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by opportune 3y ago
I struggle to think of a planet that wouldn't have the necessary ingredients for an industrial revolution. I don't think you need fossil fuels at all; on Earth, even without fossil fuels, we probably could have eventually gone fro
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by opportune 3y ago
If I can offer some unsolicited advice, try to seek out ML educational material with polished visualizations. If you're struggling with the math, trying to learn the concepts by reading libraries or textbooks or papers will be very har
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by opportune 3y ago
> Target audience is a big factor too, I think the article failed to emphasize this. And, secondly, the nature of what is being documented. Right, I'd say screenshots are crucial for certain kinds of documentation and terribly amat
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by opportune 3y ago
I think a small source of confusion/varying opinions here is that this is from the perspective of a technical writer. Technical writers are usually producing documentation for external users (author mentions "customers") as t
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by opportune 3y ago
I think you might be inferring too much about my phrasing. I wasn't trying to add token disclaimers to pass off praise of socialism/communism - I was trying to get ahead of the reply "yeah but the cons far outweigh the pros&q
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by opportune 3y ago
Humans are social creatures with an innate sense of “status”. Absolute material inequality is only one form of inequality. You can feed, clothe, and give iPhones to the very poor but if they are at the bottom of a very deep social hierarchy
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by opportune 3y ago
> A 15min downtime window announced in advance is fine for approximately 100% of SaaS businesses What? As a customer, this would piss me off to no end and honestly be a dealbreaker for something like payments or general hosting. It'
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by opportune 3y ago
You're still focusing on median which I think is a valid measure on its own but not wholly representative of mobility at all. I'm personally very biased, but I think social mobility is most important between upper-middle (usually
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by opportune 3y ago
Those are income-based and the quoted generational figures look at mobility from poor to median, not median (or above median) to rich. I would like to see these figures for wealth. I have a hard time believing it’s easier to climb from the
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by opportune 3y ago
This might be a controversial opinion here and I don't mean to offend anybody, but the distribution of engineers' effectiveness is not the same around the globe. Thought exercise: what kind of profile would you expect of someone g
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by opportune 3y ago
A lot of “data engineers” are former db analysts and such that don’t know much of anything technically outside of SQL and even that might be something they only are “certified” to know rather than actually good at. It’s basically becoming a
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by opportune 3y ago
Beyond Good and Evil touches on this a lot with its master vs slave (Christianity) morality comparison
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by opportune 3y ago
There is at least one exception to this, which is that as technology improves, it necessitates the creation of new capital to utilize that technology commercially, and the people involved in creating it (whether as founders or wage workers)
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by opportune 3y ago
Even this article IMO subtly demonstrates the mindset that leads nontechnical founders to not think they need a technical cofounder, by phrasing the search for one as “recruiting” as if they were a subordinate or code monkey. It should be a
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by opportune 3y ago
I made the same argument to myself when I bought an AMD GPU for gaming 4 years ago. What doesn’t show up in a side by side comparison is that AMD’s drivers (or Windows’ treatment of them) fucking suck. Until I bought an NVIDIA replacement r
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by opportune 3y ago
They grew their employee count massively (400->2000) as their revenue grew over the past few years though. Part of that is, yeah, you have to spend money to make money. But I know for a fact not all of those employees were doing ad sales
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by opportune 3y ago
I think a lot of commentary on this problem doesn't fully account for the historical conditions that allowed for such a rapid increase in material prosperity for the average person in the 20th century (especially in the US), and the hi
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by opportune 3y ago
I think the simplest explanation is that we're just not accurate enough at determining the trajectory of the particle in question. They tried matching against sources "just outside its arrival direction" but without access to
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by opportune 3y ago
I honestly think this was a finishing blow to reddit, which had already started declining in ~2019 due to TikTok and (anecdotally) an aggressive user acquisition strategy that had led to a big decline in content/discussion quality. Or
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by opportune 3y ago
There are plenty of transferrable skills you get from being an expert something that gets made obsolete by a similar-but-different iterative improvement. Maybe you're really good at implementing ideas from papers, you have a great intu
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by opportune 3y ago
I would think of it as annealing/gradient descent instead of some kind of Markov process where maybe you get lucky every 2-5 years. You are not breeding for the purpose of getting one animal with the trait (well you can, but not necess
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by opportune 3y ago
I am surprised more people are not doing this and its variants. It only takes someone, or ideally a family, willing to start a project that spans multiple decades - something people do all the time with careers and other hobbies. To me it s
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by opportune 3y ago
This is such a complex topic that an entire volume of books could be written on it. Unsurprisingly the article just scratches the surface barely enough to do it justice. I wrote up a long “better” explanation I hope to share here later, but
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by opportune 3y ago
I love music and listen to it all the time, but frankly I do not care much about the artists, in the same way that I don’t care much about the person making my coffee or my house. Obviously I don’t wish harm on anyone out of pure malice, bu
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by opportune 3y ago
Same here. I live by a coffee shop with usually long lines and inattentive staff. But they take mobile orders so I just give them a few minutes buffer after they say it’ll be ready, then head over and it’s waiting for me. It saves me like 2
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by opportune 3y ago
Creatine is excellent. It takes a few weeks (maybe ~1 if you “front load”) to accumulate but once it does you’ll notice a difference if you’re looking for it. It’s multiple times now that I’ve stopped taking it, felt fine for a bit and then
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by opportune 3y ago
It doesn’t matter whether you believe in it or not lol, it simply is that way. I can send you a Google maps link to somewhere in the US that is a food desert simply by virtue of being a large suburb with residential zoning. My guess is your
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by opportune 3y ago
Less friendly how? I think you are confusing size with development pattern. A smaller community will always be more friendly than a larger one. The problem with suburbs is when they are forced on a community that has outgrown them.
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by opportune 3y ago
Agree with this. It also goes beyond preference to the level of guidance and autonomy the person needs to be effective (even if they want a lot of autonomy, it might be better to not give them it). Also the nature of the work itself - if mu
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by opportune 3y ago
I don’t think this is necessarily true. Delegation is the name of the game in any large organization - managers exist to sift down tasks to a doer. You can’t delegate many kinds of tasks by inspiring people. You can generally only inspire p

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