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by jldugger 2y ago
> What does this say about Google's attitude to web and to Chrome? What does this say about Google's commitment to developer excellence? It probably says "the DOJ really is gonna force us to sell Chrome."
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by jldugger 2y ago
Well, that's just a summary of a much, much older paper. Still a relevant paper, but somewhat disingenuous to attribute it to MS researchers. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation
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by jldugger 2y ago
> he's very dark and people have no clue. ... is The Road Not Taken a map to where he hid the bodies?
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by jldugger 2y ago
Relatedly, just listened to one of the oldest Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes: 32 -- Wright and Langley. > Curtiss went to work, strengthening the structure, adding controls, reshaping it aerodynamically, relocating the center of gravi
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by jldugger 2y ago
The ML blog seems to disagree with that take: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/on-device-neural-... (2021) > Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, such as Tacotron and WaveRNN, have made it po
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by jldugger 2y ago
I do see one example at the bottom of https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/evolution-sr... . But I'm not sure it's particularly compelling?
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by jldugger 2y ago
Plus Estonia in particular is 200km away from St Petersberg, and 800km from Moscow. They are all but guaranteed to succumb to Russian expansion if allowed to continue unchecked.
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by jldugger 2y ago
No offense, but this is wildly underselling the goals of oncall SRE. LLMs are extremely crappy about causal analysis, or even just mitigation techniques for services that haven't been widely discussed on stackoverflow.com (i.e. your
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by jldugger 2y ago
I just put a few at the bottom of the trashcan, so when the box runs out I still have some time to buy a new supply.
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by jldugger 2y ago
Even better: I have some sort of Useless Machine[1] bug where turning on the TV will power up the PS5, which then puts itself to back to sleep. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
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by jldugger 2y ago
Well, the minimum wage laws are more or less constant, but the paper is able to examine inter-store variation: > Within McDonald’s restaurants, for example, the locations with the largest increase in short-stay customers saw the most pro
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by jldugger 2y ago
Vance was pretty anti-trust, but seemingly more against big tech?
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by jldugger 2y ago
> There's no solid evidence Trump is secretly and knowingly working for Putin Not enough to indict, anyways, but there's a spectrum between insane left-wing conspiracy and a jury conviction. Paul Manafort, Trumps 2016 campaign
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by jldugger 2y ago
> Speaking as a layperson, I assume that being a 30-something living in New York who had $80,000 in savings and checking alone -- which she explicitly states in her article -- would be enough to qualify for a no-hold-up same day $50k wit
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by jldugger 2y ago
> Sure, but an easy assumption in New York, and even Chicago, is that such a person is provided for means beyond their job income Probably the biggest giveaway in the article was the $50,000 inheritance from a grandparent. When my grandp
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by jldugger 2y ago
My read on patrick's article is that he knows that banks operate differently for a select few, and his primary error was assuming the author was not in that elite class. And the Vox article sends a mixed message that encourages the err
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by jldugger 2y ago
Honestly, there's a sort of Jevons paradox at work. Importing credit card transactions isn't that hard, but now that it's solved, I should really be monitoring my investment portfolio more closely, or tracking intangible asse
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by jldugger 2y ago
Maybe they know a guy[1]. [1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/victims-cryptocurrency-sc...
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by jldugger 2y ago
I do wish these were easier to integrate with prometheus or graphite. They both have rudimentary forecasting models but both leave much to be desired in parameterization.
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by jldugger 2y ago
> The Normandy invasion in World war 2 was a "death stack". It's clear to me that the designers wanted to include flanking as a mechanic, and other positioning elements of warfare (ranged attacks, zone of control, etc) thu
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by jldugger 2y ago
> I don't know how one gets to that place. Check out this list of hypomania symptoms[1]: > a notable decrease in the need for sleep, an overall increase in energy, unusual behaviors and actions, and a markedly distinctive increas
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by jldugger 2y ago
While I doubt most people have sufficient "objective statistics" to truly remove ego from the equation, there's a middleground here. Write up your detailed proposal as typical, but before you click send, put an "executiv
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by jldugger 2y ago
> People fall for scams all the time, and as a society, we are failing to educate them with the sense to sniff them out. IDK. It's one thing to fall for a scam and lose all your money. It's another thing to, after all that, go
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by jldugger 2y ago
Which book? OP seems to be referencing _Going Infinite_ which is widely regarded as a bad take[1], while the card game you reference seems to be Liar's Poker, from Lewis' book of the same name. [1]: https://en.wikipedia
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by jldugger 2y ago
IMO, it's rather hard to fully know all of kubernetes and what it's doing, and the kind of person who demands elegance in solutions will hate it.
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by jldugger 2y ago
Wait, which part of the social security system is investing in hedge funds?
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by jldugger 2y ago
I've seen this proposed two decades ago, but basically under a dual use proposal: orbital solar concentrator and death laser.
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by jldugger 2y ago
Yea, I uh, already have that one =)
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by jldugger 2y ago
The games are conceptually neat but I find the randomness added by die rolls a detraction these days. Just give me puzzles I can perfectly solve!
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by jldugger 2y ago
Well, acetate sheets are pretty easy to find and cut. Consider it an optional DIY project? =)

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