mikrl

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by mikrl 7mo ago
>so much of what software engineers do all day isn't in that space Seems to me that critical infra that supports a lot of modern computing is in that space though. If you want to develop that depth of knowledge you need to go into H
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by mikrl 7mo ago
It feels like my era of education 2012-2020 (couple of degrees over that time) really deemphasized perf tuning, even heard it was practically useless in current day a few times. I had a computer organization course that came close but mostl
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by mikrl 7mo ago
Florida is in North America is it not? With laws influenced by the history and cultural constraints of the continent? We have fairly divergent laws at this point but ultimately we both inherited the majority of our legal system from colonia
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by mikrl 7mo ago
In North America, from what I understand, the issue is that the authorities need to verify your identity in order to ticket you and traffic cameras don’t do that whereas a police officer does. I agree the automated systems are impartial, bu
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by mikrl 7mo ago
It’s not pro or anti war, it’s realpolitik. Neither Nixon nor Kissinger wanted to be in Vietnam, but again, if they evacuated in 1969 it would have been a bloodbath of American soldiers I think is the point you missed. The communists had
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by mikrl 7mo ago
> unlike all other US wars since Korea, the US can't end this war by pulling out From what I read in Kissinger’s Diplomacy, Vietnam was also a war they couldn’t just pull out of if they wanted to. The public wanted deescalation, but
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by mikrl 7mo ago
That’s a martingale you’re thinking of
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by mikrl 7mo ago
>Ignoring it costs more later, but later is someone else's problem Given the standard advice to job hop every 1-3 years, and the intern/coop work pattern of semester long stints, is this not just a structural consequence? Do yo
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by mikrl 8mo ago
>I know it doesn't make financial sense to self-host given how cheap OSS inference APIs are now You can calculate the exact cost of home inference, given you know your hardware and can measure electrical consumption and compare it t
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by mikrl 8mo ago
I think “test the function does what it does” is not necessarily the intent here, it’s being able to write tests that fill themselves in and assuming you’ll double check afterwards. That said, I don’t see how it’s much different to TDD (wri
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by mikrl 9mo ago
Taleb calls it the Ludic Fallacy (game fallacy) The statistics of games are understandable, defined and easy to work with. The statistics of markets, as Soros spent his career investigating, are filled with feedback loops, and as Taleb inve
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by mikrl 9mo ago
Make sure to assign your agent all the required security trainings.
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by mikrl 9mo ago
If this works via induction could you even eliminate the need for the drones to land? Assuming flight conditions are good, there would be a region around the wire (line of charge) with an electric/magnetic field that the drones could u
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by mikrl 9mo ago
Just for the synth intro
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by mikrl 10mo ago
> This is only because they are focused on some narrow aspect of the business Is this a bad thing though? If some technical decision has downside risk, I’d reasonably expect: - the affected stakeholder to bring it up - the decision maker
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by mikrl 11mo ago
As a Brit I feel very at home when hearing/reading Dutch and Frisian. It’s a reminder that England and the Low Countries share a lot of close history all the way back to Anglo-Saxon times; of being fishers, traders, burghers and mercen
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by mikrl 1y ago
Is that the Almond Front of California, or the Californian Almond Front?
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by mikrl 1y ago
>they are about cryptographic ownership of uniqueness My web browser has a novel and advanced attack on the cryptosystem built into it I have dubbed the right-click-copy-image attack. I’ve even managed to replicate it on my phone.
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by mikrl 1y ago
Once on a lunch break I walked from St Andrew to King (parallel stations on the horns of line 1) in the tunnels and took the TTC back. Going overground is usually faster and easier to navigate, buts impressive how far you can go underground
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by mikrl 1y ago
> I think a better justification for it is depth of experience and knowledge being lost My favourite example from Adam Smith remains the nail maker. At the time, London factories were churning out iron nails by the bushel, whereas the pr
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by mikrl 1y ago
This is missing one extremely cynical interpretation. What if the output isn’t the real goal, it’s having a workforce that thinks more like footsoldiers than professionals? Of course 2x hustle doesn’t scale to 2x output, you can’t tell me t
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by mikrl 1y ago
Mansa Musa was so rich he decreased the local gold to silver exchange rate in Egypt by 12% without ANY modern technology! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa#Wealth
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by mikrl 1y ago
>“the map is not the territory” Personally I never think of this as something specific or quantitative as in fidelity. In my head it’s more of a statement that the map is a representation, a reference, in the terminology of Stirner a spo
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by mikrl 1y ago
>I honestly can't imagine using an AI app to ever qualify as what I would determine to be what I deem a friend Agree, but AI has one massive benefit I’ve seen. Conversations that I can’t have IRL because the response would be “huh?
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by mikrl 1y ago
Meanwhile I went hiking up on Georgian bay and saw a bilingual sign for a local landmark “Overhanging point Point Overhanging”
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by mikrl 1y ago
In southern Ontario a dart is also called a bogey
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by mikrl 1y ago
Dressed all over, zesty mordant, and gelapenno. The goalie trinity right there
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by mikrl 1y ago
Then we gotta find the black hole in our universe that contains that universe, and nuke it before they come to take our fluids!
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by mikrl 1y ago
Ironically, the same is true of Karl Marx! His father converted to Lutheranism and Karl was baptized as such. As a young man he wrote a paper on the topical question of the Jews in Prussia[0], regarded in the modern day as antisemitic, thou
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by mikrl 1y ago
I don’t claim to understand, but it’s still a theme. Maybe it’s an elite vs mass culture anti-semitism? Lots of internalized hatred among ‘bougie’ white and black people towards their respective poor strata; why would a Jewish person intere

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