fatneckbeard

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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
how do you improve shitty products and shitty service with AI? i dont get it.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
i know a system that runs cobol. but there are like 4 or 5 other systems on top of it, some of them use XML, some html, some asp, some java, some vba, some c#. i dont really understand the concept of a "x language job". like jobs
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
what is the difference betweeen a CBDC and TreasuryDirect
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
this reminds me of how the politburo of china is 99.9% male, the sons of the party elite get favorable positions, and you keep your position by telling the dictator what they want to hear instead of what is actually going on.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
finally prospective college students have a way to judge a university that is objective. ask them what percentage of adjuncts they have, lower is obviously better. then plot versus tuition cost, then you can figure out the optimal ratio of
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
yeah well my original point still stands. "PARC was not at all secretive about its work. Its researchers published widely, and there was a regular flow of traffic between PARC and Stanford's computer science community. " as o
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
wrong. AI bias is going to be a huge problem when morons in court systems start using it to convict people, or businesses use it for hiring decisions or firing decisions not only from the stupidity but since there are some shreds of the civ
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
sri was never gonna allow a bunch of hippies and bearded longhairs tour their facility in the spirit of academic comradeship. (IE no microsoft, no apple being allowed to walk around and talk to people in the 80s to get the ideas for Macinto
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
first world problems. a huge number of employees are punished for socializing / having "random" meetings at work. why arent you at your cube / chair doing your job instead of wandering around talking to people? the metri
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
the other way to see this is that the "new companies" are doing loss leading, do not actually make a profit on their retail businesses, are trying to gain an illegal monopoly by putting competitors out of business by doing illegal
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
this whole borland/delphi approach is rather similar to how Visual Basic for Applications still works inside of Excel or Outlook, and is still used by big companies all over the world as i type this.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
Helen Keller managed to do pretty well without sight or hearing.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
I find it hilarious they are saying VCs wont invest in redhat style business because it's growth is not "hyper". These same VCs who are so fundamentally incompetent at the basics of capitalism, like risk management 101 of int
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
yeah ive been riding bicycles 30 years. what we want is separate bike roads, bike crosses, bike parking, like the Netherlands, we do not want some giant police movement to regulate truck sizes. this is like the definition of why liberals ca
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
first rule of qt is nobody talks about qt
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
WebPSU - this will allow your browser to directly access your computer's power supply. simply plug your appliances into your browser and they can use the same power that your computer has access to.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
15 minutes to respond, reminds me of the systems we use at work
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
never understand why people are fascinated by this child rapist. just like the "dahmer fans". here is an interesting french person. Sophie Germain. Write an article about her. spend money studying her. put a biography of her out.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
yeah im like... do people not realize they are trying to create a general purpose learning algorithm for physical robots?
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
its common sense and you just proved it. poor people have shitty health. retail workers are poor. i.e. retail workers have shitty health. without any additional correlation you have that by definition.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
working retail during the pandemic meant risking death. a lot of retail workers died. the fact they weren't coal miners doesn't mean they didn't die from their work.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
yes. there is environmental sustainability and then there is social sustainability. nobody wants to live in a carbon free world if every company is as abusive as Tesla to its employees. and that culture came from Musk himself. the way he tr
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
for every US HN commenter talking about their "awful experience" with Indian teams let me talk about my awesome professors from IIT who came to America to work in Math/CS education. Or about the great Indian people I met onl
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
I think there is a lot we can still learn, but the areas where the artifacts exist have succumbed to geo-political conflict between the great powers that surround them. Such as Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, etc.
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
two hardest problems in programming what to name things cache coherency off by one bugs
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
i get it. in high school in the 90s i was fascinated by fuzzy logic and neural nets. in college, before the big web , i was doing interlibrary loan for papers on neural networks. there was one paper where someone had just inserted electrode
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
this reminds me of the Morris Worm when a guy was experimenting with code copying itself across the early internet and accidentally caused a mass netwide DDOS because the thing wound up like the Broomsticks in Fantasia. https://
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
how is it "sex worker led". Is Ameen Soleimani a sex worker? Oh Ameen is also working on Tornado Cash, https://twitter.com/ameensol is that part of his sex work?
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by fatneckbeard 4y ago
our most pressing need is to ensure the survival of the species given that the planet's climate is inherently unstable over a period of 100,000+ years. which means we need to learn terraforming and/or interstellar travel within th

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