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by riffraff 1y ago
Put options? Inverse NASDAQ ETFs? Value-oriented funds? Equal weighted funds rather than market cap weighted? I personally just keep investing in cheap total world market funds and let the market do its thing.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Well, a WSJ article came out last week, showing OpenAI lost 12B dollars last quarter. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-5... I'm not saying this triggered a sell off, but it is indicative
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by riffraff 1y ago
Ditto for Gemini Pro and Flash, which I have on my phone. I've been traveling in a country where I don't speak the language and or know the customs, and I found LLMs useful. But I see almost zero difference between paid and unpaid
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by riffraff 1y ago
Also European, and I partly agree. But I think they are "normal" left wing policies in Europe in the sense that parties in various countries/cities/regions have campaigned on them or implemented them. But my understandin
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by riffraff 1y ago
No dandelion? I can't recommend it enough. About every part is edible too: new leaves are sweet, old leaves are bitter, buds can be pickled, roots you can make teas and coffee substitute. A few related plants are also good (e.g. wild c
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by riffraff 1y ago
I thinks is mostly a matter of effort, not just taste. I'm Italian and my grandma used to forage dozens of wild plants, some very tasty (not nettles, I'd agree), and I still forage a few. But it takes a morning to have the equival
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by riffraff 1y ago
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious
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by riffraff 1y ago
The author does not actually make this claim, he only does tongue in cheek to show that Norman has a much larger influenced on the evolution of English vocabulary than usually thought.
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by riffraff 1y ago
For sure, but I also get the same feeling about parts of the codebase I wrote but I had since forgotten. The "what idiot wrote this? Oh, it was me" thing.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Is the first one the "Anna is a bot" song? I had actually built a bot named Anna to trick friends on IRC (with AIML) so when I came upon the song it felt hilarious.
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by riffraff 1y ago
But flash was interactive, videos are not. I miss the days kongregate had a bunch of new fun games regularly. I suppose itch.io fills that niche now.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Years ago, I recovered some pics from my honeymoon this way after we accidentally deleted them because I knew FAT worked this way so I just went looking for them. I've never felt so happy to be a techie.
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by riffraff 1y ago
They're not necessarily bots in the sense of automated accounts but the older troll farms with a bunch of people just clicking away.
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by riffraff 1y ago
About LLMs: I did last year's advent or code with Elixir and when I forgot to turn off copilot it had no trouble writing whole implementations of functions, even if I had a very idiosyncratic style. Most code is boilerplate and that&#x
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by riffraff 1y ago
They exist in the brief moment between a project start and when deadlines start to loom ;) More seriously, I've worked on codebases I found ok, and some I deeply disliked, I guess there's a continuum from "exciting" to &
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by riffraff 1y ago
Many small holes collapsing into a few large ones, perhaps? You can sometimes see where two holes merged.
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by riffraff 1y ago
It is odd, but people often confuse Emmenthaler and Gruyere. Even in Italian (just across the border!) it was not uncommon to hear expressions like "full of holes like groviera", and it seems in French it's the same based on
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by riffraff 1y ago
NATO is a defensive alliance, why should it be involved in this? Also, any sane government would be against starting a war against Venezuela for no reason. (But I don't think there's gonna be a war)
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by riffraff 1y ago
Isn't a major issue how to disperse heat in space? That seems bad for data centers.
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Pheasant Island(en.wikipedia.org)
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by riffraff 1y ago
> poor harvest and infestation of brown marmorated stink bug drove up prices Holy cow, I live in central europe and the amount of these bugs this year has been insane, I find a dozen of these per day in my apartment. I fear we should ha
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by riffraff 1y ago
Ferrero used a quater of the world hazelnut production (they have been starting up their own orchards too). Turkey is the largest producer (2/3 of the global supply), and is accessible without import fees due to customs union with the
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by riffraff 1y ago
I may recall wrongly, but IMO Yahoo used to buy hyped companies for a ton of money and let them die, it was the opposite strategy.
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by riffraff 1y ago
But PE firms don't have their own workforce, Bending Spoon does, which is why their model differs from, say, Apollo. The fact they use some of the same tools doesn't mean they are doing the same thing. The majority of Blending Spo
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by riffraff 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the name is after the scene in "the matrix" (there is no spoon etc).
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by riffraff 1y ago
But BP is not a PE firm, they do have developers. Most (all?) of their acquisitions are still being updated albeit presumably on a skeleton crew.
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by riffraff 1y ago
I assumed it was "twelve days of Christmas"- related
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by riffraff 1y ago
That was my first thought too, and I'd prefer it, cause sometimes I'll get stuck on a problem, or I'm busy, or I forget, and I'd rather have one more day. Bur it's Eric's call in the end.
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by riffraff 1y ago
May I ask what is your rebase workflow at work? In my day to day, its basically "git pull --rebase repo branch", plus some interactive rebate to squash commits, and it's not particularly frustrating, so I'm curious what
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by riffraff 1y ago
rather than the number people impacted, perhaps the most interesting would be the percentage/ratio of people impacted among the ones who got the car?

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