maroon_unperson

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by maroon_unperson 9mo ago
Much faster responses, before this deal I thought it would be Google vs Groq for the superior tech with nvidea missing out.
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by maroon_unperson 11mo ago
Cancer rates are hard to compare across countries because overdiagnosis is such a common issue. A higher survival rate is to be expected when the doctors have a financial incentive to treat benign growths which the patient would have surviv
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
0.45 times. Less if inflation adjusted. Amazon's market cap is 2.27 trillion [0] and 5 trillion was wiped off the NASDAQ over two years [1]. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
Sites send conversion events back to Google so they can target highly converting traffic. If a bot network hits all the conversing events then Google will tailor the traffic to look more like the bot network. If you filter the bot traffic o
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
The cab drivers are still true londoners who have passed the knowledge. What has changed is how acceptable it is to be racist on hacker news and conflate native-londoner with whiteness. Or to conflate being being a true londoner with this
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
I love it so much, not having someone cause me excruciating pain by reclining their seat into my knees is a real selling point as a tall person. It also helps that Ryanair forgo the usual magazine basket which typically sticks out and makes
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
Flagged articles used to be a sign of something being misleading, badly written, or just something generally off to take caution with. The last two years it has become more of a signal that "this is something right wing USA would want
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
Quick feedback: it took me a while to understand what this does and why I'd use it. You might want to work on how you describe it or give examples of a use case. It might have helped to have a demo inline on the landing page so you can
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
Looks related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354413
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
It would be great to have an automated workflow for granting one-time authorisation for CI to publish a package. I'd like the easy of having CI sign and release on merge but with the security of local 2FA or hardware signing tokens so
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
LLMs could also ease adoption of new languages by making hiring less of a barrier to using something more niche. It becomes easier for someone to hit the ground running and be productive even if they still need to put the time in to become
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
Dang is a great moderator, but I think it's a reach to say hackers don't find this interesting, it's not getting upvotes from nowhere. Hackers have a natural curiosity for the world, and that includes politics too. From phra
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by maroon_unperson 1y ago
It sounds like a mix of good intentions, misunderstandings, and poor communication. Shopify wanted to put in place better goverance and access control, to reduce the risk of a supply chain attack and put a deadline on that. Part time mainte