lanza

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by lanza 3y ago
Why do people post worthless anecdotes like this when we know from trivially available data that Google makes over a hundred billion dollars per year from search.
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by lanza 3y ago
You don't understand what opensource means...
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by lanza 3y ago
I mean... your argument is structurally the same as his. "I once saw X happen and thus X will happen again."
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by lanza 3y ago
> If almost every post is an ad, then it makes sense. Like others have pointed out, 70-90% of content is an ad on Meta platforms. If you start your statement with hyperbolic nonsense why would I care to read the rest of it? I just checke
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by lanza 3y ago
> Facebook seems to be floundering. The link that we're literally replying to just described that it's growing in all major metrics. Stop letting niche internet communities for clingey geeks over-influence your world views.
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by lanza 3y ago
I'll make sure to let my PhD advisor know he was wrong about me since that's clearly under your jurisdiction.
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by lanza 3y ago
Classical mechanics are fundamentally wrong. They are low energy approximations to reality. "How did the bal go through the hill when it actually didn't have the momentum to do so" is a nonsense question because the equations
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by lanza 3y ago
Justinian
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by lanza 3y ago
From looking at a few different climate charts, Tampa seems drier, but still 1.8 inches. Where I live (Orlando) it averages 2.6 inches this month and weather forecasts have it raining twice over the next week and there was a thunderstorm e
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by lanza 3y ago
I've lived in Florida over 30 years. Mostly in the South, but also for stints in central and northern. I've literally never heard of a "dry season." yay-it's-not-raining-every-single-day-and-the-grass-isn't-flo
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by lanza 4y ago
> When I had to use a dissasembler the issue was not commands, because those become muscle memory after a few hours of use. My few hours of usage is 30 different 5 minute stints over the course of 6 months. I don't remember anything
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by lanza 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by lanza 4y ago
OpenAI is big tech. Also, Apple has nowhere near the AI/ML staff that the rest of the tech giants have.
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by lanza 4y ago
> That is something like saying "the house is not falling down" - you don't need to say it if the house isn't at risk of falling down. I think the statement is true right now, but they are hoping to stem the bleeding
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by lanza 4y ago
> Wait, I thought revenue was growing! How is that not sustainable? If you just leave costs where they are and let revenue grow, you are by definition sustaining/growing the bottom line. Come on man, if you don't understand how
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by lanza 4y ago
I'd definitely explicitly add business to the first entry. Sure you can work in business without a degree, but the experience with the mathematics and ideas that you learn is definitely a huge benefit.
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by lanza 4y ago
As a very fluent user of shell scripting, nothing in shell scripting is idiomatic.
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by lanza 4y ago
> I just hope nobody forgets how prominent VCs behaved during the brief period of uncertainty. The idea of some noble class of investors championing disruption is dead. They're just a bunch of rent seekers like everybody else. For s
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by lanza 4y ago
Eh, your analogy isn't apt. The problem in physics is that the space of possible theories has been searched so exhaustively that what these physicists are doing is just about the only choice. To make your analogy close to physics -- im
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by lanza 4y ago
He didn't staff a team of compiler engineers to do it. Doesn't matter how good it is when mature languages that reach the mainstream all have compilers funded by 10 people at a tech giant and cppfront is just Sutter screwing aroun
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by lanza 4y ago
I've experimented and liked it, but the odds of a language exploding in popularity without a massive investment from tech giants is nearly zero. It's not "may the best language win."
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by lanza 4y ago
Eh. If you worked at google you'd know that 1% performance improvement for C++ is measured in the 10s-100s of millions of dollars.
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by lanza 4y ago
Neat, but I'm convinced after giving it a try that this is absolutely not the way to do music recommendation. The recommendations were complete misses for me.
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by lanza 4y ago
My personal bet is that the tech giants are immune from US regulation. Hurting a tech giant just means that that market position goes to Asia, most likely China.
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by lanza 4y ago
People are so cheap it's ridiculous. If we ever get past people being unwilling to pay for software beyond rates of 1 cent per hour tech will blow up to 10x as big as it is right now.
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by lanza 4y ago
> I understand enough ML to know how hmmmm > We can even think about having a standard to describe and document ML systems (and I would totally look that up because I have the right to know how my keyboard suggests words, why this sea
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by lanza 4y ago
This is such a weird topic. The comparison is between companies that didn't exist 20 years ago like Meta and the 50 year old industry veteran Apple. Of course Apple didn't hire as fast, they were established. That's like sayi
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by lanza 4y ago
> But... Other than the standard library, which might be useful, all of this is already possible. Just write your scripts _in any language_ and launch them via the universal launcher: the command line. How do you not understand why peopl
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by lanza 4y ago
> The keybindings are really the unique selling point of Vim, and you can get them anywhere. How you know somebody doesn't have a clue what they are talking about. That's like saying "chess is a bunch of nerds playing ches
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by lanza 4y ago
You spend way too much time on the internet.

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