redeyedtreefrog

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by redeyedtreefrog 3y ago
I found this on their tech blog from 2016: https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/08/how-we-scaled-our-a... Whether they really needed cassandra or whether it was just using fancy complicated tech for the sake of i
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by redeyedtreefrog 3y ago
eels eels eels
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by redeyedtreefrog 3y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
> They could get this from banks already. No they can't. > These are already low in Europe due to regulation. For sure, it's not going to save vast amounts of money. The original comment said "I already have a digital p
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Economists would surely love the anonymised spending data, were it to be made available. Though it would have to be heavily aggregated to avoid any individuals being identifiable by their spending times and locations. Retailers would presum
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Was hoping to find an intelligent and well researched article on medical interventions. Instead it's just some extremely hand wavy libertarian college essay.
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
I know numerous people at multiple companies in the UK who negotiated working a 4 day week as a dev in return for a 20% pay cut. Not sure how common that is in the US, or whether less than four days a week is something employers would ever
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
thanks, that's pretty cool!
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
wow that's cool! I like Jean-Michel Jarre and I like seeing music created through code, awesome that it combines the two. Though to be a bit of a pendant I'm not sure it is truly generative music ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
similar to others, for me stutters like crazy in Firefox but only a tiny bit of stutter in Brave (aka Blink/Chrome)
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Right now ChatGPT responses tend to be very confidently asserted, are overly verbose, and contain factual errors. So right now you could build model(s) that measure the assertiveness and wordiness of text. But then people could just instruc
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
The vast majority of the money supply created by central banks is digitally created. I am entirely at a loss as to why this supposed introduction to how money works consistently implies money created by the state approximately equals cash,
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Counter battery radar only tells you where the enemy was when they fired, not where they are now. Even with drone surveillance, the drone has to find the target before it gets shot down, and then the information has to be acted on before th
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
SpaceX and Tesla made affordable, reusable rockets, and affordable, high performance electric cars with a long range. Those things have obvious value, but required solving big engineering challenges to make them a reality. Musk doesn't
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
The comments here is mostly people saying this would never work for more than a couple of inches of snow, how whoever wrote it must have no experience of real snow. But there's a video in the linked article of it working for a reasonab
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Electricity isn’t a magical thing given to us by the high priests of the Ministry of Electrons. Take a magnet, take a copper wire, and voilà! You have electricity. Anyone can generate electricity at all times, as long as they are doing the
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
I personally think one of the biggest reasons behind this is that staff are generally not incentivised in any way to be collaborative or helpful. Managers and leaders have their performance judged on things like: * how well personally conne
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
I think the point in the first section is that the way ABC instancecheck/subclasshook interacts with pattern matching is surprising for anyone not familiar with ABC. It allows you to check for a match with arbitrary functions, beyond s
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
In middle age I've just started to appreciate poetry. Really enjoyed this article!
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Agile industrial bullshit scale: Level 0, aka "kanban with continuous deployment": - Tickets in backlog arranged in approximate priority order. Meetings with business stakeholders (e.g. product managers) take place where the most
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
* waking up on a sunny spring morning at the weekend, with no particular plans, and successfully putting all worries and concerns about both my own life and the wider world out of my mind. I make a coffee, I watch the birds in the trees out
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
That's interesting, inspired me to go down a bit of a wikipedia rabbit hole reading about internet.org, facebook zero, wikipedia zero, and zero-rating generally. It seems mobile wikipedia is zero-rated in many countries, but by no mean
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
In the UK the NHS don't do screening for breast cancer for under 50s because it's believed that it would do more harm than good by leading to unnecessary treatment for cancers that would never have actually caused any harm, and ev
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Time Out did an investigation that suggests maybe they really are legitimate businesses making a profit, and not money laundering fronts as commonly suggested: https://www.timeout.com/london/shopping/why-is-central
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
OK, so the landing short thing was due to two things 1. I was using Brave, and the voxels for the landing zones seem to be messed up for some reason, with coloured blobs scattered everywhere. I switched to Chrome and the centre is more obvi
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
I like the style, design and sound effects, but as someone who is not especially great at computer games, and trying this out as a coffee break game, I found it pretty unforgiving: - it initially took me maybe a minute just to work out that
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by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
So if it goes ahead it will generate 10.5GW, but deliver 3.6GW for "20+ hours a day". I guess the 10.5GW figure is peak generation during the day with lots of wind + sun, then by using batteries it will be able to consistently del