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by jldugger 1y ago
> That's 500 times. Totally ridiculous for a company who core goal is profiling their users Seven interviews later and 1 PR later: Fails in A/B due to declining user engagement
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by jldugger 1y ago
Shots fired: "your average waltz score is no better than random chance."
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by jldugger 1y ago
I mean, you _can_ buy 20 year bonds on margin. Reg T just limits you to 50% in most (all?) cases. And it doesn't buy you a job or a demand mountain of insurance contracts!
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by jldugger 1y ago
Well, if they own their home and have a diversified portfolio, then they should be able to weather a small hit to income. If they rent, well, this directly helps their budget.
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by jldugger 1y ago
I think the point of that procedure is more to illustrate when someone hasn't thought about the logistics _at all_. The problems aren't when you can't answer one random question, but when you can't answer any, even the b
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by jldugger 1y ago
Okay, but as mentioned, 5 million also buys 20 year treasuries that yield 4.90%, or about 245k a year. I probably wouldn't buy them on margin tho.
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by jldugger 1y ago
> From that, using what you know about the area of the square and circle respectively, the ratio of "inside square but not in circle" and "inside circle" points can be used to set up an equation for the value of pi. B
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by jldugger 1y ago
Yea, but at some point this is probably gonna strain the colloquial definition of sleep. So I went for one of the oldest and perhaps simplest animals around, to examine the "creature" angle in extrema.
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by jldugger 1y ago
Do sponges sleep?
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by jldugger 1y ago
"Take my wife, please!"
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by jldugger 1y ago
Somewhat relatedly, I support a service with global scale traffic. Whenever there's an earthquake in APAC, we get a traffic spike, like 100x normal for that time of night. I'm pretty sure it's incoming alerts waking people up
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by jldugger 1y ago
> But why didn’t pricing for top talent run up sooner? Because before ChatGPT, nobody on a board of directors saw the possibility. Now, it's all they can think about.
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by jldugger 1y ago
It's really, really important to understand the context here. From the article: > I was hired on at Apple in October of 1995. This was what I refer to as Apple’s circling the drain period. Maybe you remember all the doomsaying — spe
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by jldugger 1y ago
FWIW, Jobs wasn't with Apple at the time of this story (1995)
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by jldugger 1y ago
It sounds like he thought it was fair use and their lawyers were less confident in that assessment. Technically at that point it's up to management about whether the cost of remastering / producing outweighs the EV of that easter
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by jldugger 1y ago
It sounds like they had to scrap a CD run, so it wasn't exactly "no negative side effects." But yes, it's always a bad sign when the project you were hired for is canned and you get a new manager.
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by jldugger 1y ago
Listen, this is like seeing a quiz game and saying it's like Celebrity Jeopardy[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Jeopardy!_(Saturday_...
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by jldugger 1y ago
The ones you see on Youtube are the special episodes where the comedy troupe plays Countdown.
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by jldugger 1y ago
> Reminds me of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. ... "8 out of 10 cats" is a comedy troupe. Countdown is the name of the game, and in particular the Numbers Round: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(g
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by jldugger 1y ago
> Mads Mikkelsen Small world?
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by jldugger 1y ago
Whoops, i thought i tested that and it didnt do that for me anymore. must have been a cached response
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by jldugger 1y ago
It can be: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/chinese-bittorrent-the-gift...
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by jldugger 1y ago
1) They have a screen built into the console. It would be kinda derpy to treat portable gaming as a second class citizen. So "SDR first" it is. 2) More than past Mario Karts, World needs to visibly delineate the track into multipl
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by jldugger 1y ago
> But when Gamers in ESA surveys report that the quality of the graphics being the #2 factor in deciding when to purchase a game Somehow I doubt this survey is representative of the typical Mario Kart player. And to those for whom it is
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by jldugger 1y ago
In other words, you can DDoS any ip for the cost of registering a domain and publishing a specific DNS record.
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by jldugger 1y ago
Preston's recent interview with the changelog podcast[1] explains that he's been convicted twice. Repeat offenders don't usually get light treatments. [1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/642
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by jldugger 1y ago
My recollection was that the N900 battery lasted about a full day of normal use. Maybe two but it was a dice roll. That was pretty much on par with other smartphones on the market. IIRC the main thing android and iOS were doing was shutting
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by jldugger 1y ago
iPhone 4s shipped October 2011.
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by jldugger 1y ago
The Nokia N900, running Maemo, also supported multitasking in 2011. It was just toppled by a similarly dedicated team of executive fuckups.
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by jldugger 1y ago
Early iOS would pause background apps. Limited multistasking was added in iOS 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_4#Multitasking

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