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by jawns 4y ago
Here are just some of the reasons why RSS fell out of favor... 1) It's great for consumers of content, but not so great for content producers or RSS reader vendors, in terms of monetization or even analytics. 2) It's great for tec
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Is the urge to start a company caused by a brain parasite?(businessinsider.com)
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by jawns 4y ago
I prefer not to call it "F-You Money" or an "F-You Mindset." Instead, I like to think of it in terms of having the ability to walk away with your head held high, rather than your middle finger held high. In other words,
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by jawns 4y ago
One of the first things I did when I got access to ChatGPT was to ask it to explain jokes to me. Being able to pick up on what's funny is going to be really important if we want it to pass a well-rounded Turing test. It's very cl
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Go Hybrid and Multi-Cloud or Don't Go(blog.cloudera.com)
1 points by jawns 4y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
The link to full-text search uses a relatively small dataset. Can anyone provide advice about how large a dataset has to be before this breaks down?
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by jawns 4y ago
Details are in my bio, but it's a pop-science book for new parents. It got a big publicity boost when Parents magazine ran excerpts, and a gigantic publicity boost when "The Big Bang Theory" wrote an episode where my book wa
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by jawns 4y ago
Wrote a book, published nine years ago. I earned back my advance after about five years and have been receiving royalty checks ever since. This year, it surpassed 100,000 copies sold. Just a little note for other would-be authors ... it&#x2
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by jawns 4y ago
Can you elaborate on "never be the highest ranking person aware of a problem"?
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by jawns 4y ago
I have arguments about exactly that with friends who are otherwise very smart, and though they don't come out and say directly that the truth doesn't matter, they say equivalent things, like, "Well that's your truth, b
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by jawns 4y ago
Here's the way it works, in practice. Legislators who propose and pass this legislation use it to demonstrate their support for Israel, or coal mining, or gun rights, or whatever anti-boycotting cause they're advancing. They are
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by jawns 4y ago
> If I needed something I'd go and buy it, don't need some pushy sleazy salesman trying to trick me. In 2021, more than $285 billion was spent on advertising in the United States. Why? Because while you might think you have a
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by jawns 4y ago
One of the things I've spent time helping other engineering managers understand is that burnout doesn't relate only to exhaustion. Instead, as the Maslach Burnout Inventory points out, it tends to be a three-factored issue. The M
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by jawns 4y ago
> We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out. This is the one-sentence summary about why the business failed, but it's kind of a strange way of putting it. I am dead s
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by jawns 4y ago
As many First Amendment auditors have demonstrated, filming in public is a constitutionally protected activity, and their popular slogan, "You can't trespass my eyes," means that if something is visible from a public place (e
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by jawns 4y ago
"unsafe area" is so broad and vague that who knows what a jury will deem unsafe enough for a conviction. And you've got to remember that neither the arresting officer's actions nor the DA's actions were objectively
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by jawns 4y ago
You are? The choice is to avoid prison time entirely, or be willing to spend at least 2 years in prison if the jury gets this one wrong. The woman has already been failed by the police who arrested her and the prosecutor who declined to dro
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by jawns 4y ago
> I could be wrong but wouldn't simple logic dictate that... most people stop doing something that loses them money? Have you ever been to a casino? Everyone knows that the house always wins in the aggregate , but everyone hopes t
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A unified style theory: Serial commas and spaces after a period(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
2 points by jawns 4y ago|1 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
"It's easier to move from IC track to management than vice versa." This advice came from a coworker who encouraged me to continue down a technical track, rather than switch to management too early. I am now a manager and love
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by jawns 4y ago
I agree with you that Congress shares part of the blame. But there are currently two paths to effectively amend the Constitution, and one of them is waaay easier, so it's not surprising that it has come to this. I would like to see the
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by jawns 4y ago
Oh, it's still amended, but by judicial decisions from as few as five justices, rather than by supermajorities of Congress and the states.
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by jawns 4y ago
This is impressive, but the tactics he used along the way range from meh (eBay arbitrage) to pretty sleazy (posting fake positive reviews, using bots to spam comment sections).
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by jawns 4y ago
Above the FAQ: > Our new barcoded stamps also enable you to watch and share exclusive Shaun the Sheep videos via the barcode itself, using the Royal Mail App. Initially I thought operational efficiencies and fraud prevention were the lik
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by jawns 4y ago
I am open to being convinced of this, but could you please provide a source? As far as I know, the Emergency Library was a unilateral decision by IA, not a partnership with a consortium of shuttered libraries. The announcement did mentioned
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by jawns 4y ago
I am an author who supports libraries and Controlled Digital Lending, but I vehemently opposed the Internet Archive's uncontrolled digital lending stunt at the start of the pandemic. The principle is simple. If the IA or any online lib
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by jawns 4y ago
I created a handwritten blog back in 2005, then discovered that there was a Flickr group devoted to handwritten blogs: https://www.flickr.com/groups/handwrittenblogs It looks like that group is pretty much frozen in 20
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by jawns 4y ago
The author argues that it would be okay to object to what Warhol has done if it were already well established that what he did was a violation of fair use, but that it can't already be considered well established because otherwise ther
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by jawns 4y ago
You're correct that the seller never informed us of the contract, even though he was required to. Our state has a standard form that buyers fill out, indicating whether there are any encumbrances, liens, etc. that the seller needs to
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by jawns 4y ago
I bought a house with solar panels 6 years ago. There was an ethernet cable plugged into the inverter panel, which ran to a Comcast box. We switched to FIOS after a couple of months, and never switched the connectivity of the solar panels.

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