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by jfim 3y ago
Considering the GPU shortage at large cloud providers, I'm sure they'll just get sold elsewhere.
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by jfim 3y ago
Typical restaurants have a labor cost of about 30% of gross revenue and is one of the larger costs in food service operations (along with rent and food costs).
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by jfim 3y ago
The experiences for different Asian origins are different from my understanding; the experience of say Burmese or Lao immigrants is likely different from Chinese or Indian ones.
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by jfim 3y ago
Interestingly enough, that list doesn't include misleading ads. That probably explains some of the ads that are designed to prey on less computer savvy users like "download PDF" button ads that are served by Google's dis
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by jfim 3y ago
It seems like such a minor fine that it's likely doing the opposite: showing businesses that it's completely okay to do so, and the worst that can happen is a slight fine.
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by jfim 3y ago
It automatically adjusts to ambient light, which isn't common on desktop monitors afaik. I wonder if one could just replace the backlight by a mirror though.
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by jfim 3y ago
> The ones who adopt a scientific approach are by far the worst I strongly disagree. Design without considering all of the HCI research that has been done is what you call "garbage-in-garbage-out." We already know how humans pe
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by jfim 3y ago
Barcodes on products only have UPC/EAN information, which identifies a product, but not its expiration or batch.
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by jfim 3y ago
That's why the median --- which is mentioned at 193k in the article --- is a much more useful metric for household income/net worth. It's just like saying whenever Bill Gates walks into a room, the average person in that room
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by jfim 3y ago
Why not both? We shouldn't have flying humans, nor cars rolling over and dragging people.
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by jfim 3y ago
Humans can stop dead as well, which is just as unpredictable. For example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses...
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by jfim 3y ago
> What does "reputable" mean in this case when these universities are handing diplomas to graduates who can't code? Somehow we've gotten ourselves into the situation where we force someone with a CS degree from Stanfo
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by jfim 3y ago
> I thought floating point is an essential part of databases. Have you ever implemented a database? Most operations (filtering, joining, indexing) are purely integer workloads with large working sets that are likely to stall the processo
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by jfim 3y ago
> T1 is dead slow on floating point, the situation is so horrible to the extent that it is just a fraud, period. I mean why would anyone with a reasonable mind expect their fancy 5 figures purchase to be so slow on floating point? It was
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by jfim 3y ago
Even if it's caused by their incompetence, you'll have to sort it out if it happens, and they won't really care all that much.
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by jfim 3y ago
There are alternatives to Lightroom that have perpetual licenses, like DxO Photo Lab and Capture One.
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by jfim 3y ago
They already have asked them to implement STIR/SHAKEN, but you're right that those submissions are clearly bogus.
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by jfim 3y ago
Ease of use and efficiency for power users aren't necessarily opposites, just like menus don't prevent users from using keyboard shortcuts.
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by jfim 3y ago
Not sure if that's what you're referring to, but quake 3 physics behaved differently based on the client frame rate. 125Hz made all of the physics steps round up when jumping, allowing for just a little extra height that allowed f
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by jfim 3y ago
> Sometimes I wonder how good our dev tooling would be if we were willing to pay thousands a year, as opposed to the time-wasting bug-fest that is Xcode. Jetbrains used to make an IDE for Objective C and Swift, but they sunset it last ye
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by jfim 3y ago
They'd have to improve the quality of the deliveries for that to be useful. Door dash seems to deliver at a random location each time, and about 30% of the time delivers to the neighbor instead of the correct address. Even with sight,
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by jfim 3y ago
I think the idea is that you can't buy a bag to take your purchases home, but the store will gladly use a box to ship them if you shop online.
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by jfim 3y ago
> I have come to a funny realisation recently. It's not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it's the UIs which are becoming worse. We've hit peak usability about twenty years ago, in the Windows 2000 era. The screenshot i
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by jfim 3y ago
The correct solution is that everything fits in the boat, the farmer can just go across the river with everything at once.
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by jfim 3y ago
It could be transaction level data (eg. credit card ending in 1234 bought X at store Y). It's anonymized in the sense that one can't know what medication Joe Blow takes just by looking at the dataset, even if their transaction dat
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by jfim 3y ago
Good catch, it actually leaves the goat with the cabbage in the answer above.
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by jfim 3y ago
Agreed, there's definitely a lot of value in LLMs even if they don't really have an understanding of the world.
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by jfim 3y ago
You can see it in various tasks where the answer for a text generator would be incorrect, yet simple reasoning or understanding yields the correct answer. For example, the everything fits in the boat variant of the farmer across the river p
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by jfim 3y ago
It's just data analysis, the same way that other retailers do it for product recommendations. The only difference with more anodyne correlations (eg. people who buy cereal are also more likely to buy milk) is that they're using an
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by jfim 3y ago
This seems to be for sailboats, as one owner reported that their rudder was damaged by orcas. I don't think sailboats are particularly loud underwater.

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