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by rurp 2y ago
This is way off base in my experience. I live near several freight lines and cross the tracks often. The only negative is having to wait at a crossing every once in a while, but that's a very minor problem. I've literally never he
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by rurp 2y ago
Conservation has to start with agriculture since that's the vast majority of usage. The simplest and most effective step would be to stop subsidizing that water usage so heavily. Last I looked the average farmer paid about 1/10 th
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by rurp 2y ago
I agree with the part that someone who wants to build something technical should gain at least some related knowledge, but a week is underselling the effort needed to learn how to code by a lot. After one week of teaching myself Python I co
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by rurp 2y ago
I get that you strongly prefer Windows, and that's fine, but this part... > the absolutely terrible inconsistent user experience really? That would make sense as an argument for MacOS, but Windows is an absolute dumpster fire when i
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by rurp 2y ago
Eh, it depends on what you're using it for. I switched to Linux around six years ago and am quite happy about it. It's not all rainbows and sunshine of course, but at this point I much prefer it to the alternatives. If Microsoft
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by rurp 2y ago
You make it sound untenable to support email/password auth, but given that the vast majority of low tech and high tech online services manage it just fine, I think you might be exaggerating a bit. Since Midjourney is already outsourcin
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The lame AI meme election(axios.com)
2 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
I was given a similar interview problem and thought it was one of the better interviews I've had. In my case the interviewer pulled up a web app and said this particular page is loading too slow, how would you approach the problem? We
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by rurp 2y ago
> It seems to me that google should not allow a site to serve different content to their bot than they serve to their users. That would be the fair thing to do and was Google's policy for many years, and still is for all I know. But
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by rurp 2y ago
Even if you doubt this particular case (which I haven't seen any reason to do), it's inevitable that people will believe some of the things they read in legitimate looking books sold by major online retailers.
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by rurp 2y ago
Given how everything went it seems clear that Adam was just trolling from the start. He seems awfully bitter about something else in his life and decided to harass an interviewer. At least he did it in a somewhat novel and amusing way so th
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by rurp 2y ago
The notion that a large scale generative AI system should be viewed and treated the same as a human child legitimately makes no sense to me.
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by rurp 2y ago
Matt Levine is great at writing about the difference between laws as written and how they work in practice. He's pretty fascinated by some of the cases where the two diverge sharply.
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Why AI is no substitute for human teachers(axios.com)
6 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
I think it's because Google could make a great phone, but choose not to. They keep adding gimmicky features that myself and apparently many other HNers don't care for, while core functionality is neglected and often regresses. I o
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by rurp 2y ago
JetBrains products are such a dichotomy. The core software is outstanding but for years now I've found almost every update to be net negative. They rarely add new features that I find useful and they spend a lot of time adding useles
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The cheapest Tesla Cybertruck is $99,990; promised $60K model canceled(arstechnica.com)
13 points by rurp 2y ago|2 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
It continues to boggle my mind that this behavior of unpredictably changing controls on a dangerous piece of equipment is accepted. Does anyone wish that the manufacturer could unexpectedly change the controls and safety features of their t
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by rurp 2y ago
I second this, it is a great book. It's an eye opening and terrifying look at what is involved in managing these weapons. A lot of people take nuclear weapons for granted these days, but the book drives home how fortunate we are that t
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by rurp 2y ago
Things don't happen in a vacuum and trying to extrapolate current trends 100+ years into the future is a fool's errand. A couple decades ago everyone was worried about the opposite problem. Neither of us has any idea what the new
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep and ossified control structures aren't exactly known for being flexible and well run in the long term. A permanent ruling class will almost certainly lead to a major collapse at some point, bringing down all of that fancy technolog
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by rurp 2y ago
My biggest suggestion is to look into ways that the transition can be done in stages, rather than trying to replace everything in one big swoop. This is likely doable, especially since you are already having to rely on outside tools. Then t
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm beyond being shocked by this kind of behavior but it is still striking to me how some of the most profitable companies in history will go out of their way to do shady deals for a slight short term increase in their record profits.
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by rurp 2y ago
It's awfully uncharitable to assume that someone is a bad person just from serving in the military. The military has done some reprehensible things at times, but it has also done a lot of good and the unfortunate reality is that in the
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by rurp 2y ago
This is a great breakdown and I can confirm that it closely matches my own experience with B2B tech company sales.
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by rurp 2y ago
My experience as well. The podcast is good but if you read the newsletter it's almost entirely redundent. Plus the large amount of ads is pretty annoying.
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by rurp 2y ago
A company doesn't need a literal 100% market share to have monopolistic power. Products like Google Search or Gmail that dominate their respective markets count.
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by rurp 2y ago
There are a lot of factors for the change in loyalty but I think the single biggest one is from when the managerial class went all-in on outsourcing. Those execs didn't care that they had a factory full of workers that had been loyal f
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by rurp 2y ago
Google seems to operate in a giant tech bubble. It's wild how out of touch their advertising and products can be. There was a thread recently about how Google Maps works decently well in any scenario that you would expect a stereotypic
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by rurp 2y ago
Interesting, I hadn't read this before but it's exactly what I have observed with my cats. They have gotten dramatically more comfortable with people as they have gotten older. I have often wondered what spurred such a significant

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