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by mempko 2y ago
I created a new account on Twitter to see what new users see and the website is unusable. It's basically 4chan now with Elon Musk and sports. Anyone defending people should try it. See how long you don't see and Elon Musk post or
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by mempko 2y ago
Which race? Which gender?
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Except the whole reason for governments to charter companies is the belief it's good for societal goals. Otherwise why allow private and public companies in the first place if their only goal is to make money, that you as a government
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by mempko 2y ago
I started a new account on Twitter just to see what it's like. It's completely unusable. The place is filled with shit content that a I don't want to see and bots. Not sure what competitive advantage you are talking about.
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by mempko 2y ago
The idea of a stable ecosystem is a myth. Yes, in hundreds of thousands and millions of years the region will change dramatically. The difference between natural variability and instability is the rate of change. If left to the "natura
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by mempko 2y ago
Except China is working damn hard on climate initiatives.
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Global warming doing it's thing.
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Yes, despite what outsiders think, programming is a tough gig. Even in the US, if you look at wages, they have been stagnant since the dot com bubble collapsed if you account for inflation. People are overworked and as recently shown, job s
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by mempko 2y ago
I am blaming the companies, not the workers. It's not your responsibility to make sure you have the environment to do your job well. That's the job of the company. There are a lot of bad companies out there and that's my poin
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by mempko 2y ago
Making software is more than coding. It's about both solving and finding problems. In my experience, boring people make uninteresting products and lack imagination to solve the hard ones. Having fun is crucial for creativity and loosen
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by mempko 2y ago
Work should be fun too, not just personal projects. I've noticed that over the last 10 years, the tech world has seemed to lose this idea. I blame this on the large tech companies who seem to take the best people and put them in an adu
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by mempko 2y ago
It's a great, easy to learn library. I used it for Firestr
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Is that why you hired them? What other disdain do you have for them?
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I would make the claim this paper shows the weakness of AI generated text. People are comfortable with familiar things. We know AI is sampling probability distributions in a latent space and by definition don't sample outside of them.
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Tesla loses bid to restore Elon Musk's record $56B pay package(ft.com)
7 points by mempko 2y ago|1 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
Coding is the easiest part of the job. The hardest part is creating resilient, useful, and beautiful software. I advise the following - Learn the domain you are in deeply. Talk to the experts (not senior engineers, I'm talking about pe
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by mempko 2y ago
That's not what the data says. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-... Income and wealth inequality is increasing, not decreasing. Meaning people's quality of life is de
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Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? [YouTube] [video](youtube.com)
17 points by mempko 2y ago|15 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
This! The hardest part of making software is making something that works for people. What I love about C++ is multi-paradigm programming. I can express my ideas directly using the appropriate paradigms. Regarding safety, with modern C++ pro
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The upper stage was also on fire!
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by mempko 2y ago
You do realize the criticism of the Scientific American editor is mostly by people who don't read it, and believe the earth is 6000 years old.
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I have not used any. What are some good ones to look at?
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by mempko 2y ago
Exactly. What I do is litter my code with contracts. I then profile to find the hot loop and minimize (not turn them off) there. For the 99% of the other code, the user won't notice any slowdown. The value is just too high to turn them
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by mempko 2y ago
My prediction. As more and more movies are made with AI, and when they start replacing real actors with AI, people are going to value movies less, and live performances more. I expect AI will bring a resurgence of live performances like liv
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by mempko 2y ago
Did Russia make a threat to Elon Musk at some point that it would take down Starlink satellites?
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The two important things a manager needs to do with high performers is simply make sure nothing stands in their way and make sure they are paid well. My experience with high performers is they will ask for guidance when they need it. You do
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by mempko 2y ago
Wow, people miss the point of contracts. You never want to turn them off in production, because that's where all the weird shit happens that you never thought of. Contracts catch bugs in those times. Maybe people find them useless pre
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by mempko 2y ago
I use them for all my code. They are far from useless. You never want to turn them off in production either since that's a source of important information. You are right programmers don't write them, but that says nothing about co
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It's always going to take more energy to convert CO2 to anything useful than it is to burn energy and release it as pollution. That means to requester all the extra CO2 in the atmosphere will require more energy than it took to put it
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by mempko 2y ago
I use Raku in production. It's the best language to deal with text because building parsers so so damn nice. I'm shocked this isn't the top language to create an LLM text pipeline.

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