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by ska 3y ago
Fair use is a defence you can use when you infringe copyright [edit for clarity] or in other words the action you take would otherwise infringe. It's not fair use because you want it to be, and it's not at all legally clear if thi
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> A lot of people seem to use floats without knowing how inaccurate floats are, Small nit, but floats aren't inaccurate, they have non uniform precision. Some float operations can be inaccurate, but that's rather path depend
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In the UK context, there seem to still be at least on "local" company: https://www.dualit.com/collections/toasters You can get NA versions, but they aren't cheap. I'm not sure why that company survi
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> I've moreso improved on soft skills. Which, among other things, are also vital. Oversimplified: 1-2 years of not knowing what you don't know. Then 3-5 learning how to write code, then 3-5 learning how to really write softwa
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by ska 3y ago
I've suspected Postel's law applies to human communication also, mutatis mutandis.
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The 10,000 hour heuristic isn't particularly accurate, it's just popular. FWIW, 10 years professional experience seems to be about right, give or take, to make a solid developer. I don't think I've ever met anyone who r
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> Any tool, even if it had near-zero marginal utility must necessarily improve performance, as you can simply elect not to use it. No opinion on the specific tradeoff here, but in general it's not obvious to me that your statement
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Does this approach get you anywhere the decades of dedicated CFD solvers haven't yet? I guess that would surprise me but I'm not up to date in CFD.
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> still needs some improvement for that. "still" ? This isn't even in the purview of current technology, afaik.
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> It feels like Amazon has been a willing participant color me surprised.
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> Those whole point of SEO is to score higher on ranking algorithms. Which is why they typically make things worse for the end user. Agree it's a coupled problem wrt ranking algorithm. SEO messes with the algorithms, algorithms cha
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> How about the general decline of cognitive ability with age? This is a real issue at say 85, not at 45. You almost certainly aren't quite as quick as you were when you were 25, but on the other hand you typically know a lot more
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> Used at most companies with performance evaluations. I suspect this is not true. Evals are far more common that stacking. Btw when you do do this, 4 pretty much never works, and generate a political layer around it. Perversely, at the
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by ska 3y ago
Hardly surprising. Ever since the barrier to production/publication/distribution was dropped to very low (15ish? years ago) the SNR on available books has been terrible. LLMs are making the 1st part even lower effort, at least fo
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NB: "better than any book I've read" is easily satisfied by someone who doesn't read.
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No, SEO made things noticeably worse from the very beginning. This is almost tautological, when you think about it. Agree googles machinations have not helped, but disagree with your 90/10 split.
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You're both right - you point out the absolute values achievable are a bit higher, but parent is pointing out that early career jumps are typically faster than later career ones (for good reason). So maybe it's 160k (or whatever)
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> Suffice it to say I find their recommendations basically useless. This is a are in general that has become pretty useless over the last years - the shills have won out. I'd go so far as to say that on average the first few pages
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From this thread, the bigger IKEA one seems to have smarts built in.
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Both they and the wirecutter appear to be using the international, not US, HEPA standards.
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For home use it should work fine, after all it's functionally basically what most of the systems, especially the cheaper ones, are. Especially if you add a pre-filter of some sort. The main downsides are comparatively ugly and noisy.
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It's partially a SV bubble, and partially a early-career bubble (and partially an I've-only-seen-the-good-times bubble, probably) When having these conversations people often forget that it's pretty natural for the time betwe
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Note I said it wasn't clear that they meant to be, just that you can see how people (those downvoting) could read it that way. It was quite categorical, and "obsessive" has negative connotations.
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I suspect parent meant a performance comparison...
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self direct?
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by ska 3y ago
I suspect because you came across as judgmental and opinionated more than questioning. I'm not saying you meant to, just that is how it could read.
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This is basically the main value prop behind Samsung's "Frame" series of TVs (but you also use it as at TV). People who love them love them.
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There is often no real value in optimizing such code, if the computation finishes in a time that doesn’t mess with your workflow. Spending more time on it will often just take time away from something more valuable to the research.
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Most places a VAT is not instead of income tax but instead of sales tax. Do you know of anywhere with VAT but no income tax?
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This is pretty true most places, hiring non contract (e.g. full time) employees in a different country is a pain in the ass. Europe is trickier than Canada, fwiw, on average at least. These days there are a number of companies that special

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