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by jldugger 5mo ago
1985 edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X4o-MV6o
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Most of the datacenters in my city are concentrated near the warehouse zoned area by the expressway, railroad and interstate leading to the airport. Basically nobody lives there, and those that do are probably much better off now that the d
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by jldugger 5mo ago
> Is it an allegory for something deeper than what it is. I've always taken it to be a critique of the draft, aka "the lottery."
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Or PhDs
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by jldugger 5mo ago
>The self-order kiosk UI is quite bad. Most repeat customers use the app, which sports the digital equivalent of a loyalty program, and various coupons. And lets you save your 'usual' order with customizations etc. Plus the ann
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Could be worse. Steve Levitt has a story about working out ad spend causality and actively ignoring the truth[1]: > LEVITT: And they said to me "[...] One time we hired this summer intern and his job was to do the newspaper inserts
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Fascinating, I was literally thinking about how to communicate this to coworkers the other day, literally down to the gantt chart. Now I don't even have to make one =) > We are now talking about software development, but this is app
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Ah yes, the bread lines were a sign of Soviet success! Enormous growth in demand they just had trouble keeping up with!
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by jldugger 5mo ago
I guess it feels less abundant when there's a million people in the store and you're basically in line to check out the minute you step in.
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Interestingly, my local subreddit loves to describe Costco as a late stage capitalist dystopia. - fighting for space everywhere: fighting for a parking lot, avoiding people seeming to ram you with their shopping cart, waiting for the extend
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by jldugger 5mo ago
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by jldugger 5mo ago
> the factory line both costs and produces all the value. I think the point OP is trying to make is that manufacturing and design are seperate steps with different workflows and expectations. And that the design step does have value, as
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by jldugger 5mo ago
> In Polymarket you can just spin up a new account. If an account spins up, makes a $50k bet and wins You'd probably want to use some form of bayesian ranking, like say add 1k of total bets and 500 in total winnings to the raw score
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by jldugger 5mo ago
Wonder if the fact that the actual author is asking the question taints the result in some way; same for all the examples in this thread using unpublished articles. By definition only you would have them, so if there are system level prompt
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by jldugger 6mo ago
I'm not sure what point you're making, or whether it actually contradicts my own.
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by jldugger 6mo ago
"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal" -- a former president
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by jldugger 6mo ago
I wasn't around so I'll have to take your word for it?
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by jldugger 6mo ago
Well, the $5.14 figure is using the generalized inflation number derived by tracking the price of a specific basket of goods over time, across the entire country. This is a reasonable number to pick. If you narrow down to Food for all Urban
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by jldugger 6mo ago
IDK how it applies to LLMs but the original meaning was a change in a distribution over time. Like if you had some model based app trained on American English, but slowly more and more American Spanish users adopt your app; training set dis
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by jldugger 6mo ago
And just think how much more profitiable they'd be if they scaled up (◞ิ౪◟ิ)
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by jldugger 6mo ago
No idea how the military analogy works but: large companies scale up by "in sourcing" their supplier's functions. Facebook collects their own metrics instead of using datadog. Their own logs instead of Splunk. Facebook's
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by jldugger 6mo ago
> SSR walked rolled, surely
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by jldugger 6mo ago
> I host meetups for indie founders, and several attendees earn their living through solo businesses. When I go to conferences like Microconf, I meet lots more. Isn't this also sampling bias?
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by jldugger 6mo ago
I misread the title as "proof work" not "proof _of_ work." The analysis makes sense, but has kinda always been true. So mostly depressing rather than insightful. But part of me has been wondering for a while now whether
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by jldugger 6mo ago
No, I'm implying Google faces liability after that court case and is using this as a fig leaf to blame parents.
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by jldugger 6mo ago
Technically I think it's for parents to regulate their kids.
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by jldugger 6mo ago
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093970
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by jldugger 6mo ago
One of the benefits of the move to app ordering is that I know for certain the order-taker got it right. And I can bookmark the custom order for later reuse. Now it's just down to the kitchen to fulfill the order correctly, and while i
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by jldugger 6mo ago
> I watch tons of bike races and highlights on youtube TV and then almost all my ads are for cars, generic laundry detergent, and obvious scam crap products, anything but something bike related If I had to guess, niche products for niche
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by jldugger 6mo ago
Every six months or so, someone at work does a hackathon project to automate outage analysis work SRE would likely perform. And every one of them I've seen has been underwhelming and wrong. There's like three reasons for this disc

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