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by medler 4y ago
Many users have reported weird view counts on locked accounts with few or zero followers: https://twitter.com/search?q=Locked%20followers%20views&src=...
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by medler 4y ago
I guess 25 points does make a difference but I do think it’s a pretty small difference, especially at the top of the range. I remember the MIT admissions blogs years ago claimed that they do not distinguish at all between a 750 and an 800.
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by medler 4y ago
> You can study for them and objectively do better, become a better applicant The thing is, attempts to measure the effect of test prep show they have little effect. According to these studies, SAT test prep courses might add ~30 points
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by medler 4y ago
I mean, gp recounted a story about someone who has a policy against renting to families, so so it sounds like they do refuse sometimes. Also, where I live, lots of families live in one or two bedroom apartments.
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by medler 4y ago
They said “they have a rule that they’ll never buy large apartments *and they’ll never rent to families*.” The second part is the illegal discrimination.
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by medler 4y ago
They had lots of global outages in past years, but in recent years they have become increasingly rare, presumably because of a move away from global points of failure
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by medler 4y ago
> gcp should be designed in a way where the term “global outage” isn’t a word in their vocabulary. As I understand it, GCP is already designed to make global outages impossible. Obviously this outage shows that they messed up somehow and
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by medler 4y ago
Education is important in the modern world, especially now that the Industrial Revolution has led to an unprecedented growth in knowledge work.
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by medler 4y ago
The Python honeymoon period lasts a long time. For me it lasted until the monolith I was working on had grown to ~500k lines of code. At that scale the smallest changes would cause (seemingly) unrelated breakage, despite many thousands of t
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by medler 4y ago
Dunno about that city in particular but in general car deaths have been increasing over the past decades, presumably because cars keep getting bigger and heavier. It’s a lot safer for kids to cross the street when everyone’s driving a Tauru
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by medler 4y ago
Fascinating, thank you. TIL
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by medler 4y ago
The article says ByteDance has “1,00,000 employees,” a number I initially read (understandably, I think) as one million. Other sources say they have around 150k employees. With 10k laid off, that would indeed be about 7%
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by medler 4y ago
A lot of self-proclaimed free-speech advocates believe it is illiberal to criticize them. For example, say I give a speech and people criticize me for it. If I then say “I’m practicing free speech. My critics are against free speech” then i
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by medler 4y ago
> new residents (typically with high-paying tech jobs) are pushing out the parents and grandparents It is the refusal to build housing that pushed up prices and pushes out parents and grandparents. It’s not the migrants’ fault. Would you
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by medler 4y ago
They didn’t issue a software patch in 22 minutes. It sounds like 22 minutes was the time it took the airline to figure out it was a software bug and tell pilots not to trust the software. The article says the software bug was fixed in 5 hou
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by medler 4y ago
Rising interest rates is not just an American phenomenon. The European Central Bank is raising rates as well, as are many central banks around the world.
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by medler 4y ago
For context, fastlane is “a tool for iOS and Android developers to automate tedious tasks like generating screenshots, dealing with provisioning profiles, and releasing your application.” https://github.com/fastlane/fas
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by medler 4y ago
You’re being downvoted for contradicting the AI hype machine, but you are completely correct. Humans have been creating art for at least tens of thousands of years, and none of the reasons we create art will ever be fulfilled by AI.
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by medler 4y ago
I don’t think it was accidental. There’s a long thread in the uutils repo with a discussion (slash flame war) about the license choice: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/834
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by medler 4y ago
It depends a lot on the outdoor airflow situation. I live in a 6th floor apartment in a windy area, and cracking a window for 2 minutes gets me below 500 ppm every time. At my parents’ house, I have to leave multiple windows fully open for
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by medler 4y ago
I looked into this a while back and IIRC you need a lot of plants for them to make any difference. Your apartment would need to look like a jungle.
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by medler 4y ago
I’m a huge Seinfeld fan and I find this incredibly dull
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by medler 4y ago
Grants vest over four years so being there longer than that doesn’t organically increase your comp or give you more benefit from stock growth. I guess it could be different for people at very high levels
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by medler 4y ago
The article claims that the issue is schools and businesses jettisoning these devices in bulk and not wanting to go to the effort of resetting them properly. It seems dubious to me. Shouldn’t the reseller withhold payment until the device i
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by medler 4y ago
Democracy is great but it’s not enough. You need some mechanism to prevent to majority from stripping away rights from everyone else. For example, in the US it is illegal for any state to permit slavery , and this prevents individual states
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by medler 4y ago
If disabling the API were intentional, a well-run company would have announced it beforehand.
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This is the part I don’t understand. In the past decades surveillance tech has become more pervasive, and police funding has continued to increase. Yet the percent of homicides “cleared” by police has dropped from 90% to 50% over the past 5
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by medler 4y ago
Whipper uses cdparanoia under the hood, but it adds features like metadata fetching, gap detection, and so forth. More details here: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Whipper
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by medler 4y ago
No. Most companies work pretty hard to follow the law. I’ve worked at many companies and none forbade us from discussing salaries
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by medler 4y ago
Great book. I read it a few years ago and still think about it often, especially when I’m walking by a homeless person on the street

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