lamontcg

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by lamontcg 3y ago
Playing around with ML and being forced to use python, I find having no block termination character and selecting which context a line of code is in by how much you un-indent it, is the worst. Give me braces and rip a formatter across the w
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by lamontcg 3y ago
FWIW, I tend to write a lot of error checking code that checks for division by zero ahead of time and just returns zero instead. Found an example: public double magnitude { get { do
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by lamontcg 3y ago
(well an hour after it was posted it was only at 3 votes and looked like it was going nowhere...)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The legal system can generally deal with anything that falls through the cracks. There's probably not a whole lot of massively society-impacting fraud in the death certificate system if a whole hospital can run off of technically fraud
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Original paper was posted here 7 years ago and also go no interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13332184
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Kind of funny -- if I understand this correctly -- that Javascript was descended from Scheme which has delimited continuations and yet Javascript has async/await and function coloring nonsense, while ruby has continuations and fibers a
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, almost made me think of unquitting my old job for half a second or so.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They didn't comment on what they think good design was so its just pretty uselessly taking a swipe at Ruby. They may be correct that languages made more recently are better designed from the start because they can work around issues t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Bigger practical issue with "AI safety" is the fallout from low-cost / high velocity bullshit generators. The "AGI safety" issues are a distraction away from the ways that LLMs can be used to pollute the public disc
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Are scientists discovering anyone who is immune to zoom fatigue? Because I went full-time WFH in 2015 or so and never experienced it and have never understood what people are talking about. I hate IRL meetings much more when you want to hid
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I still use MacOS and Linux, which is still the "old days" and its been 20+ years since the last time I had issues with getting hacked. A lot of the solution is just not to install random shit out of app stores, and to install sof
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by lamontcg 3y ago
yeah, they really sound like they're all high on their own supply. however if they've really got something that can eventually solve math problems better than wolfram alpha / mathematica that's great, i got real disappoi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
If they're doing it, they're clearly going to say that they're not.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> massive PTO minimums or a 30-hour workweek and WFH. i stopped staying up until 3am+ and coming into work dead tired when i started WFH full time. still didn't cure all my insomnia issues, but stopped the entirely self-inflicted on
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by lamontcg 3y ago
* Gross margin: 80% (hey this one is pretty good) * Operating margin: -62% * Net margin: -57% * Return on Equity: -22% * Return on Invested Capital: -21% Their sales and marketing is pretty bloated and is destroying all of their gross profi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Things like vibration and Pogo oscillation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation ). All the engines collectively have about twice the thrust of a Saturn S-IC first stage (on the Saturn V rocket) and they&#x27
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by lamontcg 3y ago
So you're saying we already invented the AGIs that are taking over the planet, enslaving the human race and don't really care about us or the condition of the Earth?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Term project: draw Sundar Pichai's total comp over the graph of Baker's comp without using a log scale.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'd walk more when WFH because you can get out for a half hour in the middle of the day (particularly when its sunny) and you're not commuting to/from work and spending all day under fluorescents in the office (and its the wi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They can do whatever they like to harass you, including arrest you. You may or may not have a civil rights case afterwards, but probably not unless their behavior was particularly egregious. "You can beat the rap, but you can't b
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That wasn't new in 2012, I can remember it being discussed back in 2006 and that SUV graph continues back in time to around 1985-1990 or so. Doubt they manage to close the loophole, it is too profitable.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, I worked for 12 years on the chef-client so I'm well aware of that.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> To software engineers who worked on stuff like this: how do you sleep at night? Their salary is getting paid. Decent chance these days most of them work in India. > To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in yo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah so Vizio made $502.5M in device revenue and $57.3M in Platform+ gross profit. So if the devices cost 11.4% more that'd compensate for the elimination of Platform+ profit. And depending on the accounting it could be much less than
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Chef's omnibus installation is a full ruby interpreter along with associated support libraries like openssl and everything more or less above glibc necessary to run the client. It may not be binary only but there's ~100MB of so o
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Chef and Puppet and other "control plane" software would satisfy that definition.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> People forget how much the cost of a SmartTV is subsidized with the data collection. People keep saying this with zero proof or evidence. We used to be able to buy TVs that were pretty nice and intelligent and didn't have all the
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Unity is a good "poster boy" for the unprofitable, bloated, economic value destroying tech company that was created in a ZIRP environment. Many of these companies should start going bankrupt before too long as their debt hits thei
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I find it comforting that even if we drive ourselves to extinction, life itself will continue on. Given that the Universe is probably infinite, and certainly so stupidly big that there's no way this planet is unique, life will al

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