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   by jldugger 2y ago

   This looks a lot like the hipster PDA from two decades ago: https://lifehacker.com/printable-hipster-pda-104799
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   It's been suggested that Mark S is adjusting the neural nets for a robot replacement of his wife. This supported by a few MDR UI screenshots showing acronyms that reference Kier's 4 fundamental tempers: Woe, Frolick, Malice and Dr
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   > 4. Journalism is in a battle with the current administration Is this controversial?
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   > Going right back to ZIRP Sub 2 percent inflation, not sub 2 percent real interest rates.
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   I know that the fed (Powell?) has been suggesting that 2% should be a long term average, but I took that largely to forgive their performance thus far. If they want credibility in the market long-term, they'll have to demonstrate they
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   It seems unlikely the printer would choose 2024 if set incorrectly though.
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   > If labor costs go up equally then a business isn't at a competitive disadvantage The classic low wage job is flipping burgers. Everyone with a kitchen is a competitor to this business, and if restaurants all raise prices in lock s
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   The end game is the fed delivering on their sub 2% promise. Anything less would cede their credibility, which they will need in future crises.
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   by jldugger 2y ago

   If this is up your alley, Ideas That Created the Future[1] has like 40 more, decent introductions to their ideas, and provides a sort of thematic throughline from Aristotle to the modern computer science. [1]: https://mitpress.mi
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    GOOGLE: There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    But neither seem to compare favorably to Golf Peaks[1]. Instead of rolling dice you're given a hand of cards to play, making it into a puzzle! [1]: https://afterburn.itch.io/golf-peaks
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Here's what I do: - six 'links to top posts from the past week' links for subreddits/HN, in rotation. - a collection of RSS feeds from bloggers I've seen enough writing to recognize (and academic journals), which I
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    See also: Linus Pauling and vitamin C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling#Medical_research...
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Here is Fisher, in a letter to the editors of _Nature_ (perhaps the most prestigious journal imaginable) "Cancer and Smoking"[1]: > If, for example, it were possible to infer that smoking cigarettes is a cause of this disease,
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    In different documents?
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Look at the "scratch" on the right end of the leftmost dash. That "noise" shouldn't be replicated, right?
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    I seem to recall John Cleese or some other british person suggesting that the NHS was a given after so many had been through ww2. Wikipedia[1] on the NHS suggests the same, through quotes by politicians. [1]: https://en.wikipedia
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    This was also done in the late 90s against abortion clinics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Horsley#The_%22Nuremberg_...
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    I'd say through about 90% of the post I was wondering if you'd really not heard about balance bikes. It was only at the end that I realized the point of the story was the power of looking for more options. One wonders how many HN
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Fountain sodas are a crap shoot. Maybe the syrup bag is running low, maybe the carbonation source is about to fail, maybe someone switched around the diet coke and cherry coke lines and didn't switch the syrup:carbonated water ratios.
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    (2023)
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    But most people don't eat raw corn syrup. And the sugars in sodas breaks down into the same stuff very quickly in the presence of acids. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Words to live by!
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Because the alternative was also abuse. Forced shock therapy. Lobotomizing children. Court ordered sterilization. At least in the US, it's basically seen now as a violation of due process to be imprisoned like that without committing a
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    This sounds like the Systolic Array ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array ) design google based its TensorFlow Processing Units on.
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    There are also legal migrant farm workers, FWIW.
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    I think the main point here is that there is no fundamental amazing insight here for professionals to ingest.
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    Half of the magic is knowing _when_ to apply it. If you just dump your prometheus timeseries data into an anomaly detection system and ask it to constantly scan for anomalies, you will always find them. As an SRE, I don't actually care
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    > Optimizing tail latency isn't about saving fleet cost. Indirectly, it is. As the quote I replied to suggests, in order to combat tail latency services often run with surplus capacity. This is just a fundamental tradeoff between th
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    by jldugger 2y ago

    I'm curious what you think kubernetes does, because AFAICT, cpu -- a metric available to hpa -- would be an _improvement_.