firmretention

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by firmretention 8d ago
There's no labor shortage there either. Go look at the Canada trades/jobs subreddits. Go look at the experiences of new grads who can't find an entry level job that pays a decent wage. Go look at how many kids want to enter t
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by firmretention 8d ago
I can't take RMS seriously any more after he supported Covid vaccine mandates. A closed source printer driver is evil, but forcing people to get a proprietary novel medical treatment from a giant corporation that stands to profit immen
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by firmretention 9d ago
We don't need more workers. This is a corporate lie to suppress wages. It's clear some of you haven't spoken to a new grad looking for a job in ages.
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by firmretention 10d ago
Isn't that expected since LLMs are inherently non-deterministic?
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by firmretention 10d ago
I think War and Peace is the longest book I've ever read. Most editions have 1300-1400 pages.
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by firmretention 10d ago
I've always liked the analogy that talking to an LLM is like talking to a really, really smart person with a head injury.
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by firmretention 11d ago
No, it's in the increasingly growing tent cities in my town, and among the junkies that have taken over downtown Ottawa. Glad to hear you're doing well, though.
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by firmretention 11d ago
Good point. We should abolish any party that can't win an election.
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by firmretention 11d ago
This is such a cool idea and I want to build one. I wish I had this kind of creativity. I can do the hardware/software side, but great ideas elude me.
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by firmretention 16d ago
The capacitive multitouch screen and the software/gestures to go with it was what made the iPhone a success. All the other feature phones of the time were so much less pleasant to use - I had one, the Nokia N95. On paper it destroyed a
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by firmretention 16d ago
IMO, price is the problem. I can afford a folding phone, but I can't justify the cost for a tertiary computing device. Whenever possible I'd rather use a desktop, followed by a laptop. If I was more dependent on my phone it might
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by firmretention 24d ago
SERIOUSLY?! You'd be surprised how few people know you can easily spot planets with the naked eye, in addition to many other little interesting things in life. You react as if he didn't know how to his shoes.
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by firmretention 24d ago
It reminds me of how the first Terminator moved because of the stop motion effects.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
Sloppity slop.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
WFH was a great example of this. Everyone seemed to be on board, this was the way of the future, etc. Yet it seems nobody in charge thought about downtown economies or commercial real estate, and it turns out having a bunch of empty office
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by firmretention 1mo ago
I'm tired of being told what things aren't or what they don't do.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
I suspect he was not nearly as lean as he suspected. Everyone over estimates how much fat they have to lose until they actually try to get shredded. My own efforts let me to discover that despite lifting weights in a dedicated fashion for y
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by firmretention 1mo ago
My alma mater took an interesting approach in that they dived right into vector spaces right away. At the time we used Elementary Linear Algebra by Nicholson in the prof's custom order, but it seems they've since written an open t
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by firmretention 1mo ago
I can relate to all of these. One way to get rid of them is to put them on a "special project". Something low stakes and inconsequential to keep them busy.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
It's a big club - and you ain't in it.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
>Again, I think this is a programmer centric way of looking at things: “how do I know it’s right if I can’t compile it”. I would argue this would only be true for those without formal education. Writing your code on paper is very common
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by firmretention 2mo ago
Just don't eat too much and you will be just fine. Just don't use screens so much and you will be just fine. Once a something becomes a seamlessly integrated and essential part of daily life, "just don't do the bad thing
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by firmretention 2mo ago
Imagine how much it must have cost to have him read your comment! I hope he sends you an invoice.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
Dang it, sold out :(
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by firmretention 2mo ago
Not really. The exercise needed is minimal and the rest is just calorie management. Now having said that it's not easy - simple, and not particularly time consuming yes, but psychologically very difficult unless you naturally tend towa
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I still enjoy some of his later works. James Cameron on the other hand - boggles my mind that he wants to waste his remaining years on that Avatar dreck.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
This is definitely a thing. I remember buying the Metallica black album tab book and there was one section in there with a chord that was literally impossible to play as written. I can't remember exactly where it was, but it was a two
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I'd be more than happy to take your place on death row.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
While I agree self-custody is too onerous for the average person, Coldcard's own documentation had a section on generating secure seeds with dice and why that's more secure. It wasn't some esoteric knowledge - anyone who RTFM
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I found the physical addiction much harder to kick. I switched to no-nicotine e-liquid and felt very little in the way of withdrawals. But months later I was still reaching for a phantom vape to puff on. It's been almost two years now

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