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by ralusek 3y ago
I think of it like this: if you leave your car sitting in the garage, it’s not for good for it. Gas will gum up, battery will die, all manner of issues from not running it. However, what ultimately will make a car crap out is the number of
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by ralusek 3y ago
Code is a way of explaining rules. If you have a lot of complicated rules, whatever system you use to represent it is going to be complicated. Best case scenario for low code is when the rules are simple or very predictable. In my experienc
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Illegal to have the same opinion as someone?
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Almost everything interesting about AI so far has been unexpected emergent behavior, and huge gains through minor insights. While I don't doubt that the current architecture is likely to have a current ceiling below that of peak human
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by ralusek 3y ago
Watch Naomi Wu on YouTube. Look beyond her jarring aesthetic, and you’ll get to see the process of building something from idea to prototype and even production in China, specifically Shenzhen. It genuinely makes me happy that a place like
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by ralusek 3y ago
I'm glad that you're amused by me, but nothing I said implies that I have a a "version" of what a Black person is, should be, or that this version is the "only correct one."
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I think the goal of attempting to reduce in-group bias is laudable. I generally think that any attempt to remove race as a component from any decision making is a good thing. That being said, I think that if you plot, for example, the black
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by ralusek 3y ago
San Diego. Pros: Weather, activities. People are chill and the Mexican food is dank. Cons: Spensie and the wages aren't great; prefer to work remote for that Bay Area $
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by ralusek 3y ago
Forgive me if I'm reaching, but I had absolutely no idea what this discussion was saying. This is my best bet understanding: User implies we should wait 5-10 years to cure aging. Implication being that we want someone near death to act
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I wouldn't describe wanting to give up as primarily an emotion to me, but rather a function of available energy, or something akin to pain. I guess pain is maybe technically an emotion, it's certainly not something trivially dismi
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"Engineer" seems to be synonymous with "Dev Ops Engineer" to you.
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I think anything of any kind from publicly listed companies increasingly seems to suck. Only exceptions are a handful of companies where the brand identity or a very ambitious personality at the helm (Apple, Tesla, NVidia) allow them to mak
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There is no putting the cat back in the bag. The only defense against AI at this point is more powerful AI, and we just have to hope that: 1.) there is an equilibrium that can be reached 2.) the journey to and stabilizing at said equilibr
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Although the whole "tragedy vs statistic" thing is an applied version of that thought.
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> Free speech is always in conflict with other rights Within the liberal framework, most strongly embodied by the US, rights are fundamentally meant to be negative rights. In other words, they are better conceived of as limitations place
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That’s like saying that using a site with moderation rules is asking you to sell your right to free speech, or that going to a nude spa is asking you to sell your right to privacy. I have no problem with EU regulating what Facebook can do,
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Euphemism treadmill, etc.
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I'm a brown haired person. I'm also a person with brown hair. Neither phrasing makes my brown hair a disease I carry.
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My understanding is that everything ads related has a completely different standard for performance because so much of it happens with real time bidding for ad space in the same window of time that a user is being served a (likely cached) w
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I mean, that's also to do with seasonality. Citrus is horrible outside of winter. I recently started noticing the oranges starting to taste much better, but that's the same as every year around now.
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Do you mean Office Space?
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> In 2006, the State Department bans Lenovo computers from their network. After MI5 identified “backdoors” and vulnerable firmware in Lenovo products, their computers are banned from the intelligence networks of all Five-Eyes countries:
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Blender is open source and free, Unreal is paid on the backend.
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Being in my VPC, having the support and track record of AWS, scaling to 128TB without me having to think about it, easy snapshots/backups.
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It is my understanding that the failure conditions of these boards is present in all competitors as well. For example, if the top speed of the board is exceeded, the motor is no longer sufficiently powerful to keep balance or slow properly.
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For what it's worth, the single biggest selling point to a better search, for me, would be not having to deal with additional infrastructure and all the hassle that comes with keeping data in sync. I would be very reluctant to move off
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> It was a strange experience; I was soon shocked to learn that the Foundation spent nearly $800,000 last year. $0 of that went to Processing 4. > This year, the proposed Foundation budget is around $1.2 million. But for Processing, t
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by ralusek 3y ago
I was about to say that Daniel Shiffman is the only person I sponsor on GitHub, but when I just went to check, I'm listed as a past sponsor: https://github.com/sponsors/shiffman Do sponsorships lapse automatically
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No, the immune response would be systemic no matter where the antigen manifests. You don't want the antigen being produced everywhere.
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Attenuated/weakened viruses still infect cells and go through normal protein-making machinery. Inactivated viruses and subunit/recombinant vaccines, however, just directly expose our immune system to the antigen(s) of the pathogen

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