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by rm_-rf_slash 3y ago
“Thank you for coming. As you know, I am a busy man so let’s get started: iterating numbers 1 to 100, every third number print Fizz …”
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by rm_-rf_slash 3y ago
> The company’s senior leaders haven’t shown much stomach for the kinds of headline-grabbing gaffes ChatGPT and similar services have stumbled into over the last several months. Risk aversion from immature tech is a part of Apple’s DNA.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
We really ought to update Napoleon’s quote about malice and stupidity to something like “never attribute to moral preening that which can be explained by financial incentives”
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
I wouldn’t call it a taboo as much as a conversation generally regarded to be awkward. Most people don’t want to have awkward conversations at work. I’m also not aware of any company culture that revels[0] in discussing employee pay and doe
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
How did you catch the traffic? Wireshark?
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Union Square smash-&-grabs, auto break-ins, open air drug markets, street defecation… there’s evidence aplenty of lawlessness in San Francisco beyond the narrow confines of homicide.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Older games have a tiny footprint. Timeless classics like KOTOR 1&2, Fallout New Vegas, Mass Effect etc take so little space I barely notice the storage. The entire library of video games ever made before the year 2000 could fit onto a
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
In this day and age you can buy a 2TB M.2 SSD for $140. Even if you only gamed AAA that’s a ton of games. How often would you really make use of all of that space, to the extent where keeping extras on an external HDD would be too much of a
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Japan has had a hiki problem for a long time. I remember watching the arch-hiki anime “Welcome to the NHK” 15 years ago. That’s a long time for behaviors to become entrenched. The pandemic was merely an accelerant of long term trends.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Less helpful for holders of credit card debt as their costs increase alongside their APR…
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
A somewhat dated idiom to mean a thing is distinctively good.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Volatility can be more damaging than inflation. Cash is king.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
This “data” aspect may be overthinking things. Developers get assigned tasks. A guesstimate is made by the dev over the time/effort required, which is approved as plausible by a senior dev/manager. Then the task is done or not don
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
It’s easy to blame expensive consultants that cost a lot of money instead of the burdensome regulatory and process requirements that only the expensive consultants have the extensive institutional knowledge to work through.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Stupid take. ML has been widely used for decades. We used to call it “statistics.” The only reason people suddenly think ML went from 0 to 60 is because some grad students hacked a GPU and made it run a neural net in 2012. Python is of seco
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Generative code models trained on buggy, unmaintainable code snippets resulting in a buggy, unmaintainable codebase that only the model can manage. Genius.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
They likely have used their good cyber weapons already and are now less useful than suicide drones and cruise missiles. Knock out a grid with cyber, ok the enemy is prepared and can do a hard reset. Power loss of a few minutes, hours at mos
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Surprised nobody’s mentioned streamlit yet. Maybe I’m misunderstanding your use case, but if you want to create web apps out of your backend work, streamlit may be your ticket for “easy to understand on the back end, hyper-simple front end.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Bad metaphor. There are a million wrong decisions that could be made any time at any day, and only a handful of options.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
> do you think there's something lost by eliminating scarcity? What a silly question. How does an extension of an already bottomless internet of content that you couldn’t consume over the course of hundreds of lifetimes come anywher
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
>I don't expect to win regardless of the prize. I buy a ticket for fun. Plenty of pleasant brain chemicals and time daydreaming for the low low cost of a couple bucks. It’s transactional entertainment, no different than dropping $2.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
> The manufacturing complex could consume up to 10 million gallons of water per day, enough to supply a whole town or village. The entire city of Syracuse, by comparison, uses an average of 40 million gallons per day. We have a lot of wa
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Turkey is not just some “third world economy”. It’s manufacturing exports have been doing great with cheap domestic currency and the tourism sector has remained strong, especially with the influx of involuntary tourists from Russia. Turkey
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Weak argument. Iraq War created massive discontent, debates were on the news every night for years. Meanwhile in Putin’s Russia you can get jailed for just calling it a war.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
The “Engineering an Empire” series from the History Channel (back when they did real history). Nice to see extensively detailed stories about the grand states of yore from a perspective of engineering, rather than politics and great man mom
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
It’s not that hard to get a provisional patent. And like it or not the USPTO is a vital institution for incentivizing innovation and driving growth.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
I wouldn’t get too excited for decentralized energy. More energy sources means more power lines all over the place. Few things get NIMBYs worked up like power lines. The social aspect will be harder to solve than the engineering.
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
https://archive.ph/s1xak
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
This is the real answer. Japanese tax law heavily incentivizes building and discourages sitting on land forever and doing nothing with it for one’s own investments (paging California). Helps that the whole country is on a fault line; nothin
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by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
There are more than enough unaddressed ethics issues in ML/DS from racial bias in criminal sentencing to de-anonymization of weights to keep ethicists busy without needing Skynet.

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