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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm all in favor of junior developer reviews and approvals. I completely agree that if they can't understand the code, it's frequently a problem with the code. I'm against rubber stamps, where there's no evidence th
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by hirundo 3y ago
Dear junior developers, a rubber stamp code review is a waste of your time and mine, and since it counts as an approval in the build integration, it makes the code and product worse by taking the place of a real review. Please instead flag
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by hirundo 3y ago
"The purpose of SMW is to allow users to improve the structure and organization of the knowledge in a wiki by adding simple, machine-processable information to wiki articles." With LLMs those tags have suddenly become a lot cheape
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by hirundo 3y ago
I worked in various offices for decades, but have been remote for eleven years now. I still love it and don't want to go back. Yes there are some circumstances where being in the flesh is better, particularly in intensive early design
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by hirundo 3y ago
"There is virtually no absorption of peptides longer than four amino acids." "Lactoferrin—also known as lactotransferrin—is comprised of 692 amino acids folded into two globular lobes that are connected by an α–helix" --
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by hirundo 3y ago
> According to the study, the neural machine translation provided a BLEU4 score of 36.52 for cuneiform to English, and a score of 37.47 for transliterated cuneiform to English. BLEU4 scores are from 0 to 100, with 0 being the lowest and
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Amazon cancels Louis Rossmann [video](youtube.com)
21 points by hirundo 3y ago|7 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I haven't heard "cis" deployed as a slur, but "incel" seems to be predominantly used that way. Isn't it also a property of being?
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Loneliness is stronger when not alone(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
494 points by hirundo 3y ago|437 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Ruinous Empathy is seeing somebody with their fly down, but, not wanting to embarrass them, saying nothing, with the result that 15 more people see them with their fly down — more embarrassing for them. So, not so “nice” after all. It&
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Why LLM-assisted table transformation is a big deal(blog.jonudell.net)
4 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I had the same problem until I landed on the Aftershokz (now just Shokz). The design works better for fatter heads like mine. After about 10 hours they start to irritate and I'll take a break from the headset, but that's a lot bet
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by hirundo 3y ago
The equivalent for the first automobiles would be a pair of coconut shells you could "clop-clop" together and a tank of manure to occasionally squeeze out onto the road.
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by hirundo 3y ago
There's a youtube guy who goes around and landscapes people's yards for free. He does good work; it's a valuable service. But if he later returned to the house and demanded payment he wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Tha
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by hirundo 3y ago
> He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. His new book, titled “Interstellar”, is scheduled for pub
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by hirundo 3y ago
This was good planning, if it was still part of the alphabet we couldn't use it for an URL query parameter delimiter.
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by hirundo 3y ago
If it is their modus operandi to enhance their power and prestige with false flag operations written small, it's more credible that they would be willing to do so at scale. You can find any number of conspiracy theories that the FBI cr
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm never the hero when my code is designed and implemented properly. It just gets deployed and used and maybe a new checked box appears on a marketing page. The reaction I get is "here's your next project." But if I fuc
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Insanely good text clarity. Higher pixel density (35.5 PPD) than any portable VR headset currently on the market (e.g., 56% higher than the Quest Pro & 220% higher than the Valve Index). I'd order one right now if I could beli
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by hirundo 3y ago
"Living on twenty acres sounds great until you realize you'd like TVs, internet, toilet paper, a car, and education for your kids. Turns out those things cost money because there's only so much of them - how are you gonna mak
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The moral hazards of being beautiful(wsj.com)
52 points by hirundo 3y ago|17 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I just had this experience today, trying to decipher the output of an obscure linux command argument, failing to dig it out of the man page; Google sent me through almost related stack overflow pages. Then I put a question in Phind and it g
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by hirundo 3y ago
This is a floccinaucinihilipilification.
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by hirundo 3y ago
"It is so democratic that the people couldn't even elect their president smoothly." If you care to measure the success of democracy by the degree of the consent of its victims, this would be a good point and China would be mu
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The Wolf Is Getting Closer(econlib.org)
2 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I was pissed a few years ago when I tried to open a Binance account, but was utterly unable to convince the site that I was me. I moved on and never did get around to making a crypto investment. In retrospect it might have been my best UX i
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by hirundo 3y ago
That's a harder argument to make at a moment when Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with its explosion of ethnic diversity, is so well received by comparison.
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by hirundo 3y ago
It seems odd for the article not to mention that Starlink satellites do not impact the space debris problem because they impact the atmosphere instead. They allow space to be sustainable because their orbit isn't.
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by hirundo 3y ago
The flip side is that AI generation makes nudes, real or not, plausibly deniable.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Woman: An adult human with reproductive systems designed to produce large, immobile gametes (eggs).

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