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by ihsw 9mo ago
You can thank the DNC for the appalling choices in federal elections, they decided it was best to mess around with race and gender quotas instead of putting forward genuine candidates.
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by ihsw 10mo ago
* Product folks over-promise * Engineers are consulted for estimates to facilitate long-term planning * Middle management slashes those estimates in half due to pathological myopia * Executives enforce musical chairs to assert their authori
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by ihsw 10mo ago
They spent billions of dollars on compute costs and they need to pump the PKIs to justify it. That is the only explanation. It is the same reason every app (be they web or mobile) gets a redesign every year.
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Epstein Files Dataset(huggingface.co)
3 points by ihsw 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ihsw 11mo ago
One delicious usage is blanching and then blending it into flour for green spaghetti.
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by ihsw 1y ago
Not all progress is good progress, not all cultures are good cultures, and some cultures are worth protecting.
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by ihsw 1y ago
There are valid criticisms of multiculturalism and there are valid merits to Trump winning the elections.
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by ihsw 1y ago
It's worse than that, the only authority figure in most kids' lives are women -- there are no male authority figures for over 80% of their upbringing between the ages of 0-18 years old, and most years it is 100%.
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by ihsw 1y ago
That $250M is (societally) better off going to him than being spent on whatever the hell Meta was going to otherwise spend it on.
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by ihsw 1y ago
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by ihsw 1y ago
Any communication that I did not opt-in for.
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by ihsw 2y ago
Absence of obsession with identity politics is not the same as wanting you dead. I don't want my tax dollars funding your personal lifestyle choices, just as you wouldn't want yours funding mine.
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by ihsw 2y ago
It is happening in insurance right now and it is an unmitigated disaster that nobody wants to address. There is real data used for insurance premiums and claims payouts but it's being swapped out for AI slop, and the sales folks are ge
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by ihsw 2y ago
It was not about standing up against IP juggernauts in the interest of users, but in the interest of themselves -- it was tech companies flexing their strength to show that cooperation with tech companies was required, and that they are ope
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by ihsw 3y ago
People will use public transport instead of cars when it costs less, it is more convenient, and it is safer. Most people don't want cars, they need cars. When your bus is 30 minutes late for weeks, months, and years on end, you will lo
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by ihsw 3y ago
The implication that the Palestinian cause must balance the State of Israel's governance is insulting and provocative, and sadly is exemplifies UN policy.
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by ihsw 3y ago
No subscriber told streaming services that they needed to drop literal billions of dollars on content production. I do not want to subsidize their poor decision making. This is why streaming is so expensive.
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by ihsw 3y ago
It can be summed up into two key questions: is it necessary, and is it effective? One could argue it is necessary but it is undeniable that it is not effective -- nuclear power plants take decades to bring online and then they may never see
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by ihsw 3y ago
PG&E has made every effort to capture regulators and it has paid off handsomely -- residential solar in CA is being shut down by policy. Reducing actual demand for PG&E electricity is not in the best interest of regulators, that muc
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by ihsw 3y ago
There is some good that the FBI does but it is tarnished by this case and other cases like this.
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by ihsw 3y ago
There is a difference between the progressive ideals of the previous generation and the current generation, if anything the current generation of progress ideology is more regressive than anything else.
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by ihsw 3y ago
Wistron has has a rough history, including underpaying/withholding pay from employees[1]. Good riddance. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-says-wistron-on-probat...
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by ihsw 4y ago
Archive.org: * https://web.archive.org/web/20220706150112/http://popupbackp...
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by ihsw 4y ago
This echos my experience to a T. I struggled as a single parent of a child and I hold myself responsible for them developing ADHD. I did my best and most days I was too tired to give my child the attention and guidance they needed and he su
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by ihsw 4y ago
Considering the executives at these companies are mindless automatons, they will view declining sales as a signal that they need more "smart" features (ie: third-party integrations to provide alternative revenue streams) rather th
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by ihsw 5y ago
The play is in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) electric price arbitrage, the article even mentions that a full third of the revenue from the program is coming from selling V2G power generation back to the grid.
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by ihsw 5y ago
> during pandemic The lockdowns are what has caused soaring mental health issues across whole sections of the population.
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by ihsw 5y ago
It is true that overtime is nearly constant, personally I would compare it to Y2K happening every month. The rallying of staff is one thing but the repeated drumbeat of something hitting the fan in one part of the tech stack is transparen
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by ihsw 5y ago
It's okay to be anti-bad-nuclear-management and pro-nuclear, just like how it's okay to be anti-mandate and pro-vaccine.
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by ihsw 5y ago
Thanks.

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