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by mabbo 4y ago
I was at a friend's place for a BBQ. He asked if he could test a new automation thing he built for applying for jobs at his company. It worked really well.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Gold is a tulip. ... The only reason we think it’s valuable is it’s sufficiently rare for other people to think it’s valuable. Absolutely not. Gold has a variety of functional uses in electronics. It's used for its physical proper
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by mabbo 4y ago
> but it's certainly far from the worst I'm scared to ask this, but what is worse ? And I say this as someone who has lost hundreds of hours to Dwarf Fortress.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Dwarf Fortress has always been a brilliant lesson in UX. It answers the question: what if you had a great product, but the user experience was the worst possible choice in every single way, but all functionality still existed and worked? It
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by mabbo 4y ago
If you were going to use genetic algorithms, you should have gone all in- seed with a randomized neural network, have them compete, and breed the winners. Literally survival of the fittest!
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by mabbo 4y ago
That is brilliant. Just triangulates based on the distance to each word? Like GPS for the Word2Vec space?
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's really starting to feel more and more like the end of 2007 and start of 2008. Stocks on a steady downward trend. Layoffs starting here and there. Growth slowing across various industries. I took a macro economics course at univers
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by mabbo 4y ago
It feels like Google ought to have a small team of developer advocates whose sole job is to find apps that are in trouble and then work with the developers like humans . It doesn't need to be 100 people. Just 10 or 20 even. Just provi
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by mabbo 4y ago
Good points. Still, even with those charges, Amazon can just choose to take losses knowing they aren't really losses. They can run that brand unprofitably and if the losses are coming from distribution fees being charged internally, we
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by mabbo 4y ago
Curious: what happened to them? Sure, at this point none should still be in orbit because LEO has too much drag. But did they definitely burn up on re-entry? Or did the American Government cover the planet in a fine layer of tiny needles?
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by mabbo 4y ago
The best way to keep prices low is strong competition. Amazon Basics undercuts competitors by having no cost to sell on the Amazon marketplace. Then once the competitor they're imitating is out of business, they can raise prices, and y
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by mabbo 4y ago
That example is always brought up, but honestly? I don't think that's a fair thing either. I think that particular form of abuse is mild enough and has existed for long enough that we don't even think about it. A law that sto
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by mabbo 4y ago
What's going to be the real stickler when this finally comes to a courtroom showdown is that Google and Apple are competitors in this space. First, they let their competitors onto their platform without charging extortionate fees. Th
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by mabbo 4y ago
Only being half serious of course ('taking the piss' being an accurate euphemism here), but if you think Scorpion Capital are wrong, you can always take the opposite position. You could even publish a better document rebutting the
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by mabbo 4y ago
They do. But I also like the real-time aspect. I like the urgency. I just want something in the middle between "You can't move your hand ultra fast so you lose" and "I will spend 10 minutes considering the optimal move&q
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's the point of a pool. You slowly regain them until your pool is full. You can burst 5 (or whatever k) moves at once, but it takes time to refill the pool.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I want to play a real-time strategy game with a limit to the number of actions per minute. Look, I'm an old man now. I can't compete on reaction speed against 13-year-olds micro-managing each unit to perfection. But I can macro. I
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by mabbo 4y ago
> less traumatic brain injuries without helmets than with helmets because you'll have less accidents over all and less severe ones. Less accidents overall? I can believe that, maybe. But you'll need to back up "less severe
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by mabbo 4y ago
This feels a bit like the narrator in "Fight Club" explaining "the formula" car manufacturers use. > Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average ou
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by mabbo 4y ago
To the nay-sayers: yeah, this probably isn't the most accurate method, but you can use this in combination with other data to make better estimations. For example, GPS has a common problem in areas with tall buildings where satellite
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by mabbo 4y ago
> The 132,000 square foot state-of-the-art office That's it? This is a major HQ? A typical office is going to need at 150 to 200sqft per person total between desk areas, common areas (kitchen, hallway) and conference rooms. 132,000
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by mabbo 4y ago
To be clear: it doesn't matter, as far as Elon Musk and his buyout is concerned. To quote Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" newsletter: > “Temporarily on hold” is not a thing. Elon Musk has signed a binding contract requiri
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by mabbo 4y ago
> why would they allow someone who supports their enemies to join the alliance? Because Russia is still the scarier enemy. If the rest of NATO approves, what is Turkey going to do? Leave NATO and accept eventual invasion?
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's not the feature that excites me, it's the pace of Java language improvements. The 6-month cycle of versions, the whole process of letting experimental features in for a couple versions to test, refine, and likely accept, it&#
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's selection bias at work though. Getting funding isn't a lottery, in which everyone's odds are the same. The funding you receive and the terms of that funding are related to the current market and how good your business
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by mabbo 4y ago
> The only way to get higher angular resolution is to use higher frequencies (which they are working on) or use radio telescopes in space to get longer baselines than the diameter of the Earth. Would it be possible to use the same trick
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by mabbo 4y ago
Quantum Physics and General Relativity make different predictions in specific circumstances which are beyond our ability to test to figure out which one is wrong. They can't both be perfectly correct. But in every test we can make, bot
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by mabbo 4y ago
> “We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity," And ten thousand physicists sighed disappointingly.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I bought my condo in 2015, in Toronto. It's value has doubled since then (similar units literally selling for twice as much in less than a week). And this is despite the fact that the best burrito place in the city moved from across
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by mabbo 4y ago
Seriously! Her writing is brilliant and it's so nice to see her recognized for it.

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