jwestbury

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by jwestbury 3y ago
It's such a busy station for being a local station (out of the TfL station types, the least-used), and the District Line beyond this is often quite crowded at rush hour -- it's rare that I get a seat starting from Turnham Green at
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> Which product manager in his/her right mind, thought this was passable when you're building and marketing your product as an iMessage alternative and every single early access reviewer raised these exact security concerns in
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Very much doubt this. Altman may be able to attract the necessary talent - but Altman himself isn't exactly an AI expert.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
I think a big part of the "old people in the trenches" problem is that tech has historically had an "up or out" mentality. It seems like most of the older engineers I know either get pushed out or end up as principal eng
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> I think the reverse is true. If you're a grunt no one really cares and it's not worth it to enforce. As a grunt who was handcuffed for three months after switching jobs while my former employer and my new employer tried to so
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Answers in Progress had a great video[0] where one of their presenters tested against an LLM in five different types of intelligence. tl;dr, AI was worlds ahead on two of the five, and worlds behind on the other three. Interesting stuff --
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by jwestbury 3y ago
It's generally 6% split between two agents, so 3% per agent. Experienced agents often have something like a 60/40 split with their brokerage (such as ReMax). So, that's 0.9% -- let's round up to 1% to be generous. My hom
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by jwestbury 3y ago
There are loads of examples of human-assisted algorithmic processes, or the inverse, algorithm-assisted human processes, most of which have better performance than either entity alone. I've had trouble finding it, but years ago, I read
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Intent matters a lot when it comes to both morality and legality.
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> metrics and logs were a thing of the past people gave up on since the rise of Microservices Definitely not the case, and, in fact, probably the opposite is true. In the era of microservices, metrics are absolutely critical to understan
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> If Antarctica's wall is 60,000 miles in circumference making the equator nearly 25,000 miles I mean... the math doesn't even check out on this conspiracy theory.
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> which they ironically send to people who gave I'm a lifetime member of my university's alumni association. This means I routinely get physical mail with headlines like, "YOUR OFFER INSIDE," and then the "offer&
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> which I agree are a problem Are they? These salaries are much lower than most tech competitors. I know we like to call out "high" salaries when a useful service is struggling - but they'll struggle even more if they can&
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by jwestbury 3y ago
I think I have some unique perspective here, actually, as an American who's been living in the UK for the past year. I think you're right about the feature set. It's a big historical win for iMessage, and it took a while for
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by jwestbury 3y ago
More anecdata: When Bill Bryson moved back to the US for a time, he specifically chose a walkable place to live -- Hanover, NH. He reported in his book, I'm A Stranger Here Myself, that he had been stopped by concerned neighbors on mul
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by jwestbury 3y ago
I was prepared to criticise this video - but upon inspection, it really captures the low quality[0] of the voice acting in an authentic manner! 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGE2ZB_3ZO0
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Because iMessage seamlessly integrates into SMS/MMS, and very few Americans rely on alternative apps for their primary messaging platform. As for why blue bubbles? No idea. Best guess is it's seen as a status thing - green bubbles
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> it’s absolutely their call to make. Well -- maybe. There are limits on free speech, and while the current regime rests on the concept of corporations having Constitutional rights, there's certainly a robust debate as to whether
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> I wonder if it'll ever come back to bit them in the ass. It already has been biting them. There was a leaked memo last year about how they're exhausting the labour supply in many of their warehouse markets. And while there ha
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> Amazon is all stick, no carrot This has always been true of Amazon. It was true when I joined ten years ago, and it was true ten years before that. Okay, sure, there have been small carrots at various points. The company Christmas part
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Sure, quality is required to maintain a monopoly. But the presence of quality doesn't negate anti-competitive practices, which can prevent other providers of quality from gaining a reasonable foothold.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
I'm not convinced "moderation" is the answer to "What makes an adult?" It excludes a whole bunch of neurodivergent adults. Is someone not an adult because they have ADHD?
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by jwestbury 3y ago
About $73m, I imagine?
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by jwestbury 3y ago
NIST discourages it, but most of the US government still requires it. In fact, I used to have a 60-day password rotation policy with such brilliant requirements as "no more than three characters of one class sequentially." I soon
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Perhaps we'll find the hand of Franklin?
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> At BW this would not be considered provocative. We optimized for the most direct/impactful communication. It wasn't meant to wound people's feelings per se - but using the feelings and dealing with them was part of the t
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The purpose of patents is to encourage disclosure. By disclosing how something is accomplished, a business is rewarded with exclusive use of their method for a limited period. I think the argument to be made in many fields is that patent la
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Leaving my door unlocked doesn't excuse burglary. One party can make a bad deal, but that doesn't mean the other party isn't immoral for taking that deal, especially when it has substantial negative externalities.
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> You should be worried that any system they required government intervention was a good idea. You mean like providing basic infrastructure to ensure society and commerce can function? There are plenty of things which can and should requ
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Should be noted: Basically nothing is a "willpower" problem, in reality. Psychological research is fairly clear on this: People who make good decisions are people who don't even consider the bad decisions, not people who have

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