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Increasingly I think the answer to things like this is different divisions. Have an AI-supported leaderboard, have a Cyborg/Pharmacist Olympics, provide roughly equal venues so that people self-bifurcate. You won't stop all cheati
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This is why I've never really understood the focus on optimizing typing speed in IDEs with shortcuts and similar things. It just isn't a bottleneck I've ever faced. I do understand the desire to customize one's own tools
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Yeah, the top10 in your region carousels get high engagement
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My understanding was that their research on what drove engagement shifted quite a bit. Things like social proof, and product patterns like auto-loading the next episode to binge drove engagement metrics. Recently there were some articles ab
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And also if you could combine that with some kind of representation software like Lean that can validate proofs, perhaps you can generate some kind of targeted search of the problem space and with a combination of a general high level strat
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Did he not get professionals to translate his designs into something firmer?
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> We keep reading that people are willing to pay for a "Dumb TV" They aren't though. People might be willing to chose a dumb tv, all else being equal. But not pay _more_ for a dumb TV. With subsidies from the smart tv serv
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by jacobr1 3y ago
My Toyota turns the engine back on as soon as you start releasing the break. By the time I'm pushing down the gas pedal, it is ready to go. It still is annoying when I want A/C to cool things down, but overall I don't find it
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AGPL is a more free license than BSL, which is the most likely alternative for a company like Element.
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Depends on how much the non-operators are using the data. In SaaS companies it is common for the engineering teams to own the performance of their sub-systems, which entails the need for instrumentation, monitoring, dashboards, alerting and
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There are probably several local maxima on the distribution curve. At some point having dogmatic, extreme ethics probably hampers getting everything down, and the worst, most cartoonishly evil company also is leaving money on the table. In
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I think the objection that many people would indeed weight the asbestos factory as a more severe nuisance than the apartments. Equal weighting seems like odd affectation here.
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Certainly, and go already comes pretty close that explicitness via returned errors. At that point, we are down to a style choice between exceptions and error returns. Honestly I'm not sure it matters and depends upon other factors bein
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My experience has been the opposite. The idiomatic patterns is to have errors handled at the callsite, rather than bubble up. In java codebases I've worked on, you tend to have catch-everything parts of the code that are unable to addr
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Digital bookmarks, as well as search features are better in in electronic documents though. And the interesting emerging category of "chatting with documents" offers some interesting capabilities. The UX isn't there yet in th
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Actually, yeah. I think it could make a difference. Usually there is some basic spell-check, grammar check stuff already going on, but the kinds of things that would be easily fixed/identified by LLMs could be: - continuity checking -
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I wish more self-published books would find a way to hire a copyeditor.
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And securely. Once you allow for remote control, there are all sorts of threats.
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This is why we need to both good private (insurance) and public (social benefit) safety net programs in place. In the case of a small startup, long term disability insurance should cover the living costs of that disability. Yes, that person
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Except there is no #4 in this case. The question really should just be in #1 is legal. The extra shenanigans doesn't change that question.
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But in this case apparently they didn't actually sell the company, so no employees moved. The employees were still employed at Epic, until laid off by Epic. So presuming there was a violation of labor law (in the US or hypothetically i
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And the 1040EZ is even easier to fill out and probably works for the majority of taxpayers. But the bigger issue isn't filling out the form ... it is on the data side. If the IRS were to send you an invoice, independent of how complex
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How does that work from an API perspective? Do I just "try" to create a loan and if not compliant with the location it returns back some kind of error. Or do I request some kind of margin value and you calculate how to get that in
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Yep, in my local area, light rail gets proposed all the time. And I'm not against it in principle. But the specific project proposals, even with their optimistic ridership numbers, pan out to something like we could buy every rider the
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The US spends very high amounts of money on infrastructure ... but like in many other areas gets a very poor return on that investment. We underinvest relative the both the current need and potential benefits, but it isn't because ther
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If anything, presuming this all is true, it increases my respect for Vercel for acting promptly and appropriately.
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If the top line is also growing fast, and you have a good story on the unit-economic, part of the narrative is that you can eventually reduce costs and increase margin. It is hard from the outside to distinguish between Amazon style "w
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The "self-assured smart-asses" are often those loudly proclaiming their authenticity. That doesn't make it so, but it can blur the lines.
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It is _possible_ that their rental bundle results in a better deal for a reasonable segment of the market than the aggregate of one-off title purchases would be. Though the lock-in means if they jack up the price it might become a poor deal
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As someone who has this instinct myself, there is a line of reactionism to modern AI/ML that says, "this is just a toy, look it can't do something simple." But often the case, if _can_ do that thing with a either a more

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