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by garciasn 11mo ago
I agree with each and every single slide in this presentation; I do. I also know that in each and every company I have ever worked for, none of this is going to fly. Especially, "Attending meetings is a choice." Just like paying t
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by garciasn 11mo ago
Black Friday started weeks before the actual day in order to increase the spending. It’s not an apples to apples comparison to prior years.
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by garciasn 11mo ago
Except the exact opposite thing is happening in the regular housing market. Small houses (e.g., townhomes) were intended to maximize land and reduce cost, except they’re now not even affordable. This will happen with these too.
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by garciasn 11mo ago
Because the law of unintended consequences is always at play in the public sector. In this case, the threat of too much regulation will kneecap the governments ability to eliminate the cost structures that will end up happening because of t
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by garciasn 11mo ago
I’m interested to see what this does to rents overall. I assume these will not be as affordable as everyone would like/assume, at least not in the next few years, and will drive up rents in larger spaces. But I’m glad we’re trying SOME
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by garciasn 11mo ago
By new you mean they’re making a 1980s all-in-one keyboard/computer with the 10 key on the wrong side of the keyboard running a version of a familiar-to-most-of-us OS that isn’t at all new looking? I’m sorry; none of this is new to me
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by garciasn 11mo ago
It was a great language, but it was/is extremely cost-prohibitive plus it simply fell out of favor in academia, for many of the same reasons, and thus was supplanted by free alternatives.
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by garciasn 11mo ago
Experienced Data Scientists and/or those straight out of school are EXTREMELY lacking in valuable SQL experience and always have been. Take a DS with 25 years experience in SAS, many of them are great with DATAstep, but have far less
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by garciasn 11mo ago
SAS > R > Python. The focus of SAS and R were primarily limited to data science-related fields; however, Python is a far more generic programming language, thus the number of folks exposed to it is wider and thus the hiring pool of th
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by garciasn 11mo ago
SELECT next_word, likelihood_stat FROM context ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT 1 is not reasoning; it just appears that way due to Clarke’s third law.
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by garciasn 11mo ago
Depends on the definition of reasoning: 1) think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic. —- LLMs do not think, nor do they understand; they also cannot form ‘judgments’ in any human-relatable way. They’re just providing resul
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by garciasn 11mo ago
The actual title of the article, as opposed to the title of the post: Trump administration moves to roll back some protections for endangered and threatened species --- The original title says 'some', whereas the post tile implies
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by garciasn 11mo ago
All Koreans hope for it to happen, especially those who aren't part of the very upper echelons of the DPRK. Just because folks live in DPRK and are bombarded with bullshit doesn't mean they aren't very well aware of what thei
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by garciasn 11mo ago
There are always signs of collapse before something collapses; we, somehow, choose to ignore those signs except in hindsight.
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by garciasn 11mo ago
I would say these are 'tagged'; organized is a bit of a stretch, IMO. This is some sort of searchable index that reminds me a lot of what the web was like prior to Google; the Altavista days. It's just a jumble of poorly form
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by garciasn 11mo ago
> the complaint against Ms. Adams, filed under a new state law adopted last year that requires intellectual diversity > At least one student in the classroom was uncomfortable, and I’m sure there are more,” he said. —- I’m sorry but i
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by garciasn 11mo ago
Typical war on the 'others' as championed by the Conservative party members: terrorists, Communists, immigrants, 'drug' users, hippies, ANTIFA, liberals, etc, etc, etc.
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by garciasn 1y ago
15. But more is encouraged; they want their people to express themselves, after all. Do you just want to do the bare minimum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8
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by garciasn 1y ago
While I don't think FFmpeg's response is a great one ("fund us or stop submitting bugs"); I think Google is being pretty shitty here. For a company that prides itself in its engineering prowess and contributions to the O
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by garciasn 1y ago
Because chronic insomnia isn’t “an inconvenience”?
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by garciasn 1y ago
Crisp and Green say otherwise. Their salads are absurd and absurdly expensive. No; I’m not paying $15+ for a salad. But; plenty of people do.
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by garciasn 1y ago
I pay around $1100 a month for me and my two children through my employer. Yes; I have a $25 copay for many services, but most are simply not covered under that $25 copay. They refused an age-appropriate colonoscopy last year. It's bas
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by garciasn 1y ago
You're right; I still have a 2010 MBP w/8GB of RAM and a SSD upgrade I made to it years ago. My mother still uses her similar vintage MBP with the same upgrades. These work just fine for most non-work tasks. That doesn't mean
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by garciasn 1y ago
IANAMD. It is my general understanding that unless you are severely deficient, Vitamin D supplementation generally takes weeks to bring levels up. It's unlikely that taking it for a few days is going to have any measurable impact on yo
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by garciasn 1y ago
https://archive.is/CW6uI --- There is no detail as to the 'why' to other than 'because we said so.'
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by garciasn 1y ago
While the majority of humans are quite capable of this, there are so many examples anyone could give that prove that capability doesn’t mean they do so.
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by garciasn 1y ago
Unfortunately, very often the best thing to do is just let them have their way and walk away with a lot less of a punishment than would be the case should you dare to fight them. Financially and personally, it's what they do to pressur
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by garciasn 1y ago
We have been assured that short-term pain will turn into long-term gain. Unfortunately, politicians never play the long game; only the citizenry does, by force.
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by garciasn 1y ago
I won’t claim to be a CarPlay expert, but it is my understanding that it just mirrors your device on the infotainment system of the vehicle.
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by garciasn 1y ago
Of course you do: estimates via survey show that roughly 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. This is an 2x increase from 30y ago.

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