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by esperent 1y ago
Not that I'm a fan of this kind of interview, but these answers illustrate different kinds of skill/intelligence. One is domain knowledge which is less important in the age Google search and StackOverflow (and even less so in the
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by esperent 1y ago
> everybody thinks they have minor version of disorders, because we all do, we live on continuums, and therefore we should probably all think about it more I think this is subtly incorrect. I would phrase it this way: > everybody thin
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by esperent 1y ago
> 20 years ago (in 2005), did anyone voluntarily, happily label themselves autistic The labels people use follow trends. Labelling (self or others) as autistic or on the spectrum is relatively new, but there have been trends for other di
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by esperent 1y ago
I downloaded a Quordle game on Android yesterday. It pushes you to buy a premium subscription, and you know what that gets you? AI chat inside the game. I'm not unwilling to use AI in places where I choose. But let's not pretend
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Ask HN: Is any else getting the word "Sorry." while using this site?
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by esperent 1y ago
Humans, even talented mathematicians, have limited context. A big part of any mathematics text is abstraction for the sake of understanding. It can be confusing at first, but once you learn how to read mathematics with these abstractions in
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by esperent 1y ago
> they claim chronic or recurring inflammation is THE big health problem > on the other hand there are messages like inflammation is good for your body because it keeps it working There's no contradiction here. The first one is
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by esperent 1y ago
> in civilized parts of europe Ah, lovely. Racism. Please speak clearly, which parts of Europe do you consider to be civilized, and which parts uncivilized?
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by esperent 1y ago
I've never heard of anything like this in Ireland or the UK. Every house is wired for 230v so you can connect pretty much anything you like up to whatever power the socket can handle. Normally 13-16A, but you can install an appliance c
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by esperent 1y ago
Labs can be places for getting serious, routine work done, as any working pharmacologist or chemist would tell you. The term doesn't imply experimentation outside of vernacular usage.
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by esperent 1y ago
> in europe Laws don't work like this in the EU, let alone in all of Europe.
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by esperent 1y ago
There are so many cultures that speak English though. I'm only fluent in English, but as an Irish person who spent parts of my childhood in England and Scotland, I feel like I have a deep (fluent) understanding of Irish and English cul
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by esperent 1y ago
Only if people pay. Which they won't when there's nobody else on there. How do you get your first 100k users? You might say, well, start with 1000 users. But 1000, or 10,000 isn't enough to make a social network interesting.
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by esperent 1y ago
Because I studied statistics.
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by esperent 1y ago
Right, but how to do that for thousands of PRs to see that there's a bias? I assume it's a ton of work.
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by esperent 1y ago
That's basically what the entire article is about, yes.
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by esperent 1y ago
Yes. I never play fancy dress with suits. Formal for me means a nice, comfortable shirt and jeans or other clean trousers. On an average day I wear shorts and sandles because it's damn hot. I wear suits to funerals, and once to a weddi
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by esperent 1y ago
How would I be able to examine the PRs to verify this?
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by esperent 1y ago
Damn you're right, it's been too many years since I read it. I was following on from the previous comment talking about splitting the ring in two.
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by esperent 1y ago
Yeah, we were just starting out and really needing to keep every possible cost down when I chose MS. Looking back I definitely wish I'd paid a bit extra for Google Workspace though, it does look much better suited for a business at our
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by esperent 1y ago
I've already set it up and we're running a test with 4 users since about a month now. I'm hosting it on Hetzner VPS with storage on Wasabi, backups on Backblaze. You're correct that storage is cheap. Compute and ram are
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by esperent 1y ago
> Also, that was just the hypothesized mechanism at play, it may not have been what was actually happening The more I learn about pharmacology, the more I realize this is the norm, rather than the exception.
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by esperent 1y ago
Storage is far from the highest priority. I do store quite a bit of files for marketing but those only need to be accessed by a few people. Also, much as I wish otherwise, very little happens via email in this business. It's all chat a
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by esperent 1y ago
Also, if you're a small business without a dedicated tech team, what are your options that don't involve relying on a single big company? Speaking for myself, running a bakery, I chose MS 365/Teams with regret but accepting t
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by esperent 1y ago
I'm sure many people have imaged this - supposing that LLMs, while making no great strides towards AGI, consciousness, or any of that, nonetheless keep getting better and better at what they do now. Imagine a decade or two of steady im
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by esperent 1y ago
I think the title of this should be changed, at the moment it's click bait. It should be something like: CUDA Ray Tracing 2x Faster Than RTX when Rendering Spheres As far as I can see, this renderer can't do anything else except
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by esperent 1y ago
> Didn't mean to rub you the wrong way Not at all, you sparked thought in an area I find fascinating (philosophy of maths). Albeit I find this specific topic a bit too commonly discussed relative to how important it is, but I'm
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by esperent 1y ago
> Math has a very rigid and easily enumerable space of possibilities (strings of symbols), so we call it "discovery", while cooking has an enormous space of possibilities (countless pieces of meat and vegetables, each unique in
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by esperent 1y ago
I rather think the discovered/invented thing is just semantics. You can say that literally anything was "just discovered". Thriller by Michael Jackson? Those particular ordering of sound waves always theoretically existed, MJ
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by esperent 1y ago
Google business account. Which is different than a Google ads account - I was able to get in touch with Google ads support easily but they said the two departments can't talk to each other. It took several weeks to get through to busin

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