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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Literally declaring yourself the winner of an election that you solidly lost and then repeating that claim over and over again as your supporters rile themselves up and prepare for violence abso-fucking-lutely qualifies. If the election rea
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Have you ever heard Kara Swisher go off on this? She's vicious on the topic.
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Don't forget GA - Dems won full control, and will now have at least some ability to legislate. So Twitter et al need to be thinking about how to get ahead of the complaints that the left has against section 230 (the left hates it becau
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Yeah, so much of Google's culture is already about slowing down work so that it takes 10 (5 eng ICs + lead, analyst, manager, PM and PgM) to do the work that 2 engineers would do with identical quality in any other company, and the o
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
If you make these things Big Process, each of which requires spreadsheets and certification by high level manager and weeks of delay, etc, then yes, people will think of them as meaningless hoops. If you can avoid dumb red tape then things
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
I personally just think everything works better when the best people are in charge and rewarded for being the best. Yes, there's tons of luck, and it's not fair in any "everyone deserves a shot" sense. Still a better str
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
And people from neuro come into AI for short rotations pretty regularly to do astoundingly naive work there which amounts to nothing at all. Maybe both fields could stop flinging shit and realize that they are both missing a key piece of th
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
There can be and often are, because it's important to account for future expected flows - credit that's been extended and is due to be repaid, for instance, has to be accounted for. The thing is, these flows should be clearly an
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
> IA will also remain quite essential, because for the foreseeable future, computers will not be able to match humans in their ability to reason abstractly about real-world situations. I broadly agree with what this article says, but dep
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Two monitors doesn't work great for me because I always feel like one is "primary" and one "secondary", where all the crap like Slack and email that distracts me goes, which just hurts productivity. I switched to an
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Twitter's CEO is basically an absentee leader, time-splitting with his other company which actually makes money and spending his free hours sucking up to rappers because he is desperate not to appear as an uncool white guy. Is it any s
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Until a rollback due to a failure itself fails on a complex stack and prod is hosed for hours while you try to figure out how to unfuck. Maybe CF has gotten better, but I'm not sure since I totally jumped ship for GCP.
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Evil enough that new mocks should be banned by fiat and enforced by code that requires rarely granted permission to override against projects that are 5 years old and already have hundreds of them in place and do not have architectures that
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
It's fairly normal for a big company these days: extremely slow pace, red tape all over the place, your level matters more than your skill. It's an engineering-led culture so there's a lot of focus on code nitpicking and puri
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Java was a good syntax . The language itself had way too many limitations back when Sun ran it, for really dumb reasons proffered by too smart for their own good people. I was sadly paying attention to the wretched arguments about how ther
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Bayes has you covered, if your priors rank something as exceptionally likely or unlikely, then you probably shouldn't pay much attention to new information (especially when it's from some random person and carries a high likelihoo
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
If other people want to pay more for your place, why should that place's owner be forced to let you pay less than they could make with someone else? Seriously. What is better about you, other than that it is you? "Long-term is bet
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Fixing a bad law is fine, but you can't propagate that back just because you wish you'd thought of the edge cases then. Or at least you shouldn't, if you have any sense of fair play...
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
It wouldn't be a README if it wasn't out of date and inaccurate.
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Yes, that is what happens when direct democracy is allowed, anyone who can influence public opinion (rightly or wrongly) can make whatever laws they want, and it's a big reason that many people are opposed to ballot initiatives as a ma
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Most people strongly disagree with you. You need to offer an argument, not an assertion, since you're callit for a major and unpopular change. And if like many of my lefty friends by "abolish" you actually mean something that
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
If you fail based on any of the "would be nice to know" items, you were never going to succeed. Find another few founders, ask them what they use. Find another few who use the same, ask what they think. Repeat. If you can't f
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Actually it's quite easy to cast electromagnetism into a purely geometrical form, you just add a few extra curled up dimensions to a flattish spacetime in general relativity and you basically get Maxwell's equations for free. Ther
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Part of the problem is, a lot of the best people in this field don't even realize how fuckin hard they had to work to get to the point they're at, because they didn't think of it as work a lot of the time. It seems easy unt
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
> But as the C++ community dreams of better tools, and dependency managers, maybe it would help to define the fundamentals more accurately: Our programs are a set of definitions, some of which are provided and maintained out-of-tree by o
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
Calculus was the worst for this: in my first class we spent literally two months dissecting the minutiae of limits and Lipschitz conditions and infinitesimals and blah blah etc, only to get the the punchline, "and you find the slope of
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by esc_colon_q 6y ago
It is very true that GPT-XYZ is fundamentally limited, like all transformer models, but don't misattribute the root cause to the fact that it's just processing text. The real limitation is that these are feedforward networks that