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by sigstoat 4y ago
> How extraordinary is it to claim that something capable of holding a lucid and eloquent conversation might be sentient? you've got to squint _real_ hard to think that any of the LLMs are lucid and eloquent. (and honestly the bar f
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by sigstoat 4y ago
well you can’t stop halfway through the story. what was the outcome of the case?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
right as soon as you see aws and azure are competing against sap and salesforce, you know they’re not measuring what most of HN thinks of as “cloud”.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
if you’re still giving your contact info to folks giving away cars in 2022, you probably go on the list of suckers, which are more valuable.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> On the same note I quit Duolingo when I realized that the modicum of German I was learning was quickly overtaken by my teenage daughter. She was in a very average German class spending less time on lessons. how much german have you lea
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by sigstoat 4y ago
i’d be first in line for thicker everything, but there is a lot more value in thickening the body of a laptop than the screen.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> many kids just didn’t show up the whole time sounds like a reflection of how few kids were ever engaged with education. even if their bodies had been shoved into a classroom.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> If you're not using VPC endpoints, basically you're routing all your AWS traffic to the open internet. yes this is what i normally hear. but by “the open internet” you mean “some other spot in the AWS data center”. what’s the
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> you end up having to open network traffic to all of a particular aws service, not just yours > I could exfil data to those aws services I don't think any of the VPC endpoints have any restrictions on them; that is, once I'
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by sigstoat 4y ago
so i keep having people froth at the mouth about how it is more secure to use VPC endpoints to communicate to AWS services. is there any practical mechanism by which not using the VPC endpoints can be insecure, which does not also affect VP
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by sigstoat 4y ago
as you note they’re only available for some services, and sometimes only partially for a service. check the docs very carefully before getting your hopes up about dropping the bar gateways.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-public-thinks-the-average... "For the general retail sector, the average profit margin is only 2.3% and for the grocery and food retail industry, it’s even lower at only 1.6%.&qu
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by sigstoat 4y ago
my wife works as an expert witness. she and her non-lawyer assistant write everything themselves. the lawyers can request changes. sometimes she’ll make them. that doesn’t lose her any business.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
there’s a lot of time spent reviewing material and then explaining it to the lawyers. the bigger the case the more lawyers there are to explain it to. then you review everything from the other side. and your fellow experts. and write a bunc
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by sigstoat 4y ago
every school i attended was open well in advance of the start of classes so as to serve breakfast to kids who ate it there. at the elementary school level there were even some enrichment programs beforehand. even if some kids still have to
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by sigstoat 4y ago
if you can get the company to do things you think are valuable before you’re making interest payments on money you borrowed to buy it, that makes a lot of sense. wtf knows if that’s what’s going on.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> made it difficult to believe that he would betray the community a lot of people are confused, and seem to think that purporting to share an interest makes a community. they're disappointed time and time again.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> “unstart” - while a terrifying euphemism - is there is reason “stall”, or similar, is not used? "stall" has a specific meaning, and it isn't what happened.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> In the UK at least, a 2003 BBC poll with almost three quarters of a million votes [0] put LoTR first that would be after two years of the movie trilogy being in theaters, and coincident with the release of the third movie? i think the
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I also had the problem of not wanting to ask questions and look stupid, and my manager told me to ask the questions I need to get the task done my concern with junior engineers is when they ask no questions (they have weird hang ups or
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> every single person (8-10?) ...wow. and yet, despite that, they're still selling.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
HOA homes seem to sell fine. average people don’t give a shit about this sort of thing.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Who do you think has to and can spend more compute or money, well-trusted Google or a small player? Far from a silver bullet. i'm not even a big fan of hashcash, but i don't think you understand it, or how it could fit in as
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> You're devaluing the labor and thinking only in terms of the raw materials. very common for folks to compare the cost of having something assembled for the first time in a low-wage country, to having it disassembled, diagnosed, re
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> There's a reason that the vast majority of places computer repair places don't do component level repairs. You need a lot of expertise to do so, and that expertise doesn't come cheap. you also need tooling. $20 radio sha
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by sigstoat 4y ago
if the terms of use even remotely resemble those of the rest of openai, that probably violates them in about three different ways. it would be trivial for them to track down.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> The evershifting and arbitrary nature of these standards is a guarantee that you will eventually fall afoul of it, face a kangaroo court trial in the DEI star chamber, and be burnt at the stake for your "crimes". there's
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by sigstoat 4y ago
i agree that the authenticator app stuff is fraught for the average user. > No, it's tied to the app because the initial secret is destroyed after you set it up. Every single Authenticator App I've used (which is not all of the
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Pop quiz: In what countries does it cost a full day's wages or more to fill a car's gas tank? i'm going to guess "most of them" if you're using minimum wage. i just checked britain and came up with 107.31
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by sigstoat 4y ago
space hardware doesn’t involve a lot of socketed parts. and end of life usually means battery or mechanical failures, not “the electronics need an upgrade”

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