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> had all the necessary bullet points to become what is Java now The language itself was hacked together in a haphazard way. It didn't even have a formal grammar which I found out because it stopped us from creating some pretty impo
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I hated maintaining a mid-sized Delphi code base too. Although this one might have to do with the fact that the main product code base was basically "a separate repository per each customer, copy-pasted from the least messy one when th
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> Hardly anything non-obvious or controversial in there, how boring ;) Good advice tends to be boring (and hard to implement!) ;)
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These metrics are irrelevant for business. If it means something for predicting Musk involvement in government it's this: there will be some meaningless metrics by which it will be declared a success.
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How did it go "amazingly well"? In Musk's own words Twitter is barely breaking even[0]. Estimates by Fidelity say that about 80% of Twitter business value evaporated under Musk rule [1]. [0] https://www.business-sta
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Another problem with NP-hard is that it only covers deterministic algorithms. Even if most instances of a problem are deterministically hard, they might still have a randomized algorithm which solves them feasibly.
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Stages of Denial(nsl.com)
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I drive a 3yo Corolla. While it does have the touch screen, it also has physical buttons both on the steering wheel and on the panel. Well, the volume knob for the car audio, while physical, is actually digital so it's uncomfortably la
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State regulation with heavy fines.
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Measuring the fallout being hard is one problem. The other is organizational - when the unit that owns the savings is separate from the one that bears the costs, they have no motivation to consider the costs. Their spreadsheets look good
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That's what I remember too. I heard this term at Google from someone who used to work for Amazon. Also a random article about it: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-use-frupidi...
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This doesn't have to be a complex workflow. My work laptop from Dell has an idiotic "copilot" key which sends something like ctrl+shift+f23 - three separate key presses on the scancode level. I use dkey to map this otherwise
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"We" don't necessarily want censorship. But companies who own the models don't want another Microsoft Tay.
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Closest I found is this one: ```I'm generally sympathetic to what you're doing. But I hope you will take your time and do it carefully. This isn't just a company," Graham wrote on X during a back-and-forth with Musk on T
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Trumpists may be against democracy but they seem pro capital or at least pro big tech capital.
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Then they can be detected by slower and more precise methods like periodically analyzing the samples in a traditional lab.
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"Don't ask questions, post some blatantly wrong answers on the internet. You'll have angry PhDs running to explain how you are wrong!"
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> But after more than a decade of using it nearly full time (but not exclusively), I've fallen out of love with it. I believe this is true for anyone and any language. Spend a few years in a language on stuff that you have to do (
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Congratulations! Now you can say you have your ducks in Arrow.
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A gazer nearby.
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8's always surround the 1-point warlock (always on the edge) who has a scroll which reveals all the 5-point green things.
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To me it's more interesting that every one of these curves has length 2 and yet the limit has length of sqrt(2). (many properties are not preserved under limit but it's still somewhat interesting)
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Audio spectrum is bounded, so we are only hearing the first few terms of the series that make up the function (the coefficient under sine grows exponentially with n). You could even replace the audible part with Chopin (or anything else, ev
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Ext4 actually special-handles the rename trick so that it works even if it should not: "If auto_da_alloc is enabled, ext4 will detect the replace-via-rename and replace-via-truncate patterns and [basically save your ass]"[0] [0] h
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I'm afraid you'll need to ketchup on the news yourself.
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Then go from a CTO to an L4 at Google.
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Their larvae are also pretty brutal predators and they also feed on mosquito larvae. Here's a YT vid showing how they hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHo_9wnnUTE
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That's literally not true. Neither flat earthers nor "vaccines cause autism" folks are being called mentally ill. The hypothetical Santanists would not be called mentally ill either.
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It is "everyone". Just like "all lives matter" is a deeply humanistic message about the sanctity of life of all human beings, nothing else.
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Another post from the same author puts this in an interesting context: https://www.seangoedecke.com/glue-work-considered-harmful/ (follow up: https://www.seangoedecke.com/cynicism/ ) Keeping the co

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