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by groby_b 3y ago
I think you'll find that to some extent in the manufacture-on-demand scene. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening. Same goes for custom electronics, there's a lot of really interesting hobbyist projects. Biotech is on
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by groby_b 3y ago
Having read the article to the end - it was an extremely bad article.
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by groby_b 3y ago
Still won't be enough. Driving I-5 from LA to SF on a reasonably warm day (85+F) means the phone will shut down within the hour if it's on the dashboard. I've specifically gotten a phone mount that attaches to the AC vents fo
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by groby_b 3y ago
What she's saying :) We're rare, but women in tech exist. But otherwise, yes. I was pointing out that "everybody" isn't quite true.
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by groby_b 3y ago
They exist, and they aren't that rare. My org currently has a noticeable percentage of staff+ ICs, not managing, and I'm actively encouraging folks to think careful if they really want management. I am far from the only manager do
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by groby_b 3y ago
Nope. There's an entire income/asset range where the former isn't enough to justify passing up the latter. E.g. if you already have $3M+ in the bank, the marginal utility of that extra million is starting to diminish. Now, a
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by groby_b 3y ago
I'm talking about the shape of the information, not its relative importance. Humans deal better with one shape than the other. That's the reason so many memorization techniques rely on stringing things together in stories.
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by groby_b 3y ago
>>> is objectively harder I don't think it's objectively harder - at the very least, [citation needed]. It might be subjectively harder for you. But one is a random factoid, the other one is a story. Humans are, in gener
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by groby_b 3y ago
On the flipside, we have no health insurance when we're laid off, and even getting the sniffles costs a fortune. As for layoffs, last I checked Europe has meaningful worker protections. Neither do we get six weeks of vacation over here
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by groby_b 3y ago
So close. SO CLOSE. The deck is in favor of massive inequality. This expresses in different ways. For many employees, it's exploitative workplaces. (These exploitative places are very often large companies - it turns out smaller compan
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by groby_b 3y ago
We have the audacity to color our hair. "It's just not natural, I tell you! Why, in my day..." is the usual response by folks who've forgotten they once were young too.
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by groby_b 3y ago
Yes, but it's still not free. It's especially not free if it's unexpected load.
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by groby_b 3y ago
Yep, the California power company. There's a whole long saga, but the short of it is that California decided to privatize electricity companies, that horribly imploded, and in the long run we ended up with a quasi-monopoly for a horrib
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by groby_b 3y ago
https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/how-search-work... .
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by groby_b 3y ago
There's a large range of people who do have ADHD in a non-debilitating way who benefit from medication. Can I function without meds? Sure. But then I have to spend every single day wrestling my brain to the ground continually. There is
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by groby_b 3y ago
You can't because some people hosted extremely popular files (often starting with p- and ending in -orn) on the few GB that your local ISP gave you. And your local ISP suddenly needed to serve hundreds of terabytes they didn't hav
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by groby_b 3y ago
Put up a few sample notebooks. Screencap you going through the sample notebook, no audio necessary. Just something that lets people even guess what's there. As-is, I (and I suspect many others) will just bin it, since "come back
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by groby_b 3y ago
If you believe the NYT crossword, it's spelled in whatever way gives you the right vowels on the right place ;) But yeah, u-turn, not you-turn.
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by groby_b 3y ago
As far as I'm concerned: Charge whatever you need to charge to be profitable. This can only work if it's self-sustaining without external influence. A good compromise might be to offer a psychologically attractive price point fo
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by groby_b 3y ago
When you implement that, an important thing to keep in mind is that "people" are usually a mix of interests. (E.g. if you followed me, you'd get a large helping of browser tech, photography, 3D printing, human rights work, an
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by groby_b 4y ago
What's the effective difference between blocking somebody's phone number and telling your staffer "if Steve calls, flip it to voicemail"? (Or "if Anne mails, circular file") And is that a legal difference? I ge
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by groby_b 4y ago
Plus let's not forget you needed roughly one fulltime Clearcase admin for every 10 engineers. It was a good idea with horrible execution :)
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by groby_b 4y ago
I believe this is Amin's paper you refer to: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin... And for shorter reading, there's also djb's 'redo' thing: http:/&#x2
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by groby_b 4y ago
>>> Elected representatives should not be able to block real citizens [1]. I think both the question within the context of current law, and the wider question of "what should be true, beyond current law" is a very intere
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by groby_b 4y ago
You'd be wrong. IQ assessments at the very least distinguish between verbal, reasoning, and short term memory (and often have more components) They're incredibly fraught when they're used well (there's reasonable critici
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by groby_b 4y ago
The hard part of build systems aren't map/reduce operations, but dependency discovery as you go - because suddenly, you're rebuilding your transform pipeline while you're executing it. That's where the fun dragons
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by groby_b 4y ago
Please do provide a citation for the deterministic nature of LLMs. (They provide probability distributions for the next word. They are not deterministic)
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by groby_b 4y ago
Not when it comes to contrast, though. It is an absolute marvel to me that a UX person would produce something so supremely inaccessible.
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by groby_b 4y ago
Nope. you'll still get a benefit when you know. ( https://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/03/placebos - sorry, don't have a real link handy)
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by groby_b 4y ago
The recommendations have a heavy bias towards high-popularity books. That's... not extremely helpful. I kind of expected that on my first sample set (Ishmael/Accelerando/A Gentleman in Moscow), but even the second one (Priory

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