marcinzm

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by marcinzm 4y ago
>Almost every single person drinks cow milk, get over it You mean the milk industry should get over it and stop making weird commercials?
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by marcinzm 4y ago
You're contradicting yourself I feel. As you said yourself users use the app more and don't churn for other apps which means they do find value in the feature. No company cares about what users feel or say but rather about what th
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>It doesn't really matter, Given their stagnant/declining stock price since IPO (covid tech bump aside) I would say it does matter in the single place it matters most to a public company. Potentially because to get that revenue
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Modern AI doesn't replicate biology except that humans find it much easier when you explain something as "Artificial Neurons" versus "Gradient Descent Back-propagation Trained Nested Mathematical Functions." Human n
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Many companies in my experience do test for these things. They remove old features and measure impact periodically, or run a long term hold out bucket, or some other such approach. The deep dark secret of the web is that there often there i
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Menacing/verbal threats/criminal threats are a real crime in most places including California.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Most LLM models are at a very high level very similar to Word2Vec in terms of inference on the encoder/non-generative side. Both convert a word/token into a vector representation. GPT does it contextually with all the other words
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Even before Covid an experienced competent engineer could easily find a decent job in around a month. Longer for large tech companies due to the lengthy interview process but you'd at least be in the pipeline.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Twitter's freedom to do something doesn't prevent other people's freedom to react to those actions. They can block whomever they want and I can say it highlights how fragile they view their own business position as.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
As I see it if you have a significantly superior product then a competitor advertising on your platform is a positive since it just make you look even better in comparison. And a social media platform with 200 million daily users should be
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by marcinzm 4y ago
The judicial system is far from perfect even when the people involved are free to find their own representation or are able to freely do their own research. Someone who is not allowed to even access their own finances or sign legal contract
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by marcinzm 4y ago
The battery life is really nice even if you don’t need the full power.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
> The REPL is not on par. You can run an in-editor REPL and build your entire program in a REPL session. Combined with tap you can visualize your output on the fly. In Python you could just open up a notebook if you wanted that.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Last I checked China, India, etc. still have a much lower per capita carbon footprint than the US.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
If they did this then they would likely be legally liable for generating child porn in certain countries including the US. And even if it's just regular porn then their credit card processors would ban them and so would any corporate c
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by marcinzm 4y ago
For context, it seems Midjourney blocks a ton of terms and none of this is particularly new. Not sure if there's an official list anywhere. https://decentralizedcreator.com/list-of-banned-words-in-mid...
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Apparently it's banned along with a bunch of other terms: https://decentralizedcreator.com/list-of-banned-words-in-mid...
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Probably the usual corporate reason that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down and that the messenger is often shot. Especially with all the layoffs it's better to not be the one in that position. And even if you do convince them
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by marcinzm 4y ago
There was no argument but a baseless statement and I replied likewise. It's on the original person to make a coherent argument with facts and not for everyone else to do their legwork.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
The US was founded by a bunch of rich white men who mostly inherited their wealth and literally owned other human beings. A lot of the government structures were explicitly designed to prevent the masses from having too much of a direct voi
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>pre-industrial democracy You have a very rose tinted view of how democracy was in the past or who actually made decisions.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>Linux happened and nobody paid (in the beginning) Red Hat started in 1993 and SUSE in 1994. So you got 2 whole years before money entered the picture.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
What the cloud gives you is the removal of the inter-department conflict between IT and Product Engineering. This is especially bad since IT is a cost-center rather than a revenue generator. Having a single provider who in turn has a single
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by marcinzm 4y ago
> I take issue with this reasoning in that firstly: it lacks a denominator, VPNs are a larger source of traffic in general, abuse should be considered as a ratio. Why do you assume they don't do this and that VPN traffic doesn'
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by marcinzm 4y ago
You mean imagine being a decent supportive human being? I’m honestly sorry for whatever life experiences led you to this point.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>Is that just the power of the YC network. I recently did this for a company because we got connected by one of their investors.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Can’t you just use this then: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-controllers-for-...
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by marcinzm 4y ago
> So what has changed since the 1950s? Income inequality has increased greatly from it's low in the 1950s. This means more people make less than X% of the median wage. Housing has become much more expensive versus average wages. Min
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by marcinzm 4y ago
So what's the point then? 250ms is enough to literally send traffic to the other side of the world. So why bother with edges if you can just have a single server where most of your customers are and get the same latencies?
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by marcinzm 4y ago
It may not be custom domain but rather self-hosted mail server.

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