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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the context of the banning of Kanye West is important. Kanye posted some really super antisemetic things. At one point, he posted a picture of a swastika overtop of a star of David. Then he posted an unflattering picture of Elon Mus
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the 'challenge and win' concept is too strict. Just make the move disallowed. You'll need the computer to be paying attention at all times, but nonetheless it would be more enjoyable to play.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Do we need some kind of industry certification for "this company isn't being run by psychopaths"? Wouldn't it be nice if you saw a job ad that said "Hey, we're 'Decent Employer' Level 1 Certified!&quo
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by mabbo 4y ago
Their ecological niche is to live in places with short grasses (easy to notice predators), near water. The natural predator of adults is wolves and coyotes. Their natural response to a threat isn't to run, but to mob up and threaten ba
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by mabbo 4y ago
Does anyone know of a solution that would let me slow down access to certain websites, ideally just for certain devices? I feel like I wouldn't just default to opening HN and reddit all the time on my phone if I knew it was bandwidth
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by mabbo 4y ago
Hey, just want you to know that you're right, I was being an ass. You do a great job at keeping this place worth coming to.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Can't think of anyone this might be happening to right now. Not one person. Definitely not anyone rich or famous.
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by mabbo 4y ago
... Can I use it to run jqjq?
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by mabbo 4y ago
I would love to see this kind of thing applied to an RPG. Randomly generate a city full of people. Make a few dozen of them the important NPCs. Give them situations and goals, problems they need to solve and potential ways to solve them. Ce
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by mabbo 4y ago
"Oh yeah, I really enjoyed Diplomacy. It was weird though because I did punch my very good friend in the face because of it." - My coworker.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Fine, forget putting those people to work on things that make money- have them innovate on 100 other projects instead of just this one that doesn't make money. Amazon's innovation age is dead, imho. They are the Day 2 company th
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by mabbo 4y ago
What bothers me isn't just the wasted money and time. It's the opportunity cost of all of those devs not working on other stuff. Alexa pulled talent from everywhere throughout Amazon. It took up a huge portion of the hiring funnel
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by mabbo 4y ago
The idea is that everyone willing to pay more than $X for tickets bought their tickets before the scalpers can buy it for $X.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Literally stole it from this: https://www.amazon.com/Maverick-RediFork-Rapid-Matrix-Thermo... Eg: Stick a fork in it and see if it's done yet
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by mabbo 4y ago
A pipeline approval tool (internal at Amazon) that counts metrics. I was a fairly fresh college-hire SDE1 at Amazon. And I was annoyed, because I'm lazy. Every time I was oncall, I had to manage the deployment pipeline for my teams sof
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's the reality of popular terminology. We only have one word in English that gets commonly used and means "is correct this much of the time". Nuance is lost, but it ensures more people understand the general gist of the art
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's all about economics of demand for what Twitter is offering: advertising. Elon's changes have massively harmed the value of an ad on Twitter. Moderation teams are massively cut, meaning advertisers have to worry about their pr
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by mabbo 4y ago
> I also know that every team at Amazon is different, so please don’t take my description for what it’s like working there as a whole. No, no, this sounds pretty much like every team I was on for the nearly-decade I was there.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I was worried that this would be an article about how boilerplate is never just boilerplate, how it's actually quite important and we shouldn't consider it so lowly. And that's fine. That's a good, valid opinion. Fortuna
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by mabbo 4y ago
But is any of that profitable enough to justify having literally thousands of developers, probably costing a quarter million each on average? That kind of overhead isn't sustainable.
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by mabbo 4y ago
No security researcher has ever found proof that they are "always on" and recording everything people say. If they were, it would be front-page news and Amazon would have government investigations. The devices listen for their wak
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by mabbo 4y ago
I just don't see the path to profitability for Alexa. Like, sure, it's neat, but how does it make any money? Do they sell the devices at a profit? Does usage of the devices lead to increased sales on Amazon.com? Are those sales
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yeah seriously, I read the meta announcement and thought "Did you just steal Tobi's letter and do some find/replace on it?"
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by mabbo 4y ago
My understanding is that the Fields medal was always meant to be awarded to someone young and on their way up. But then it became the medal, the Nobel prize of math. Maybe we just need a new Nobel in math.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct. > Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City r
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by mabbo 4y ago
First, most users are using the SDK that Amazon provides. But second, most of this complexity is in the name of security. I have plenty of criticism of my former employer (Amazon), but I have never once felt that AWS didn't take securi
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's not perfect. But it's crawling up the other side of the uncanny valley. Imagine where this tech will be in five years.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> They just produced a random distribution that would take a really long time to calculate by any other means. It’s like this this guy stapling 5 M&M. That’s a world record, hurray, but what are you going to do with it? And this is w
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Anyone want to make predictions about the state of Twitter in a few years? Myspace still exists in some form.
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by mabbo 4y ago
An interesting time, imho. The costs to explore a startup are pretty low these days. You can live anywhere (move somewhere with relative low COL), you can develop just about anything cheaply (open source, plus easy frameworks). You can work

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