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ramesh31
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It's the money. It's all about the money. Things are pretty low stress and low stakes when you're hiring for a 50k pure salary role. When things blew up into the mid six figures with stock incentives, it became a whole thing
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>"within reason". Key word there. HOA rules exist for the sole purpose of defining a common, enforceable, agreed upon definition of "within reason".
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>Even if that’s true (and it gets repeated as a very general statement without general data to back it up, so I’m not sure), then why couldn’t payment processors either a) charge retailers in high-risk segments a higher transaction fee,
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1y ago
>Steam has been selling these games for years without ever saying there was a problem with this. So has itch. Until now, when they did.
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>That's the clause in the agreement they use to justify the increase in rates, but it's unclear it's actually "risky" when it's a large company like Valve. The risk is not from Valve; disputes pass through t
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>Why haven’t game stores just spin off separate store front for porn content? It is basically free, since they already have the infrasructure. Because the payment processing is unreliable and prohibitively expensive. For all the whining
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1y ago
Stop thinking of models as all-knowing oracles; they aren't and shouldn't be. They are reasoning engines. You will always need to provide relevant and up to date context for them to work with as ground level truth, and the quality
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1y ago
MCP lets your agent actually do things, rather than just write things. Think controlling some other software via APIs.
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Him and Stewart both called it quits just before the streaming era really kicked off. Oliver proved out that a weekly show can work, and I'd be surprised if he doesn't go that route.
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>unless of course... you drew a penis... I assumed this would be >90% of submissions.
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>My experience is LLMs can write very very well; we just have to care. My experience is that people who think this are really bad writers. That's fine, because most human writing is bad too. So if your goal is just to put more bad w
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Probably why they were able to just 10x the token based API limits.
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1y ago
Because we have to. It's obviously survivorship bias. I don't have a single chance at interviewing against someone with a degree unless I can undeniably prove that I am head and shoulders above the pack. And so you grind and grind
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I think it serves a purpose, if even not for its original intended usage. African American culture is a very real thing, distinct from just "black". No one migrating from Africa would identify with the term; they have their own i
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It's pretty hilarious how I've come to trust this benchmark for a gut check on frontier models more than any of the numbers available. It seems to map perfectly to codegen abilities. Based on the pelicans, Grok 4 looks somewhere a
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>"Wasm works well where isolation is needed between different program parts written by different people." Nailed it. We have JS in the browser, and (particularly with TS) it's a great language for building applications on
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1y ago
Do you want to learn computer science or do you just want to get a job in tech? Because those are two very different things. Learning CS means starting with the math, particularly for folks long out of school (the famous quote, "Comput
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1y ago
>By embracing batch processing and leveraging the power of cost-effective open-source models, you can sidestep the price floor and continue to scale your AI initiatives in ways that are no longer feasible with traditional APIs. Context s
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This will play out precisely like the "do not track" header; bad actors will create an arms race that makes anyone respecting it into a chump.
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SEC is a complete joke at this point. Zero due diligence being done on companies like this, and as always, the consumer is left footing the bill.
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1y ago
We're talking about a few hundred people here, globally. The entire goal is to suppress everyone else's wages to zero.
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1y ago
Depends heavily on the complexity of your tool interface. The real power of agentic systems is not so much in their ability to select and call tools, but the expressiveness with which they can (generatively) parameterize them meaningfully i
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We shouldn't but it's analogous to how CPU usage used to work. In the 8 bit days you could do some magical stuff that was completely impossible before microcomputers existed. But you had to have all kinds of tricks and heuristics
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One thing I never see in these studies is control for all nicotine usage. Cannabis use is a massive indicator for that, and can very easily be under reported if it is not actually being tested for.
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I've found it to be amazing purely as a new form factor for software delivery. There's a middle ground so common in enterprise where there's a definite need for some kind of custom solution to something, but not enough scale
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This stuff was legalized with a bill written by Republicans in congress, passed in a Republican majority controlled house and senate, and signed into law by a Republican president. To call the legislature in Texas at this point extremist is
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You can listen to the man himself reading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhW0TrzWGmI It's meant as pure lyrical poetry. Reading it aloud is like dancing with your tongue instead of feet.
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The title is in reference to Molly Bloom's stream of consciousness monologue in the final chapter. If you read one single work of english literature in your life, let it be this: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/430
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>Hahaha... so ChatGPT-generated Node / React apps is the new Excel with VBA macros! Maybe, but also "Excel with VBA macros" has generated an unimaginable amount of value for businesses in that time as well. There's go
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1y ago
>Now might be the best time to learn software development Always has been.
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