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by rhelz 3y ago
Why should my measuring stick prevent me from being able to divide a 1 meter length of wood into 3rds? Sure, they use millimeters....but this is an unfortunate workaround for a defect of the metric system. The proof is that if you look at
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by rhelz 3y ago
// 33 centimeters is about as precise as you can get // Yeah, that's exactly the problem.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Happens at every big company. The reason we don't hear about it more often isn't that big companies don't know this is a problem. Its just that the only solution they seem to be able to come up with is to enforce keeping un
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by rhelz 3y ago
The problems with the metric system are largely the problems of using base-10 arithmetic. Say you are a carpenter; your boss hands you a meter stick and asks you to cut him a piece of wood 1/3 meter long. Well, there's no line on
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by rhelz 3y ago
Isn't it a bit, well just small-hearted, to be gossiping about somebody else's personal medical choices? And isn't it just a bit too convenient to be able to dismiss him by waving it off as due to drugs? Elon Musk's beh
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by rhelz 3y ago
The way this question is phrased has changed, during my lifetime, from "Did God create the universe, or was there a big bang?" to "Is the universe the result of chance or of intelligent design" to "are we living in
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by rhelz 3y ago
The bad news is that--with very few exceptions--bad job beats no job. That's why most jobs are bad :-( You can always skill up: bad job or good job, its never a bad idea to keep up with the progress in your field and try new ways to a
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by rhelz 3y ago
Are you saying Germans have no sense of humor?? chuckle
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by rhelz 3y ago
At this point, even starting a new hi-tech company of any size in the Bay Area immediately runs into the problem of housing. You wanna hire 20,000 workers? Where will they live? Buying 50,000 acres of land and covering it with manhattan-s
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by rhelz 3y ago
Its pretty hard to give any problem which you absolutely have to solve using only one particular technique. Nevertheless, there are some problems which require more than just being able to add positive numbers together in order to solv
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by rhelz 3y ago
In a capitalistic economy, what is it that signals we need to produce more of some product? Buehler? Buehler?
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by rhelz 3y ago
Interesting negotiating tactic. Can you imagine trying to open a factory in Mexico, and your bargaining position is that Mexicans are too dumb and lazy to staff this factory? The very fact that we don't take that as an insult, but rat
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by rhelz 3y ago
Up until about 1973, when worker productivity rose, the wages rose in lockstep. Since then, worker productivity is up about 2.4x but wages have remained stagnant. https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnatio
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by rhelz 3y ago
The founders at a tool-making startup I worked for came back from a sales meeting one day looking very sad. I asked them why the long faces. They said they pitched the tool as something which would save their engineers a lot of pain. &quo
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by rhelz 3y ago
All a gdb replacement has to do to succeed is not require the binary to be codesigned.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Well, I downloaded and compiled it (cool! Thanks!) but no matter what prompt I give it, it just prints out gibberish....where do I go now to learn how to properly use it?
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by rhelz 3y ago
Now ask yourself: how do you know you are not already a resident of a village like that?
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by rhelz 3y ago
Search Engines are not designed to give you the truth. They are designed to give you the result you wanted to find. The linked article is a good example: the author was looking for a result from Bing which they could write a florid article
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by rhelz 3y ago
This is a brilliant move. The more we're all talking about how scary AI is, how it needs regulation, etc, the less we are all talking about IP issues. E.g. how many stack overflow posts does it take to make LLMs as good as they are a
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by rhelz 3y ago
So many articles like this just presuppose that since capitalism hasn't collapsed in the way Marx predicted, so we should all just quit worrying and love the market. The problem is that global capitalism did collapse, and does coll
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by rhelz 4y ago
Not trying to be flip here, but isn't this kinda like the Bible verifying that indeed, the Bible is true?
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by rhelz 4y ago
Wouldn't, say, ChatGTP, be considered a "moonshot?"
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by rhelz 4y ago
Evidence, perhaps, that single-payer healthcare + guaranteed minimum income (in the instant case, Medicare + Social Security) contribute to human flourishing.
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by rhelz 4y ago
"Our team delivered another quarter of strong performance while remaining laser-focused on our three strategic priorities for 2023: client success, profitability, and shareholder returns," said Steve Bandrowczak, chief executive o
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by rhelz 4y ago
You are quite as capable of learning now as you ever were. You just have to budget more time. Not because you got worse at learning, but because you already know so much. Whenever you learn something new, your brain has to reconcile it w
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by rhelz 4y ago
If we didn't grant lifetime tenure to judges, they would live in perpetual fear of retaliation from ruling against a powerful or well-connected defendant. C.F. also university professors or school teachers who also get similar, tho mor
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by rhelz 4y ago
Galton's law is going to give these people a rude awakening.
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by rhelz 4y ago
All warfare is based on deception -- Sun Zu
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by rhelz 4y ago
No matter how wealthy you are on paper, your spend should be less than your income. That means swallowing your pride and moving back home sometimes.
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by rhelz 4y ago
What has this man done? There are probably only a handful of people who have done more to keep Moore's law going than Dr. Kahng. Without the research he and his many students have done, we wouldn't have these wonderful thousand

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