pwinnski

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1. 1021.▲
   by pwinnski 5y ago

   Which also has nothing at all to do with non-default search engine options.
2. 1022.▲
   by pwinnski 5y ago

   Interacting with humans has shown me many, many examples of people who can follow steps written by a marketer to push their nonsense without any clue of how to reverse the process. What doesn't make sense is believing that every human
3. 1023.▲
   by pwinnski 5y ago

   If I understand you, you're saying that we see patterns of intelligence or understanding in ML models in the same way we see patterns of intelligence or understanding in children or animals? If so, I agree. I think that's our big
4. 1024.▲
   by pwinnski 5y ago

   My point is the other way around. If I knew for certain that you and I were perfectly deterministic, it wouldn't change anything about how I viewed you (especially since some days I'm pretty sure we're all deterministically-d
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   by pwinnski 5y ago

   As a counter-example, I've been on the hiring side many, many, many, many times, more times than I can count, and I despise leetcode-style tests as much as or more than anyone. I've been doing this long enough to know that the thi
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   by pwinnski 5y ago

   Having worked in ML at two different companies now, I think that people interpreting model output as intelligence or understanding says much more about the people than about the model output. We want it to be true, so we squint and connec
7. 1027.▲
   by pwinnski 5y ago

   Are you kidding? I have to assume you're not trolling, and really can't conceive of an entire large category of people who might, in response to a Facebook post, follow step-by-step instructions to change their default search engi
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   by pwinnski 5y ago

   I track TV shows in different languages online. So I see, for example: 3 Belgian shows, 3 Danish, 1 Finnish, 11 French, 23 German, 2 Hebrew, 14 Japanese (not counting anime!), 19 Swedish, 19, Thai, 6 Turkish, 50 Chinese (also not counting a
9. 1029.▲
   by pwinnski 5y ago

   Oh, the time and trouble I would have saved! Now I'm set for the future, thanks!
10. 1030.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    I have eight options available to me in mobile safari other than using bookmarks to use any search engine that exists. It is easy to conceive of reasons why a company would not want to enable native UI elements to rely on external services
11. 1031.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    No, you don't have to use Safari, which is limited to eight search engines. You can use Firefox, which allows more search engines. Yes, its renderer is the same, but it is different software, and this isn't a thread about the rend
12. 1032.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    I was told I'd be looking at an offer in the $350k+ range working remotely, based on my location in Texas. If that's not outpaying everyone, I'm very interested in hearing of companies that aren't so repugnant willing to
13. 1033.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    When a recruiter reached out to me earlier this year, I knew two things: I would never work for Facebook, and I wanted to know how much they would pay. When the recruiter gave me the salary range, it made me seriously question the first thi
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Three separate errors in point 1. Point 2 is false. Point 3 is too vague to make any sense.
15. 1035.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    > The current generation couldn't invent the internet. You know why, cos they would never have the patience to spec it out like the old timers did. Go read a few RFCs and try to imagine a scrum team today putting as much thought int
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Texans love Texas like Kanye loves Kanye.
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    It would be worth noting what percentage of castle from this same period feature a moat or crenelations or arrow slits, right? The book is about why it's actually a myth. This article is about how stories get started and passed down wi
18. 1038.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    There are non-Apple-branded tracking devices available, have been for many years. Does each manufacturer of those also owe you an Android app?
19. 1039.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    And a surprisingly high number of people pay quite a bit, even thousands of dollars. The curve for games like this is steep.
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Please, suggest specific locations which are at zero risk of becoming uninhabitable based on scientific data. No runaway fires, no tornados, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, no fear of rising sea levels or runaway rivers, no risk of resou
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Every location on earth is at risk of becoming uninhabitable within the next 50 years. Predicting which will be most at risk is relatively easy. Predicting which will be least at risk is much harder, as some of the effects are compl
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    OP either doesn't understand the term, or is trying to decontextualize it. Hypernormalization[0] in action. 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    You think adding more engineers would make their software less buggy? Really? This seems contrary to literally everything I have ever read, experienced, or in any way known for my entire career, including reading books written about softw
24. 1044.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Does the tax apply when money moves from one entity I control to another entity I control? If so, that's clearly a problem. If not, that's definitely a different set of problems. Everything seems simple at first, and then it isn&#
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Define "those things," and then tell me what "those things" would be defined at before, say, live search came along. Because however you would have defined search boxes would not have allowed for the development of live
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    And we should care about Dorsey's prediction because... ? The actual experts who study these things can't agree on much regarding the future, so I don't expect anything profound from any rich geek off the street.
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    by pwinnski 5y ago

    I'm not actually sure this makes the metaphor less applicable. Network and position matter for both, but the point values in Chess serve to describe the relative value of each piece in addition to that, while the lack of differentiat
28. 1048.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Do you cringe more or less than right now, when Amazon dominates all the markets CloudFlare is trying to enter except one?
29. 1049.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Yeah, as a gamedev, let me rush to do that right away, because, um, well, um, nope.
30. 1050.▲
    by pwinnski 5y ago

    Yeah, as someone who has worked on mobile games, this entire scenario suggests ignorance of how game development works.