elbasti

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by elbasti 3y ago
> this sort of "it's over, there's only doom ahead" is, IMO, counterproductive and hurts the efforts to help the environment more than it helps. Says who? We've been parroting the opposite message ("there&#x
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by elbasti 3y ago
This is exactly the failure mode of GPTs that make me worry about the future idiotization of the world. "Rubber ducks float because they are made of a material less dense than water" both is wrong but sounds reasonable. Call it a
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by elbasti 3y ago
The analogy couldn't be more perfect--social media is modern-day cigarettes.
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by elbasti 3y ago
A quick search[0] of the Companies House site gives the following "cheeky" SQL names: - DROP TABLE LTD - DROP TABLE USERS LTD - DROP TABLE CONSULTANTS; LTD - ROBERT'); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; LIMITED [0] https://find-
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by elbasti 3y ago
What makes jobs "tricky" is that jobs are--by definition--entirely side-effects. So: - What happens if the process where you called the job crashes? - What happens if the entire application crashes? - What happens if two thread
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by elbasti 3y ago
> The one area where IMHO the jury is still out is LiveView. Agree 100%. Unfortunately LiveView is quickly becoming the way of doing things, which I think is ill-advised. It makes the language larger, and is still too much in flux (it&
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by elbasti 3y ago
It's true that you can create custom guards, but they are still very limited, and they can only be made of a small list of allowed expressions [0]. [0]: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.6.6/guards.html#list-of-al
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by elbasti 3y ago
Do you have a source for AWS employing 15K H1B holders? That's an insane number!
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by elbasti 3y ago
It seems like you have an amazing talent for reviewing electronics, and that you've identified a kind of review that doesn't exist in the market and people might find valuable! NYT bought Wirecutter for 30 million dollars so... wh
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by elbasti 3y ago
Gotta avoid bugs, imagine if they lost some customer funds due to poorly written code.
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by elbasti 3y ago
The gnuCash documentation has it as you describe: debits checking and credits salary. https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/gnucash/1.6.4/arch/i3...
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by elbasti 3y ago
Not at the mall, but at the park in a low-crime American suburb. You're not going to get arrested but it wouldn't be surprising to get a "wellness check" from a suspicious police officer if children are playing at the pa
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by elbasti 3y ago
Cultural considerations in visiting Norman, Oklahoma: - *Hospitality*: Oklahomian's will make a great fuss about their level of hospitality, and will often invite you to visit them in their home, using a phrase like "show up whene
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by elbasti 3y ago
A stock buyback trades certainty of wealth transfer (you're not sure the price will go up, or by how much!) for flexibility in when the investor takes the gains for purposes of fiscal planning.
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by elbasti 3y ago
In software development, there is such a thing as "good taste." There are ways of structuring code, of naming variables, of writing documentation, that simply are better than others even though functionality may be the same. There
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by elbasti 3y ago
I've worked with marcandre before and can wholeheartedly endorse him. ← I was not asked to post this.
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by elbasti 4y ago
That math is incorrect. Imagine a simplified world with 100 listeners. They are all average listeners and listen to 10 songs per day, for a total of 1000 plays per day. 99 are pop fans and listen entirely to top 20. 1 is an outlier and list
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by elbasti 4y ago
> And streaming is not returning enough to musicians for them to survive; it is only serving to increase income inequality in our industry. The revival we need, urgently, is of recorded music income - and that revival is not coming from
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by elbasti 5y ago
Uber was incentivizing new drivers—in the form of artificially high payments and losing money on rides. This would have been fine if the market were winner takes all, but it turns out that it wasn't, so in a way they ended up subsidizi
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by elbasti 5y ago
Yes, but "people" also used the same arguments to describe the failure of facebook, snapchat, airbnb, amazon, etc. A sort of unsophisticated "these businesses are stupid/illegal/throwing money away" bearishness
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by elbasti 5y ago
Uber's story is actually very rational. When Uber started, we all thought it was a winner-takes-all market. The theory went something like this: 1. The more drivers are on a given platform, the more value users will derive from the pla
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by elbasti 5y ago
More proof that California not allowing non-competes is a key driver of innovation.
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by elbasti 5y ago
> and the real authors' influences and creativity would be extremely apparent in the character. Is this true? The character of Phil Coulson is exactly this kind of character--created by the studio--and now a "mainstay" (if
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by elbasti 5y ago
I used to be very gung-ho about short copyright periods but my thinking has gotten a bit confused for two reasons: 1. I think there's virtue in limiting the modification --as opposed to the reproduction-- of works for some time after
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by elbasti 5y ago
Wouldn't the correct css for the dithered image be `crisp-edges`? From the specification: > The image must be scaled with an algorithm that preserves contrast and edges in the image, and which does not smooth colors or introduce bl
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by elbasti 5y ago
One of thing that is obvious to me is the bizarre cultural norm that, in the US, people are expected to move away from home at the age of 18 and then relocate more-or-less permanently far away from family and childhood friends. To my Americ
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by elbasti 5y ago
> our eyes aren't very sensitive instruments I take umbrage with that statement! Our eyes are exquisitely sensitive, and most importantly, have staggering dynamic range. Our eyes are capable of perceiving a single photon [1], albe
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by elbasti 5y ago
The best book I've read on hiring is "Who: The A Method for Hiring." It's so good in fact that I feel kind of bad sharing it, almost as if I were giving away a competitive advantage. It makes a very simple point that run
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by elbasti 5y ago
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