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by henryfjordan 10mo ago
Youtube really wants to send me down the alt-right pipeline. I watch a few WW2 history videos and suddenly I must identify with "Mr Mustache" as the kids say. TikTok wants to radicalize me the other way, and shows me every video o
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by henryfjordan 10mo ago
Valve is not building all this Linux Compatibility out of the goodness of their hearts. They are doing it to avoid being shutdown by Microsoft, who effectively had a monopoly on the OS people used to play games. It's a bit of miracle t
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by henryfjordan 10mo ago
Before SSR (unless you were using PHP I guess) you had to ship a shell of a site with all the conditionals being decided only AFTER the browser has gotten all the HTML + JS pulled down. If you need to make any API calls, you've delayed
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
If it was a textile-style-hemp farmer getting the last few bucks out of their crop via a loophole, that I can understand. Not great, but I can rationalize it. Someone growing the same plant that is regulated by California but decides they d
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
oh, I didn't know that. That's even more nefarious than I thought. Thanks for the info!
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
They are the same species, but it's a Brussel-sprouts vs Broccoli type situation where they started as the same plant but have been selectively bred for different purposes
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
Newsom recently banned hemp-based THC at the state level anyway, so there's no real change in California. https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/us-states/california/n... They were taking very low % hemp that
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
Without a salary this is an illegal job posting: https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/12/california-pay-transp...
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
Does HDD vs SSD matter at all these days? I can think of certain caching use-cases where swapping to an SSD might make sense, if the access patterns were "bursty" to certain keys in the cache
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by henryfjordan 11mo ago
Is it? You have a build a whole fuel refinery on the Moon before it's worth even thinking about. And even then, you have to get whatever you want to launch to the moon in the first place...
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
I think they technically call the device the "Apple TV 4K". No version numbers either, so you need to reference the style of remote you have to know the approximate age.
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
We shouldn't aim for 0 crashes due to low fuel though. How many deaths does carrying around 3x fuel than what you reasonably need contribute to via extra pollution? We should aim for 1 every 10-100 years or something reasonable like th
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
A link to the language page would've been great, but it's not on the event page...
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
A page advertising an event published to a very general forum would see more success if it explained the core reason for the event
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
What is Gleam? page could really use a definition. Edit: On review, it seems the best description of Gleam is in the bio for the one of the presenters (which doesn't really say much about them). Apparently it's a programming langu
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Virtual representation isn't representation at all, and was so repugnant that we fought a war over it.
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
That's exactly what the parent was saying. The market expected and priced in an antitrust decision but the one we got was very light, hence the stock going up sharply. In the current era of already light antitrust actions, coming in ev
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Netflix uses FFMPEG, will have to update
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
A domestic monopoly might not be the only way to prevent a foreign monopoly, but it is a guaranteed way so it makes sense to let it proliferate. Look at the state of the industry vertically. There's exactly 1 company that can produce
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
At a B2B, I might agree with you. At a B2C, I would not email a customer directly without sign-off. We have marketing teams, research teams, comms, customer support, etc. I would be stepping on so many toes, and risking brand reputation, if
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
At a startup, sure. At any decently-sized org, the developers are not allowed to talk to customers on their own accord.
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
You can, and maybe should, exercise 1 option as soon as you get it to turn yourself into a shareholder.
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Google does put AI output at the top of every search now, and sometimes it's helpful and sometimes it's crap. They have been trying since long before LLMs to not just provide the links for a search but also the content. Google use
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Your salary is not determined by your productivity, it's determined by market rates. 5X productivity does not mean 5X salary. Employers prey on labor market inefficiencies to keep the market rates low. Any employer with 2 brain cells w
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
I'd read it as requiring the Pope to renounce his title if he wanted to be President of the US unless congress votes that it's OK. But also the emolument clause is effectively unenforceable and the whole "insurgent" ruli
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Why does the Author choose to ignore the "General" in AGI? Can ChatGPT drive a car? No, we have specialized models for driving vs generating text vs image vs video etc etc. Maybe ChatGPT could pass a high school chemistry test but
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
> AGI would mean something which doesn't need direction or guidance to do anything. Like us humans, ... Name me a human that also doesn't need direction or guidance to do a task, at least one they haven't done before
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
It's more that AI isn't able to be manipulated in the same way a boss can manipulate a human. It doesn't care about the threat of homelessness.
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Meta's position is much better, they own Insta and Whatsapp now! Diversification! Google rise makes less sense but their position as king of search seems even more concrete than ever before (although LLMs might threaten that if they do
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by henryfjordan 1y ago
Yes, every horizontal acquisition is anti-competitive. Antitrust violations are a higher bar, you must improperly flex your dominant market position to violate the law. For that the government would have to show that FB offered an unreasona

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