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by flatline 4y ago
That was my thought too; but if we average over a woman’s childbearing lifespan it makes more sense.
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by flatline 4y ago
I am presently 46 years old.
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by flatline 4y ago
For those of you who are like I used to be and are just honest in an unfiltered way that sometimes caused you trouble: don’t think of it as lying, think of it as keeping secrets. You can also view it as maintaining a personal boundary, whic
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by flatline 4y ago
New Mexico can be a challenging place to live, Los Alamos even moreso. Like someone else mentioned: married with kids? Great place, but even then Los Alamos is isolated, it’s a 45 minute drive to Santa Fe which itself is not huge. For the n
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by flatline 4y ago
Early in my career I started out just writing code for every problem. Now I loathe the prospect of writing a line of code unless I’m sure it’s not a waste of time. It can be exploratory code, but I need to know in advance exactly what quest
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by flatline 4y ago
When you run up against this wall, it is often easier to write new software than to maintain the legacy code. Long term you are duplicating a ton of work at huge expense, but that is frequently the fate of successful projects: to be replace
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by flatline 4y ago
> There is no justice in this world. No single punishment can correct an injustice, because what is past cannot be changed, and those to whom injustice was done remain with their loss. But even if justice were attained in some other worl
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by flatline 4y ago
Why on earth would cartels kidnap engineers when they could just pay them? This seems like the kind of specialized knowledge you cannot meaningfully get out of someone with a $5 wrench, just how they hire lawyers and other professionals to
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by flatline 4y ago
It does have some ability to extrapolate to new problems, provided its training corpus has reasonably close coverage. It is not going to be making new scientific discoveries or insights but then neither are most people. With a sufficiently
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by flatline 4y ago
I lived by Waze in DC. Want to know if the usual route home was going to take one hour or three? It was the only way to find out and was semi-reliable and updated rapidly. I did not always trust its routes but once I knew a few alternatives
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by flatline 4y ago
It did abysmally at this one, but once I explained it, it echoed my explanation in more words - which is all it’s really doing here anyway. why might this joke be funny? Two mathematicians walk into a bar. One laments that young people don’
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by flatline 4y ago
I am hoping this leads the industry to move away from its hyperfocus on solving algorithms for tech interviews. Sure they are important but are only one aspect of most jobs. The problems themselves are formulaic and not particularly indicat
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by flatline 4y ago
And yet it is often able to make surprising references to previous text. This is not just a markov chain, and is capable of what the author describes as chain of thought. I think there are deeper relationships encoded in the model that allo
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by flatline 4y ago
That was my conclusion too, this is a super easy problem with a fixed window length. The bit hashing is neat but I was too confused by what seemed to be an over-complication of the problem to really appreciate it. Did you and I both miss so
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by flatline 4y ago
I don’t think anyone knows. I gave it the famous syllogism: > All men are mortal > Socrates is a man > Is socrates mortal To which it gave a very detailed and correct reply. I then tried: > All cats are white > Sam is a cat &
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by flatline 4y ago
I do not think it could. What I see GPT doing here is generating a lot of plausible boilerplate. We already have this via things like code snippets. I find them to be useless, like autocorrect on my phone. It gets in the way of my reasoning
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by flatline 4y ago
I would imagine the US Pinoy population is drastically smaller than the LatinX one.
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by flatline 4y ago
I developed an anxiety condition from extensive periods of deep meditation. In my viewpoint it had been there all along and I had mostly just covered it up with other emotions - but the meditation amplified things a lot , I went through a
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by flatline 4y ago
I have lived and worked in places where you only have to dial 4 numbers because there is only one exchange! Or five numbers when there are two.
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by flatline 4y ago
Nobody is laundering away proprietary livenses, because that code is not open source and not in public github repos. And OSS capabilities are now present in copilot, which is neither free nor open. Furthermore these contributions are making
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by flatline 4y ago
I was on travel to San Francisco last week, 20 mph down the Presidio through GGSP and I would have loved a helmet but I didn’t pack one in my carry on! You are really putting your life on the line without one - both from the flimsiness and
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by flatline 4y ago
I don’t believe in life imprisonment but for truly exceptional cases. It is needlessly cruel and a huge burden to our system. The prison industrial complex is dystopian. But what do you mean by “ineffective”? The purpose of prison in the US
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by flatline 4y ago
We don’t provide free access to test prep. We don’t provide equal access to parents and friends who are enthusiastic and pushed to do well on these tests. We don’t provide equal access to a culture that values academics over, say, sports an
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by flatline 4y ago
Title insurers have not had to do due diligence for decades because record keeping has gotten so reliable there is almost never a problem. The underwriters just eat whatever occasional costs arise, and title agents make bank - at least on t
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by flatline 4y ago
Like the sibling poster said this is probably a cost cutting measure. However, I really hate the dichotomy of “special ed” vs “gifted/advanced” that permeates education. Every student has special educational needs, and by that I mean n
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by flatline 4y ago
Proofs and Refutations was a great, sometimes challenging, and often funny read.
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by flatline 4y ago
I did this early in my career then stopped when I realized it generally made the code less readable. Generally, not always. Sometimes a comment about what the code does is invaluable if it’s complex, but usually it is redundant with readi
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by flatline 4y ago
Is this not just the default swagger output?
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by flatline 4y ago
I have done CMMC3 waterfall development, though the maturity model certainly did not dictate that. I have also seen agile done in the way you describe. I have also been on teams and run teams that used agile ceremonies to foster communica
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by flatline 4y ago
> If you're at the leading edge of a field that's changing fast, when you have a hunch that something is worth doing, you're more likely to be right. Right there he suggests you become an expert. An expert who is at the cr

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