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by shubb 3y ago
Kind of agree kind of don't. Stuff like 4k screens is a case of buying the slightly more expensive off the shelf components. Although I'm sure apple has its special sauce, it's just a case of engineering to a different cost.
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by shubb 3y ago
Most people who try to make a living playing soccer don't pay the bills, but the top 1% of players make a lot of money. There are a lot of people who play soccer casually at the weekend and don't make money too. Most people who tr
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by shubb 3y ago
I guess you could use a lot of parallel cables...
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by shubb 3y ago
Probably good for Microsoft- the acquisition was agreed at bubble prices, and driven by copying a business that hasn't worked out. SEA Ltd had great promise in 2021 - they made a hyper popular game and used those revenues and user mind
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by shubb 3y ago
Remember that time meta set up a free vpn app with no meta branding so they could monitor traffic and upcoming rival apps in real time to copy their features and neuter them? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo Onavo
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by shubb 3y ago
I also wonder if an AI evaluator would score AI generated with higher than human generated work if the AI was trained in the same input data. So for instance I'm using an AI to evaluate college application essays, trained on a big data
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by shubb 3y ago
It shouldn't be too hard to make a chrome pluggin to render comment threads like this in alternative forward and mirror / backward lines. As you say reading mirror writing isn't too hard so you could sort of slowly get good a
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by shubb 3y ago
From: ceo@yourcompany.com Urgent task: Hi James, I'm out of the office and your manager Hanah Smoug volunteered you to help me out with an urgent task. I need to register you on the projects google docs folder so when you get a text me
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by shubb 3y ago
Especially in the UK, motoring is extremely political. The TV show Top Gear was politically formative fir a lot of people here. Smart motorways are unpopular because they typically include a lot of speed enforcement cameras and lower speed
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by shubb 4y ago
E.g. German employee reps on boards
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by shubb 4y ago
Civil service requires line reports for certain pay bands so they may well have hired the apprentices to justify this fat salary for the individual contributor. The job will likely be filled by a candidate from elsewhere in the CS e.g. ex p
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by shubb 4y ago
For short range urband deliveries in London, in seeing small 4 wheeled electric vehicles that are technically bicycles. This had the advantage that they can use cycle paths, so not need insurance, driving licence, or to any design valida
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by shubb 4y ago
Datacamp is pretty good for the basics. AI coding assistants like copilot or tab9 are pretty good for remembering api calls.
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by shubb 4y ago
We flew last week non US Oman Air, and got a baby belt, but not on a domestic flight in the Philippines. Maybe it's not required for us domestic? Domestic flights have more flexible regulation generally.
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by shubb 4y ago
I worry that... given how much high risk free rates must be hurting VCs, it was rational for them to crash a bank to force the fed to ease policy. I'm not saying they deliberately did that. I'm just saying it would have been a sma
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by shubb 4y ago
Replying to child I can't reply to? There was a period where the US was treating public key encryption like arms exports, and involved in spreading the technology outside the US as tools were in us.govs sht list
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by shubb 4y ago
One explanation would be that a rising risk free rate makes money now more valuable than higher future cash flows, so leadership who are stock incentivised in order to align thier interests with shareholders sacrifice future growth for high
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by shubb 4y ago
Earlier in my career I felt a lot of disgust at bad code and bad solutions. Sometimes it tye badness was really effort due to unfamiliarity or not instantly understanding what I was looking at.my laziness. Sometimes it was because it disagr
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by shubb 4y ago
It is definitely coming for the programmers too. They said coding would eat the world but I guess it ate itself...
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by shubb 4y ago
I wonder if putting an adversary network on top would reduce the flickering. A mechanism that only accepts a frame of it is detected to be three next frame in a video of the same person, otherwise regenerate
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by shubb 4y ago
Imagine if lawmakers got this hung up on indentation. Not the wording, correctness, or effect. The indentation. We would say they were fiddling while Rome burns. If you are working on your own you do you. If you are working in a team pick
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by shubb 4y ago
This looks useful, nice mvp. Assuming you have a normal diet are the recipes it generates pretty healthy?
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by shubb 4y ago
Suit at work today showed us a spreadsheet of business things he'd been working on. "See how each row has a description column so Pele who aren't familiar can understand it? I used chat gpt for those, saved me like 3 days&quo
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by shubb 4y ago
As I understand it, the Childrens Act of 1989 had a huge effect on how these places were run. It took a while for the law to filter out into practice so people who went to private / boarding / posh state schools in the 90s experie
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by shubb 4y ago
If they don't write it up to the refund button they won every time...
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by shubb 4y ago
>> UK has a political crisis, based on an identity crisis, for which there is no foreseeable solution on the horizon. Needs a miracle breakthrough technology (graphene? quantum computing?) - a literal moonshot - to reverse this declin
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by shubb 4y ago
I wonder if loneliness == being alone... many people report being lonely in a crowded place, being lonely in a marriage, or being lonely at work. But this leads to the conclusion that the solution to loneliness may not always be 'meeti
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by shubb 4y ago
Just a practical answer - I have 3 bank accounts - a spending account, a current account that just pays my mortgage and tax, and a savings account. Only the spending account has an app on my phone, and it only ever has a months spending in
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by shubb 4y ago
Well, if an engineer builds a bridge and it falls down because the industry standard software they are using had a bug, I imagine the settlement would be paid by their insurance who would in turn sue the software vendor. In your world X-Ray
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by shubb 4y ago
Doesn't this just open the question of whether the chatbot can get a JD? The other angle is whether the chatbot can be equivalent to a process which a proper person can rubber stamp. For instance, a professional engineer might run a pr

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