by efsavage 4y ago
They're probably being graded by machines, and the GPA is going onto a resume that's then screened by machine. Next Steps: Machine-generated assignments on the input end, machine generated interviews on the output end.
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by efsavage 4y ago
Legislators should be allowed to trade, but should be considered insiders for any companies affected by legislation they vote on (which would effectively be all of them). They could use things like 10b5-1.
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by efsavage 4y ago
That's good to hear. My experience with trade unions has been the opposite. They have full-time people who run it, many of whom haven't plied the trade in many years (and often only a token amount, if at all), and if they feel l
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by efsavage 4y ago
This is a moral question, but the answer doesn't really matter because there's a more important issue that preempts it, which is that you're ignoring a signal that if these these things aren't worth your money they'
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by efsavage 4y ago
Once a union matures into its own thing, independent of the original idealistic/altruistic founding group of employees, giving things to members that the union didn't "win" for them becomes a big problem in their eyes.
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by efsavage 4y ago
This is sad, IIRC the goal (and reason it only goes to living people) is to throw good money after good, in the hopes of more to come, not simply reward past advances and fund retirements.
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by efsavage 4y ago
>> One of the biggest issues we face in the industry is the lack of reusability in software > The biggest problems we face are that every developer is coached into believing everything they make needs to be unicorn scale and qualit
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by efsavage 4y ago
> I really love this philosophy, but I found out that you can't just say it once or else people are still a bit skittish sometimes (young engineers mostly). It's also important to see established/senior/experienced pe
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by efsavage 4y ago
I support the charging connector standardization, but not tool batteries. There are so many factors in play I don't see how standardization would offer enough benefit to offset innovation penalties. Even within a given brand/con
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by efsavage 4y ago
724 Test Engineers walk into a bar...
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by efsavage 4y ago
Two things that I can say with certainty I've heard literally every single one of the ~25 years I've been in this game: 1. "We're in a bubble!, it's only a matter of time before it all comes down" 2. "The
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by efsavage 4y ago
Economics is a social science. It is probably the most data-driven of the set, but it is inescapably human, and therefore ultimately comes down to judgment.
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by efsavage 4y ago
In my experience landlords who bought the property themselves are great. The ones that inherited it are terrible. It's something every tenant should find out, and avoid the latter.
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by efsavage 4y ago
"It is a conversation ender." I have no doubt the author is correct, but I suspect it's frequently not because they have won or settled the issue at hand, but rather signaled that they are not willing to have a reasonable con
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by efsavage 4y ago
I think you're underestimating how ... flexible ... the Constitution is lately.
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by efsavage 4y ago
I believe the point is that no software is a fixed artifact. Regardless of the state of its development, it's all reactive to factors outside of its control, whether that's other software, users, hardware, etc.
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by efsavage 4y ago
> Why is Europe so afraid of competing in the open market? Because they haven't been winning. It's not a coincidence that the revenue thresholds for this bill is conveniently higher than any Europe-based companies.
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by efsavage 4y ago
Also if people know that deletion is reversible, they're more likely to actually do it, which can keep things generally tidier. I don't actually like using a "deleted" column, my standard table has a status column, and d
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by efsavage 4y ago
One question I love to know the answer to is why we only built one, or how hard would it be for us to build more now? Would a second one have cost 5%, 10%, 20% more? Surely it wouldn't be near 100% as all of the research and testing
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by efsavage 4y ago
That's basically how every nation on Earth was founded.
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by efsavage 4y ago
For many devices (e.g. a power tool, or part of a vehicle) making a chip that lasts for many years would be more efficient than replacing it with one that drew less power but required a large batch of power to manufacture, plus the cost to
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by efsavage 4y ago
The purpose of Twitter is money, not speech. Speech is their product, and as a private company, they're allowed to decide what products they sell.
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by efsavage 4y ago
Indeed. It's not cheap, but it's mostly a one-time cost* and the big binder we have that covers all sorts of scenarios and contingencies offers us considerable peace of mind. If you have enough assets that anyone would bother fi
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by efsavage 4y ago
> The aspect ratio is great for coding If I ever need to buy a laptop this would be a huge feature for me, I would love if they still made 4:3 displays for desktops, it's so much better for the triple-wide setup I prefer, especial

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