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by jnwatson 2y ago
Portfolios also take time. It also takes time to evaluate portfolios. Not to mention that portfolios can be faked like everything else.
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The style matching is interesting, but there's no song structure. There's no identifiable chorus in any of the demo songs.
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I had to think long and hard about whether to accept a PR that fixed ppcle64 support on the library I maintain. Since it wasn't too much of a diff, I accepted it, but in many other situations I wouldn't.
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There are plenty of B2B opportunities where it just doesn't make sense for an open source competitor to emerge. There are plenty of hobbyist programmers willing to work on operating systems. Accounting systems? Way fewer. International
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Nvidia is clearing 4 figures on each 5090. They can afford another few dollars on connectors.
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Perhaps they weren't trying?
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This is called Jevons Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox .
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Of course it is. That how the airlines stay in business.
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One of the concepts I learned in my Philosophy minor was the concept of "biological chauvinism": that an organism is made of meat and cells and neurons of course doesn't mean it is intelligent, and if an organism isn't
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Do you think the electric company should be able to shut off your electricity if you say something they don't like? The problem is that, due to lack of anti-trust enforcement, we have quasi-utility companies that run commerce. If they
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I've been dabbling in Hifi for most of my life, a hobby inherited from my father. I have some awareness of consumer Hifi over the last 50 years. Speaker and amplifier design are vastly better than even 15 years ago, partially because o
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When I started reading the article, I wondered to myself, how long before he talks about cellular automata? He almost made it to the end but I guess he just can't help it.
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This is a typical setup for lots of folks. This is the average home theater.
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The bad ones are of course not hard to spot. The good ones you'll never notice.
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Inference uses hardly any compute. You should be complaining about computer games for real compute use.
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I bet the acquirer got Bench for peanuts. It is worth quite a bit less than if they had made a deal 2 weeks ago, but I bet they paid a tenth.
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Exploiting externalities isn't just a capitalism thing. The Romans were well aware of the problems with lead plumbing yet they still used it. The rampant air pollution in China is another example where you can't blame capitalism.
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You need them for loading, unloading, and smelting. Space Age (the most recent DLC) required me to use several 6:4 and 6:3 balancers. I usually start by hacking it. Once I place a premade balancer, throughout dramatically improves.
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by jnwatson 2y ago
Perhaps I'm old school, but how hard is it to hire a bookkeeper part time, a CPA a few times a year, and use Quickbooks? Was there some special value that Bench provided?
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It is irony of all ironies that an accounting services company would be surprised about their own insolvency. In reality, they had to have known for months. The director were probably just holding out for a Hail Mary funding injection. This
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The rug pullers, of course.
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IT unemployment is currently under 4% because the folks that got laid off found new jobs. If you eliminate an entire industry, the unemployed will have a tougher time finding a new job. The dislocation would be far larger than the tech lay
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One of the author's points was that if United took no profit, it could only very slightly increase services. The only ethical thing that Thompson could have done is advocated for the dissolution of his and his competitors' firms,
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by jnwatson 2y ago
The US political system is at all time low of responsiveness to the needs of its citizens. Congress has been dysfunctional longer than Mangione has been alive. It makes sense that a young man would lash out this way. Violence should indee
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by jnwatson 2y ago
It is also exploiting the fact that humans need food and shelter to live and money is used to acquire those things.
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"Tough guy dancing" is such an apt phrase. The organizer is even called a "fight choreographer".
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Electronics techs sometimes spend hours every day grounded with a wrist strap. I certainly haven't noticed anything.
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That ship sailed shortly after the invention of photography. Photos were altered for political purposes during the US Civil War. Now, we have entire TV shows shot on green screen in virtual sets. Replacing all the actors is just the next lo
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Hash tables and related data structures.
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This isn't code golf. This is just white space removed.

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