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by hintymad 2y ago
I had two issues, possibly due to my own perception, with Firefox. One is that it still froze in the same way Netscape did: the UI had no response whatsoever and a there was a hanging process in the process viewer. Granted, it didn't h
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I don't quite get how Americans love sugar so much. I mean, I I could smell the cloy miles away from a pastry shop, especially those in a supermarket like Safeway. The highest praise to an American pastry shop is usually "their st
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by hintymad 2y ago
I guess not. I just like the philosophy: don't argue but act on the differences of understanding.
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Even before the amazing achievement of LLM, there were millions of "ML engineers" on LinkedIn, per some stats about LinkedIn jobs. I'll bet a single digit percent of them could even derive the math of linear regression or eve
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The left put everything under the lens of oppressor vs oppressed. That's the idea that disgusts lots of moderates. The idea came from Leninism, but nonetheless is considered woke as fuck. So, no it's not necessarily a boogeyman, u
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by hintymad 2y ago
That's just not true. He did not like wokeism, but on the other hand he's aligned with the democrats, including voting for Kamala. Like his politics or not, he is independent thinker.
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A friend of mine once told me, don't get upset about other people's passion. Just bet your own money instead. If you don't like the AI obsession, short the AI stocks, or invest in something else.
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Per Mark: “This really hit the most extreme during theBiden administration when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program. " “While they're trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who is basically argu
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I have an honest question: many people here are not angry because they are not allowed to talk, but because a platform allows other opinions to voice. You guys never thought that one day, and this day will come, the side you don't like
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> Today you have this "go fast, break things" mentality Not in most of the big tech companies, even in the bay area. It's amazing that the bay area companies have managed to grow themselves into giant bureaucratic organiza
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Lots of interesting personal stories and anecdotes in the comments. I was wondering what the average case would be, though, as I don't think many people, myself included, will be far from the average. Indeed, the video cautioned us in
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by hintymad 2y ago
Good point, and thanks. I have to admit I don't have a good answer to this. Maybe what dang needs to assess can be better defined or qualified? Like we can't define porn but we know it when we see it? On the other hand, assessing
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My answer is don't. If something is subjective, then why bother? "Words are violence" is such a bullshit.
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I thought there would be community notes. And how would third-party work? The Stanford doctor was banned from X because he posted peer-reviewed papers that challenge the effectiveness of masks (or vaccines)? I certainly don't want to s
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> content moderation is complicated, error-prone, and expensive I think the fact-checking part is pretty straightforward. What's outrageous is that the content moderators judge content subjectively, labeling perfect discussions as m
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What I'm not sure about is whether the problems that author mentioned were intrinsic to the software systems, or they were fixable. Many of the problems were caused by incompetent product managers, per the author's speculation. I
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> In my experience, the real measure of talent is not the speed or volume of output, but the capability to do tasks that other engineers can’t. Unfortunately many tech companies have become so bureaucratic that a strong engineer is the p
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They are indeed grinders, and I consider families who go to such schools do push themselves. After all, they paid $40K+ a year for the education and the kids are either talented or are willing to prepare for the entrance test, and they are
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The oppressor/oppressed framework seems shared by both
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by hintymad 2y ago
A naive question: why does k8s require more documentation and understanding than using EC2 + EBS, if I don't have to consider cost. To set up my infrastructure, I launch clusters for my services, I map EBS or use ephemeral storage for
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by hintymad 2y ago
> US math education is extremely unequal. Yes! All the lefties are crying inequality, yet they miss the obvious: enforce high academic standards everywhere like many other countries do.
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It used to pain me that the US education system had such a low standard on math. Like in the 7th-grade textbook Common Core Advanced, students are asked to "show that 3(x+2) = 3X + 6", and the answer is to use a f&*@ing table
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by hintymad 2y ago
I had no idea there was a meme. And given my zero knowledge in attire and fashion brands, I wouldn't know if what was said was real either.
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This sentiment reminds me of the movie Law Abiding Citizen. Gerald Butler's role Clyde Shelton could've single-handedly avenged his family from the get-go, yet he chose to also take his vengeance on the justice system as well. Yet
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I saw discussions about the killer's gears. The shoes cost more than $1K. The backpack $200. The hoodie $200. The silencer $800. And etc. If this were true, it didn't look like a vengeance by someone with nothing to lose, but by s
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Makes sense. I was saying that cheerleading is not a sufficient condition, while your point is that cheerleading is a necessary condition.
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Given the average shelf life of S&P companies, I assume that even an established company needs to go through 0-to-1 all the time. The aforementioned companies all reinvented themselves multiple times. > Revenue expectations, margins
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> The CEO of a public company is a glorified cheerleader. I find this view limited. If we look at the most successful tech CEOs, they all personally drove the direction of products. Steve Jobs is an obvious example. Elon pushes the produ
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It looks to me that the real problem with Google is that Google has become the most bureaucratic company in the past 15 years or so. Case in point, how many product managers are in the Infra org? Tens since 2019, right? But then, why does a
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by hintymad 2y ago
Lots of comments about EC2's price. My personal experience is that we do not just pay for the computing power of EC2 but the productivity it offers: it's just magical that one can launch an availability group across multiple zones

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