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by qbxk 2y ago
lol this article is an exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines
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by qbxk 2y ago
Not really as far as I can see. Plenty of self-taught programmers are good or better than the uni folks, and vice versa. The real test is whether they are curious and can continue to learn throughout their career. A uni CS degree is essenti
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by qbxk 2y ago
I get the sense of this, and it's ok, too draconian. Maybe works for people like you if everybody is like you But sometimes the question is fuzzy, to me "hey got a minute?" means "I'm about to unload something confu
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by qbxk 2y ago
They just began running a team of barges down Lake Champlain to lay 546km of cable from Quebec to NYC for $4.5B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Hudson_Power_Express
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by qbxk 2y ago
> open source log collecting and monitoring projects SigNoz looks interesting
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by qbxk 2y ago
I have found that very few developers care to learn about cloud infra and deployment best practices, but the skills are in high-demand (though AI could be putting that on the downtrend, it's so critical that having a human in the loop
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by qbxk 2y ago
yes I run dozens of apps in a professional capacity this way. Once it's set up, there's no further maintenance, scaling is a piece of cake and can be done with a aws-sdk cli command You will probably want a deploy script that runs
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by qbxk 2y ago
my 2c is package it as a Dockerfile and push it to ECR and set up an ECS fargate stack to run it. It's a little work to understand what this entails, but it will pay off, is cheap to run, and you can use it for everything. Don't h
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by qbxk 2y ago
Oh so news should work like science? Citations, references, peer reviews! I approve
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by qbxk 2y ago
I switched to stainless steel, maybe issues with chromium and nickel though. It's also not non-stick, but if you add oil to a dry pan after it's already heated it up, it will form a sort of non-stick surface. (Scratches in the pan
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by qbxk 2y ago
Jack Nicholson's Joker tried to warn us
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by qbxk 2y ago
what's interesting about the anecdotes on that link though, is that once the confusion settles, there is an explanation. the chicken may have made no sense, but the problem did get solved, and the chicken was necessary, but not for t
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by qbxk 2y ago
>175,000 pianos and 150,000 typewriters I'd like to think it's nice that more people bought something expensive to perform music with in their homes than to do labor with, and would like to bring back those days. But I suppose
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by qbxk 2y ago
answer: sonar could you imagine aliens showing up and setting off powerful blasts of light, blinding anyone in the area. then we figure out how to ask them to stop and they just say "oh we were just trying to make a map, we didn't
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by qbxk 2y ago
forget all these big-city connections. all the regional airports that are a 30m flight from these hubs will eat this kind of service right up. here in burlington, vt all our flights basically go through NYC anyhow, so a regular electric ser
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by qbxk 2y ago
international shipping, and _maybe_ eventually travel you can launch a rocket from anywhere on earth to arrive anywhere on earth in under 30m. first we'll just have better express package deliveries (oh, and military logistics). but ev
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by qbxk 2y ago
oh neat, so t, f, y, n, on, of, 1, 0
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by qbxk 2y ago
I bet it's due to a deficiency in some trace nutrient that covid depleted you of and you simply haven't recovered it somehow. that would explain why it's such a specific pattern, there's a slight mechanical issue with yo
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by qbxk 2y ago
aren't you just a mitochondria wrapper?
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by qbxk 2y ago
actually I see this the other way around. Doctors should be paragons of compassion and empathy, able to anticipate and answer any questions their patients have. It's not an academic role, it's not the kind of thing you can train 1
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by qbxk 2y ago
well duh, the most valuable company in the world isn't going do something that isn't profitable for them, but in this case their interests align with their customers in a powerful way. what would be really great is if we could eng
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by qbxk 2y ago
it seems like you're a bit too comfortable with thinking that just because the hallucinations are hallucinations they must be useless. alcoholics see snakes and rats and vermin, and that's not very much help to anybody. but all th
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by qbxk 2y ago
sure, the plastic molecules are non-toxic, they don't have any chemical reactions with organic molecules. they're inert. safe. but when they clump together, or when large sheets of them fall apart, you get particles. microplastics
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by qbxk 2y ago
i think the "problem" here is that for all of human history we have always been able to use mastery of language as a signal for intelligence and competence, of which LLMs are neither. it's possible this is even instinctual it
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by qbxk 2y ago
this missing piece also seems to be described under the banner "narcissism", which is a coping mechanism often acquired in childhood to deal with some sort of abuse or trauma
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by qbxk 2y ago
you're not wrong, and i think the technology exists to accomplish something that did this, and has for a few years. but the end result would be a system that funnels money from large numbers of people, to different large numbers of peo
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by qbxk 2y ago
they're going to make the chips, and build a cloud with them and then they're going to sell services with that cloud directly to the consumer. they're going to own the entire stack, from fab to finger
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by qbxk 3y ago
i miss perl
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by qbxk 3y ago
i think it's because most cells have multiple forms of metabolism available to them, but cancer cells are limited to just this one
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by qbxk 3y ago
i felt the same way, so i googled "sag aftra agreement" and ended up at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag... >The union is so far providing some details of the agreement, mo

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