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by jtsiskin 4y ago
Imagine two apps you’re scrolling by in the App Store. One is $5, the other is $4.99. Barely going attention (essentially picking subconsciously rather than consciously), you choose one to click first. What are the odds you clicked the $4.
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“In Study 3, we tested the accuracy of these forecasts by randomly assigning participants to speak for 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, or 70% of the time in a dyadic conversation.“ This study does not correlate to the real word at all. A computer telli
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
This dimension is just called “existence”
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
It’s a lot easier to hide a piece of paper than it is to hide stacks of cash or gold. Unscrew and hide behind a doorknob or a light switch, the inside of a clock, the bottom of a dresser, inside the wall trim, the leg of a couch, etc. Then
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
What did coolify have that caprover didn’t?
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
At Meta you choose what team you want to work on during a 3 month “bootcamp” period, very different from Google, Amazon, etc. There’s enough teams solving hard distributed system problems that you’re guaranteed to never need to think about
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
Facebook in particular is very open about its data center, see https://www.opencompute.org/ See “Commoditize Your Complement” - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v&#x2F
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
Evidence?
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
Airports also have an incentive to keep the TSA lines as variable as possible. If the line can sometimes take 5 minutes and sometimes take 2 hours, you need to arrive 2 hours early. And then if it actually takes just 5 minutes - that’s 1:55
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By this argument, all human driven machines are murder machines. All.
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
Everything digital has marginal costs near 0. Books, TV, movies, art, newspapers, photos, etc. (obviously, talking about the digital version of all these). Yet a lot of these fields are known for low pay.
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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion
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Think of it like bookend: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bookend
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You can send your frames encrypted even if there’s an SFU.
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Yes, but the parent is saying this could be an e-commerce website, or construction company, etc. But having an iOS app feels unnecessary for most of these businesses
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What I dislike about this model is it incentivizes insane and complicated build processes. You’re incentives not to make a simple docker image
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Rubbish
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But… why? What’s the purpose of this? Just for a RNG?
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“Actually, leaving your lights on all day doesn’t waste energy; see the first law of thermodynamics”
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https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/Entry-L...
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used to have an effect. They may no longer.
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…I don’t think this is very close to the abortion debate at all.
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Please elaborate. What makes you think it does not?
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What’s the most efficient large-scale physical battery? (Pumping water upwards, lifting heavy rock, fleet of electric vehicles, etc)
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
… why does gender affect it? As a man, you would be fine with it?
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by jtsiskin 4y ago
Aw man. The author is going to be pretty sad when they learn that the brain is made of atoms.
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Incredible. Rather than quit they relaxed for a few months, then convinced Netflix to fire them early with a severance package. https://youtu.be/Uka17JlB81E
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“In 2002, a Department of Energy (DOE) official described typical waste disposal procedures used by Field Lab employees in the past. Workers would dispose of barrels filled with radioactive sodium by dumping them in a pond and then shooting
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The full quote is “Moreover, C++ code can be compiled into assembly language for direct execution on the OS instead of relying on interpreters or language runtime.”
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Built-in to laptops and phones is the only way we’ll get mass adoption

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