juanbyrge

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by juanbyrge 6y ago
This thread continues to ravel!
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
It took two or three reads for it to become telligable.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
If there is any corporate entity I'd happy giving public funding, it would be SpaceX. Their end goal is to settle Mars and potentially other bodies in the solar system. Compared with the absurd amounts of money wasted on defense contra
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
If a company is paying a researcher a lofty salary (I am guessing ballpark mid six figures), and provides that researcher virtually unlimited tools and resources, shouldn't that company have a say in what material gets published by the
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I obviously don't have the data, but I would argue that a tiny tiny fraction of Google's energy usage is dedicated to training language models. I'm guessing the vast majority of the energy usage is for serving billions of req
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I was a little disappointed in the quality of this research. I can see where Google is coming from. Some of these topics seem regurgitated (e.g. bias in online text) and some are just irrelevant (CO2 emissions). Training language models doe
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I would have marked this closed as well. Memory leaks are notoriously hard to track down. Unless someone takes the first dive with a heap profiler, and provides some proof there's a leak, I'm closing the issue.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..)
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
That NeXT logo looks awkward and amateurish. I could have done a better job making a next logo and I have never designed a logo in my life.
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
We need to go far beyond that -- we need an actual profession. It always strikes me as odd that someone can go through a 4 week bootcamp and call themselves a software engineer. Robert Martin has been advocating this for point for years --
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
It is very painful. We have this beautiful planet in the universe and we are just destroying it. We are just too primitive in too many ways. I am very concerned what will happen in the next 20-30 years. My only hope is that science can save
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
It's a little ironic that the author of that post created AMP...
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
My snake oil detector perked up here. It seems like this guy is attempting to take credit for Instagrams success while simultaneously trying to apply a hand-wavy growth 'theory'. Seems like he is attempting to market a startup in
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Code quality and hygiene mean absolutely nothing if you have a large number of academic types who use OpenSSL as the dumping ground for their pet research projects, that are enabled by default, of course. Also, OpenSSL supports all kinds of
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
This is pointless - a complete waste of time, effort, and energy. Isn’t there something more beneficial they could have done instead? Why pollute the Arctic with plastic and film canisters?
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
A better approach to Gemini would be to create a UGC web app that allows people to create simple, text-only, markdown-enabled content that does not track users. And I think plenty of those exist already. It would be the circa 2004 era blogg
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
What the author misses is that government can play a huge role in combating climate change. There are simple policies the government can enact that would greatly improve the situation. Things like stopping fossil fuel subsidies, enacting ca
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Is the alternative really better? Look at Windows, which had no restrictions on apps that you could install. It was a security nightmare and became a cesspool of malware. You just had to trick people into opening a .exe and you could compro
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
This makes sense to me. Facebook knows that consumers are finicky when it comes to social networks and they need to stay on top of the latest fads. Once new social networks catch fire Facebook needs to do anything possible to gain control o
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
Yes we need to address the root causes of the crime problem: poverty, racism, and addiction. Many types of crimes (theft, drug dealing) are caused because people have been marginalized and have no other means of making money. This is to a l
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by juanbyrge 6y ago
I remember bikeshedding with my coworkers about this topic a few years back while coming up with lint settings. We ended up analyzing all current line widths and realized that something like 98% of lines were under 110 characters, so that i
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
I think you may be underestimating the sudden impact on the demand for flour and wheat during the pandemic. There are two behaviors that did not exist too much before. First, a vast number of consumers are suddenly stockpiling larger quanti
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
The article is literally about a huge increase in demand for more flour by consumers. The industry is "working round the clock" to meet demand. People have a lot of extra time at home so they are baking a lot more, which they did
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
Definitely as a beginner it helps to follow a schedule and start to notice some patterns. As you make bread more and more you start to rely on more visual and tactile signals. For instance, I know that the levain is ready when it appears &#
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
I have been baking sourdough for 2+ years and I don't think people should take the timing too seriously. Yes it's good to loosely follow a schedule but if you don't the bread will still turn out fine. I don't think I&#x2
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
What if you missed out on hiring the Steve Jobs of the catering industry? Jobs had no real engineering experience to bring to the table. He had a small amount of education from Reed College, but it was in a completely unrelated maj
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
"Jobs had no real engineering experience to bring to the table. He had a small amount of education from Reed College, but it was in a completely unrelated major, and he had dropped out early. But he had a way with words, seemed to have
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
I think Hyundai/Kia has a good electric car strategy in place. They have taken some of their popular models and offered an electrified versions of them. I bought a Kia Niro EV last year and have been enjoying it. Although not as flashy
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
Sadly, I believe nothing will be done about climate change until something catastrophic begins to happen (e.g. millions of people start dying due directly to the effects of climate change). Climate change is way too abstract of a problem fo
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by juanbyrge 7y ago
Source? We are destroying a lot of the negative feedback mechanisms (e.g. clearing rain forests, destroying the tundra, etc) what makes you sure we will be okay? A 4-5 degree Celsius increase in temperature is looking likely by 2100. If tha

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