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by garciasn 2y ago
It’s an issue here in Minnesota; intersections and highways where there’s standing traffic are slick from the freezing exhaust condensate, but, to clarify your statement: it potentially wouldn’t be a bigger issue than it already is.
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by garciasn 2y ago
>Many people believe that programming is an essential skill. In my opinion, programming is just a tool. Modern no-code and low-code platforms have made this skill less critical for entering the field. > What matters most is the result
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Far less than the time saved had they received Google's results instead of Bing's inferior ones.
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> still working Nitter instance This is the issue with Nitter instances; they seem too ephemeral for reliable use.
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by garciasn 2y ago
Interesting and much needed--I absolutely refuse to go to Twitter links anymore; why bother, they don't usually work unless you're logged in. So, I clicked some of the links and, at this time, they don't load in a reasonable
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by garciasn 2y ago
> We have sort of peaked in how much people's Attention can be milked. In both time and cash. They just don't like talking about it. This is why the conglomerates consolidation is mentioned, particularly in consumer targeting a
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by garciasn 2y ago
My father's mother had it. My mother's father died of it early. I am predisposed.
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I'm not a medical doctor, nor a clinician that does colonoscopies, so I have no idea. All I know is that the clinic suggested by my primary care physician set everything up and UHC denied it 10 days prior to the procedure, leaving me a
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by garciasn 2y ago
I was just denied a colonoscopy as not medically necessary by UHC, coincidentally three days before their CEO was killed, because they don't want me to have anesthesia to do it; they argue I should be awake. When I called to refute the
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by garciasn 2y ago
> it also makes the puzzle more fun. No; it makes the puzzle illogical and thus about as much fun, for those who prefer logical outcomes, as discussing religion or politics.
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In the minds of highly conservative lobbyist groups, like MI, there are no essential regulations.
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On the two juries on which I’ve served, jury nullification was indirectly addressed by the judges who, in not so many words, claimed it was not legal for us to apply it. Disingenuous and awful; there’s no wonder it exists when the judiciary
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by garciasn 2y ago
I think the point is that if you live in an American city with a professional sports team, you’re living in an area that offers way more than just a sports team; there are many things of note to do within a 20mi radius. People who choose to
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by garciasn 2y ago
Marketshare comes first, then revenue optimization comes later.
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I think it's super interesting you believe the social companies care about what is 'nice for the user' as opposed to what is nice for the advertisers, audience/data brokers, and the investors. The reason algorithmic orde
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by garciasn 2y ago
Our use case is atypical, based on what others seem to require. While we serve multiple requests in parallel, our workloads are not 'chat'.
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by garciasn 2y ago
We run our LLM workloads on a M2 Ultra because of this. 2x the VRAM; one-time cost at $5350 was the same as, at the time, 1 month of 80GB VRAM GPU in GCP. Works well for us.
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by garciasn 2y ago
The number of details I’m able and/or willing to convey is going to be far fewer than someone who obsesses over details for everything they do. Ds are a small percentage of the general population. When compared to baseline, they’re goi
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by garciasn 2y ago
> Indeed, research shows that when suspects are provided with these instructions, they behave differently depending on whether they are telling the truth or not. Truth-tellers typically seek to demonstrate their innocence and commonly pr
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by garciasn 2y ago
Of course they don’t; because, none of this has anything to do with any measurable KPI(s) other than “we said so.” E: forgot a quotation mark. Please forgive my indiscretions.
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by garciasn 2y ago
I want them to be less expensive and faster; there’s no reason to take a train over airplanes when the trains take an entire day and cost the same or more than airfare.
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by garciasn 2y ago
Availability to run within our own environment to avoid data being transited to third parties in direct violation of various client agreements/desires.
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by garciasn 2y ago
Marketing is going back to utilize the same measurement technologies that were prevalent before digital tracking was ubiquitous, via Media/Market Mix Modeling (MMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix_mode
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by garciasn 2y ago
The retirement payment is based on the employee's work history, age, and earnings, rather than on investment returns.
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by garciasn 2y ago
If we’re being pedantic about this uncommon pronunciation of gigawatt, it’s jigowatt.
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by garciasn 2y ago
I worked in the CC system and I am a huge advocate to what they bring to market--a low cost alternative to primary institutions, cutting the high cost of a Bachelors degree by at least 1/3; but, those CCs were primarily focused on ge
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by garciasn 2y ago
Giving in to collective action by the drivers, of which they are diametrically opposed. If they raise the rates, taking the cut or not, they are allowing the drivers to 'win' in their mind. So, in this case, Uber receives little b
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by garciasn 2y ago
They’re both great systems but there are a few differences primarily in small ways for most applications: Maria supports partitioning, Postgres (as of my last knowledge) does not. Unstructured data is more flexible in Maria natively, but Po
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My daughter was born with some serious issues landing her in the NICU for nearly a week two or three days after she was born. Soon after, I was pulled into a small room with a social worker, several healthcare providers (nurses and doctors)
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by garciasn 2y ago
Sure; it's great when there are focused and meaningfully engaged parents directed their childrens' learnings in a way which is intended to drive measureable educational achievement. The problem is that many of those who choose to

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