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by sfink 3y ago
It's ok, the AIs will just end up talking to the doctors' AIs, who will tell them GFY. /s?
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by sfink 3y ago
A lot of countries have both nationalized care and the fast track. Many people buy private insurance to cover what the national system does not. Maybe it's not the best of both worlds, but it's at least a far better safety net tha
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by sfink 3y ago
Your rejoinder is valid, but I don't think the problem at this point is jobs that don't need to be done. I think the problem is jobs that do things that should not be done. Doctors' offices employ people whose only purpose is
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by sfink 3y ago
> The first [caveat] is that lzbench isn’t able to compress an entire directory like tar , so I opted to use lib/npm.js for this test. As opposed to... just using the npm-9.7.1.tar file that the other tests were just using (sorta ba
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by sfink 3y ago
The original post is deleted, but in a proper ACID database, persistence and speed are quite highly related. The DB can't truly move on until it has confirmed that a set of writes has truly hit the persistent storage, and the time requ
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by sfink 3y ago
"in mice." Or rather, the silicon "in mice" equivalent: in a test sample 1000x the scale, with only hopes and wishes that things won't change too much when they scale down. All the cool mice these days are running a
787.
by sfink 3y ago
(side note) Until recently a billion was a trillion, or vice versa, depending on whether you're from the UK or the US. A GHz is a GHz no matter where you are. :-)
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by sfink 3y ago
As a white, vanilla American, I have always understood desi to be very similar to "hick" or "country bumpkin", but from the subcontinent. (And usually applied to people who have never been anywhere near the countryside.)
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by sfink 3y ago
Aren't you mostly talking about what the article calls awareness vs conversion? You're saying that ads made you aware and technical discussion is what would make you convert. The other thing is controversial. "There's no
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by sfink 3y ago
All competitive games (well, the nonfatal ones) can be cooperative games to the players determined to cooperate. Even if there's a clear winner and people are trying to win, people can collaborate and cheer each other on even when in p
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by sfink 3y ago
A subtlety that probably would have weakened the essay to bring up: if your goal is growth, then no, you don't want to always be the dumbest in the room. Unless, perhaps, the stronger players are fully invested in directly teaching you
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by sfink 3y ago
Excel is low code.
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by sfink 3y ago
And people wonder why organizations have such high headcounts...
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by sfink 3y ago
Accessing a giant lookup table is about the most cache-unfriendly thing you could do. This is not a good approach when latency matters. Smaller LUTs are fun to think of, especially if you eliminate the lossless angle. I'm really not th
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by sfink 3y ago
The article mixes up what is significant. The headline refers to an utterly irrelevant result. As others have pointed out, it's just saying that a compression method with a large dictionary can beat a (better) compression method with a
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by sfink 3y ago
It makes a difference. If you start with several quality brands and one of them sells out, you can switch to one of the others. If everyone pulls the same shit, there's nowhere to go. And everyone is pulling the same shit.
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by sfink 3y ago
We use Matrix (mostly via Element) at Mozilla alongside Slack. It's mainly public stuff on Matrix, and the usage pattern varies between teams: some teams are mainly Slack and barely pay attention to Matrix rooms, other teams (like mine
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by sfink 3y ago
> We can start by increasing the standards for experimental proof past words on a piece of paper. That is overly cynical. We are already well past that standard. We require words on a piece of paper that were written by somebody from a r
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by sfink 3y ago
Came to say this. Chess move training data is much more likely to consist of examples of people trying to win than it is to consist of random legal or even illegal moves. You could argue that the intention belongs to the people providing th
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by sfink 3y ago
Yeah, why do companies even hire security people who allow security problems to exist? Or coders who write bugs?
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by sfink 3y ago
Everything is imperfect, but where I work crashdumps are uploaded straight to a secure vault and then deleted from the origin system. The dumps are processed, and insensitive data is extracted and published with relatively lenient access co
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by sfink 3y ago
One of those things that I'd like to have for myself, but don't want everyone else to have. (Magic power is another, fwiw.) I want it because I want to improve the SNR of my HN time. I'm never going to read the vast majority
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by sfink 3y ago
Reminds me of when I fixed my computer with a chopstick back when I was a poor college student. I didn't know anything about cold solder joints at that time, but I did discover that my flaky motherboard would start working when I flexe
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by sfink 3y ago
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing. The smiley drones would work fine hitting pretty close to Earth, even an hour or two out. And the mass shouldn't matter much, just the surface albedo. Oh. You're probab
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by sfink 3y ago
I don't buy that. It shouldn't be that hard to launch a cloud of space drones that produce a lot of dusty debris when they hit. Have them adjust their courses when the incoming asteroid gets close. That way, we could paint a hug
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by sfink 3y ago
Well, the advice is rarely taken in practice. It is (in my experience, and it seems common from others based on what I've heard) very very common to jump to the complicated solution at the first hint of capacity issues "because we
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by sfink 3y ago
That's why AMO requires extensions to be uploaded with their source code and disallows obfuscation. They do allow minification for compression, and I don't know what stops someone from uploading different source code from the ship
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by sfink 3y ago
And the article itself is quite short and readable, and does a much better job of pointing out the weirdness. I recommend reading it.
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by sfink 3y ago
Yes, they should just write prompts without bugs. Can't be that much harder than writing software without bugs.
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by sfink 3y ago
I wish I had been able to do that. But at least I get to see announcements for John Wick 4 and get a warm fuzzy feeling that I have escaped watching 3 whole movies, and thus have an extra 6 hours in which to do something better in my life w

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