jjoonathan

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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Same. Which area? For me it was Pittsburgh, New York, and Rome. The problem was absolutely endemic in all three, and I saw it pretty regularly at conferences and on vacations, too.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
How many big city taxis did you ride before 2013 or so? They cleaned up their act once they got competition.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
The electronic payment that was always "broken" unless you were comfortable enough with confrontation to call the taxi driver's bluff?
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> there's also calling to location Before any wise guys come in here and claim that you could order cabs to a location by phone before uber, I would like to point out that they frequently failed to arrive and you had no way of knowi
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Is it good? PyCUDA was so bad (as of 2018) that after 3 major bugfixes from me and no end in sight it still almost sank a major project until I gave up on it and went with native CUDA.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Ooh, interesting! Jupyter got rid of their direct javascript interface for security reasons that I don't agree with. Does Pluto.jl have a model where trusting display code is as easy as trusting the code being run?
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Wolf warrior diplomacy was a projection of western insecurity? Ok dude.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
It's a good meme with a good story that goes viral in every community where this kind of story can go viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5v6hlRyeHE
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Tiny network tyrants gotta flex somehow.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Thank you Atlantic and Pacific!
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Plenty of countries have used tariffs to successfully develop and protect key industries. Including... the USA! https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-pr... . The choice to get rid of these policies w
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
10 years ago? Yes. Today? No. CCP got caught raiding peoples' savings and needs a scapegoat. Guess who that is.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Ricardo's Comparative Advantage argument was specifically derived under the condition of closed capital accounts because Ricardo himself didn't only understand but actively warned about what would happen with open capital accounts
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Peanut is "maní" so a MIRV could be "Muchos Maní"
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Where previously it took 100 units of effort to deal with 10 units of effort of bullshit, it now takes 100 to deal with 1. This is only irrelevant if you place no value on the time of yourself and others.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> With clever structuring, they can keep the profits but dump the debt I've always wondered the degree to which these buyouts are legitimate last-ditch turnaround efforts vs front-running bankruptcy proceedings.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Nothing beats natural light at its best, especially in CA, but gee, all sorts of people default into shitty depressing natural light situations (MA, I'm looking at you) that could be trounced by a mediocre artificial setup. If you list
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Sure, co-opting a revolution is a common and effective tactic, but so is "fall in line" (or "don't worry about it" or "focus on yourself" -- all identical from a political action perspective). Revolutions
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Affordable housing where all I have to give up is a shitty view? Sign me up!
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
This is true. It is also true that dispensing this particular advice is self-serving for people in power. In a revolution, things get worse before they get better if they get better. Revolutions come at huge negative expected value. Howev
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> the flag word was out of new bits for flags, so an engineer reused a bit from a deprecated flag Plus some silent update failures meant that new-feature orders sent to out-of-date servers transformed into old-feature orders. Boom! >
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> Transformers existed in 2019, and while GPT4 is genuinely advanced, it's not a gigantic leap I'm referring to the emergent capabilities that show up with scale, which are a gigantic leap. The usual citation suggests that th
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> all signs seem to be pointing toward a longer timeframe rather than a short one If we time-traveled back to 2019 and showed past-you a demo of GPT4's capabilities and asked you to guess the timeline, would you have gotten it corre
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
It depends on how heavily targeted the terms are. The two big objectively user-hostile lines I was watching and have seen crossed: 1. Removed the yellow background that easily distinguished ads. 2. Zero organic results above the fold. Obvio
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
No, this is the part of the show where the patronizing rhetoric gets trotted out to rationalize discarding the principles that have suddenly become inconvenient for the people with power.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> A non-profit board should not be running a critically important company like OpenAI A for-profit board should not be running a critically important company like OpenAI.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
"There's a shortage of $30k Lamborghinis!"
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Wow, that's some Adam Neumann level self-dealing.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Exactly. > I'm sure Musk would have made equally commercial bad decisions
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Elon Musk is responsible for the "OpenAI" name and regularly agrees with you that the current form of the company makes a mockery of the name. He divested in 2018 due to conflict-of-interest with Tesla and while I'm sure Musk

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