r_hoods_ghost

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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Even worse it means you are always reacting to the latest or "loudest" issue (like the CEO wanting a feature implemented that no one will use but will impose a maintenance burden) and never standing back to evaluate what is valuab
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
That's not because of building codes. That's because of people who don't believe in helping their fellow man through, oh I don't know, paying taxes, supporting the welfare state, paying living wages etc.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Yep. The ideology around foss developed as it did precisely because it's original proponents did not have to make a living from developing and selling software, but were instead academics who already had an income from elsewhere (tenur
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
So go home when you get to 5.00. Think. Come back to office at 8.30. Work. That's what most people do.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Mutton is the term for meat from a mature sheep, but it is rarely sold outside of halal and speciality butchers in the UK these days, which is a pity as it's better for stews.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Because they don't want to have to create a separate form for "people who have been in industry for > 5 years", "people who have recently graduated" and "people who are still at university"? It takes yo
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
But we now know that there is a smaller box within the bigger black box and have empirical data to back up that assertion, which is a step up from where we were previously. That LLMs have internal models and use them to make predictions mea
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
If you want an introduction to the history of visual art E. H. Gombrich's The Story of Art is the classic text and takes you up to about the 1990s. Apart from that - go to a decent gallery, find a theatre production that looks interest
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
If you look outside of the USA lots of cities have good public transport systems that aren't plagued by poverty, crime, homelessness and mental illness. Just because Americans have decided to optimize their society to maximize misery o
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Art school grad. First of all it takes a lot of practice to be able to reach the level of simplicity and clarity of the illustrations in that article. In many ways this is harder than drawing in a very realistic manner. Saying that: 1. Do e
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
It is interesting that what the author considers "foundational knowledge" in the context of running a sucessful advertising campaign to be "the HTTP protocol and Session management". I would argue that while this is not
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
British houses generally have terrible levels of insulation and if built before roughly 1930 are likely solid walled, so have no wall cavity to insulate. There is also the issue that a lot of people live in terraces and semis and there may
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I think arguing each case individually is a trap to avoid. A method I've used with lots of different groups of people, from groups of 4 year olds up, to dev teams, to groups of CEOs, is at the start of a project get everyone together a
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Or you could prosecute dangerous drivers who hit pedestrians for manslaughter / attempted manslaughter and work on the assumption that the person I charge of the most dangerous vehicle has a duty of care towards other road users and i
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
The four times I've been seconded over the last 20 years it has always been to "act up" and come with a temporary pay bump. Usually because I'm taking over a manager's job while they're on maternity leave &#x2F
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Cute names often (not always) rely on a specific cultural context that many devs in the present, and definitely many devs five years down the line, won't share. When people argue for "cute" names over "descriptive"
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Because 5-10 years is a long enough period for another generation of youthful greater fools to enter the market who weren't old enough to have been burned by the previous cycle.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
This is basically what you do currently for a TTS engine if you have ALS or similar. The search term you want is "voice banking". You are given a long list of words and sentences, often complex, to read out that have all the diffe
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
A relative of mine recently died from bulbar ALS. By the time she had the diagnosis her voice had already changed and weakened significantly so she couldn't get a decent recording to use with a text to speech synthesizer. Something lik
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
All the shallow, vacuous blog posts by VCs and thought leaders..
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Because there is a very strong negative correlation between overworking and productivity / quality of work. When I've been line managing people I find that if they work over 40-45 hours a week their actual productivity (as opposed
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
To a degree yes, but endurance and power are important for functional strength and for endurance this means doing lots of reps at low intensity or doing easy exercises explosively for power
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Surely this is the baseline? If you hadn't contributed significant changes in the first three months and I was your line manager I probably would have failed your probation. I wouldn't expect you to be at maximum productivity by t
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Is this an academic who is celebrated and is a fraud or an academic who was defrauded. The second would be deliciously ironic. The first alas could describe entire economics sub fields
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
We know that by 300bc at the latest that they had abacuses, so I imagine they used these
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
"projects that have to send the same queries to different databases are very rare." That's true in business certainly but once you head into academia or are working with medical data / the public sector you often find yo
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
It is exactly the story that the headline makes out. The driver fell asleep. The autopilot didnt respond to signals from the police to pull over. This is because it doesn't have that feature. But since it's on the road and adverti
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I'm sorry but this sounds like a pebkac. You created a new virtual card for each purchase rather than just create a single card, load it up with £50 and use that. Why? Making multiple purchases on multiple cards in a short period of ti
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
In an ideal world yes. But you're often lumbered with software that is already decades old and "in house" usually means developed by a self taught post grad (or undergrad if you're really unlucky). And let's not get
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
The "wiggle room" built into the lega system is because reasoning of any sort is always carried out under conditions of epistemic uncertainty. This is built into legal systems through concepts such as burden of proof, reasonable d

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