jenny91

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by jenny91 4y ago
2000 kbps = 0.25 MiB/s = 900 MiB/h? That's only 1.14 TiB per year doing it 5 h/week * 5 days/week * 52 weeks.
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by jenny91 4y ago
Because Microsoft has spent billions on lobbying and spreading FUD in every educational institution and government across the world ranging from national to local governments to convince them that Windows and Office are the only usable suit
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by jenny91 4y ago
I use Trail of Bit's Algo to run a VPN with adblock; it works quite well to block ads and tracking on iPhone, though it's pretty crude so will miss a bunch of stuff.
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by jenny91 4y ago
Shilling of your own, completely unrelated product?
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by jenny91 4y ago
For Musk to get out of it he has to find a materially adverse effect (MAE), which is incredibly difficult and almost never happens. As Matt Levine explains in the article, it basically has to mean that Twitter is a complete fraud and has be
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by jenny91 4y ago
The landing page has over a dozen demos and renders using OpenStreetMap data, but I see not a single attribution statement anywhere until I open an interactive map. Even renders and pictures require attribution.
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by jenny91 4y ago
There are plenty of societies where the people hold companies up to standards other than just maximal exploitation for shareholder value. It doesn't have to be that way.
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by jenny91 4y ago
Researchers absolutely do use first principles day to day. I suppose you have a very lax definition of "researcher" if you don't think they do?
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by jenny91 4y ago
In a lot of academic fields it's assumed that a researcher really understands their stuff to first principles. I think being able to derive back prop is a really straightforward exercise and definitely you should expect a researcher in
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by jenny91 4y ago
> eg. how often do programs check if `printf("something")` actually succeeded? Probably not very often? But they probably should? If you're printing something, there's probably a case where you care about that being p
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by jenny91 4y ago
I want to offer two counterpoints to common sentiments here regarding AWS billing. 1. Don't be afraid of playing around with AWS (and even spending some money). AWS is really good at refunding you if you accidentally rack up a couple g
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by jenny91 4y ago
I don't think that's true? I mean sure, you might not legally be liable when someone impersonates you in the real world. But I'm absolutely certain the AWS terms say somewhere that you agree to take care of your creds and are
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by jenny91 4y ago
Yes, commoditize your complements.
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by jenny91 4y ago
Absolutely. Including the 2% from Python scripts :P
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by jenny91 4y ago
That's not too helpful.
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by jenny91 4y ago
Honestly the set operators too are just screwed: I end up using `set` surprisingly much yet I'm always going back to the docs to figure out what the "or" symbol was, etc.
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by jenny91 4y ago
I'd hope it's a pretty non-controversial thing by now that software shouldn't silently fail without indicating something's wrong? If I saw the latter Python code in a code review I would squirm. I would scrutinize it ver
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by jenny91 4y ago
> "TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'int'" > It is crystal clear, that data['profits']['yearly'] was None. I wouldn't call that exactly "crys
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by jenny91 4y ago
So feeling bitter after you feel you've been humiliated...?
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by jenny91 4y ago
Confidentiality should be on by default: not just when you enter your credit card details.
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by jenny91 4y ago
I just love LWN for how impartial and informative it is. It's a bit clunky with 20x"he said", but it sure does a good job of giving me a balanced idea of what this is all about! Happy to be a subscriber.
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by jenny91 4y ago
Thank you, that was the concept I was referring to in another comment but didn't know the name of!
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by jenny91 4y ago
In some cases. This happened in the EU during the COVID pandemic due to weird regulatory reasons. But in general: if no one is booked on the plane, they will stop selling that flight pretty quick. Of course in the short term they might fly
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by jenny91 4y ago
You're kind of right: I'm generally pretty pessimistic about systemic change in big systems where I'm merely a pawn. Though it definitely happens regularly! So hopefully the existing unions change and things move forward! I a
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by jenny91 4y ago
I agree, too strict labor regulations around e.g. firing/letting employess go certainly would hinder some of the innovation hapening in the US and especially tech. Though maybe there is a flavor of unions that recognizes this and pushe
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by jenny91 4y ago
Maybe there is a middle ground? Surely VCs will fight tooth-and-nail against it since it's clearly taking away control (and some ability to extract profit) from them. For instance in some countries with stronger unions and better labor
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by jenny91 4y ago
I'm saddened by what happened to Mapbox. It's such a recurring pattern of organizational transformation: from a small "mission-driven" group building cool shit that starts taking money (and pressure from investors) and s
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by jenny91 4y ago
That doesn't make sense, could you please elaborate? What do you mean by "growth compounds"? Do you mean that the value of 10% more is the same across all wealth levels, in which case you're implicitly assuming logarithm
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by jenny91 4y ago
There are certainly a lot of single-minded individuals who think just churning out lines of business logic will get them ahead, and I think most would agree that doesn't work in the long run. But there is also that crowd of people who
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by jenny91 4y ago
That assumes your utility of money is logarithmic in amount, which is not necessarily true.

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