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by ff317 4y ago
Or Costco for really cheap food, even if you're not a member (I am one, FWIW). They don't require a membership card to go in through the out-door (because this is how you reach the customer service desk to sign up for a membershi
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by ff317 4y ago
It was and is about user traffic, not employees. WMF was at least implied to be one of the specific targets, because NSA had the Wikipedia logo on some slides about this program which were leaked by Snowden. Also, there was research showi
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by ff317 4y ago
Right, this is the problem. The stock-market / macro-growth figures look good, but /personal/ finances and true cost-of-living look to be in trouble. If the "solution" is a bunch of layoffs, it's just going to
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by ff317 4y ago
I tend to think the problem is the "random digging for correlations" part. Having tons of data is a Good Thing, so long as you can afford the marginal cost of gathering and managing all that data so that it's ready at hand wh
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by ff317 4y ago
Yeah but that's also incredibly naive. Inevitably there will be some un-calculated-for shortcuts that make all those copies not as failure-independent as they seem. If nothing else, what are the odds some random Amazon engineer makes
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by ff317 4y ago
In the 90s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon for me to hear some modem-like sounds from various devices with speakers (PC speakers, audio system speakers, car speakers). The sounds were basically interference from nearby (as in, mere fe
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by ff317 4y ago
Honestly, the correct answer is that in the vast majority of cases, there was no good reason to ask any gender question in the first place. People should think about /why/ they're asking this. Even in the rare cases where t
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by ff317 4y ago
Yeah... usually when I'm searching, I'm looking for something deep in the weeds, and what I get are really surface-level results. It's like I'm searching for some deep detail about how 3-phase grid voltage levels react
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by ff317 4y ago
A decent L2 charger should be installable at scale for ~$1K per unit IMHO. I'm basing this on the fact that a singular L2 home charger can be installed for about that. Figure the industrial variant costs a little more, but you get sa
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by ff317 4y ago
Disengagements in Tesla data are going to commonly be for much less serious things than potential accidents (merely inconveniencing others, or embarrassing the driver in some way, or even a safe move that just didn't /feel/ r
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by ff317 4y ago
I don't have it anymore, but for many years I kept an old Nokia CRT that I considered to be the pinnacle of the CRTs I had used. It was probably purchased in the late 1990s, something like (from googling) the Nokia 447xpro model. The
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by ff317 4y ago
Ends-justifies-the-means reasoning has also lead to many of the innovative wonders we're all now relying on every day. While the customer test drivers aren't "trained", there was some caution in the approach. Customers
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by ff317 4y ago
The main interesting charts they're showing are about disengagement rates, but this is a pretty sketchy comparison, both between manufacturers and over time with Tesla's FSD as well. "Disengagement" is going to happen fo
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by ff317 4y ago
The counterpoint goes something like this (not that I necessarily buy it, but this is what I infer to be Tesla's reasoning): 1) We're only going to fully "solve" self-driving with ML techniques to train deployed NNs; it
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by ff317 4y ago
Did you get rid of longjmp() too? longjmp() is far more perilous for similar reasons and purposes. Defer is useful for code clarity in many situations IMHO, and it's easy enough for a project or code QA tool to ban its use for those th
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by ff317 4y ago
Another interesting way to split the difference: identify a need at $work that could really use a better open source solution that $work could use off-the-shelf. Go write that on your free nights/weekends as an independent open source
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by ff317 4y ago
Of all the departments in the org structure of Wikimedia, the Technology and Product departments are the two with the highest individual headcounts. Combined Tech+Product staff is slightly over half of the entire org's headcount. Mo
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by ff317 4y ago
The "Internet Hosting" line doesn't mean what some seem to think or imply it does. There's a ton of non-volunteer work that must happen to make any use of that hosting bill (software + infrastructure engineering teams,
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by ff317 4y ago
Responsibility actually is just admitting fault, IMHO. It's accountability that's all about paying the cost for the fault.
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by ff317 4y ago
This is exactly where those lofty Mission + Values statements come into play and why they're important when they're both written and lived well (as opposed to just some bland generic screed made from corporate buzzword bingo terms
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by ff317 4y ago
For me personally, I classify myself (whether it's valid or not!) as an experiential learner. I have a very hard time learning abstract things in purely abstract ways. I can read a book about a branch of mathematics and try intently
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by ff317 4y ago
Rust is not a panacea. You can't just claim that this one emergency project somehow solves all the future bugs. Would Linux being rewritten in mostly-Rust help with some classes of memory bugs some of the time? Sure. Would there be a
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by ff317 4y ago
It's the underlying prudishness at various layers (some of it is only historical, some of it lives in the present to varying degrees in various sub-populations) which makes the rebellious "Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll" th
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by ff317 4y ago
As always, though, correlation != causation. It could well be the case that half of children (autistic or not) have some extra innate capacity for socialization, and that typical parenting choices don't provide those children as much
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by ff317 4y ago
Yeah but Falcon Heavy is a proven platform. It can lift almost as much as SLS at a tiny fraction of the price. We could've done something like Artemis 1 with at most a few Falcon Heavy launches years ago for pennies on the dollar, ri
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by ff317 4y ago
> There are other clues too: why do a small percentage of women have superior color resolution in the green spectrum (as if they had multiple green channels) Apparently a small number of women have Tetrachromacy, where they have a 4th ty
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by ff317 4y ago
I'll take the third side of that bet: we've already so fundamentally altered "nature" to our whims, often in very destructive and short-sighted ways, that we're well past the point of trying to pretend like we'
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by ff317 4y ago
Except that our social safety nets are practically non-existent. I bet if you made a middle-class comparison where you took a bunch of the typical EU social benefits, and equated the private costs middle class Americans pay to take care of
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by ff317 4y ago
Also one of several instances where the Breaking Bad writers put a lot of thought into amazing episode themes and titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_(Breaking_Bad)
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by ff317 4y ago
I still think it's important that scientists be factual about the uncertainty, though. The alternative whacko theories also have uncertainty, so if we hold ourselves to that standard, we can also rationally hold them to their even gre

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