kayo_20211030

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by kayo_20211030 3mo ago
A very insightful, and correct, piece. I'll quote in full the following, which I think gets to the heart of the matter. If you have no push, you can't apply pressure to the point. > The notion that amateurs talk tactics and pro
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by kayo_20211030 3mo ago
This is a really cool piece. It's well written and I enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for posting it.
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by kayo_20211030 3mo ago
I'm glad it's back. Elm had such a remarkable elegance I was always rooting for it.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Good piece. However "can I pick your brain?" isn't great unless you lay out the boundaries. About what? Be clear. OTOH, > make it easy to say no is the best piece of advice amongst many other pieces of good advice
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Zero Mostel's Testimony Before the Committee on Un-American Activities(nypl.org)
2 points by kayo_20211030 4mo ago|1 comments
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
This bloke was a good bloke.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
If you read this piece backwards it makes a heap of sense. Relationships should be like opinions.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Good grief! That's crazy.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
It's the "defamatory" and "negligence" bits that are interesting. What's wrong can be obviously defamatory, and negligence speaks to an expectation of a duty of care on the part of the providers of the informat
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Could LLM's libel an individual? What's the duty of care for LLM's? Who would that person sue, should it come to that?
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
The restaurant seems to be trying real hard to externalize its costs, pushing its previous costs (menus/billing/staff) onto the diners, and hoping that the value of the experience hadn't been so diminished that the diner woul
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
I loved Zope (and ZODB). No matter what I said, I could never convince the higher-ups it was the way to go. In retrospect, they were probably right. But those technologies were magnificent.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Aaah. I get it now. Athena -> Minerva.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
For sure. Everywhere. Even observationally, we just all know it's hotter, or wetter, or colder - it's all way more extreme in all dimensions.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
I lived in Munich many years ago, but if the temperature ever went to the high thirties for more than a day we'd expect the end of the world :-)
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
> In favorable climates, NVIDIA’s 45-degree liquid-cooling architecture .... What's a favorable climate, apart from, obviously, Greenland? The piece is a little light on details on the correlation between outside temperatures and ef
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Let's go, tes-co!
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
> ... tasks like auto-generating documentation, scaffolding schema files, and enforcing naming patterns. The kind of stuff that everyone agrees should be standardized but nobody wants to do by hand Does everyone agree on this? Or is it
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
I dunno. I can go to Tesco in Ireland and the UK (fine, UK is not EU no more, but still Europe) and get a sim without ID.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
David Cameron may be the biggest idiot in almost 300 years of British Prime Ministers, and there's been a few beauties. He really could have done a better job with the whole referendum business. Up/Down only. No "by a majorit
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
I don't think that's true. At least not in the European countries I visit.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Yes. Generally, it's quite good. It does have a blind spot with parens, but good old Claude Opus then cranks up a python script (yes!) to sort it all out. I wouldn't leave any of the models out on their own - you'll still hav
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Right. Anything that matters a blind bit to me is on WhatsApp (don't judge!), I don't consume too much from other sources, and when I do I don't expect anything more than a sensible person would expect. It is what it is. Choo
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
> A simplistic answer is that evolution has made each cell the size best suited to its function. Yeah. That's probably it. Really, it probably is the right answer.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
I reckon that OP did the work and that the map is correct. The CA/NV border seems weird. Under Mercator, you're insisting that the angles are correct in the projection. It just looks a little strange - with all those straight line
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
> “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” Right.
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
lol
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Thanks and very fun. The graphic "The United States of Voronoi" is another reminder of why the mercator projection is so counter-intuitive at times.
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Indian Indenture System(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by kayo_20211030 4mo ago|0 comments
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by kayo_20211030 4mo ago
Yup. A big yawn. It seems like it ought to deep and insightful, but is, as you say, "basically a story about conman/drug guy interwoven with biographical information and anecdotes about how this impacted his family". There&#x

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