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by lacker 2y ago
But that neighborhood is already full of bland-looking vaguely modernist mansions. This style is a perfect fit for the area!
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by lacker 3y ago
Is China really selling solar panels at below the cost of production? There seem to be a number of Germans making this claim, but the article never really tries to analyze whether this is true or not. It seems like a big difference whether
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by lacker 3y ago
It seems like a detail but I think it's a shame that this screen shows browsers in a randomized order. It rewards the janky browsers that will never be large but get above the threshold (like this Opera browser) and then use this boost
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by lacker 3y ago
Physics academia has the same problem. Maybe worse. In some physics subfields, postdocs are just writing Python code most of the day. There's a lot of financial incentive for the best ones to simply ditch physics.
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by lacker 3y ago
Yeah, this is also good for donors. When you donate money to a professor's work through a university, the university ends up taking maybe a 30% cut. But if you donate to some independent institute that's controlled by the same pro
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by lacker 3y ago
I think cars will stop crashing sooner than rockets stop blowing up.
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by lacker 3y ago
Rest in peace David. He was a great human being who helped a lot of others.
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by lacker 3y ago
They should just call it "1 mn" where mn stands for "marketing nanometer"
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by lacker 3y ago
Sell build-related services to companies. Imagine GitHub Actions, but it's cleanly built into your Python tooling in some reasonable way, so it's just the natural thing to use. I think it's pretty straightforward, although we
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by lacker 3y ago
6.8% seems like a pretty reasonable target for non-regrettable attrition. GE famously aimed at firing the bottom 10% of performers every year. In Facebook engineering management the internal target was 6% IIRC. It feels a bit paradoxical be
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by lacker 3y ago
Huh, this area is more controversial than I had realized. I think you're grabbing that quote from this article: https://oaklandside.org/2021/07/08/protected-bicycle-lanes-t... But even the head of OakDOT
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by lacker 3y ago
I'm not convinced these changes makes the street safer. It's purely anecdotal, but nearby me in North Oakland there are several intersections that I often walk along where it seems like they just keep putting more stuff in the str
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by lacker 3y ago
Isn't that exactly the view of reality that the Israeli right wing holds? They would agree that the choices are either dismantling the state of Israel, or eternal warfare. Since they don't want to dismantle the state of Israel, th
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by lacker 3y ago
These layoffs are 1900 people out of 22,000 people in the gaming division, or 9% of the group. It's sad for the people involved, but this seems pretty standard, honestly, after a big acquisition. The combination of "people whose j
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by lacker 3y ago
I think it is a mistake to be too abstract about "free speech" issues. Colleges are inevitably going to permit some speech and not others, among their professors and students. The issue now is that the political consensus among un
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by lacker 3y ago
I think this is good. I rarely watch network TV, and when I do I'm surprised by how maliciously misleading the advertisements often are. Every "only $X per month" claim is undercut by something explaining that it doesn't
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by lacker 3y ago
I quit when I had found a cofounder that I wanted to start a startup with, and enough money in the bank to keep me afloat if I didn't have a regular income for a couple years.
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by lacker 3y ago
They built their own symbolic geometry engine, called DDAR. The IMO judges will typically let you get away with much less rigor than a symbolic engine like this produces, so I don't think they are taking advantage of any of these conve
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by lacker 3y ago
Yes, and even the non-neural-network, symbolic plus linear algebra component of AlphaGeometry is able to outperform the previous state of the art. So a decent amount of work here went into the components that aren't neural networks at
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by lacker 3y ago
The incentive to compete in the IMO is that it's fun to do math contests, it's fun to win math contests, and (if you think that far ahead as a high schooler) it looks good on your resume. None of that incentive will go away if the
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by lacker 3y ago
When a human solves these problems, you might state a "step" in natural language. Like, "apply a polar transformation to this diagram". But that same single step, if you translate into a low-level DSL, could be dozens of
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by lacker 3y ago
These conditions are onerous enough that the Kindle app probably still cannot handle in-app purchases. It's really pretty annoying that I have to leave the Kindle iOS app and go to the Kindle web app to make a purchase. Obviously it wo
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by lacker 3y ago
One great things about the tech industry is that it includes people from many sorts of backgrounds. People from many different countries and many different cultures, especially immigrants. China, India, and eastern Europe are heavily repres
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by lacker 3y ago
This sort of math team is pretty rare. I was an IMO medalist myself but my high school didn't have a math team. Personally, I just liked solving all sorts of puzzles and math problems and other sorts of contests. There's nothing l
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by lacker 3y ago
Just play quick unrated blitz games. Then when you lose it doesn't matter for anything. After a while, you will start to think "hmm, it's more fun when I get an opponent who's close to an even match with me". And th
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by lacker 3y ago
Yes, in particular you need to learn to develop your pieces. If you don't develop your pieces then you won't have cool tactics to do. Once you learn a basic opening that helps you feel comfortable developing your minor pieces out,
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by lacker 3y ago
What is even the benefit of being physically located right next to Jupiter, if you have to stay enclosed in 10 meters of ice at all times? Sure, you have an hour lag or so to communicate from Earth, but that seems easier to solve than all t
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by lacker 3y ago
For what it's worth, the CX-9 since 2019 at least does allow you to use CarPlay with touch, or the scroll wheel, either one. Personally I strongly prefer the scroll wheel but it sounds like peoples' opinions differ on this.
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by lacker 3y ago
2019 CX-9
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by lacker 3y ago
Well, I can see it being a personal preference. I rent a bunch of different SUVs when I travel so I have some experience with most of the different companies' alternatives. Some of them have rotary knobs / scroll wheels, some don&

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