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by jldugger 2y ago
Pretty common really. Huge web properties like this have just massive room for cost optimizations, and AFAICT, is largely bottlenecked by management capacity. On the other hand, it's also pretty common to emphasize pet metrics like tai
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> I know this is meant to be tounge-in-cheek and not serious I honestly can't tell if it is, or if it is satire, what it thinks the object of ridicule is.
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Okay, do late school start next!
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Well, part of the coursework, and probably the hardest part, is about translating natural language problems into formal logic statements, ie: "The liar says All my hats are green" becomes "¬∀x|x∈hat,OWNS(x) (GREEN(x))"
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> How is red scare stuff still a thing Probably has something to do with the fact that Seoul is like 50 kilometers from the border, and has enough rockets pointed at them to cause unprecedented carnage. HIMARS can launch precision strike
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Plus, their brand new prime minister called a snap election and damn near lost himself the job when his party came out worse than he started.
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> Most explanations are along the lines of "Here is a simple explanation that you are guaranteed to understand: <proceeds to describe the procedure>" which lacks intuition on why this is useful Double entry accounting is
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by jldugger 2y ago
Would you buy an IPO of Chrome? The key supplier of like half of Google's searches? Seems like a no brainer.
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>It's a fundamental principle of modern DevOps practice that rollbacks should be quick and easy Then DevOps principles are in conflict with reality.
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Netflix is a much smaller enterprise. It got included because it was high growth at the time, not because it was destined to become a trillion dollar company.
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It's also common in Magic and other card game tournaments, but slightly modified: "6 rounds of swiss, cut to top 8 the single elimination" is a common sight.
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> I definitely don't want to use youtube for the conference itself because I don't want attendees to have to sit through ads. Does Youtube show ads if you disable monetization? I feel like most conference presentation uploads d
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by jldugger 2y ago
IMO online vs in-person isn't the only comparison to make. In 2024, you also have to compare against podcasts & Youtube. Beyond simply starting your own content channels, there's a speaker circuit for interview format podcasts
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I've always wondered why the hell generating functions existed, and I think this line sums it up: > When de Moivre invented much of modern probability in the mid-1700s, he didn’t have vectors! Vectors are an 1800s invention. Doesn&#
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by jldugger 2y ago
The artist's website describes it as "word search" which is technically true, but vastly undersells the puzzles. The vocabulary is wholly invented for the book, and each word you mark off requires you to take some other actio
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LOK: A puzzle book by Blaž Urban Gracar(blazgracar.com)
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Battleships is a pretty common puzzle on the World Puzzle Championship tests. If this is new to you, you may enjoy Nikoli's broader range of puzzle sets listed on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikoli_(pub
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by jldugger 2y ago
> Too focused on the bottom level. If a given business process results in employee A doing their job correctly according to the process... then the person who is accountable for the end result being shit is the manager who is responsible
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Also known as: "how did this ever work??"
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We already have the Turing Award, and a prize sponsored by Google.
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>It is a cursed problem no matter how you look at it. But the funding model is also extremely blessed: you have a stream of people telling you every page load what they're interested in at that exact moment, and it's not hard t
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by jldugger 2y ago
Well, the article leaves open the possibility that it was Musk paying the gift tax now to avoid paying an even larger estate tax later.
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Time to read the release notes and see if it fixes the stock price fetching at all.
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>The deal breaker for me was the underlying XML or SQLite formats of GnuCash ... if SQLite isn't sufficient it also supports SQL backends? I've been running it that way for like a decade.
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> I really should read more about how Shazam's algorithm works, because it feels like magic. https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
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Remember how in Fahrenheit 451 Montag's wife surrounds herself in her parlor, walls decked out with massive TVs running an interactive 24h soap opera? That seems the direction we're headed in, and some people say the zipbombers c
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by jldugger 2y ago
I think it's the [artillery shells]( https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-... ) that's been a bottleneck thus far in Ukraine. It's like NATO keeps around 3 serious war days wort
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Consider how hard it is to publish a negative result, especially when it fails to reproduce "established" science.
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At least where I grew up, biking on christmas day was a miserable recipe.
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> They only care about one thing, forcing warm bodies back into office buildings to stop the commercial real estate apocalypse. If they can’t fill those zombie towers, they have to trim their budgets with stealth layoffs. The problem wit

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