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by klooney 4y ago
I love this article, but now I'm worried my "never say just" schtick will seem derivative.
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by klooney 4y ago
It is incredibly fast. Also, it runs on very small devices: https://nolanlawson.com/2019/09/22/the-joy-and-challenge-of-...
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by klooney 4y ago
He doesn't want to sell all that stock, which would lose him control, and probably move the market around and be even more costly in terms of shares than what it looks like on paper.
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by klooney 4y ago
Tesla got hit for the same thing recently- probably he knew and just didn't care.
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by klooney 4y ago
Isn't the grunt work of moderation mostly outsourced today anyway, meaning those employees aren't on Twitter's books?
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by klooney 4y ago
One confounding factor is who replies to the national crime victims survey, and how that changes over time. We've seen election polling slowly detach from election results, it would be interesting to see an analysis of the cohort of po
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by klooney 4y ago
He's been a prominent opinion writer for almost 20 years and has close ties with a lot of people who work at the NYT he probably knows.
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by klooney 4y ago
Yglesias doesn't think that no investigation should be done or that tech is all good- he has a riff that "Facebook is bad, Facebook employees should feel bad about working there, and they should feel shame admitting where they wor
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by klooney 4y ago
My other point of reference is rubygems, which is strictly worse and has lots of weird pollution issues.
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by klooney 4y ago
As a Python person, GOPATH always made a lot of sense to me. It's just a one variable virtualenv.
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by klooney 4y ago
I got a Pixel phone and spam calls have almost disappeared (1 a month). They seem to be doing something around extra screening that's pretty good and useful.
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by klooney 4y ago
You have to be less accepting of mail in ballot delays.
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by klooney 4y ago
And this is why stock market will keep going up- every two weeks millions of people- and their proxies, via index funds and pension plans- go out and say "welp let's buy some more stocks so we can retire".
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by klooney 4y ago
I'm sure they'll manage the process so that it so that it's a powerless human reading an AI's decision back to you. There's no way to legislate wanting to do a good job.
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by klooney 4y ago
I really should try to go work for Google. It would be worth grinding a little leetcode.
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by klooney 4y ago
https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/mast... it's lgpl or gpl, which is the point of the complaint. GitHub does a ton of work to formalize license management, it's odd that copilo
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by klooney 4y ago
You're right, but the higher your service count gets, the more you should probably be on k8s. Large scale ECS or Lambda stuff is much worse to maintain
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by klooney 4y ago
The MOON tracks on that get me hyped up
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by klooney 4y ago
> BUT ALSO the care and feeding of Kubernetes clusters themselves is a significant time investment AWS and GCP will do this for you for a small markup
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by klooney 4y ago
There's the fentanyl class and the PMC class, and the two rarely meet
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by klooney 4y ago
In fairness, you could say this about the state security services in any major country. Criminals are useful, and will do stuff the state doesn't want to get caught doing.
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by klooney 4y ago
Interestingly, private prisons house a higher percentage of prisoners in the UK than in the US.
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by klooney 4y ago
That pipeline runs through Ukraine to an old & dying oil field- Russia was fighting with Ukraine about transit costs and graft and wanted to turn on Nordstream II next. It wasn't about sticking it to the Germans for no reason.
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by klooney 4y ago
Some calorie measurements are done via bomb calorimeter- you measure before eating, and then, er, after eating, and subtract the difference. So the inefficiency of poop can be baked in. https://arstechnica.com/science/2
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by klooney 4y ago
There's also the light phone- https://www.thelightphone.com/ Same sort of deal as punkt
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by klooney 4y ago
I don't even think it was wrong, it just went on too long. The US had an excellent recovery, but because Congress didn't want to pass automatic stabilizers, and they had a hard time passing laws, they set long expiration times- an
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by klooney 4y ago
I mean there's STEM, and there's the reality that Computer Science is the tent pole discipline that people mean when they say STEM. And Computer Science doesn't actually need much more than English in terms of infrastructur
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by klooney 4y ago
Humanities degrees are mostly people paying for the party (also a great little book), not future Creators Of Great Art.
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by klooney 4y ago
It's such a nightmare for internal scripts. Even for ruby shops where theoretically bundler solves the problem there's all these cowboys with ten external dependencies and no lockfile
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by klooney 4y ago
Verizon's travel pass works pretty well in Mexico, so there's that at least

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