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by rocmcd 3y ago
I always thought the "PE" was for Placebo Effect which would explain why it never does anything.
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by rocmcd 3y ago
The 4% GP quoted was in reference to individual cancers (since there is no "cancer" screening, each screening is specific to a type of cancer). I'm having trouble finding numbers, but the comment by Vinay was basically saying
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by rocmcd 3y ago
I bought a house last month in Texas using a 30-year fixed loan. We did use a RE agent, though I'm not convinced they are worth the ~6% they get on the transaction (3% for seller, 3% for buyer), especially on the buying side. We put 20
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by rocmcd 3y ago
Just an FYI it might not need an app but the Amcrest cameras I have do phone home pretty aggressively. I black-holed them on my network, but no idea what kind of data it might be sending back.
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by rocmcd 3y ago
I mostly agree, but I think your response misses the point that tons of people _believe_ that climate change is an existential threat - regardless of what the truth is. I think a lot of people (myself included) would feel more at ease if we
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by rocmcd 3y ago
I didn't know Zulip was acquired by Dropbox! Thanks for the info. It's interesting to imagine a timeline where Dropbox becomes a leading business/collaboration tool, similar to GSuite or MS Office. It seems like they had many
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by rocmcd 3y ago
I'd recommend starting here: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-... It's pretty lengthy but doesn't require a PhD to understand. If you can get to the end of it you'll
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by rocmcd 3y ago
That's not cheating? That sounds like the interviewers could see his potential and guided/corrected him through the process. His willingness to take feedback and keep going in itself would be something to be commended, especially
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by rocmcd 3y ago
The only part of overlapping functionality between DataDog and Otel is the agent. In theory you could use the Otel Collector (or any other Otel-compatible agent) instead of the DD Agent to collect metrics/logs/traces. This would t
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by rocmcd 3y ago
Sentry is strictly code-first APM, which is only a part of what DD provides. What "APM" _is_ can get kind of blurry, but they are not direct competitors in a meaningful way.
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by rocmcd 3y ago
OpenTelemetry (or OTel) is in no way an existential threat to DataDog. Primarily because OTel is simply the substrate/protocol by which data is collected from your apps/systems. DD does _a lot_ more than what OTel provides (RUM, S
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by rocmcd 3y ago
This points to needing _more_ regulation, not less. Potency could be mandated with clear warnings/notices at the point of purchase (like alcohol). The FDA (or whatever governing body) could also limit the potency. The current status qu
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by rocmcd 4y ago
For anyone in the market for a remote, I have one of these[1] and it's pretty awesome. I'll have to check out the Lenovo as well. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WJGSXT8
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by rocmcd 4y ago
My experience so far is very similar to yours. The technology is _really_ impressive (we have managed to transform electricity into knowledge!), but to say it is at the same level as the atom bomb seems a bit premature. My impression (or ma
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by rocmcd 4y ago
> Google only has a fraction of the training data. Uh, what? The same Google that has been crawling, indexing, and letting people search the entire Internet for the last 25 years? They have owned DeepMind for nearly twice as long as Open
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by rocmcd 4y ago
I just wanted to say great job! I would love to read a small write-up of how you put it together if/when you have the time. So far most of my experimentation with Stable Diffusion has been lackluster at best, though I haven't trie
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by rocmcd 4y ago
> What is so bad about being aware of what content we show children? That is not and has never been the problem. If you are a parent of a young child, then you should absolutely be aware of the content your child is seeing/reading.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
This is called 'crony capitalism'.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
Not to disparage the work here, but my advice to "geek dads" (or any parent) is to put effort into A) researching and B) buying (paper) books that contain stories that _you_ want your children to hear. Humans are creatures of stor
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by rocmcd 4y ago
Can you explain in more detail how Lightrun works? It sounds like monkey-patching in real-time from what I can gather, which is neat but surely comes with some kind of overhead.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
> Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too. And your students will use it to solve the problems! In the end no one will learn anything and nothing of value was created. Rinse and repeat. I guess
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by rocmcd 4y ago
What does the response time look like for those queries? And what is the cost? I haven't heard great things about Athena, but I'd be curious to hear more about what works.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
No. I don't know how hckrnews picks and chooses what it shows, but it doesn't show _all_ posts. If you look at new in HN you'll see pretty quickly that there are too many posts to show all of them.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
> All pumped storage requires is a big high spot and a big low spot I think that's what the GP meant by "extremely geographically dependent." Finding a 1,000 ft height difference (using the Gordon Butte Project as an examp
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by rocmcd 4y ago
That sounds nice, but it simply is not possible for very technical products (many kinds of databases, low-level infra, dev tools, etc). You won’t be able to find BDRs that can talk to devs the way another dev would.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
It varies drastically by the business but I would say that it’s more on the magnitude of 10% or less (for enterprise sales, IME). If you’re getting a 50% conversion on your demos then either your sales org has _really_ dialed in the target
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by rocmcd 4y ago
It looks like these were made with https://excalidraw.com/ Highly recommended!
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by rocmcd 4y ago
But still, a sample size of _one_.
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by rocmcd 4y ago
I highly recommend the book The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Muller for an in-depth look at these kinds of issues (in addition to Taleb’s work). Mistaking the map for the terrain (or any similar metaphor) whereby you think you know how thing
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by rocmcd 4y ago
The executable piece is nice, but not the whole picture. Configuration and, more importantly, isolation of the runtime, are also huge benefits that come with containers.

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