erikpukinskis

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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
> Rocks are mostly an off-piste issue *laughs in East Coast*
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
> * Imagine taking a train from LA to NYC in 30 hours.* Who is the customer for that ticket?
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
HTML version in case anyone prefers that to PDF: https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-...
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
… and one of these things hurts engagement.
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
Life expectancy is basically flat for people over 80. Lots fewer babies are dying, a good amount of young adults are staying alive, some middle age people are living longer, and a handful of older folks are too. But once you get to 80, 90,
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
Maybe. But they do reference “product” alongside “management”… If you just have a bunch of engineering a design ICs “doing stuff” and no one is doing any form of project management (making sure you’re building things you can afford that cus
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
Valve isn’t “done” they are working on their next gen headset, codenamed “Deckard”: https://youtu.be/YVkbcZ8JH2E?si=0-URGXYlsFGMZvGO This is all speculation, but I get the sense that Valve understands better than anyone tha
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
What disservice?
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
Good data point, but a little bit biased.
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
> What is the meaning of life? …is unanswerable not because life has no meaning, but because the answer is personal. Part of growing up is to answer the question for yourself . For me, part of the meaning of life is to walk in the woods
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
I can picture a black woman at a desk in a nicely pressed dress coming up with this one on pencil and paper.
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
AI stands for “artificial intelligence” and I think an algorithm which decides how easy a book is to read qualifies as some sort of intelligence.
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by erikpukinskis 2y ago
As a side note, I think I am adding “render” to my list of words which are meaningless and therefore banned from using in code: - render - container - context - base - model - action - component - bake - build - generate - view - control -
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
I mean, it’s not even in the middle. It’s on the edge. On the opposite side of the airport is “The Museum of Aeronautical Sciences”. I don’t see any particular moral reason why that should exist instead of this persons farm.
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
No, the rebuttal is, “I’d rather take my own word for it.”
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
That perspective seems arbitrarily tied to the first billion years of evolution. What of the next billion?
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
That’s why you buy a cyber insurance policy.
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
Im curious for anyone who has done this: what’s the point of going all the way from one-db to one-db-per-customer? Why not just split the customers to 2 databases, then to 3, etc? Seems like the same level of system complexity but you avoid
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
This works if people also have very clear boundaries for where their responsibilities end and where their teammates responsibilities begin. Someone who cares obsessively about things that are closer to their coworkers area of responsibility
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
Ideally when you automate yourself out of one job, you are then available to take on another, and also to have more flexibility and higher compensation as part of that process. This is pretty much what “leveling up” is. Either literal autom
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
What makes you say it’s a losing direction?
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
Their content.
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
How is that relevant? The voting public will typically delay expensive cost-saving measures. Because the majority of individuals will do the same. Also forced public expenditures are a huge money making opportunity for the capital class, so
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
I doubt there’s any reason why trains couldn’t run on batteries. Anything that either stops and then starts again before refueling, or goes down and then up again before refueling, should be compatible with batteries due to regenerative bra
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
> it is impossible to feel sorrow and gratitude at the same time. I would’ve said this too, until 12 months ago. I lost my dog suddenly. And then some weeks and months later I started to feel her presence running up alongside me when I w
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
There’s nothing fundamentally destructive about climate change. It’s the pace and scale of climate change which is potentially catastrophic. Ecosystems experience “disturbances” all the time. Trees fall. Animals dig up plant beds. Extreme f
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
I’ve said many times, eye contact will be the killer app of VR… … but it will be ironic if 2D beats the VR companies to it, using technology like this. What an utter failure on the part of Meta that would be. With such a huge head start and
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
Not trying to be crude, but is someone passing away after a long, rich life of 89 years something to mourn? Isn’t that kind of the best case scenario? For me something like a black banner signifies a tragedy, not merely a death. A bunch of
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
Canola oil is one of the healthiest oils there is, assuming you don’t have a dietary sensitivity to bogeymen.
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by erikpukinskis 3y ago
I find the Express 5 situation hilariously wonderful. It’s basically done. Any other project would’ve slapped a major release on it and fixed any issues that came up in a patch. Everyone who is using it says it works great. But the maintain

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