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by jfim 5y ago
I wonder who would be the actual buyer of those swabs and why they would buy them.
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> Id wager giving programmers/logistics workers a free factorio probably has a better impact on work performance. I'd be skeptical of that claim. I'm sure there would be at least a few engineers that showed up to work pre
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Out of curiosity, does attribution also work if the ad is not clicked? For example, I bought a product the other day after seeing a Facebook ad, but I didn't click on the ad itself and rather went searching for it on DuckDuckGo, then a
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by jfim 5y ago
It probably uses some machine learning model that maps words in job descriptions to a latent space where both vue.js and PHP are near one another because they're both web technologies. Disclaimer: used to be at LinkedIn, but I have no
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by jfim 5y ago
It goes both ways. Because Google has a free cafeteria, it disincentives building restaurants close to the Google offices, due to the low number of potential customers.
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> Feels like so much of the career discussion in CS is concentrated on TC optimization - it's good to remember that one can choose to optimize for different things too. It's easy to optimize for total compensation, since that&#
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Have you looked into other opportunities that would combine your interests? If not, it's easy to have a "scarcity mindset" where there are only a few options available, and each option seems like a life-changing one. For exam
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by jfim 5y ago
This different article from STH explains what the AMD PSB is, without having to watch a video: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-... > An OEM who trusts only their own cryptographically signed B
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by jfim 5y ago
> I had to fight NY Times like crazy (it was sign up online, call to cancel kind of thing). I had that issue several years ago with Sonic (the broadband provider). However, if you're in California, it should be possible to cancel a
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by jfim 5y ago
The reason for the separate treatment of TVCs and full time employees is likely due to the Microsoft independent contractor lawsuits a long time ago. Microsoft used to treat independent contractors similarly to full time employees, except f
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by jfim 5y ago
> On a rooted Android phone, you could use oandbackup to backup Signal. If you care about these things, maybe consider using a rooted Android phone? You don't need a rooted phone. Signal can do backups on Android, they can be enable
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> P2P meth For those confused by the P2P acronym as I was, it's apparently a synthesis route that was developed in response to the crackdowns on OTC ephedrine products. It's apparently a lot more pure than the older stuff, at l
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> This is most likely the effect of some luddite in a leadership position that simply can't handle change but has been able to force everyone to comply for decades. It's much more likely that they have an established set of pro
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by jfim 5y ago
It might be that to avoid compiler implementation specific issues, they test code against multiple compilers.
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If everybody at work has the exact same laptop model, it allows distinguishing between laptops.
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> I don't really understand the desire for having that network be internet-accessible. Some devices are more useful if they're internet accessible: - Thermostat: can start the AC/heating ahead of time if one comes back at
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by jfim 5y ago
It really depends on the question. My observation was from the standpoint of "is omicron the most prevalent variant," which this week's data suggests probably, but it could go either way. Last week's error bars would sug
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Those are some really wide 95% confidence intervals. As it is right now: Delta 26.6%, 95% CI: 5.1%-65.8% Omicron 73.2%, 95% CI: 34.0%-94.9% Others 0.1%, 95% CI: 0.0-0.4% That's not to say that Omicron isn't the majority
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by jfim 5y ago
In case you're considering the Pomera devices, be aware that they use the Japanese keyboard layout, which is just different enough to be really annoying. The backspace key is smaller and there's an additional key to the left of it
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by jfim 5y ago
Can one really be extradited for contempt of court related to a civil lawsuit?
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> I don't love Facebook/Meta but it looks like they put a lot of eggs into the Metaverse bucket. Google has never really done that. They did with Google Plus, and they eventually killed it.
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That's pretty cool, and best of luck! Lowering the barrier to entry for many of these object recognition tasks makes so many applications possible. Many years ago (before DL was a thing), I was approached to make a phone app that recog
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by jfim 5y ago
Working on machine learning infrastructure for self driving cars. In my opinion, self driving cars are going to be a significant improvement in quality of life for people who do not have access to transportation (eg. the young and elderly,
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That assumes that the sticker price is the only externality. If it breaks, one has to throw away the toaster and order a new one, potentially being without toast while the new one is shipped. For me, it's less about cost and more about
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There are some companies that do build long lasting appliances. For example, one can buy a Speed Queen washing machine for home, and they're supposed to be comparable with their commercial laundromat offerings. They're also 2-4x t
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Ouch, sorry to hear that. Oftentimes university classes are more about giving a theoretical background instead of hands on practice. The theory is useful, especially if one is trying to write performant code, but it's a big wall to sca
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by jfim 5y ago
I'm not sure it's the sunk cost of IPv4 addresses that's causing this. My guess would be that the "support IPv6" JIRA ticket gets perpetually thrown into the backlog because it won't get any new customers to si
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Do you have a source on that? It sounds like an interesting read.
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> If an idea is only supported by 5% of the population, we generally do NOT want that 5% of the population driving the legislative agenda. It depends. The other 95% of the population might be agnostic or unaware of the idea, or the othe
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Wouldn't that just be fraud? It doesn't seem that different from someone writing a fake check, other than the check is some unauthorized set of bits as opposed to an unauthorized physical slip of paper.

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