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by friendzis 8mo ago
> I just don't see a world where every corporation is building their own accounts, crm, hr software. This is the world we live in. Majority of top level managements are now reevaluating each and every 3rd party tool they use and pro
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by friendzis 8mo ago
Not necessarily limited "intellect", but rather limited background knowledge. Deming requires quite a bit of knowledge and understanding in failure/success modes. The core tenet of Deming is that every output is a result of s
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by friendzis 8mo ago
> It may be geographical. Yes, I'm referring to European directive mandating final price displays on terminals. I think this would be the simplest reader one can legally use in Europe https://www.sumup.com/en-au&#x2F
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by friendzis 8mo ago
To be frank, we were headed in that direction anyway, ubiquity of cheap and accessible high-quality writing generators just accelerated the inevitable. For a very long time astroturfing was only viable over broadcast channels and [therefore
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by friendzis 8mo ago
> It's beyond insulting to take a candidate with good swe foundation, that also list advanced degrees with mathematics and quantum physics, or perhaps a top grade in philosophy, and think they won't be able to handle the Google
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by friendzis 8mo ago
We are *quickly* approaching a Tuesday where "bot detected, opinion rejected" is going to be a default assumption.
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by friendzis 8mo ago
Wrt data, it's not like there is a shortage of transcribed audio in the form of music sheets, lyrics and subtitles. If one asks ~~nice~~ expensive enough they can even get isolated multitracks or teleprompter feeds together with the au
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by friendzis 8mo ago
Reddit is at the core forum platform, therefore it's as misleading to attribute whatever is happening at any one [group of] subreddit to the whole of Reddit as it is misleading to do the same with closed Facebook groups. Remember forum
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by friendzis 8mo ago
> Instead you tap a small puck and you hope the price charged is the one asked only to find a transaction fee on top when later check your balance. I'm sorry, but it's a mandatory knee-jerk response here: "Is this somethin
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by friendzis 8mo ago
AFAIK Windows has never been known or marketed as "it just works". It goes long way to maintain backwards compatibility, but lets not kid ourselves that it has any semblance to what Apple's "it just works" is suppo
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by friendzis 8mo ago
> What are the odds they're using this on-shore tech grab to implement their own domestic version of China's social credit score system, to easily get data on their own citizens who commit "wrong-think", without havin
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by friendzis 8mo ago
I live on the metric side of the Atlantic. Winter means extra tension on wires, extra load on trees leading to higher risk of air lines broken. At the same time you have decreased number of man-hours in a day, decreased efficiency in those
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by friendzis 8mo ago
> Essentially the models are given a set of conflicting constraints with some relative importance (ethics>KPIs), a pressure to follow the latter and not the former, and then models are observed at how good they follow the instructions
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by friendzis 8mo ago
> Yeah but the speed of progress can never catch the speed of a moving goalpost! How do you like those coast-to-coast self drives since the end of 2017?
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by friendzis 9mo ago
Typically by putting cost caps on deliverables.
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by friendzis 9mo ago
Because literally no real-world non-research project starts with "we have an extremely comprehensive test suite and specification complete down to the most finite detail" and then searches for a way to turn it into code.
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by friendzis 9mo ago
No. BMI does not work as a diagnostic measure for general population. The range of "normal" BMI values does depend at least on genetic lineage, gender and individual development history. Fine to compare two scandinavian lineage me
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by friendzis 9mo ago
In part - yes. Useful as in capable of spinning up services without opening glaring security holes or bringing half of the infra down. Like with any tech, it takes experience and guardrails to use it efficiently and effectively.
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> and the talent available will skyrocket, when the market starts demanding it. Part of what clouds are selling is experience. A "cloud admin" bootcamp graduate can be a useful "cloud engineer", but it takes some seri
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> Competent engineers understand tradeoffs and the importance of creating and managing technical debt. I would disagree on the engineering point, as this ultimately falls on project management. Yes, engineers should provide professional
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by friendzis 9mo ago
You not only stumble upon a weird bug in your hacky solution that takes engineering weeks to debug, but your interfaces are fragile so feature velocity drops (bugs reproduce and unless you address reproduction rate you end up fixing bugs on
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> I'm curious what portability concerns you've run into with JSON serialization. The hard part concerns instructions and it is not technical implementation of serializing an in-memory data structures into serialization format (
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> ASAIK the purpose of a dry-run is to understand what will happen, not to test what will happen. For the latter we have testing. Not really. Testing is a way to increase confidence that code does what it is specified to do, because it i
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> you can (de)serialize anything to and from JSON, so it's really not that hard First, it is hard, especially in at least somewhat portable manner. Second, serialization only matters if you cannot (storage, IPC) pass data around in-
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by friendzis 9mo ago
Responsibility and controls. If the host/dc assigns a dedicated addresses the contract can be essentially "the customer assumes all liability behind traffic". With NAT/LB you need at the very least quite robust, evidence
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> very stable due to rolling-release producing small changes Can you elaborate on the chain of thought here? The small changes at high frequency means that something is nearly constantly in a <CHANGED> state, quite opposite fro
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by friendzis 9mo ago
> This is part of why I like vinyl, you can't even really choose a track, you just listen. It is a tad harder on a player without a [working] soft-lower mechanism, but still 100% doable as track boundaries are clearly visible on t
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by friendzis 9mo ago
Forkbombing into resource exhaustion aside, W11 is the only system that left me unable to as much as log in
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by friendzis 9mo ago
Hypothetical scenario: You buy a piece of software, marketed to photographers for photo editing. Nowhere in the manuals or license agreements does it specify anything else. Yet the software also secretly joins a botnet and participates in c
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by friendzis 9mo ago
Interesting question, actually. The ones calling for full and immediate assumption of liability on the principal either miss a thing or imply an interesting relationship. The closest analogy we have, I guess, is the power of attorney. If a

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