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by kentm 2y ago
He also tried to get the DoJ to label the election as suspicious. Don’t have an immediate reference for that but it was surfaced by the Jan 6 committee.
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by kentm 2y ago
Stocks here almost certainly means stock-picking, vs investing in broad market-tracking funds (ETFs). Historically, people are terrible at picking good stocks and have much better returns investing in ETFs that track things like the S&P
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by kentm 2y ago
Even removing entertainment wouldn’t solve the problem because these devices have been engineered to be ad delivery platforms. You would have to ban advertising on the device.
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by kentm 2y ago
Good point but money has diminishing marginal utility so I wouldn’t be surprised if Bezos sees it that way.
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by kentm 2y ago
Still love the car!
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by kentm 2y ago
You are incorrect about the original iPhone. It was marginally thicker but it had smaller width and height than current iPhones.
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by kentm 2y ago
Yes. I recently did this with Armored Core 6.
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by kentm 2y ago
My view is that modern advertising has become indistinct from stalking. I have no idea how we can fix this but the ad tech industry has shown a gross inability to self regulate.
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by kentm 2y ago
Aggressive marketing is 100% manipulation and dark patterns. There is no line to cross.
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by kentm 2y ago
Indeed. After being brow beat into using it MS rewarded me by syncing my personal PCs desktop shortcuts to the family PC resulting in a screen full of broken shortcuts. Good jorb MS.
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by kentm 2y ago
It also doesn’t nag if you decide not to use it.
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by kentm 2y ago
This is why I generally tried to support physical games that are playable on release. But that is a losing battle. It’s still likely that I can drop in a brand new PS5 or Switch game and play it with no network connection, but I expect that
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by kentm 2y ago
Yes. The bloom filters tend to be useful on queries that are doing lookups on specific values for high-cardinality columns. For example, "SELECT * FROM ... WHERE ids IN ('guid1', 'guid2', 'guid3', ...)&q
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by kentm 2y ago
Agreed. I don't really understand the mindset of someone who would consider this sort of hedging a smell. A candidate being able to take vague requirements and clearly state different solutions for different scenarios is an excellent
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by kentm 2y ago
The issue for me is that Microsoft is increasingly desperate for Windows to become a tablet OS. This is leading to a lot of design choices that make it annoying to use on the desktop. This is on top of desperate monitization schemes that cr
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by kentm 3y ago
I'm beginning to believe that it's just impossible to do advertising ethically. The hypothesis is that an advertising firm that attempts to do so will perform worse than ones doing unethical things, and eventually lose customers.
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by kentm 3y ago
What did you replace it with?
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by kentm 3y ago
Amazon does use non-bipedal robots in some FCs. Not sure what the current state of rollout is, but they are small robots that lift and carry entire shelves to where pickers work to pack boxes. The act of taking items and putting them in th
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by kentm 3y ago
Yeah, exactly this. Companies want live services because they want to charge recurring fees. Customers want to buy and own software.
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by kentm 3y ago
Agreed. There's an important difference between things like Kafka & Kinesis vs RabbitMQ & SQS. The latter are conceptually queues, and the former are conceptually logs. Logs and queues can both be used in many of the same us
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by kentm 3y ago
Charitably, they probably meant the process by which the parameterized query string itself is built, in the case where you need a dynamic query structure.
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by kentm 3y ago
Snowflake only really offers SQL (with UDFs) to do data transforms. Spark offers SQL, but also code-based solutions (Python, Scala, Java) that can be used to scale things like ML pipelines and non-SQL transforms.
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by kentm 3y ago
Well I guess that means it’s going to the moon then.
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by kentm 3y ago
> So the bad guys are not the ones making an alternative client that makes money off of Reddit while not displaying their ads? Oh, okay. Correct.
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by kentm 3y ago
I'd respect them more if they just came out and admitted it.
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by kentm 3y ago
Even old.reddit.com has gotten bad. I have an annoying persistent problem that ads auto-play with sound, despite being disabled in my Reddit options and in my browser options. I've re-enabled and re-disabled all of these options and
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by kentm 3y ago
Yeah, frankly for a hacker or enthusiast this is probably not an issue, but if you're looking for something like PiHole or a small emulation box then the fact that the Pi is "standard" and has standard drop-in solutions is wo
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by kentm 3y ago
Yeah, maybe instead of salespeople saving their time they could work to save our time instead.
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by kentm 3y ago
No we don’t need a relationship. It is transactional, and the fact that they think they need a relationship wastes time and aggravates me. Yes it’s better for them if they “build a relationship” because it better enables them to upsell,
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by kentm 3y ago
Which ones at the $50-$75 price point? Edit: Thanks for all the responses, got some good options!

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