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> And a large fraction of those who do have re-used existing open source solutions without digging a lot into them. This is a good thing. Coming up with new ideas is for researchers. Turning them into a product is for entrepreneurs and e
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Next generation smart HDR is a big upgrade. The new chip will be able to run the new image processing algorithms based on deep learning which gives you photo quality bump similar to a better camera
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> I think creative nerds are the life-blood of the industry, but they tend to be shy and not assertive, so they have their life controlled by the "business types". I honestly believe that if the nerds told them to fuck off and
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Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl Written from a psychologist who survived the concentration camps. A wholly unique perspective on human life.
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I'm working a piece of generative art, a rendering of the milky way galaxy. I enjoy doing interactive art on the side. e.g. https://nicholasbardy.com/ , but I've always hacked it out on my own. I've recently b
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It's not just rare cases. 12% of the people in hospital in Italy are under age 50.
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A lot of his techniques come from Tummo(Inner Fire Breathing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo
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> let alone convincing them to change their minds. This has become a growing issue in American politics. As much as a love progressive politics myself. I can't deny the important of strong political opposition and the importance of
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Yes. The optimizations for the perfect life are boring, learn how to love the life you're living not chasing milestones.
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I've been to Colombia pre and post and Uber and this doesn't line up at all with my experience. 90% of the cases of friends I know getting robbed in South America was from a taxi.
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You can also run CloureScript on node.
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I just swapped from using Clojure to TypeScript at work and I can't feel any different. Types are really useful at organizations where people need to work together, Spec has been largely underwhelming on this front. I wish more attenti
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Deep Rock galactic. If it's not all game objects its damn close.
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Eschew performance isn't the right way to put it. React allows you to do 90% of UI work in performant ways. It has good predictable performance for the majority of work and allows you to move through a lot of simple UI tasks quickly. A
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At the same time we have the rise of long form podcasts. Producing quite the opposite effect.
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Labeling this as "an incidence of gaming" is a framing that misses the main conflict of the situation. This real incidence here is an American company practicing censorship on behalf of the CCP.
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You're right. We'll need bigger datasets and more complex models to achieve more useful results, but machine learning models can give predictions in real time so you could have this running as you type in your IDE, instead of visi
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Great idea, I would love to see this. Tools for programming are going make some interesting leaps with all the new work going into language modeling. So much of the code we write is tweaks and combinations of a not particularly large set of
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by nbardy 8y ago
I used CBD for mental health a few years ago to great effect. This company https://hemp-market.eu/hemp-products/ was the only I found that made it affordable. Worth a look.
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I wouldn't mind that, more responsibility on the software developer means more leverage to push back. I guarantee you I'm not rushing for a deadline if I think I'm compromising security that may put a black marge on my caree
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I visited Brazil with an American passport a few years ago and ended up spending a bunch of time gathering documents and visiting the embassy back and forth. It was pretty discouraging and draining and I thought about not going. Potentially
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Working remotely and contracting so I could travel the world. Went well until I burned out and ended up a broke alcoholic.
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I don't. I just suffer through the anxiety. Mostly trying not to pay attention to it until I've made something. Once I've made something with a new technology I've got evidence for myself, than I can start to find comfor
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I have the same qualifications as you. And the same struggle getting my foot in the door. I used Triplebyte and it was fantastic. If you can pass their interview it's worth doing.
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If you didn't think their content was worth it you didn't have to visit. Now no one can.
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Yea, I think what we really need is more tools for enabling build to build there own stuff.
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Why is Adobe in there? Are they really an ad company?
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I agreed its good to atomate jobs, but raising the minimum wage behind you is an anti competitive move I can't behind.
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Raising the minimum wage to what they know they can afford looks more like an anti competitive manuever than a PR move. That would be a massive strain on most large retail chains.
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I spent around 2 years in different countries in South America before this and I guarantee you the situation was worth without uber. Getting scammed was guaranteed, I was consistently more concerned about getting robbed or killed. 90% of th

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