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by lr1970 4y ago
Don't forget a raising star of LazyVim [0] of lazy.nvim fame [0] https://www.lazyvim.org/
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by lr1970 4y ago
> This would be a valid way of thinking about it, but programmers aren't generally judged on their meeting attendance but rather their code output. Not universally. Programmers are judged by overall success or failure of the project
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When talking about errors arguing about error probabilities is not enough. One need to take into account costs of error. A better metric would be "expected cost of error" that multiplies error probabilities by costs of errors (and
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> How do you actually not give up and power through? Break big problem into sequence of small and achievable goals. Getting small gratifications by completing small steps helps to maintain mental balance and avoid burn-out and dead-lock.
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> Since 1975, seatbelts are credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives. It is much easier to attribute outcome of a car accident to presence or absence of seat-belts. It is much harder to determine why a certain car ended up in
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by lr1970 4y ago
Having AM radio is a safety feature not unlike seat-belts. In case of sever weather, thunderstorms, etc cell-phone service can be disrupted and UHF coverage is not great in rural areas. AM radio is the only way to get information in these c
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by lr1970 4y ago
Amazon announced in early March that they are closing cashless stores in Seattle, NYC, etc [0]. Seems that technology is not yet mature for profitability. [0] https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-closing-eight-amazon-go
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by lr1970 4y ago
Most of combating climate change debates implicitly assume that reducing GHG emissions alone will stop or slow down significantly the climate change. I am afraid we already passed that point. At least in short term we should give a serious
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by lr1970 4y ago
> - The author was the original author of rust-analyzer, the LSP for Rust Not only this. matklad is also original author of IntelliJ Rust - another popular IDE.
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by lr1970 4y ago
From the linked article > When we call malloc, we just hope that we have enough stack space for it, we almost never check. malloc allocates on heap, not stack.
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by lr1970 4y ago
Very often asking the _right_ questions is hardest part especially in a non-typical cases. Statistical ML models tend to do well on high-probability regions of data that are densely sampled in training and are less good dealing with outlier
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by lr1970 4y ago
> Accenture plans to slash 19,000 jobs worldwide ... > ... to cut 2.5% of its workforce Holly-Molly, they have 760K employees. What the heck are they all doing?
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by lr1970 4y ago
The github repo has only 5 commits in it and the last one is August 9, 2022. It looks abandoned.
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by lr1970 4y ago
I think that a healthy financial system does not need innovations beyond technological advances in operations and security. Anything else is happening at the expense of the economy at large. Banking (especially depository) should be boring
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> Gen-Z really coming out in the hopes of some sort of college loan relief. Do Gen-Z have enough brains to understand that any sensible college loan relief must be accompanied by stringent control how colleges raise tuition? As it stands
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> - do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft; You are concerned about car theft but not about e-bike theft. How come? Stealing e-bike is so much easier.
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by lr1970 4y ago
My favorite C++ joke -- "Your friends can see your private parts".
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by lr1970 4y ago
Small "-doodles" under 40 lbs fit nicely in NYC apartments. Not shedding and hypoallergenic makes these dogs ideal city pet. They are also very smart (inherited from poodles).
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by lr1970 4y ago
> I wonder how Kim Kardashian programming language looks like. I guess low level but with garbage collector. :D And exposed naked primitives ... :-)
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Meta-verse => meta-worse
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by lr1970 4y ago
This is really crazy. Are we running out of words to name companies: * https://pinecone.io/ - Long-term Memory for AI * https://pynecone.io/ - Frontend. Backend. Hosting. Pure Python. Just one letter differ
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by lr1970 4y ago
> How is that not being held responsible? This is just "cost of doing business" that can be factored in. Management had amble time to sell and reinvest their ill-gotten gains. Someone should go to jail for this -- that would be
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by lr1970 4y ago
> You must also understand that in Russian culture it was common to mock Ukrainians as dumb farmer hicks, while thinking of themselves as highly technologically advanced. Where did you get this info from? My experience growing up in USSR
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by lr1970 4y ago
> If Haraldur intended to bait him Reading Icelandic names like Haraldur evokes strong subconscious aura of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Curious if someone would write a novel (or a parody or a game) about Middle Earth's modern
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by lr1970 4y ago
Why not to sue AirBnB itself for aiding and abetting of renting illegal properties and benefitting from it?
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> IMO: Rivian is ripe for a major investment from an outsider with a lot of cash, (like Amazon,) Amazon already invested billions in Rivian and had to write off the losses. It is not a simple game.
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> People who don't work with it legitimately do not understand the levels of automation and/or precision involved in large-scale (and medium scale) farms. What I do not understand is why vegetables in the US taste like shit and
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> This seems like a viciously difficult problem to solve to me. How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project? Anyone with those skills will surely be
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> We release all our models to the research community. And from the FB blogpost [0] "Request Form Thank you for your interest in Meta AI’s LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) models. To request access to the models, please fill
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> In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one ..[snip].. I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too. I am confused. Vancouver is on the

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