jpollock

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by jpollock 2y ago
Airlines have a certain number of landing slots and check in counters. If they give up their slots, they may have a very difficult time getting them back. The A380 was built to get around landing slot rules.
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by jpollock 2y ago
"For example, the future of CRM isn’t just software—it’s software + sales team. Startups that don’t want to hire salespeople will eagerly adopt AI-driven CRMs that automate outreach, and follow-ups." I'm not involved in eithe
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by jpollock 2y ago
There is a lot of knowledge that devs gain by seeing how their code evolves over time. Things like "This encourages people to add features here, here and here". Without that experience, the code becomes inscrutable very quickly.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Because the behavior of your chosen leaders reflects on you? Ostracism is a thing. From the "greed" point of view - because your chosen leaders can have dramatic and immediate impact on your net wealth. Even if hedonistic, "I
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by jpollock 2y ago
I haven't studied it, other than knowing what I was allowed to do to a house I owned. :) A quick googling turns up: Americans have a long history of killing each other over water. That tends to result in very defined access rights. ht
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by jpollock 2y ago
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/faqs.h... It wasn't until 2012 that you were allowed to capture RAIN that fell on your roof. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces&#x2F
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by jpollock 2y ago
derivative works still tend to be copyright violations.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Vendor validation alone can take months, and that's before you start the technical process of migrating. This is a company who is in front of your business, do you trust them? I expect a lot of businesses will take the opportunity to s
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by jpollock 2y ago
Am I reading the example correctly? The prompt is the same size as the generated code, and likely more difficult to understand? Why would you use that? Why would you use anything that includes a "TODO"? -- ignoring what I would co
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by jpollock 2y ago
As a sender, that's entirely true. As a flag to identify correlated emails and accounts, it can be a very useful assumption to make.
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by jpollock 2y ago
I thought that was specifically for when you were waiting for the residency permit, not a random H4.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Allowing spouses to work on a H4 visa is a HUGE change. It was a big problem for our family.
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by jpollock 2y ago
It doesn’t work well on anything where you can’t manage the window width. My eyes have to travel too far to read the content, slowing me down.
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by jpollock 2y ago
How does gcc infer anything about memcpy? Can't I replace the c-library memcpy with my own, so how does it know that dest == NULL can never be true?
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by jpollock 2y ago
Yes, but that's generally not something you want to be doing the week before a wedding. It's _very_ easy to forget to do, and hard for the best man to run around and fix while you panic. I had enough trouble SHINING MY SHOES. :)
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by jpollock 2y ago
Fingers change size, but wooden rings can't be stretched.
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by jpollock 2y ago
The engineering pool is broad enough (or the Bay Area shallow enough) that they can hire everywhere and get the same quality of engineer. Since the wages paid are based on _local_ prevailing wage, and the Bay Area has the highest prevailing
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by jpollock 2y ago
It's a cognitive bias, since we remember the events that match our expectations and don't keep track of experiment over time.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Yes, because partial units still have meaning when dealing with interest and taxation.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Nifty paper. I kind-of wish I was in a problem space that had that sort of issue! I just spent a week shaving 98% off of the latency in a single RPC call by going from O(N^2) to O(1). Data locality is not a problem I have. :)
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by jpollock 2y ago
If I had to guess, it would be an assumption that TCP was edge to edge with no translation in the middle. My guess is that this is talking about systems in the middle of the network, changing (for example) their sizes by combining and split
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by jpollock 2y ago
When you've got 80,000 engineers you end up with lots of different opinions on what the wire protocol should look like. * Sometimes, you want to fail closed - errors are returned for all errors. * Sometimes, you want to fail open - ok
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by jpollock 2y ago
Isn't this just "no true Scotsman?" [1] I don't see much difference in art created by an artist using an AI, art created by an artist using photoshop, and art created by an artist using red ochre. They are all using tool
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by jpollock 2y ago
When I was following these things, if you end up in employment court, the typical penalty was 3 months wages.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Employees might not get to claim the cost of their car (loan and depreciation), but contractors will. Healthcare doesn't come into it, NZ has government provided healthcare. While you don't get vacation, you get to claim a lot of
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by jpollock 2y ago
Names are fuzzy things, and what you write on a piece of paper can change. What's on your ID can change over time too. I've known people who couldn't get their name into the system (no last name), couldn't fit their name
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by jpollock 2y ago
Each object has an external key and an internal key. This separation allows you to migrate to other layouts, technologies, etc. without breaking your customer's links or records. Internally, your database looks like: User ID -
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by jpollock 2y ago
Since you can't stop them from swimming, it's teaching them to swim. The GP post was "stop them from going into dangerous areas", which is why I pointed out _swimming_pools_ would meet the definition of "dangerous&q
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by jpollock 2y ago
People drown in swimming pools all the time.
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by jpollock 2y ago
Sure, but that's _still_ customer brand loyalty. The _book_ isn't advertising "Go to Amazon for the cheapest prices" on the cover.

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