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by jjav 1y ago
> "1. Mailing lists require no special software" is utter bullshit. Proprietary mediums require and are limited to specific software with limitied functionality, whether in the form or a specific application, or a web interface
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by jjav 1y ago
This mostly falls under "Accessible", but want to highlight how incredibly limited the UI is in every proprietary messaging platform. One is forced to interact with it in just one way and it's inevitably missing tons of funct
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> It's a sample size of 1, but I base this on my own driving record of 30 years and much more than 3000 miles where I never encountered an obstacle like this on a highway. How is that relevant? You may not personally encountered thi
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by jjav 1y ago
> It’s an accident that could also happen to an inattentive human driver. (Ask me how I know :( ) Anything "could" happen, but it would take an inordinately inattentive driver to be this bad . They had 7-8 seconds of staring a
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by jjav 1y ago
> Two more years guys, just give him two more years, a few more billion, a bit more political power and I promise he'll give you your fancy self driving toy. (Repeat from 2012 ad infinitum) The trillion dollar pay package will make
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by jjav 1y ago
> presumably he saw it coming Not presumably, we know for sure since they are talking about it for a long time before impact. The point of the experiment was to let the car drive so they let it drive and crash, but we know the humans saw
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by jjav 1y ago
> That's kind of irrelevant, this technology is meant to be safer and held to a higher standard. True, but not even relevant to this specific example. Since the humans clearly saw it and would not have hit it, so we have a very clea
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by jjav 1y ago
> That a human was still in the loop in addition to a computer and both missed it. Listen to the audio in the video. The humans do see it and talk about it for a long time before the car hits it. Had a human been driving, plenty of time
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by jjav 1y ago
> This really does need to be considered preliminary data based on only one trial. Statistically yes, but look at the actual facts of the case. A large object on the road, not moving, perfect visibility. And the Tesla drives straight int
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> What if there is no debris the other 999 times, and the system works fine? This argument makes no sense. I take it that you're saying that if we provide the Tesla a road which contains nothing to hit, it won't hit anything? W
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by jjav 1y ago
> Well, I have to admit that your friend has a point. Humans are bad at reacting quickly and correctly to unexpected situations, and some debris large enough to damage your car showing up from out of nowhere I read this comment before se
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by jjav 1y ago
> A friend of mine who loves Tesla watched this video and said "many humans would have hit that". The very same video demonstrates this is not true, since the human in the video sees the debris from far away and talks about it,
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> On the other hand, writing code that the most junior in your team can understand leads to mediocre code. Disagree on a couple levels. First, while the overall architecture of the system might be complex, there shouldn't be any one
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I am unable to parse this sentence.
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by jjav 1y ago
The "Trump Corporate Gold Card" sounds like something straight out of The Onion, but it is real, and presumably how these bribes will be managed: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-unveils-gold-platinum-v...
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by jjav 1y ago
> legal standard There are no legal standards anymore, when everything is at the whim of one single person.
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by jjav 1y ago
> who would you rather hire: someone who wow'd in an interview or someone with LinkedIn flair? Wrong question. This is not about the hiring stage. Who would I rather move on to a phone screen: someone with an empty or nonexistent li
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by jjav 1y ago
As I take a break on friday night from reading through an endless pile of resumes for a role I'm hiring... I would suggest creating the linkedin profile but be sure to fully populate the job descriptions for each job (or as far back as
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by jjav 1y ago
Seriously! Clothes dryers are a sign of shrinking real estate, not a sign of luxury. When one lives in a tiny apartment with no balcony, you better have a dryer. When living with plenty of land, it's not a problem to hang clothes to dr
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by jjav 1y ago
> If you bought a home during ZIRP, this doesn't apply. No, but if you're holding a 2% or slightly less mortgage, that's a nice place to be. But of course it's not only the mortgage interest. Over the years your incom
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by jjav 1y ago
> Is there a way to only host the receive portion? Sure. Set up your email server and have DNS of your domain point the MX record at it so you receive all email directly without any third party involvement. Then, set up outgoing email to
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by jjav 1y ago
Going through this right now. I hired someone about 8 months ago and the process was still pretty normal. But for the role I opened last week, we are getting a ton of AI-written resumes that are just a rewrite of the job description. When I
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by jjav 1y ago
I certainly can't deny your experience but sure it's different. All the hype and money and "cachet" was in Silicon Valley during dot.com boom. Having been deeply embedded in that era of Silicon Valley, I can't think
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by jjav 1y ago
> Yes and they’re still much lower than buying an equivalent place. Of course renting will be cheaper than buying an equivalent place. Most of the time in most places that's the case. My point was this is true in the year of purchas
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by jjav 1y ago
While dotcom was obviously lots of companies, the big three were Netscape (client and server software), Sun (servers) and Cisco (networking). All three located within a stone's throw of each other in Mountain View-Sunnyvale. I worked a
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You apply back in the 1990s
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> I can get rich by investing the difference between a mortgage and my rent After just a few years into ownership, mortgage becomes cheaper than renting so it is the homeowner who will have extra cash to invest for the rest of their life
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by jjav 1y ago
> If you buy a house and your mortgage payment is > rent. Overtime it will naturally flip. This is so often missed by those who compare rent today vs. mortgage today. Of course the mortgage will be higher. Today . Look into the futur
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by jjav 1y ago
> I know three families that owned and had to move cause they could not afford to live in the house they own (gerrimandering- related…) And this is why, despite some negatives, Prop 13 (California) is so valuable. People don't get p
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by jjav 1y ago
> Email is still completely open. Yes, fortunately. Email should always be used, at least as an available option, because it is the only truly open way to communicate electronically. Recently I bought something and had some hiccups getti

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