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by jxf 4y ago
No; it wouldn't load when I tried.
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by jxf 4y ago
This sounds very interesting but I lack the technical depth in language models to understand it. In particular I can't parse the following excerpt: > The key idea is to continue training a state-of-the-art large language model (e.g.
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by jxf 4y ago
> chipotle is possibly the only fast food / fast casual that feels somewhat healthy. Real, whole food. There are a ton of healthy fast casual places that would meet this description — Cava, Sweetgreen, et cetera. They're certai
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by jxf 4y ago
The cooling effect comes in part from a reduction of light reaching the Earth's surface, lowering the amount of energy that plants receive to grow.
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by jxf 4y ago
You're 100% right; I'm just drawing a comparison for the sake of scale.
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by jxf 4y ago
> These folks were planning to release 500g of sulfur dioxide — that’s completely insignificant, right? Just a POC? Yes, that is a practically undetectable addition of SO2. For reference, the US emitted approximately 2M tons of SO2 in 20
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by jxf 4y ago
Sure you can. For example, regular triangles, squares, and hexagons can all tile the plane, and they're all convex. There are an infinite number of sets of convex shapes which tile the plane.
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by jxf 4y ago
What I mean to say is that compensation is typically negotiated as a _number of shares_, not as a dollar value. The fact that outside investors wanted to pay a surprisingly high amount for those shares is on them. If your company says &quot
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by jxf 4y ago
> Tricking the coinbase execs into giving him one of the highest paying packages for any product exec in history The money was primarily generated from stock and options sales, not salary. If anything, it would be institutional investors
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by jxf 4y ago
That can be a valid reason to reject an analogy. For example, many people who would accept regular police patrols are not fine with the police installing a tireless ALPR scanner.
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by jxf 4y ago
I think there are important differences between this situation and your chef/frozen food analogy that cause it to break down: * A digital image is permanent. A meal, by design, is consumed and has a very specific lifespan. * A digital
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by jxf 4y ago
Aren't we all concerned with spacetime, technically?
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by jxf 4y ago
> Plus, we have a lot of processing power on the client side, which should be utilised. It would be one thing if this was a matter of consent. It isn't. It uses your resources without your permission. Leaving JS on is not permission
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by jxf 4y ago
100%. This is the entire point of unions -- to represent the collective interests of the some segment of (or all) a company's workers.
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by jxf 4y ago
This reads like the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
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by jxf 4y ago
Because slot machines are synthetic dopamine generators and humans have thousands of years of evolution tweaking us to favor dopamine-generating activities.
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by jxf 4y ago
After reading more, "an updated Gopher" sounds like a good summary. I am too young to have interacted with Gopher in its heyday, but I've always thought the idea was neat, and I love the idea of a closer-to-text-mode interfac
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by jxf 4y ago
Not sure if it's just me, but this did nothing to clear up "what the eff" Gemini was for me (and I also thought it was the crypto company at first). It's clear that it's a protocol but I'm unclear what I do wit
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by jxf 4y ago
I think you may just not be looking closely enough. Using your first example, here are things Mt. St. Helens is described as doing in just one contemporaneous article: - roaring - belching - "[knocked down] millions of trees [...] like
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by jxf 4y ago
We remember facts better when they are in story form. For example, suppose I ask 100 people to memorize a list of fifty words, and then I ask you which word was a food item. Many people find this challenging. If I change the experiment so t
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by jxf 4y ago
I have a joint account with my parents. I have a recurring transfer that covers their living expenses go into the account each month.
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by jxf 4y ago
I think my contention is that they can definitely evolve (at least based on personal anecdotes), but that they require a different management style. Sometimes that's okay with an organization, and sometimes it isn't.
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by jxf 4y ago
I don't agree that "there's no hope of working with people like this"; I've had a few "twitchy smart" people in my organizations in the past. This is valuable energy that can be usefully directed with comp
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by jxf 4y ago
Q: Is there anything like a systems architecture diagram for how NOTAM works? I'm curious about which parts might have failed and what the moving pieces are.
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by jxf 4y ago
> I don't want to be the one to advocate for delaying features so we can rename broadcast-service to broadcast-and-new-responsibility-service. That's going to be an unpleasant conversation with your product manager, for good re
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by jxf 4y ago
This kind of quoting doesn't link to the original source without extra steps. With Twitter it's one click.
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by jxf 4y ago
Putting aside the book itself, the website is an excellent masterclass in marketing. I don't think I've ever seen a book launch announcement page that is this impressive in its appreciation of subtlety, nuance, and the user's
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by jxf 4y ago
Fortunately, this RFC only applies to other IETF standards-track documents, and not to lists of books you might be interested in reading. :)
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by jxf 4y ago
I tend to interpret these as not "if you don't read this, you're not a serious software engineer", but rather "if you're a software engineer, you are more likely to enjoy this book".
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by jxf 4y ago
It's a terrible graph (no gridlines!) but if you're willing to open it in an image editor and draw some lines, it becomes pretty clear that wage growth for the 90th percentile is up 5 percentage points over the 10-year period, whi

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