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by macintux 2y ago
The ancient joke springs to mind. Heaven is where the cooks are French, the police are British, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the cooks are British, the police are G
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by macintux 2y ago
> Something I’ve learned; when someone feels the need to write internet comments telling you how happy they are, it’s a good indication they are not happy. Otherwise they would not be wasting time writing internet comments. “The Internet
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by macintux 2y ago
Every discussion here is mostly by people who haven’t read the literature, but that’s true of any online forum.
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by macintux 2y ago
Create a scalable, practical interview process where the result is reliably the best candidate, and you'll take over the world. At this point in my career I no longer even believe that "best candidate" is a meaningful descrip
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by macintux 2y ago
They’re outsourcing technical interviews, not the same thing as hiring. (Update: technically I would guess they're only outsourcing the first few rounds. Presumably their customers will conduct further interviews.)
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by macintux 2y ago
I wish I could remember who, but there is a company out there who conducts tech interviews to create a pool of candidates for their customers. Pretty sure there was a post here about it, but it's lost in my ocean of unread favorites.
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by macintux 2y ago
Gruber reports an insider describing Chaudhri as a fraud. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane
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by macintux 2y ago
I would suspect that by the time we’re able to pick a location with that degree of certainty, it would be too late to do anything about it.
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by macintux 2y ago
> Frankly I'd say they found the obvious solution, the one that any decent programmer would find for that problem. That statement seems to belittle the amount of effort and thought described in the article. And wildly contradicts my
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by macintux 2y ago
Tangential, and I am reluctant to share this in an important thread about loss and grief, but an occasional hobby of mine is finding an interesting headstone during my travels and researching the story. - https://opposite-lock.co
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by macintux 2y ago
> If he wants to stand up for what he believes to be right, he shouldn't have a problem with the consequences of dealing with people who disagree with him, sometimes virulently. This sounds like victim blaming. I suspect very few pe
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by macintux 2y ago
> why would anyone trust usa's word if any agreement/word/promise can be torn unilaterally? I suspect we're going to see the answer to that question play out over the next several years.
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by macintux 2y ago
That doesn't say that demand is low, but that adoption is slowing, which could reflect many factors, including high prices.
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by macintux 2y ago
“Fake news” was deftly repurposed from “whatever crock of lies Trump spouted today” to “unflattering news about Trump”. Whatever his other flaws, the president is a master at demagoguery.
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by macintux 2y ago
Launching it on an iPad was a mystery. I assumed it was suffering from the HN hug of death until I tried to swipe back.
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by macintux 2y ago
Using culture wars to attack foreign aid is a decades-old strategy of the GOP. Entirely eliminating foreign aid would not meaningfully reduce the scope & power of the federal government in the U.S. (although obviously it harms our soft
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by macintux 2y ago
The goal isn’t to reduce government power, but to rip out the current structures that maintain the status quo (and obey the constitution, comply with the law, annoying priorities like that) and replace them with structures that will swear f
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by macintux 2y ago
Technically impressive, deeply sobering, and I'm going to stay away because by the end of 2020 I was barely able to sleep, and this is so much worse.
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by macintux 2y ago
I own a Yashica, and bought a 330C to supplement it, but decided the weight was just unmanageable. Very cool camera, and if I ever worked in a studio I'm sure I would have appreciated it, but too much for me in the field. I seem to rec
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by macintux 2y ago
He was unprepared last time, and made the strategic mistake of having a few non-sycophants around in positions of power who could tell him that he had to surrender. This time looks very different.
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by macintux 2y ago
True, but at least the algorithms were deterministic, planned, and could be deciphered and improved if necessary.
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by macintux 2y ago
Corruption skyrockets when: - Safety checks are dismantled - Decisions are made at the whim of an executive - Executives surround themselves with sycophants
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by macintux 2y ago
Where would the dumpsters go? Serious question, the impression I get is that there is no room in many places in the city.
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by macintux 2y ago
And man, the bugs they cause.
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by macintux 2y ago
Mike Dukakis regularly took the Boston subway to work as governor.
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by macintux 2y ago
I too was a bit surprised by the assertion, but it doesn't say "ancestry", just "link". And I'm guessing if you include BOOM[1], the links are even deeper. [1] http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu
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by macintux 2y ago
This sounds like a question for Munroe’s What If . My completely uninformed guess is that it would take many rockets to make a sufficiently-large splash.
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by macintux 2y ago
There are, however, reasons why allowing the tank to drop near empty is problematic completely independent of range anxiety. Cold weather can freeze condensation in the tank. A dirty tank can clog up the gas filter.
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by macintux 2y ago
Nitpick: Finns are not technically Scandinavian, right? Although the Swedish-Finns presumably are.
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by macintux 2y ago
In Indiana, my favorite dinner theater is in a town of 500 people. For a while, someone was trying to start a theater in an even more remote spot, an unincorporated community about an hour from there with maybe a dozen homes nearby, but the

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