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by screye 5y ago
Bullying is rampant in India and it was rampant in my years in school. I was the unfortunate recipient of it for years. It was mostly physical, exclusion and quips/harassment uniquely targeted to you that starts hurting when literally
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by screye 5y ago
> Some exceptions will be made for permanent residents With how easy it is to get a permanent residency while on visa in Canada, this is a fair way to keep immigrants happy. > Some exceptions will be made for foreign students. Isn&#x2
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by screye 5y ago
College should continue being the default. The luxury, expensive, reality-divorced and book focused 4 year programs are what need to end. College should structure programs to serve the needs of a profession and be sustainable in context of
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by screye 5y ago
All good points. My praise for Boston was in comparison to absolutely shambolically run cities in the rest of the US. In comparison to some well-run global cities, (Greater) Boston still has ways to go. > Mass and Cass Yep, Methadone Mil
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by screye 5y ago
> Hacker News has so many people on it everyday, which makes me wonder why Slashdot fails in comparison. I also hear that the community at Slashdot is less than pleasant, but I'm not sure as to the validity of those claims. > Why
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by screye 5y ago
Boston is actually an amazing example of things the US needs to do to enable affordable living. The expansive public transport network allows you to live far from the city without incurring huge commute times. That paired with the density m
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by screye 5y ago
Side streets rarely have bike lanes, have more 4-way stops, randomly appear/disappear and have terrible potholes for road bikes. People act as if american side-streets aren't designed in an actively hostile manner for traffic calm
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by screye 5y ago
> California style allowed right turn at red lights. How are these different from other 'right turns on red' in the US ? I find turning on red to be a pretty bad idea, because Americans rarely stop fully and look out for pedest
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by screye 5y ago
I would be reluctant to refer to a team of 20 developers working on 1 game for 3-ish years full-time as 'indie'. That being said, supergiant is a rare gem. Shows how effective lean organizations with narrow concerns can be without
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by screye 5y ago
Economies of scale ruined it. Good indie games like Super meat boy & Hollow Knight take more human resources than AAA-gamechanger Doom did, back in the day. Your 'kind of useful but fun/dirty' hacker project either become
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by screye 5y ago
That is only true in a vacuum though. The cat is feeling the air resistance locally on the parts that face forward while G is applied uniformly.
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by screye 5y ago
Note that this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. The GPT-3 position is for a few-shot use-case that has not been trained for this particular task. When fine-tuned, GPT-3 would be expected to perform a lot better. Lastly, GPT-3 is c
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by screye 5y ago
One thing I've learnt over the years, is that users do not care about the inherent complexity of your problem. Like water, they will always choose the path of least resistance. It is why people would rather copy-paste documents than le
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by screye 5y ago
> is for the court of public opinion Agreed, > with an acquittal Disagree. It was the other way round for the Rittenhouse case. (I watched the entire stream. So for once, I can say I know about the case). Bringing their integrity into
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by screye 5y ago
Is it bad though ? I honestly have no clue where people are seeing ads. Their base apps are all 1:1 better than Google's and replacing their launcher with Nova is so trivial that I wouldn't even consider that modification. Bixby i
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by screye 5y ago
You can always go hipster. 'Finance-bro' well dressed may be harder to pull off in tech. But, 'thrift store cashier' well dressed is very doable. East-Asian fashionable is also totally fine.
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by screye 5y ago
Does exhaust smoke consistently reflect lasers ? In my experience, a dense lidar will see a subset of the lasers go through such occlusions and get a 2nd return from the truly opaque object behind the smoke. LIDAR can usually distinguish t
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by screye 5y ago
Waymo has taken a responsible approach to self-driving (level 5 only, Lidar) over Tesla's collateral reduction approach. Lidar gives you exact distance to obstacles around it. Given those 2 factors, I expect Waymo to have an inbuilt ha
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by screye 5y ago
You don't even need to know how to use regex well. If you know what to look for, tools like regexr.com practically create the regex for you. I have often found that the ability to identify : "hey I can use regex here", is mor
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by screye 5y ago
One meta question is whether this problem is worth solving at all ? There are places where forests are much easier to grow, and we are cutting them down by the thousands on a daily basis. For carbon capture, it is much easier to densify reg
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by screye 5y ago
There is are 2 assumptions here, that needs to stated more loudly. 1: "Companies maximize profits. Humans maximize utility. Profits != utility" 2: "Profits are absolute. Utility is perceived." Utility is an under-defined
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by screye 5y ago
I don't agree. The industry has begun splintering in the same manner as Hollywood. Disney releases popcorn-entertainment and makes money off merchandise. Indie studios are creating quality movies of a tier that we never used to see bef
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by screye 5y ago
Yeah, I have found that it improves 3 things. (this is for GRE, which is similar) 1. Basics: If you don't know standard permutations and combinations then knowing those formulae off the top of your head is nice to have. The language po
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by screye 5y ago
MIT and Caltech have always held a 'number-oriented universities' perception in my mind. This is in contrast to a 'prestige-oriented or identity-oriented' perception that I hold for Ivies. It is nice to see MIT do justic
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by screye 5y ago
Isn't jainism about 2500 years old ?
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by screye 5y ago
> Both of these claims are false. I will concede that there has been no peer reviewed study that explicitly tries to identity an association between mask wearing and mental health. Thus, no impact has been measured. It was not for lack o
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by screye 5y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. /s Anecdotally, I have yet to meet a single person IRL over 2 years of the pandemic who enjoys wearing masks. It varies from minor inconvenience to a thorn in your side. For one, uncontrolled observa
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by screye 5y ago
> masks aren't mandatory in public Masks clearly have a measurable impact on mental health. Given what he know about aerosolization and cloth masks, masks are near useless in public spaces. If we are talking about reducing the popul
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by screye 5y ago
I have routinely seen this opinion, and I liken it to saying that Shawshank Redemption is a prison escape story. In KKC, the reader is an observer, where the main character unreliably narrates their journey in 1st person to someone else as
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by screye 5y ago
Kingkiller moves the fantasy fiction genre past its LOTR-esque roots. Every word is a joy to read. I haven't read anything else that brings as big a smile on my face. Kingkiller's literary qualities are head and shoulders above an

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