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by pradn 3y ago
Execs can waste years by investing in the wrong projects, tech leads can waste quarters of time by picking the wrong architecture/ecosystem, junior engineers can waste days by picking the wrong approach to a ticket. And benefit goes th
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by pradn 3y ago
It seems like consumers just don't want VR/AR. We've had compelling experiences for a decade. But it seems like only a subset of console gamers, already a small population, care to buy a VR headset.
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by pradn 3y ago
No, storage costs aren't plummeting. They've been largely stagnant the past 3-4 years. I don't think the reduction in the number of drives for the same amount of storage is as significant as the cost of the drives themselves.
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by pradn 3y ago
No you just go to the folder and select “show deleted”.
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by pradn 3y ago
It's so much easier to take your laptop over to a senior colleague and ask them to help you debug something in person. There's much more friction to asking for a call, waiting for them to respond, sending them the invite, perhaps
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by pradn 4y ago
See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12gjp5b/ultimate_g...
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by pradn 4y ago
It's the application owner's responsibility to make it the app run as best as it can on a given platform. Platforms are messy, but you have to deal with it. You should escalate to the platform owner, sure, but you can't rely
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by pradn 4y ago
It's too bad the Samsung Dex-style computing never made it to Apple devices. Apple is loath to combine mouse and touch-based computing, though.
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by pradn 4y ago
Does this mean that rising Fed benchmark interest rates affect car dealers in a few ways? 1) The economy is in an iffy position, so customers don't want to make big purchases. 2) Even if customers are willing to buy, car financing rate
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by pradn 4y ago
It might be the non-obvious problem with mmap : failures are surfaced through signals. So, a failure signal handler may run at any time. Your program needs to be resilient to this, and it's not trivial to do so. It's not a local c
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by pradn 4y ago
This article has nearly no information, and is based on rumor.
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by pradn 4y ago
There's a whole Wikipedia page for the water-electricity analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
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by pradn 4y ago
> Lots and lots of natural resources facilitating lots of businesses which aren't really feasible in say, Germany, France, Japan. This doesn't seem to be a big factor in the boom industries in the US: tech, finance, pharma. It
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by pradn 4y ago
My idea was to: 1) Set up a public Git repo on GitHub with a list of quotes. 2) Set up a Cloud Function to execute once a day. This function will read the list and post the quote for the day. This is super simple - no server required, and a
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by pradn 4y ago
Not having to take care of a home sounds great. I can't imagine the Sisyphean task of mowing a lawn every weekend. At least raking leaves can be a peaceful thing - lour mowers can't be peaceful!
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by pradn 4y ago
It looks its still possible to write a tweetbot within the free tier. That's good, I've been meaning to for a long time.
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by pradn 4y ago
Scratch supports message-passing and concurrency, which makes writing parallel programs fairly straight-forward. This is usually considered a more advanced series of programming concepts, and yet, I've seen children use them for their
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by pradn 4y ago
People are smart - they'll pick a self-checkout line or a cashier depending on which will reduce the effort they have to expend. So, even with varying shopper preferences for which is intrinsically better/worse, it'll average
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by pradn 4y ago
Even JioSaavn, which is focused on Indian popular film music, doesn't do anything special. It's a bit more similar to classical music than American-style pop in terms of organization. Music directors are responsible for the entire
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by pradn 4y ago
The terms seem like legalese for "you pay me money now and get to do anything with it". It doesn't seem far-fetched for training AI models to be a valid use-case. This is way better than scraping the whole internet, for art b
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by pradn 4y ago
I really have to commend this person for just being so energetic with just DOING stuff, no matter the failure. I suppose you get used to it, making it easy to be "biased toward action". It's easier to win when you pull the sl
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by pradn 4y ago
No, the crucial thing is that a good human will tell you if they don't know something, or if they are simply unsure.
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by pradn 4y ago
It seems like there's three types of models: 1) household names like Gigi Hadid who are known for their personalities, personal lives (who they're dating, baby photos), and politics (activism). Brands want them a great deal becaus
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by pradn 4y ago
It really depends on urban density. I'm only familiar with big cities in the USA. There's few new buildings in the West Village in Manhattan, with beautiful red-brick townhomes that fetch multi-millions. And new ones tend to adher
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by pradn 4y ago
The SALT tax cap in the Trump-era tax reform was both progressive (less state subsidies for property taxes on high-value homes), and hit Democratic-leaning states harder (since they tend to have higher home prices). So movement toward a les
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by pradn 4y ago
School districts being connected to housing, and therefore to class, is one of the other features of America that seem permanent. Schools have become more segregated since an integration peak in the 70s. This issue too, has deep ideological
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by pradn 4y ago
That's great to see! I haven't been aware of this news. I do hope it doesn't become one more of those red state vs blue state ideological lines. "Come to Texas, we won't build a condo complex next to your American D
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by pradn 4y ago
Wiktionary states the following for "baccalaureate": From French baccalauréat, from Medieval Latin baccalaureatus, from Latin baccalaureus, an alteration of baccalārius (“young man aspiring to knighthood”), to resemble bacca lauri
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by pradn 4y ago
It's practically impossible for US society to get out of treating housing as an investment. Americans believe in home ownership as evidence of prudence (hard work + savings), acumen (housing always goes up so it's smart to buy a h
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by pradn 4y ago
From what I hear, it's hard to reduce rents significantly as they're part of the financing arrangements with banks. Rents in general seems to be really sticky.

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