jmoak3

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by jmoak3 4y ago
Love this post for some similar thinking: https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/ The world is a crazy place, could get crazier. Or not. I don't know.
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Many engineers reading this make a larger salary than these lawmakers. Maybe if the people deciding our laws made enough to not be woo’d by practically a $300 gift card we’d at least make corruption more expensive.
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Attribution to jonnycomputer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008075
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Found it! This is where I saw it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008075
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Exactly. Inflation only lowers stocks because the federal reserve tightens the money supply by raising rates, which hurts companies and spending. If you want to gamble that the fed will get too scared to raise the rates, you’ll buy stocks b
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I saw a great comment here, and I will repeat it without the attribution it deserves: We may have realized it's easier to build a brain than to understand one
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Worked at Raising Canes and Arbys as a cashier / fry cook respectively in summers during High School ~2011 The time never felt quite worth the money (7.25$ an hour at the time), but it taught me a lot about the world and my place in it
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by jmoak3 4y ago
To add to the other replies - the networking configuration of the car plays a huge role as well! Is it CAN bus? Is it Ethernet? Is it a mix? How many computers are in it? How are they connected? Have you centralized the microcontrollers to
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I’ve tasted the cartridges, can confirm it’s horrible
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Yup, stand near a waterfall and you will get wet, so to speak
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I felt the same way about Portland - I lived there 2016-2018, moved back for 6mo in 2021 to reconnect with friends and possibly settle down World of difference in what I saw. When it comes to mental health and homelessness crisis, I’ve alwa
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Yeah a changing population has a variety of extraordinarily confusing effects Certain resources would become more available such as land and housing, while others like say, new cheap speakers that rely on plentiful hands and brains, would b
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by jmoak3 4y ago
To add to this - the car guy might think he has something to prove by blaring his engine at 7am: "I'm going to show them all" or something. An alternative thought is "I'm not going to do that because I don't wa
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I think we're on the verge/in the middle of a stagnating/shrinking pie. When we're not growing in population and wealth things get dark as people chase zero-sum short term gains at the expense of others. Distrust runs ra
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Music I grabbed from a public source, everything else was generated iteratively - even the name!
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Not surprising to me. Rural people have overwhelmingly larger waist to height ratios than urban populations. Grew up in one of the states studied in an exurb, lots of family on farms. Everyone I know more than 30 min from a sizable downtown
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by jmoak3 4y ago
This is not nearly as impressive (or useful) as the other posts, but when ChatGPT was released I developed this toy site almost entirely thru prompts. http://goodvibeai.com/ I told it to gen a bunch of heartwarming messages
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Going really far out here, but if we were able to model how a given child views the world, we'd theoretically be able to model how a given adult views it. We could then query that model and it would respond as that adult. Bam, copied h
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I read this and thought, "no way, the interactions could alter what actions the player expects the character to perform later in the story. how could you filter to a discrete in-game action given a bunch of LLM convo? a fully realized
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Exactly. Also, if a business leader, politician, or some other kind of member of the Russian elite was openly friendly to the west there's a good chance Putin knocked them down a peg or six and they will not be in line to succeed him.
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I live in Kentucky, work for a FANG and my total comp is scaled to ~75% of what I made in the bay. It's worth it because my options here are limited. A bay area worker may view this as exploitation, while I say "please god may thi
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by jmoak3 4y ago
This is really cool and impressive! It reminds me of something I put together a looooong time ago ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g7pUTWLgEI ), although theirs has two magnitudes more effort. I wonder if they were inspired
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Thank you for the explanation and examples
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Agreed - 14 year old me was very disappointed with NXE. The new tiles were a good lesson in how any vacuum in a UX will be filled with ads given enough time.
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Useful idiot is a great term for this. It's ironic that the same people who want to prevent gentrification are the actual "bootlickers" after all. I ended up leaving San Francisco over this sort of stuff to go to my hometown
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Jesus. The world can be a jungle.
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by jmoak3 4y ago
I've worked jobs that pre-covid that were exactly what you describe, where 80% of the time we'd just ping one another without getting up. You never knew if you were ruining someone's concentration, so pinging over slack let t
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by jmoak3 4y ago
2022 was a great year for my reading (in order of my favorites): The Great Demographic Reversal by Charles Goodhart - this book changed my life, but now that inflation and the retirements are in full swing it might be harder to make early m
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Always remind them of their S.I.N.S. (Scale is not simple) haha
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by jmoak3 4y ago
Film crews were there with them in person, silently walking around and filming? Did they also train the kids to ignore the crews and not stare into the cameras lol This just seems goofy.

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