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by ska 3y ago
People have been working on basically this "Visible Computer" concept for a few decades now, with pretty marginal results. What makes you think a) the time is right now from a a hardware point of view and b) Meta is the one to ma
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by ska 3y ago
I don't know the names. They all seem to have the pro Acrobat stuff, but more often use something also bundled with search tools perhaps? Communication between lawyers on opposite "sides" often seems to be by PDF, not sourc
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by ska 3y ago
You can, but you might be better off just using AUCTex if you are emacs anyway. YMMV with use case, obviously.
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by ska 3y ago
Again, apples and oranges. Yes it's more markup than e.g. markdown (which is fundamentally less capable) But how do you do the equivalent ot the [t] and \centering in the former on a per figure bases? what about scaling it differentl
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by ska 3y ago
You are comparing apples and oranges, at least a bit. The latex equivalent is \documentclass{article} \title{Natural selection in the Health and Retirement Study} \author{XXX} \date{\today} \begin{document} \begin{abstract
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by ska 3y ago
The standard for legal docs is to redline changes with an additional tool, because you don't necessarily trust the other contributors. They have decent tools for this, and the system works ok I suppose. Editing tends to be in tic-toc
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by ska 3y ago
You can do all of this and more with something like gnucash, and also foreign exchange fees, tax accounts,etc. I ran a small business off this for a while some years ago without much trouble, mostly because I wanted to understand what was
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by ska 3y ago
I had addressed the wider point I thought, apologies if not clear enough. The mere existence of a failure, without other data, simply isn't good evidence for anything you have claimed, and any assertion that "it's usually X&
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by ska 3y ago
> fMRIs just like human brains. or dead salmon :)
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by ska 3y ago
> there's a chance that things will still work out, There is a big difference between a less than 1% chance and an 80% chance here. Part of the job is knowing that difference, and how to handle/communicate it.
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by ska 3y ago
GP said > Lot of talented folks in Seattle and beyond who'll be looking for new gigs. Which you took issue with and suggested the failure was counter evidence. That was pretty clearly about the technical team that was just let go,
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by ska 3y ago
For the sake of argument, assume your contentions are true. Now how do you draw a line from that to the probability that the technical team that has been let go is not high quality?
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by ska 3y ago
> I'd argue the business failing is a strong counterpoint to that assertion. That statement is pretty naive. There are plenty of things that can kill a startup without them having done anything specifically wrong at any level, let
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by ska 3y ago
> The founders and executives walk away from this with $0. Often after having forgone salary for a while, also.
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by ska 3y ago
> they were dead in the water 6-8 weeks ago anyways. That's an extremely short horizon. Normally it's more than a quarter out, at least.
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by ska 3y ago
Except in very rare circumstances, management team knows this is going to happen well before passing the threshold where this isn't possible. So it's a (common) choice. They are balancing the +/- against other uses of the las
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by ska 3y ago
I once watched it at a student run theatre that had somehow retained a physical 35mm copy of this, and showed it once a year. Every time it got a bit more scratched and spliced, but still worked. They had been doing it for a while, and had
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by ska 3y ago
Those really don't solve the same problem. Personally, I've found a lot of stuff that could be a figma or drawio (or inscape etc., yes) are more effective being a PUML or DOT or MetaPost file (or whatever format floats your boat)
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by ska 3y ago
What about one of those "pocket" photo printers?
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by ska 3y ago
The python/numpy boundary is a problem, which is sort of the value proposition of efforts like mojo or julia - no argument. But nobody doing any significant numeric work would ever consider a "pure" python matrix multiply m
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by ska 3y ago
Surely you should specify at least the major version, and/or the version you tested on. Otherwise you are throwing out the entire point of semantic (or semantic-like) versioning.
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by ska 3y ago
I don't think you are actually disagreeing - the GP was saying that if they can't differentiate themselves enough to make consumers choose to pay, then no real loss.
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by ska 3y ago
Your statement presumes that such a list gives new, actionable information of benefit to criminals. This also implies that existence (or lack) of technology is a good proxy for effectiveness of policing in a locale, which in turn implies t
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by ska 3y ago
> where he will most probably come out as a destroyed human. This is more evidence of the flaws of the (US, anyway) penal system that an argument against custodial sentences in general, no? I get where you are coming from, but do you hav
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by ska 3y ago
This was something nice about CL implementations like SBCL. When you needed fast you can fully type everything and unbox it effectivly, but it got out of your way when you didn't. Something approximating best of both worlds. Of cour
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by ska 3y ago
> it's not obvious to me that it is though. Their recruiter portal stuff is pretty complex, which doesn't really show up in the twitter comparison.
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by ska 3y ago
I think this makes some pretty strong assumptions about the purpose and effectiveness of at least some of the relevant technology.
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by ska 3y ago
I thought all those lists are marketing exercises, no?
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by ska 3y ago
> and arguably have been since before we started calling it AI. What was it like working in tech in the 1950s ?
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by ska 3y ago
the breaking up has been going on for a while, e.g. Canon bought their medical line of business back in 2016.

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