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by eutropia 1y ago
I often find that people using the word emergent to describe properties of a system tend to ascribe quasi magical properties to the system. Things tend to get vague and hand wavy when that term comes up. Just call them properties with unkno
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by eutropia 1y ago
The dude has a staff of 30 people who's whole job is to connect him to literally anyone he wants to communicate with -- you're telling me that the usability of concierge service with more than two dozen staffers is inferior to usi
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by eutropia 1y ago
> Hence the customer is paying 1175 for the 1000 bike, not 2450. No, all of these business rely on percentage margins to stay cashflow positive, not absolute revenue. It's possible that a few companies will absorb a small amount of
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by eutropia 1y ago
thank you for working on a tvOS version!!! the official twitch app for apple tv is... not so great. If you're keen on taking feature requests, here's a difficult one: - OLED TVs are incredible, but my previous 2017 vintage LG even
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by eutropia 1y ago
Ah yes, I'm sure we all want Hasbro making our indie board games because they're adults who pay someone to optimize their shipping costs. It's kind of wild to be this smug about a technicality (um ACKCHUALLY it's under T
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by eutropia 1y ago
Chinese propaganda efforts will look more like russian botnets astroturfing culture war bullshit (which is a major factor in politics now), only instead of crude sockpuppets parroting talking points at people, it will look more like "n
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by eutropia 1y ago
That's not the fucking point! The dude is being retaliated against for doing his job and reporting facts that contradict an authoritarian conspiracy; regardless of your personal opinion of the man - this is, like so many other egregiou
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by eutropia 2y ago
Local Agent, 100%. If I'm just exploring ideas for fun or scratching my own itch, I have no desire to be thinking about a continuous stream of expenditure happening in the background when I have an apple silicon mac with 64GB of ram fu
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by eutropia 2y ago
People stacking jobs have next to no interest in anything about the jobs except getting paid, and are really easy to spot in high performance environments because they tend to make a lot of excuses and miss a lot of deadlines. What you are
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by eutropia 2y ago
Are you suggesting the condition isn't real? Or that the diagnostic criteria are entirely subjective?
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by eutropia 2y ago
There are people in this thread claiming that Wired "doxxed" these engineers working for Musk dismantling things they don't understand; however didn't Musk publicly mock individual federal employees on his twitter accoun
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by eutropia 2y ago
I wondered if it was another one of those solar powered websites: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power
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by eutropia 2y ago
> Note: Microsoft does not publish feature updates through Windows Update for devices running Windows IoT Enterprise LTSC. This sounds like a strict upgrade to consumer-grade windows... How does an enterprising user get a legal hold on o
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by eutropia 2y ago
More specifically, TFA: > the F.C.C. lacked the authority to reinstate rules that prevented broadband providers from slowing or blocking access to internet content. Which means it's up to congress to endow the FCC with that authorit
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Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler(blog.llvm.org)
146 points by eutropia 2y ago|19 comments
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by eutropia 2y ago
My favorite recently acquired pet theory about the amazon RTO is that it's driven by real estate occupancy rates in their incredibly expensive new hub offices, several of which also received massive government tax grants with strings a
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by eutropia 2y ago
This is the first I've heard that it's false; however it seems like many times in my life I've observed something suffering, seemingly from lack of ownership despite being a common good. What do you call that if you can'
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by eutropia 2y ago
> Array#each is rewritten in Ruby for better performance beautiful, JIT all the things!
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by eutropia 2y ago
What they said on "If Books Could Kill" is an extremely thorough trouncing of Haidt's narrative and the methodologies of the researches he utilized in that book. The summary is this: The uptick is adequately explained by chan
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Gen Z-Ers Are Computer Whizzes. Just Don't Ask Them to Type(wsj.com)
1 points by eutropia 2y ago|1 comments
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by eutropia 2y ago
When someone speaks about business risk for a company which might not be breakeven profitable, the risk is not "we don't make enough money to chuckle sensibly into our wine goblets", the risk is "we have to lay off our e
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by eutropia 2y ago
It's too much tk hope we can ban advertising, but surely we can ban all of this absurd tracking?
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by eutropia 2y ago
I guess the ones who quietly ship dozens of rails apps on k8s are too busy getting shit done to stop and share their boring opinions about pragmatically choosing the right tool for the job :)
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by eutropia 2y ago
> At the time the study was conducted, SpaceX had not yet applied its routine brightness mitigation techniques to the DTCs, such as adjusting their chassis and solar panels to reduce the portion of spacecraft illuminated by the sun, stud
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by eutropia 2y ago
I was hoping for this very response (one that bothered to fact check apple's released statements): yeah, balance sheet is the incorrect technical term. And yes, obviously they haven't broken it out beyond "services" inco
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by eutropia 2y ago
The $20 billion is categorized as "advertising" on Apple's Balance Sheet. I seem to recall so many commenters on HN whatabouting on the topic of advertising and privacy when it comes to iPhones versus android smartphones. Is
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by eutropia 2y ago
YT Comment from the video creator: > Since so many people have asked about what happens when it rains, here is Shera's response: "Baldassare actually put drainage systems in place! Many of the rooms are built on a grade and
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by eutropia 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.17711 - link to the paper
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by eutropia 2y ago
The paper's method is trying to more accurately identify answers that are wrong and arbitrary (i.e., subject to random seed variance / temperature) - that's their definition of "confabulation". > If it simply
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by eutropia 2y ago
the method described by this paper does not > draw[ing] several samples and evaluating the entropy and/or disagreement between those draws the method from the paper (as I understand it): - samples multiple answers, (e.g. "music

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