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by jxf 3y ago
Generally I think the message of the post with respect to democratizing access is fine, but I find this part rankling: > "Experts" in high growth tech will tell you that you should only ever made senior/experienced hires,
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by jxf 3y ago
> The hardest part of implementing a quantum state vector simulation is understanding how the tensor product expands an n-qubit gate to apply to an m-qubit system. (A third of the linked post is dedicated to it; appropriately.) This fee
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by jxf 3y ago
> You’re just probably repeating things you’ve read in another place. This one is a very poor argument to me. Should textbooks not exist because they're just "repeating things you've read in another place"?
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by jxf 3y ago
But how many apples do you have just prior to the scenario starting?
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by jxf 3y ago
> What's to say that (a) the mosquitos won't develop a resistance to the surfactants, as they do to conventional insecticides You can't really "develop a resistance" to something that is fundamental to your genet
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by jxf 3y ago
What does "sorted" mean in this context? What is in each set?
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by jxf 3y ago
If they're taking OP's money but denying them the service, that's not okay. You don't have to do business in Russia, but you shouldn't get to take money from regular Russians and then turn around to block them.
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by jxf 3y ago
The ability to render pictures inline (imo).
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by jxf 3y ago
The game state and the heuristic need some extra information, since (spoiler?) Mario leaves the screen during the lead-up to the warp zones, and it doesn't look like it can account for that sort of positioning.
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by jxf 3y ago
Dropbox is the classic example, where a commenter on this very website wrote: > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using
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by jxf 3y ago
> This is exactly why simple, concise writing is essential, and their wall of text is...not it. I only skimmed this but felt it was clear. They're asking for TypeScript, as part of the type erasure, to emit the type information it h
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by jxf 3y ago
> I don’t see the relevance. Your question was "What's something that isn't an eyesore?", then went on to suggest that "eyesores" are not all bad since they can provide public funding for fixing problems. I
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by jxf 3y ago
Most people don't think that nature is an eyesore, and many national parks are significant tourism generators for their local economies.
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by jxf 3y ago
Q: The article doesn't say much on this point, but are there any hints about why Goldman was losing so much money on consumer lending at a time when other lenders seem to be doing comparatively better?
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by jxf 3y ago
I'm not sure it's accurate to characterize HN as "the last bastion of free discourse".
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by jxf 3y ago
The issue isn't companies doing it as much as it is state-enforced regulatory capture that prefers specific companies over others.
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by jxf 3y ago
> For example, hired person appreciates the opportunity/faith extended to them, or otherwise picks up on the need to rise to the occasion. I don't think it would make sense to tell a hired person "you barely got in here, e
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by jxf 3y ago
Well, for example, many gas pumps aren't 24/7, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were less than 97% availability.
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by jxf 3y ago
This is a false dichotomy. They can enable the dependency graph feature without repurposing your data for machine learning.
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by jxf 3y ago
Q: what does "must work 97% of the time" mean? Like, 97% availability?
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by jxf 3y ago
> any algorithm that doesn't have general consensus among experts that it is unlikely to be broken in 100 years Does that algorithm exist and are its performance constraints acceptable to you? If not, you have your answer about why
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by jxf 3y ago
What's an example of a business problem that's worth $2,000 to solve but where people only want to pay $200/12 months? Most of the ones in this range feel like they're handled by low-code/no-code tooling.
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by jxf 3y ago
Is there context on this? I'd be interested in the history of what happened and why Eggert is no longer involved.
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by jxf 3y ago
If I understand correctly, DevCycle is new, but Taplytics (from that YC batch) is the parent. DevCycle doesn't seem to be a decade old.
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by jxf 3y ago
ExpertsExchange was before my time, but was it "toxic" or was it just simply not as good?
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by jxf 3y ago
This isn't accurate. There are any number of XSS attacks that can be performed, which then allow you to look at secrets or tokens in localStorage, for example.
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by jxf 3y ago
Any examples that come to mind? That sounds like a positive signal.
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by jxf 3y ago
American cheese is different from other kinds of cheese. Canadian bacon is different from other types of bacon. English muffins are different from other types of muffins. OP isn't trying to be "fancy", they're trying to
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by jxf 3y ago
> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question. I can almost guarantee that this person doesn't want to be interrupted in their work at random by people "just walking over to ask a question".
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by jxf 3y ago
But that's not unique to an electric car, and that's also not fundamentally different than if the passenger were 2 kg heavier.

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