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by raldi 3y ago
When, say, a car (with or without a driver) runs out of gas on a bridge during rush hour, causing a million dollars' worth of negative economic impact and slowing down emergency vehicles, their insurance should be fined heavily and the
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by raldi 3y ago
Off-topic for this thread, but one of the most poignant quips I remember about Google culture was that the performance-review process was really good at rewarding hard, challenging work that didn't produce much value and not very good
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by raldi 3y ago
But why is it called that?
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by raldi 3y ago
Anyone know what the labels on the defect bins were? Or what was written during the pencil test at the end?
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by raldi 3y ago
Sure, but I think a lot of people who saw the headline were only interested in the simple, quick answer, which was certainly enough for me.
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by raldi 3y ago
What version of bash do you see this happening on? Mine works as expected.
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by raldi 3y ago
Thanks. Looks like the complete answer would be something like, "There was a book about 'bladerunners', black-market couriers of medical equipment like scalpels, and they liked the name and adopted it for the unrelated film.&
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by raldi 3y ago
When someone sees the headline, the natural impulse is, "I wonder why they called it Blade Runner; if I click the link, it will tell me." But ten long paragraphs into the piece, there's no sign of an answer.
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by raldi 3y ago
I think one of the lessons here is how many kinds of clues like that there are, once you know what to look for.
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by raldi 3y ago
I once saw a Johnny Long talk about how to do this for interior photos, where something like an electrical outlet or carton of milk can make all the difference in the world.
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by raldi 3y ago
I appreciate how the author of this piece put the entire clickbait antidote right at the beginning of the story — what do these beads look like? Why were they there?
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by raldi 3y ago
I don’t understand what you mean; could you elaborate?
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by raldi 3y ago
Both the YouTube and Instagram acquisitions gave me a feeling of, “This is either going to be the best acquisition of its generation or the worst.”
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by raldi 3y ago
Yeah. Living in SF, where self-driving cars are a constant daily sight, I recently went back and read a HN thread from five years ago with comments like, “I work in the industry. There’s no way you’re going to be seeing them in 5-10 years.”
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by raldi 3y ago
That’s not the Fibonacci sequence; that’s the factorial sequence.
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by raldi 3y ago
I didn't say there was nothing wrong with crime in SF. I just shared a link showing (just as your does) that its crime rate is significantly lower than a lot of cities. For some reason a certain segment of the national media and popula
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by raldi 3y ago
All of these cities could learn something from San Francisco: https://vanlifewanderer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/san_f...
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by raldi 3y ago
The default should be a 404. The overwhelming majority of such pageviews are mistakes.
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by raldi 3y ago
Tokyo meets all of your listed criteria (though prohibiting on-street car storage is a big part of that) and they’ve been able to keep prices reasonable by allowing supply to meet demand. I think a lot of urbanists want American cities to g
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by raldi 3y ago
They mistake correlation (new buildings going up as housing prices increase) and causation.
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by raldi 3y ago
Have you had many conversations on the topic with the typical person on the street? I have (among other things, I’ve collected signatures for ballot measures), and I think about as many people think high housing prices are caused by allowi
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by raldi 3y ago
I remember feeling utterly lost when my browser barfed because I typed <script src=“…”> without a closing </script> like I would for an <img> tag.
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by raldi 3y ago
My eyes were rolling too much to finish this piece, but I’ll share a pair of tips: In a technical interview, learn to recognize when the interviewer is trying to help you, and take notice immediately when they do. If they say, “Do you reall
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Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on AI risk(lesswrong.com)
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by raldi 3y ago
It works for impressively difficult questions, but even for simple ones (like this article is about) they would surely already be already answered a decade ago on Stack Overflow so there would be no need to ask them anew.
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by raldi 3y ago
This article was written in 2020 and it shows. I type these queries into an LLM now and 95% of the time within seconds it outputs outstanding answers.
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by raldi 3y ago
That would have no impact on the copyright status of the original cartoons.
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by raldi 3y ago
My daughter and I were recently playing Super Mario Bros 2 on my childhood NES and an old TV, and I was struck by how fantastic the shiny cherries looked, implemented with a single white pixel. An emulator on a modern computer, even with re
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by raldi 3y ago
I was once lucky enough to take a physics class taught by the head of the department, and I remember one of his policies on tests or homework was that if you got an answer that was off by 1/2 or 2*pi or anything like that, he'd no
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by raldi 3y ago
And then what happens after 36?

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