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by jmward01 1y ago
NVIDIA and Tesla are massively over valued right now. Both of them have valuations based on their potential for the future but the very real competition to both now makes their inevitable dominance a very far from sure thing bet. Tesla&#x27
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by jmward01 1y ago
Cascadia has become a little bit of an obsession for me. I had my house retrofitted to help it withstand the inevitable next really big one that is coming because of what I have learned about it (I am also well above the tsunami flood zone)
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by jmward01 1y ago
The best way to save money on prime is to not buy stuff. Seriously.
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by jmward01 1y ago
Too bad gas and oil didn't have trillions in subsidies over the past 100 years. Maybe had we listened to Jimmy Carter we would have continued to lead the world instead of now being firmly in the back.
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by jmward01 1y ago
The subs are noticeably worse in a continuing trend. Maybe I am just now noticing it but in the dubs for the most recent shows it seems like the important subs for text (like important signs, etc) in a dub are also now missing and only come
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by jmward01 1y ago
'reasonable' is the keyword here. I do not expect an airline to provide medical care on a flight but I do expect some level of accommodation for people with medical issues. We have crosswalks that acknowledge the blind but streets
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by jmward01 1y ago
There is some discussion here, but the counterargument was never raised: We are transitioning to new things to learn and focus on so the old tests and measures aren't valid. Think of it like this: If 3d printing (finally) gets good eno
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by jmward01 1y ago
there is such a thing as reasonable accommodation for reasonable body types. That being said, the enemy here is airlines, not other passengers. The thing that makes me angry is how well airlines have turned this discussion from 'we jus
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by jmward01 1y ago
Selling discomfort is the business model. Make it so terrible of an experience that people are forced to pay more. Too bad North America (Yes, I AM lumping a bunch of countries together here) doesn't understand the value of trains and
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by jmward01 1y ago
'You can always say no...' That is like something from a bad movie about spouse abuse. 'Just leave' plays well on TV but the reality is often that a job is someone's life. Just saying no and leaving will have real,
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by jmward01 1y ago
As a side note, It would be great to have a 'preview' for HN comments. I updated the above because I forgot to add line breaks. Sigh. I bet 'preview' would stop a lot of not well thought out comments too.
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by jmward01 1y ago
This is needed, but I don't like new keywords. What I would love, for many reasons, is if we could decorate statements. Then things like: import expensive_module could be: @lazy import expensive_module or you could do: @retry(3) x = fa
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by jmward01 1y ago
I used bandits to select a best vendor/model to use on a per customer basis for a task that we had a reward signal for. It worked amazingly well but the more important thing we gained was the ability to accurately estimate the improvem
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by jmward01 1y ago
"When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command." So I can opt out of training,
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by jmward01 1y ago
Type hints in python are just that, hints. Use them to help with clarity but enforcing them and requiring them everywhere generally leads to the worst of all worlds. Lots of boilerplate, less readable code and throwing away many of the feat
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by jmward01 1y ago
Documenting the downfall isn't enough. What are people going to do about it? Get involved with your local government. Go to city counsel meetings. Join local boards. This is one city that is doing the right thing but more cities could
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by jmward01 1y ago
The honest real question is what to do? We are at a turning point in history. Right now you are either polarized or asleep. The question is not only what can you do but what will you do. Now, not tomorrow. I personally am starting to get ac
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by jmward01 1y ago
donate to them
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by jmward01 1y ago
The thing articles and project management philosophies both miss is this: What is the fundamental math constraint that shapes a project? I personally believe it is NP growth and when you really understand it you see why things fail and what
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by jmward01 1y ago
I have a friend that grew up near this and he has told me repeatedly that many of the locals are very against it since they believe it takes ranching (their jobs and the local economy) away from the area. It is interesting when this much la
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by jmward01 1y ago
The big difference between this and all the other facial recognition happening is that people knew it happened. Walk into a fast food chain and take a look at all those cameras. Do you really think they aren't harvesting every possible
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by jmward01 1y ago
I loved driving my 3 cylinder convertible geo metro! It was the 'sport' version so you could actually hit 60 if you held the peddle down long enough but it rode like it was on rails because of how light it was!
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by jmward01 1y ago
There is a lot of discussion of the brand being hurt, but I will say that personally I just don't want a new car period and Tesla specifically in large part because of privacy concerns. My understanding it that Tesla is one of the wors
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by jmward01 1y ago
I have gotten into discussions with people about linters and code formatting standards in general and I always liken it to a work desk. If my company decided that every work desk had to be 100% generic and that every day if I put any adjust
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by jmward01 1y ago
The core questions are: Why does a company want to be a US company and why would companies want to hire US employees? With those two lenses in place does this help? The first one is a clear 'no', this makes companies not want to b
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by jmward01 1y ago
I have nothing against rich. I have everything against a single person having a megaphone for themselves and a gag for everyone else and still calling it a democracy. We need strong laws that reduce the voice of money and increase the voice
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by jmward01 1y ago
The Marines had an entire MOS dedicated to it, 4067 Ada programmer. That was when LCPL (E-3) could own the software for a chuck of the supply system and make changes with almost no oversight... Man those were the days!
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by jmward01 1y ago
There is a special place in my programming heart for Ada since it was my first professional language (back in 1996). It is interesting to see it coming back a bit. Ignoring the language, the culture and history of Ada is a great one. I was
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by jmward01 1y ago
The 5 year is the real kicker. Over the next 5 years I find it doubtful that they won't keep modifying their TOS and presenting that opt out 'option' so that all it will take is one accidental click and they have all your dat
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by jmward01 1y ago
I just opted out. And then canceled my plan. The 5 year retention isn't part of the opt out and represents way too juicy of a target for them. Some time in the next 5 years another TOS change will happen, and another and another and ev

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