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by jgalt212 7mo ago
> Whenever I see Alex Karp speak I wonder why they can't even pretend to put on sheep's clothing. Because he's speaking to his investors aiming to keep the stock price up. He's not selling his products or himself to
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by jgalt212 7mo ago
It is a very good book, but the author is enamored with Tommy Thompson. It's a borderline hagiography. And then when you do some independent reading about Tommy, you sort of question the researching skills of the author, Gary Kinder.
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by jgalt212 7mo ago
10 years ago we look at replacing gzip archives with bzip. It was just too slow for the incremental space saving gains offered. Creating bzip archives took forever. I know xz is "better", but we still just gzip everywhere.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
> Tax logic needs a declarative specification preach. I'm convinced there are cycles in the tax code that can be exploited for either infinite taxes or zero taxes. Can Claude find them?
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
because the poster works for Accenture. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/acc...
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
because if it's easy to dangerously use one's product that reflect poorly on the product. Algolia should help its clients from making silly mistakes.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Most doctors will say avoid long term use of PPIs for a variety of reasons. Famotidine is much easier on the body, albeit less effective than PPIs.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Can I use this to upgrade my Chromebook that Google won't upgrade anymore?
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
> A young college student disappeared 40 years ago, and the blame was placed on an unusual suspect. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/09/disappearances-d...
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
> Oh and roughly 65M of sea level rise as the planet shifts to a snow/ice-free mode. Where is this new figure coming from? It seems about 60X what's being published elsewhere.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
> Where have you observed this? NAFTA
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Yes, and some of them are just looking for a fight if someone challenges them.
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because of the law of diminishing returns
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Microsoft CoPilot?
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Between Zero Click Internet (AI Summaries) + WebMCP (Dead Internet) why should content producers produce anything that's not behind a paywall the days?
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Our shop cannot use cloud models for sensitive data and code. For shops like ours, we continue to be impressed and appreciative of the progress in open-source / self-hosted models.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
> Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon What a waste screen real estate, IMO. The only reason it's still around is because screens are now 2X bigger, and screen real estate has become cheaper.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
All these stupid unenforceable laws, like GDPR which is being watered down, only create strong incentives to lie on compliance officers.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
I agree this thing went on forever and seemed to have multiple summaries of the same concepts.
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SVGs that represent birds on foot powered conveyance devices.
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
But these markets are only "free" if you ignore the net $5.5 trillion the Fed has printed post GFC. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
I thought it was because the number logic elements in a GPU is orders of magnitude higher than in a FPGA, rather than just processing speed. And GPU processing is inherently parallel so the GPU beats the FPGA just based on transistor count
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
You are undoubtedly correct!
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
The lead example is about the (*Point).MultiScalarMult method (not a golang person so perhaps wrong terminology). Instead of, in addition to, updating all your dependencies, perhaps it would be better to emit monkey patches that turn unsafe
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Why would any content producer want to make it easier for AI bots to scrape their site? Perhaps that's too broad, but there's no way any free / open ad-supported content producer would ever want to support this. Someone nee
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Django's test runner is underrated(loopwerk.io)
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by jgalt212 8mo ago
Prompt engineering and massaging should be unnecessary by now for such trivial asks.
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Or just run json.dumps on the correct answer in the wrong format.
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It's easy to say this, and I am definitely down on the boomers, but I'd say the folks running Europe before WWI were probably a worse generation than the boomers.
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TSLA investors don't care (as long as Musk is still there to keep them believing). Years of bad news, and the stock is only 10% off it's all time highs. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

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