krmboya

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by krmboya 3y ago
Bot activity had been an issue on the platform for years. Perhaps they've decided to cut off all bots so that only humans are left there
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by krmboya 3y ago
The exceedingly wealthy live lives that are most disconnected from hard reality. In a sense, they've abstracted themselves from concerns of a typical human being because they are very atypical, extreme outliers, in view of human histor
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by krmboya 3y ago
Can the West still be characterized as Judeo-christian? Western culture seems largely liberal at this point with the more religious people being lumped to the right wing. It is said many churches/cathedrals in Europe are now appreciate
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by krmboya 3y ago
I remember noticing reposurgeon when it is used to move emacs over to git http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6524 Hope ESR is faring well now healthwise. His writings were very influential to younger me getting into computing and le
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by krmboya 3y ago
Insightful video, thanks for sharing. I use solar at home and the battery is actually the most expensive and least durable component of the system. Also the battery disposal story is not great (at least at the moment).
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by krmboya 3y ago
I heard something like this a while ago. Paraphrasing: A company is first run by engineers (becomes a well made product that people love), then it is run by MBAs (so that it looks good on the balance sheet), then it is run by lawyers (to ex
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by krmboya 3y ago
For thousands of years human existence, society made adjustments based on effects of observed harmful activities and habits, and codified them in the form of taboos and myths to pass them down to future generations. This happened without em
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by krmboya 3y ago
Some of us have to keep our CVs up to date, but others have it so good that the media maintains their CV in the public for free!
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by krmboya 3y ago
What's the story for safe disposal/recycling of used batteries?
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by krmboya 3y ago
One the issue of uploaded credentials, is there a chance that a portion contain dummy placeholder values in config files, or are they hardcoded?
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by krmboya 3y ago
It may be useful to collect metrics to get insights, but if they are publicized as a measure of performance, it's likely they'll be gamed, making them less useful.
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by krmboya 3y ago
Outside the sphere of Western cultural influence mortgages are not a strong financial norm.
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by krmboya 3y ago
Did you mean 'customer support'?
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by krmboya 4y ago
Are you Knuth?
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by krmboya 4y ago
Did the number of jobs of people coding in assembly go down, or is it that the number of jobs of people not coding in assembly go up? (I truly don't know. Just curious)
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by krmboya 4y ago
And there are some cultures that lived exclusively on meat based diets
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by krmboya 4y ago
The VCs offered free bandwidth and storage to gain market share. Bandwidth and storage is not ultimately not free, it has to be paid for.
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by krmboya 4y ago
The kid may turn out better if they can be taught to rise above the ridicule, rather than being shielded from it
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by krmboya 4y ago
Carmack, a 'hardcore' programmer, left due to frustration with how much political clout you need to get things done at facebook scale. Elon Musk is seemingly focused on bringing 'hardcore' engineering to Twitter, and is
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by krmboya 4y ago
The biggest threat I see about AI is concentrating power over many in the hands of the few. Kind of like atomic bombs. Some manifestations of this are how the tiktok algorithm that is rewiring the attention span of millions globally is cont
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by krmboya 4y ago
I found this page on one of the LFE books that explains in brief the original problem and constraints https://lfe.io/books/sicp/fm/preface-3/erlang.html
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by krmboya 4y ago
What does the Common Lisp consulting market look like? If one puts themselves out there (build reputation on the Internet) as a CL programmer, are they likely to land consulting gigs?
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by krmboya 4y ago
Thank you! Sounds much less intimidating. My fear with machine translations is that subtle errors here and there might throw me off in something like math where things are precisely stated. A year of part time study sounds doable though
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by krmboya 4y ago
I've been flirting with the idea of working through all of Leonard Euler's publications (as a life goal). Many of them are still not translated from Latin, so there's a possibility I may have to learn it. Anyone knows how lon
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by krmboya 4y ago
I have not yet become significantly better, and not a math book, but I recently read A mathematicians Lament by Paul Lockhart and it resonated so much with me that I plan to take another stab at math different from how it is taught in schoo
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by krmboya 4y ago
It's a cycle. Corrupt leaders run things to the ground while enriching themselves, necessitating external loans to be used to 'rescue' the situation. Guess who's in charge of administering the loans, the same corrupt lea
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by krmboya 4y ago
Thank you. I'll check them out for more information
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by krmboya 4y ago
Are you able to recommend some resources to get started with permaculture. I'm also in 'tech' but I've recently been developing an interest in 'living off the land' and would like to have my feet in both areas
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by krmboya 4y ago
Damn! It's leaky abstractions again
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by krmboya 4y ago
Can I humbly suggest that it's definitions and instances 'all the way down'

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