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by pjdemers 4y ago
They don't watch Mythbusters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIN7cq8Mc-4 Or Seinfield? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzuQr7YVYg
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by pjdemers 4y ago
Why ask chatgpt to write the code when I can just ask it to do the task? Instead of "write code to do X", just ask it "do X".
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by pjdemers 4y ago
The price of things that AI can do well is quickly going to fall to the cost of the electricity to run the model. The price of things that AI can do, but can't do well, will fall some, but not nearly as much. The price of things that A
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by pjdemers 4y ago
I agree that this additional information is necessary to understand the problem. I've seen that show maybe twice in my lifetime, both times when I was a little kid. I did not know that Monty never opens the door with the prize behind i
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by pjdemers 4y ago
The lot the Curry's and other oppose rezoning, 23 Oakwood Blvd, is not an appropriate place for high density housing. Despite the Atherton address, all cars to and from the property will enter and exit on Redwood City residential stree
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by pjdemers 4y ago
On my street, a parcel with one home was just rezoned for 24 homes - with zero on site parking. 24 homes without parking will add ~ 50 cars to on street parking. There is room for maybe 30 cars on the local streets without having to cross a
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by pjdemers 4y ago
>> He’ll be remembered as the worst tech CEO of a major company He is up against stiff competition for this award. Even getting nominated is difficult.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
The Boston MBTA had the same thing. I saw their armored train in the early 80's. The guards carried shotguns, just like in the old west.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
If you are still on the payroll, the company is committed to paying you, which means they don't get to recognize (accounting-wise) the cost savings of letting you go. They could convert you to a temporary FTE, but that doesn't hel
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by pjdemers 4y ago
There are many, many, many tech companies who have way way way way too many people who want to be managers but not any who want to stay technical. Find one of them.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
Tesla, and even more Uber, were priced as if self driving cars are almost here. The idea that services like Uber without the drivers would make car ownership obsolete drove those valuations. Now that self driving cars are many decades away,
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by pjdemers 4y ago
Wasn't there a guy who was running an IRS scam who was caught, tried and convicted and will spend the rest of his life in a US supermax prison? And his children, who lived in the US, were stripped of their citizenship and deported. The
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Show HN: From the archives: MS-DOS x86 assembly language example(github.com)
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by pjdemers 4y ago
I agree with this. Given the vast time necessary to move (or even communicate) between stars, there is no social, political or economic reason to travel more than a few light years from your home planet. That's leaves science, religion
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by pjdemers 4y ago
The EU may let them back in, but not with all the special deals they had before. First on the list is they would need to drop Pounds for Euros.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
As recently as the early 90's, making a lifetime career out of software development was considered impossible. When I was starting out in the late 80's all the developers were taking classes or had a side business, with the goal g
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by pjdemers 4y ago
Fusion is the energy source of the future, and it always will be.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
You need a local partner you trust. Your partner is going to get a cut, and a big one, but otherwise you won't get good people.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
>> we would ship US Sprint a blank tape with our usual letter listing the changes in the release. And so we did. I worked for a company in the same era that did the exact same thing for a late release.
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by pjdemers 4y ago
Back in the 60's, many full time jobs came with a defined benefit pension. Health care was not nearly as expensive, even without insurance. Last, houses were cheap, college was almost free, and there were many more good public schools,
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by pjdemers 4y ago
>> others require him to get along with unpleasant customers and coworkers, and to maintain a submissive attitude toward the boss.” These are requirements of high paying jobs, too.
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by pjdemers 5y ago
>> I never understood what Putin's end game was here with this war His endgame is to prevent free democratic elections in Ukraine. He sees Ukraine as the country most similar to Russia. He wants to prevent elections in Ukraine, b
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by pjdemers 5y ago
Because the US locks people up for decades for drug offense that may not even be felonies in other countries.
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by pjdemers 5y ago
The difference here is nuclear weapons. We aren't able to use the normal military options against a country threatening nuclear first use. The normal military options are no-fly zones, embedded SOF and advisors, help with logistics and
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by pjdemers 5y ago
I don't think that the scenario where Putin detonates a nuclear weapon as a demonstration, or within the border of Ukraine would cause the US/UK/France to detonate one of their nuclear weapons to prove they are serious. Only
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by pjdemers 5y ago
And this time we mean it. Honest, we really will raise rates this time, just watch us. Right after we stop printing money.
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by pjdemers 5y ago
Twenty years from now, when 10,000 baby boomers are dying every day, housing prices will be in free fall, with no end in sight. That's too late for most of us, but today's small children will have no problem buying a house as adul
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by pjdemers 5y ago
Very likely this was not a real job post, but rather the statutory post required for a visa application (H1-B, etc). Zillow HR looked at the current employee's background for a set of skills that is rarely found in one person, to keep
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by pjdemers 5y ago
Carter was a classic centrist. Both sides hated him. And by today's standards, Reagan was only slightly right of center. Reagan is remembered more fondly than Carter because of attitude. Carter told American: if we all sacrifice and wo
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by pjdemers 5y ago
In the US, there is title insurance. If the seller didn't have the legal right to sell the house, the house reverts to the legal owner, and the buyer is paid back by the insurance. It's not possible to get a mortgage without title

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