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by fergie 4y ago
Goddammit!
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by fergie 4y ago
The most comforting AI news I have read this year.
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Is the bird freed? A look back at six months of Musk’s Twitter reign(theguardian.com)
9 points by fergie 4y ago|0 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
To be fair, if you are dealing a lot with indexes and word tokenization/lemmatization, as Google engineers presumably are, then this seems to be a relatively "real world" problem.
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by fergie 4y ago
Is it any good though?
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by fergie 4y ago
Metatrend: Reddit is again producing some fairly high-quality commentary and analysis.
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by fergie 4y ago
If you advertise a position with a tight, high salary band, then you are going to get the best candidates (all other things being equal). The proposed law gives organisations that offer good pay and conditions a stronger competitive advanta
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by fergie 4y ago
If its any consolation, I was having a beer with my law professor buddy the other night, and it seems that universities and lawyers are freaking out about chatGPT much more than us programmers.
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by fergie 4y ago
https://archive.is/zb0Je
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Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules(businesspost.ie)
277 points by fergie 4y ago|244 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
Who is this person and why is he at the top of the HN front page?
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by fergie 4y ago
This is an recognised problem and the main motivation behind the industry's desire to watermark AI generated content -> https://mpost.io/chatgpts-watermarks-can-help-google-detect-...
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by fergie 4y ago
A lot of people were talking 5-10 years ago about what would happen to Google when the original devs cashed out and mediocre company suits took over. We are living through that reality now. For the first time in 25 years Google actually loo
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Battery Free Phone (2017)(batteryfreephone.cs.washington.edu)
2 points by fergie 4y ago|0 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
Good. Actual reuse of perfectly good shoes is the best outcome for all concerned (and the environment).
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by fergie 4y ago
Related question: are any actual software engineers getting laid off or is it just support/admin/management who work in the tech sector? (I have been dealing with consulting contracts for software engineers lately, and was surpris
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by fergie 4y ago
Bit of a metaquestion but what am I reading here exactly? Is this academic research? I cant see any reference to where the work was carried out, or in what context (Cornell? Or has the paper just been submitted to them?).
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Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?(aviation.stackexchange.com)
112 points by fergie 4y ago|329 comments
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by fergie 4y ago
But doesn't Google actually have a monorepo?
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by fergie 4y ago
> I agree the TypeScript compiler's error messages are confusing but you should have see the types of stack traces JavaScript produces. Non-transpiled js produces fairly sane and useful stack traces. Its just a shame that non-transp
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by fergie 4y ago
I have been using TypeScript at work since 2019. Personally I am not convinced that it is worth it, broadly for the reasons you note and also because TypeScript has in practice a soft dependency on Visual Studio, and in turn other MS servic
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by fergie 4y ago
Right- but you cant do it in plain HTML
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by fergie 4y ago
Pretty sure that you can't define an HTML snippet in one file and then include it in two or more other files using flexbox or grid? Or maybe I am wrong?
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by fergie 4y ago
Unfortunately SSIs dont work on s3 and some other plaforms, thereby negating their utility for running static sites on CDNs or keystores. But YES- why isn't there an SSI equivalent in the HTML spec?
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by fergie 4y ago
But I just want to be able to specify a header or a footer in vanilla HTML...
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by fergie 4y ago
To be fair- that is just about the only good one I have read.
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by fergie 4y ago
Love fiction, love a good blog post, can't for the life of me abide self-help nonsense, especially when it's dressed up as "management strategy".
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by fergie 4y ago
I propose that where possible we avoid the term "piracy" and instead use the term "commons".
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by fergie 4y ago
6’1" here. Grew up in the UK and clothes were always too short and wide. Moved to Scandinavia as an adult and for the first time in my life normal clothes from normal shops actually fitted me.
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by fergie 4y ago
I think you missed the point.

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