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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> fair question is: why hasn’t the boilerplate been automated as libraries or other abstractions? Sometimes it has. The amount of generated code that selected count(distinct id) from customers would produce is huge.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> And as the article alludes to, the real question is when? In general you can build a data center faster than you can build a power plant, which is exactly the reason data centers can cause short-term electricity prices to increase. Mus
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> For a personal loan of money The seven are doing some fancy accounting to pay for their data centers, but I don’t think Larry, Sergey and others are taking out personal loans.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
They’re pledging to do what they were doing anyway. No one with any sense is building large data centers and assuming the grid will supply the energy.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
It has some multitasking on the latest versions of iOS. You can drag a YouTube window up by the bottom right corner and open a Reddit window on another part or the screen if you truly need to be distracted from distraction by distraction.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
Are they going to be as hard to keep clean as glasses. Honestly it’s the biggest problem I have with sunglasses, it’s that as soon as you get a speck of dirt on them they’re annoying. And if it starts raining you can’t see anything (and y
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> That kind of outward focus kills emptiness fast. I used to race on a friend’s sailboat. One of the things that people noticed on a sailboat is that you need to and have to be focused on immediate problems, rather than any problems on
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
It’s often very difficult (intractable) to come up with a probability distribution of an estimator, even when the probability distribution of the data is known. Basically, you’d need a lot more computing power to come up with a distributi
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
Without the weights, nothing (or anything, given arbitrary weights).
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> Has there been a regime which has collapsed due to an external strike like this where it hasn't resulted in some decades long civil war nightmare? People have already mentioned the post WW2 occupation of Germany and Japan. There’s
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
Was Saddam a sane stooge? The US (and before them the UK) meddling in middle eastern politics has always seemed like kicking a wasp nest.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
They’re supplying the second stage propulsion, with plans to replace it with a a Boeing module.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
They’ve sold the bonds, so they already have the cash. What worries investors is whether Oracle will be able to repay the debt.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
The data centers have already been financed, they’re not going to stop halfway through because they’ve run out of money. Whether or not they’ll make money on completion is a different story, but that’s 2-3 years away at least. Then you mi
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> Companies have reduced staff prematurely on the promise of productivity improvements that have not occurred and lost customers to terrible customer service and declining product quality. Companies have reduced staff because of the impa
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> They exported most of their cotton to the north just to buy it back again the the form of textiles, so slavery working by hand wasn't able to compete with factories on that level. It seems to fit the pattern of a resource curse.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
That’s partly true, but it’s also the case that medieval Europe didn’t have any convenient sources of slaves. Conquests had dried up, Europe was effectively surrounded by stronger neighbors, and instead of being able to take their neighbor
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
They cut down their forests to build ships; they needed coal to keep the lights on.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
A bit of quick searching reveals that Houston does have many building regulations, for example restrictions of hazardous enterprises. It’s just that the regulations aren’t quite as black and white as zoning laws. https://kinder.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> We see that market is very irrational now and it can stay irrational That meme refers to speculation on stock market prices. Nobody is buying up RAM with the expectation of making speculative gains on it.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> I originally had my tagline as "The Free open-source [Company A] Alternative," which they claimed was illegally driving their traffic to my site. In the UK it’s common for supermarkets to advertise “we price match Aldi”. (Al
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> Trump is not bound by laws That’s what Nixon thought too.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
I had an unplanned short stop in Singapore in December after missing a connecting flight. I just filled in an arrival form online (no Visa), went through the electronic gates, an officer glanced at me and let me through without a word. Wh
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> it's not clear to me what type of work those people are doing. As little as possible. Anything that can be done in a terminal can be scripted and automated, put under version control, and deployed using modern CI/CD and devo
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
So management basically have no clue and want you to figure out how to use AI? Do they also make you write your own performance review and set your own objectives?
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
Fiscal prudence could accomplish that. But if you look at the history of the United States, fiscal prudence is an exception to the rule.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> For every dollar over median wealth they should face a 10% wealth tax so that we can fund universal healthcare. A ten percent wealth tax would put most investment returns into the red. Savings and investment would plummet. Capital wo
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> In fact, management is full of numbers that a slightly-clever high school sophomore who’d paid attention in science classes could tell you are totally useless, because they were gathered all wrong. They mean nothing whatsoever. They’re
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
> People should fully understand that their actions reflect their character and this should influence them to always do the right thing. Shame the same standards don’t apply to the people running the government.
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by mr_toad 8mo ago
An alternate theory is that we develop models of other people’s behavior to predict their actions, and then we apply a form of those models to ourselves, which becomes what we think of as self-awareness. But the models are just models, the

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