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by jwie 4y ago
The sealed product hoarders probably have the smartest business model. Buy a bunch of sealed product as a distributor, hold it in a warehouse for 5-10 years, sell for a tidy profit when there’s just not many sealed packs left. The sealed pr
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This doesn’t really test randomness. It appears that the guessing output is deterministic using your inputs as it’s inputs and you could figure out as many consecutive inputs you felt like to produce a specific outcome. For instance 6R1L3R
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The range IP bans hit home. Been hit by this more than a few times. You don’t have to be sending spam, but if someone in the range did, ever, you will be blacklisted all the same, and treated like a spammer. The people who run these blackli
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Heat pumps are air conditioning systems. They work on the refrigeration cycle. Rural homes in the US tend not to have connections to natural gas utilities. If winter isn’t severe enough to justify a storage tank, the home typically has an H
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The scale of IMDb reviews makes them more vulnerable to review bombing than other review aggregators. Steam gets the scale this right by only having up or down reviews, and collecting reacts to the review to sort out what people think of th
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I had made an email graphing tool early in my career. The idea was to find instances where an account had sent to and received from an email from any address and put that in some funnel. The tech worked, I created lovely graphs of conversat
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I think the difference is SD is generating strictly derivative work from inputs where the human is synthesizing and creating from reference.
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Yes. It’s weird that moving an asteroid into orbit and taking its stuff is probably easier than being allowed to take the stuff from the ground. But here we are. I find the asteroid mining interesting because it introduces post scarcity lev
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I suppose we’ll have to mine asteroids for these minerals. Probably better get back on that “space” thing.
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They are part of a 1940s treaty. But it’s more about what’s not being considered in the drought solution. The US can back out if it chooses. That’s not the best first option, but if it comes down to it that should be considered. The water r
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by jwie 4y ago
Consumer water restrictions are 8th order concerns. If we had a serious government in the United States they’d be talking about our annual export of 4.887e11 gallons of water to Mexico from the Colorado River. That’s 1.5 million acre-feet f
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by jwie 4y ago
Hire a consultant to look at your CV. I used levels.fyi had a great experience. If you’re not getting recruiters it’s because you’re not matching keywords. If you can get in front of hiring managers, past the ATS and recruiter screen that i
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by jwie 4y ago
Go to Church. Or perhaps you have to decide how to fill this particular restlessnesses. Everyone experiences it. I learned a few things about how to be a manager by playing World of Warcraft and EverQuest so it’s not all bad. You have to fi
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After the Salesforce acquisition SF may believe they no longer need this funnel, since Slack now has access to all Salesforce customers and vice versa.
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Its a full footprint measurement. Coal miner deaths for instance count against it. A study attempted to aggregate fatalities from atmospheric effects from emissions. It does make nuclear look particularly good, but this is also because it i
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Nuclear power is not without risk. Those risks are far more attractive compared to the risks of not using it. Nuclear power is far simpler than people would intuitively believe. The nuclear reactor boils water at scale, the steam spins an e
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The lack of accidents is due to a lack of accidents. Part of it is training, part of it safety interlocks. There are near misses but nothing that would really scare anyone who knew how these things work. The Russian reactors on the other ha
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by jwie 4y ago
The unlimited budget and the fuel comes from political will so I don’t understand your point.
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The US Navy has been training 20 year old kids to operate the things for almost 70 years. I was one of them. Westinghouse and GE build and refuel, and decommission the existing nuclear reactors in the fleet today. It’s hard work, but we hav
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by jwie 4y ago
This is a very important point. The externalities of nuclear are actually containable because they are so small. Hundreds of kilos of waste product compared to billions in spent fuel products. The heavy industry footprints of logistics to c
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by jwie 4y ago
Anti nuclear fearmongering is based on ignorance for the most part, and a kind of exploitative cynicism on the other. Most people just don’t know how safe nuclear power is. I worked on a nuclear reactor personally. We used to joke that the
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by jwie 4y ago
Microsoft has acquired Bethesda, will probably acquire Activision-Blizzard, and has purchased other, smaller studios in the past already. I wonder what’s driving the desire to buy up video game publishers. There probably aren’t many left at
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by jwie 4y ago
Being a 10x, or aspiring to be such a thing, is a bit odd. You should strive to improve the output of others. Being a .5x developer, but giving everyone on your team a small multiplier on impactful work is far more valuable than prolific ou
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Migrating to the United States or Europe for these desperate souls seems the least risky option. Sure the journey is difficult and you might die, but this isn’t worse than the alternative of starvation or enslavement in the place from which
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I suppose it depends on if you think about a “fact month”, that is the series of days people experience, or the formal calendar months as the things being handled by the system. The daylight savings time transition doesn’t “shorten” or “len
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by jwie 4y ago
The surveillance for higher status workers is more about always having a reason to manage out a worker more than actually optimizing anything, like they do with lower status workers. We have this problem in the US armed forces rather acutel
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I understand that. But why have constraints that don’t do anything?
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You would think they would be saving (and charging the customer!) a bundle not enforcing constraints on their tables. I’d be very interested to hear the Snowflake side of this decision, but to the customer it’s simply unforgivable to have c
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I expect attrition is priced into the pension at some level, or worse, it needs these contributions to function at all. This is perhaps best for the profession, but it is systematic theft from another point of view. Even if you don’t contri
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I’d live with corruption if they were at least competent at delivering essential services. I expect most only complain about corruption because the basics aren’t being delivered, not out of a sense of civic responsibility.

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