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by polio 4y ago
I was pretty annoyed when I got to university and figured out that math could be about proofs rather than calculation. If I had been raised with that idea of math, I would have loved it so much sooner and would probably be pretty good at it
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by polio 4y ago
Meme stocks are fairly liquid, somewhat by definition of their memetic popularity. Musk was not in a position to liquidate his entire net worth, but nobody with an appreciable net worth is.
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by polio 4y ago
Maintaining your own site instead of using a common, sensible, resilient solution might be antithetical to some notions of being an SRE. A personal blog is also not a replacement for social media. Hacker News is something that an individual
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by polio 4y ago
You can also swap the characterizations by portraying devs as the enablers of AI-mediated social media dystopias and by portraying recruiters as helping devs know about novel opportunities.
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by polio 4y ago
As a former "Metamate", I was surprised to see Mark Zuckerberg buy into this bullshit. At least he doesn't seem to be wedded to the idea.
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by polio 4y ago
Even "teammates" is unnecessarily euphemistic. "We laid off 17 members of our staff" works just fine.
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by polio 4y ago
I think that it's wonderful that we live in a world where people can actually aspire to being an "elite", rather than the feudal world mentioned briefly in the article in which there is no glut. It's unfortunate that sup
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by polio 4y ago
I think shame can be powerful for many people, but it has negative side-effects that don't seem to be necessary. Obesity also has large genetic and environmental components[1], as well. Shame can make it hard for people to seek help, s
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by polio 4y ago
Nothing screeched to a halt. Money stopped flowing as freely as it once did. The layoffs are relatively massive, but the companies involved are still enormous organizations. Things have slowed down, and things are fraying at the edges, but
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by polio 4y ago
What do you mean by "toxic assets"? My understanding is that the assets were long-term treasuries issued in 2021. They'd declined in value, as expected, because of interest rate increases that occurred afterwards. SVB is now
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by polio 4y ago
What if the FDIC or someone pays all depositors and then takes over the long-term bond portfolio, intending to hold to maturity?
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by polio 4y ago
I mean it seems like the "Mastodon protocol" could just specify that admins should have no expectation of privacy when they communicate in their official capacity. I'd expect the protocol to eventually support account migrati
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by polio 4y ago
It's very easy to forget about people who are remote.
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by polio 4y ago
The movie is suggesting that the criteria for the mission and the fatalistic attitudes of society are somewhat incomplete by showing that Vincent's 99th percentile "grit" has been completely overlooked because of the genetic
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by polio 4y ago
I love short sellers. They serve a vital moral purpose in financial markets, as the article describes. Here's hoping the new rate regime will serve them better.
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by polio 4y ago
Can you fire them?
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by polio 4y ago
Yes, those are all colloquially accepted meanings of intelligence, but what people in this thread mean is g, fluid intelligence.
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by polio 4y ago
You can imagine it, but it isn't typical.
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by polio 4y ago
VR will always be more of a destination, whereas the vision for AR is that it'll integrate with your daily life via a wearable.
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by polio 4y ago
It makes sense in scenarios where it's easier to verify a provided solution than it is to create one.
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by polio 4y ago
It matters to me because, to me, art is a reflection of emotional processes specific to human beings. There is meaning conveyed by the difficulty of technique, refined over hundreds of hours at great opportunity cost. It says to me that the
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by polio 4y ago
It can be both. There are many honest and ardent people on TikTok motivated by labor rights. If I worked for the CCP, I would boost that sort of thing as strongly as I could.
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by polio 4y ago
I've read your comment and am thinking of you. I don't know how much that helps, but maybe it makes you feel less alone. One thing to note is that you aren't unlovable, even if there's an absence of love directed at you.
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by polio 4y ago
I think they've also turned it into a book so people will have something slow to peruse in order to absolve them of their digital guilt.
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by polio 4y ago
I feel like writing code that satisfies the borrow checker isn't that hard if you intuitively understand the lifetimes of the things you're dealing with. In C++ you have to do this anyway, so having the compiler help actually decr
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by polio 4y ago
Batch jobs seem like a good candidate for C++ because of how much faster a single instance will be. Multiplied across the size of the total job, that can represent enormous savings. On the other hand, using Rust for a web server with low QP
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by polio 4y ago
Nobody has said that the population is exploding or that there is an evil toxin. The evidence here is for a proliferation of endocrine disrupting compounds. Given that gender expression is affected by hormones, I don't see how the clai
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by polio 4y ago
These things are not mutually exclusive. I don't see any evidence that would justify a high degree of confidence that the person you're replying to is wrong.
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by polio 4y ago
It's worse than fiat, but that isn't an alternative if you're a North Korean hacker, a ransomware artist, or an international drug dealer. Crypto does well at facilitating these use cases.
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by polio 4y ago
The really difficult part of living without power is living among a population that is unprepared for it, and therefore rabid with stress.

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