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by jacobr1 4y ago
USB-A had a similar problem (but on a much smaller scale). There also was heterogeneity in build quality. But over time features and quality converged. I think we should expect something similar here.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
10-year extensions with graduated costs. You get first 10 years upon publication, for free automatically, or for a nominal filing fee to register your claim. The next 10 years costs (extending to 20 total) now costs a meaningful fee. Maybe
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> At that age, they are going through streets alone when they go to scool or club or visit friends. In the united states, this stopped being socially acceptable sometime time in the past 20 years. Letting your kids walk to school before
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by jacobr1 4y ago
They reapply noise to the potentially distorted image and then predict the de-noised version like the originally rendered first frame. So the image is at least internally consistent for the frame (to the extend the the system generates cons
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by jacobr1 4y ago
what else does it need?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
But also "what is documentation?" You can have great customer-facing-product-docs and keep them up to date. You can have an internal process wiki that is mostely up to date. But what about the conversation over lunch/slack to
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Email has the same problem. Long threads, especially with branched conversations, are pain to summarize. Getting cc'd on an email chain dozens of replies long sucks to read through (especially with top posting being the corporate defau
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also customer feedback usually trumps top-down opinions even when operating in a waterfall model. I've rescued a few "ScrumFall" projects by just ignoring sunk-costs and seeing how fast you can iterate to an MVP from what you
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by jacobr1 4y ago
You could still use some kind of adaptive huffman coding. Current compression schemes have some kind of dictionary embedded in the file to map between the common strings and the compressed representation. Google tried proposing SDCH a few y
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The interesting thing is that is some ways this is a return to pre-modern era of lossy information transmission between the generations. Every story is re-molded by the re-teller. Languages change and thus the contextual interpretations. Ev
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The thing that sucks is not taking care of your customers. There are plenty of small vendors out there where alternatives are limited that still provide good customer service. These vendors may even charge a premium price for their niche se
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also you can use WAL
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Arbitration doesn't mean no-recourse or bias toward to the provider.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Right, think about it as a consumer. I don't want a gas station to run a credit check, or ask for proof of employment before I fill my tank. They just accept the card. But that does mean they bear risk for chargebacks if the card was s
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Agreed - you can't fight back against labeling by telling people they are wrong. Instead to you must fight-forward with a new proposal going in a different direction.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> That's a different type of system, though, and it is hard to reconcile with a per-constituency election system. One way to reconcile it is with different legislative bodies. Exchange the house of lords for a proportional body, and
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The general points is valid one, I don't think it was disingenuous (though I agree it is probably mistaken). The broader concerns is legitimacy. It is more important that there be a general acceptance of the election results, and peace
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by jacobr1 4y ago
In classical-econ I think they call it the water vs diamonds problem. People just have an intuitive sense that some abstract absolute-value matters more than subjective-value, or additional effort should be rewarded more than less-effort. T
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by jacobr1 4y ago
But don't we do this with other humans too? The language one uses with close family, or friends, or colleagues all shifts to achieve the desired effect. Code-switching is pretty common. I think people underestimate how much communicati
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> I'd be surprised if english was the best tool for every task Certainly not - language models (including multi-lingual models) map words to some kind of (300ish?) multi-dimensional concept space. I wonder if we can translate that
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I think the key aspect of this is how you capture iterative refinement. One can capture a high level intent ("Build a webpage with widgets to accomplish foo", or "Buy me tickets to the playoff game") But upon inspection
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Agreed. Multiple paradigms and "right tool for the job" and all that. Technology is often additive rather than successive. At this point ... think of google. How many tasks start with some vague statement of intent in a google sea
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Certainly there is a huge middle ground. Vague, but common, use cases might have more articulate versions of the commands inferred. I find myself learning new tools all the time - I certainly have enough domain knowledge of many things to e
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by jacobr1 4y ago
How are you dealing with tax implications?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
But the malicious miner won't be stealing the banking credentials you used in a different tab
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It doesn't even need to "not work." You can ship a V1/prototype/MVP product that does work with a small, focused team. But extending that product to support all the additional use cases, resolve feedback, address te
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by jacobr1 4y ago
AirPods solved this for me. I'm not sure exactly what apple did that is different from the regular bluetooth audio spec, but the seemless integration and transition between devices is fantastic
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Yes, these things get conflated. The one valid concern though, are adjacent fields - one using licensed, IP protected seed, and the other using a heirloom variety. There have been cases of cross-pollination where the non-IP-purchasing heirl
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by jacobr1 4y ago
In fact the opposite ... one of the reason's Deere is popular IS there service coverage. In fact it is worth a premium.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Or Architects

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