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by jldugger 9mo ago
> Gmail because Google fetches them out of band. It doesn’t reveal open rates. "Our open rates have skyrocketed! send more emails!"
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by jldugger 9mo ago
It's funny, I've been watching all the nvidia GTC keynotes from 2012-now to better understand the ecosystem and Jensen pretty clearly states a few times "its a miracle it works at all". Clearly he's intending to bra
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by jldugger 9mo ago
Apple card was never synchrony.
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by jldugger 9mo ago
Take a parabola and rotate it 90 degrees. The forumula for that is not a function of the x axis: it has two values for all but one point on the curve.
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by jldugger 9mo ago
> I think you're describing anomaly detection. Well it's in the same neighborhood. Anomaly detection tends to favor finding unique things that only happened once. I'm interested in the highest volume stuff that only happen
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by jldugger 9mo ago
>Turns out you can compile tens of thousands of patterns and still match at line rate. Well, yea, sort of the magic of the regular expression <-> NFA equality theorem. Any regex can be converted to a state machine. And since you ca
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by jldugger 9mo ago
> so that customer support collapses the same day every year. Every _month_. And it's not just the customer service desk that's a problem. With even distribution of billing and a large customer base, outflows match inflows and
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by jldugger 9mo ago
Who was the second bank?
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by jldugger 9mo ago
It really depends on the definition of catch. Citi Double Cash, Fidelity, Wells Fargo and US Bank all do 2%. Personally, I use a 2.625% cash back card with the "catch" being that I have to have enough stock in their subsidiary bro
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by jldugger 9mo ago
Fred also has that answer: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTHM Growing up to an estimated 342 million. It also has an estimate for the working population (ages 25-54, so called "prime workers"): https:
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by jldugger 9mo ago
Related, yes. US DoT wants non-dom CDLs revoked[1]: > The decision comes amid pressure from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which announced in November 2025 that it would compel California to revoke thousands of what it calls “ill
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by jldugger 10mo ago
I'm kinda okay with putting the AI slop behind a paywall if it means nobody will actually see it.
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by jldugger 10mo ago
Interesting -- I just use https://news.ycombinator.com/best?h=168 for a weekly roundup, but that only tracks posts. Might need to supplement it with highlights or similar. Reviewing the HN docs, https://news.ycom
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by jldugger 10mo ago
On my way home, I noticed at a stoplight across the street from Apple Park that the driver in the lane next to me had his phone mounted up high in landscape mode and was watching the Simpsons. Just absolutely unhinged behavior lately.
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by jldugger 10mo ago
Afaik, data center grade blackwell chips have never been legal for export to china. I think this has more do to with NVIDIA than DeepSeek. For a brief moment, people thought DeepSeek had found some way to produce AI without sending boatload
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by jldugger 10mo ago
Thats the point -- if you only ship GPU instances then every workload ties up precious GPU time.
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by jldugger 10mo ago
Perhaps "requirement" was a poor phrasing of the idea. "Feature?" > Personally, I think devs should embrace some stuff being broken. It's a single player game, it doesn't need balance. Exactly! Bravely Defau
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by jldugger 10mo ago
IMO the way around that is to make breaking the game a requirement. If it's already an accidental part of the fun, might as well make it intentional!
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by jldugger 10mo ago
I have O'Reilly subs available both from my employer and my local library. Doesn't fix the UI issues but does at least shift the ROI calculus. There are some applications that try to export O'Reilly books into Kindle formats,
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by jldugger 10mo ago
My go-to analysis for these sorts of places is net income per employee. Back in the day, IBM was hovering around $5,000. Today, Kyndryl is still around $5,000 (2025). But the parent company seems to be now at $22,000 (2024). For comparison:
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by jldugger 11mo ago
Ahh jeez, Khan is COO not CFO.
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by jldugger 11mo ago
>Seems like Khan is preparing the mothership Nah, IS&T has always been under the CFO, and apparently some fraction of AIML is headed under them.
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by jldugger 11mo ago
Does the net worth report not work correctly?
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by jldugger 11mo ago
Well, there's kind of two answers here: 1. To the extent that creativity is randomness, LLM inference samples from the token distribution at each step. It's possible (but unlikely!) for an LLM to complete "pig with" with
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by jldugger 11mo ago
That actually never occurred to me, I assumed they only took bills. Welp, problem solved and I'm no longer out of milk.
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by jldugger 11mo ago
I have like 2 dollars in coins, not even a roll of pennies. I just thought I'd try depositing it while running a different bank errand and they were like "naw, go to coinstar with your poor person money"
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by jldugger 11mo ago
> Folks can take them to a bank FWIW my bank refuses to accept unrolled coins, long before this month's retirement of the penny.
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by jldugger 11mo ago
> the bottom 7 lowest-margin industries ... (CRISPR, gene therapy, hydrogen fuel cell, genomics and mRNA therapeutics) arguably have some of the greatest potential to improve quality of life and help the planet. Critically, all the reven
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by jldugger 11mo ago
Once upon a time link: would make short work of this query, but I gather the index is no longer queryable like that as it doesn't work.
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by jldugger 11mo ago
So blipverts with humans clicking buttons to confirm they saw them. Neat.

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