kaveh_h

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by kaveh_h 2y ago
Distribution of Culture is way different now that internet enables virtual cultures to exist which have less physical barrier.
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
When +10-15% of work force is laid off it’s not due to boss key, but idiot bosses who don’t think ahead. But on the other side Boss key do happen due to demoralized workers realize they are working for idiot bosses making bad decisions or b
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
From my reading US sales tax are only state level and usually much lower than 25%. Around 5-10%. Also 5 states have no sales tax at all.
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
I saw that Claude 3.7 Sonnet both regular and thinking was available for Github Copilot (Pro) 5 hours ago for me, I enabled it and tried it out a couple of times, but for the past hour the option has disappeared. I'm situated in Europe
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
Not a lot of them, but Trump accuse EU of tariffs because it has VAT. That’s not the same thing because VAT apply to domestic companies as well so there’s no real unfair advantage. You could make the claim that it’s still worse for foreign
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
A lot of there ”investments” are probably in form of a credits to use on training compute from hyperscalars and other GPU compute data centers. Look at previous such investments Microsoft and AWS have done in OpenAI and Anthropic. They need
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
Demos Habassis from DeepMind have already spun off a drug discovery company based on AlphaFold v3 which is proprietary. Others have developed Deep Learning based weather forecast models which much cheaper (orders of magnitude less compute),
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
Why must the device be so cheap? Is the intent to have one serve each plant? Why can’t one serve many plants?
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by kaveh_h 2y ago
Do you think people can learn something from simulation games that’s inherently hard to learn from mere language or mathematics? Is it possible to create good simulation games of substantial global events and the subsequent possible outcome
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
As a freelancer and consultant I’ve seen this drive or urge for simplifying coding go to the extreme to become pointless or even very damaging at a larger scale. An idea that sometimes popup in some ambitious people are usually centered aro
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
That’s assuming frontends need to be ”developed” at all in the future. There’s a possibility intelligent chat bots able to generate microfrontends on the fly is going to eat our lunch, but what is really going to eat the lunches is a failin
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
My thought exactly. Would be interesting if they shared metric of pre and post level of DDoS attacks so there was some proof this scheme actually has desired effect.
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
This project could perhaps be adopted by Wikimedia foundation. With a good web ui for contributors to add variants and knowledge which could be stored in the wikidata knowledge graph.
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
Nice article, although the part on fuzzy search not being supported by PostgreSQL is partly incorrect. The pg_trgm extension and an GIN trigram index supports the use case of fuzzy search like in the example in this article: https:/&#
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
This would be the case if you’re a purist, but you can be practical and allow physical deletions of certain record just for this reason.
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by kaveh_h 3y ago
In < 10 years or so we’ll have fully self driving cars. After some time there will smaller versions that can run on smaller roads even. By that time robo taxis won’t have to park in the central parts of cities but can simply park in chea
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by kaveh_h 4y ago
It’s been an amazoing productivity booster. Both in terms of reasoning capability and how it improves my context switching ability from one language and set of problems to another. I’ve used it as a much smarter SO and Google for understand
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by kaveh_h 4y ago
This is good mostly for improving quality of software and reducing technical debt. But not much good for innovation.
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by kaveh_h 4y ago
That’s really interesting as the as the word ’sim’ in modern farsi (persian) also mean cord or line. It seems according to wiktionary ( https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%ADma#Icelandic ) that the Word has Proto-Ind
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by kaveh_h 4y ago
You could also end up with some serious illness when you're young and in need of special care without which you don't have any opportunity to build that income you're talking about. Each additional person being able to cont
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by kaveh_h 4y ago
If it saved you 4hrs/day you could serve more clients if you we’re working as freelancer and therefor more than offset the cost. If you’re an employee then use that additional 4hrs to focus on other things.
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by kaveh_h 5y ago
A bit of algebra is good to know but more math knowledge is really only required if you want to work in a domain which requires it like Machine Learning, graphics engines, Scientific Computing, algorithm development and some other domains.
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by kaveh_h 5y ago
It’s called taxation, in the Middle ages peasants we’re taxed by the King and the only thing offered was protection. Government services is a modern world thing.
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by kaveh_h 5y ago
This is perhaps true of revenue tax. But for VAT You can deduct VAT of sales from VAT of purchases.
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by kaveh_h 6y ago
You don’t necessarily need to enforcement at the whole region but at the perimeter where heavy machinery and cargo need to pass to reach customers. But since this comes with a big cost still UN should help out with enforcing such laws.
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by kaveh_h 6y ago
I didn’t down vote you. Multinational companies are not bringing profits home. This was perhaps the best decision Trump made was to even the playing field and brought it down to about the same as most EU countries. Europe is a much larger p
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by kaveh_h 6y ago
DJT fucked both US and EU when it started to create a wedge with trade tariffs and other issues. Instead of strengthening EU and US ties he weakened it and gives china more space to operate in. China can play any games it wants when the res
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by kaveh_h 7y ago
The second sock syndrome is perhaps never an issue if you have a real environment of collaboration, comadrerie or even apprenticeship. Just more yarn and code by yourself is not going to cut it for long unless you have an external motivator
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by kaveh_h 7y ago
Face it, FANG companies are mega corporations. All that made them good in the eyes of most employees vaporized when they grow much bigger and they lose their culture. That means less autonomy for the new employees (how many remember mythica
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by kaveh_h 7y ago
One question to those who dislike web scraping as they deem it infringes copyright laws. Given that Google scrapes LinkedIn public profiles and add data from it to it’d index and when presenting search results, is it then not discrimination

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