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by skirmish 1y ago
Fast food prices jump a lot whenever minimum wages increase. I am convinced this is a major contributor to McDonald's price rise.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Shaming is so effective, the sellers' faces will turn red with shame, and they will immediately drop prices by 2/3 at least. Hah, hah, no, they won't. Of course, they will overprice when you have no other options.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Likely driven by management who count number of PRs per quarter and number of lines changed and consider him a 10x engineer (soon to be promoted).
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by skirmish 1y ago
They say: "In Automerge 3.0, we've rearchitected the library so that it also uses the compressed representation at runtime. This has achieved huge memory savings."
125.
by skirmish 1y ago
"Research says hopping on one foot can burn 600 calories in 30 minutes! Why the look, get going already!"
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by skirmish 1y ago
> working 60 hours a week isn't going to cause brain damage If it causes you to sleep too little, it just may.
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by skirmish 1y ago
My teenage daughter is happy to sleep until 3:00pm every day during the summer vacation and then stay up late night after night. It's probably genetic, my wife does the same when she can.
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by skirmish 1y ago
> A deep 15 minute nap takes the feeling away Almost the same here but it's not a deep nap for me. I relax, start seeing dream-like images in my mind (yet still drifting into-out of conscious awareness), then in ~15 minutes I feel
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by skirmish 1y ago
> not sleeping is one of my favorite drugs. Can be a major performance enhancer, even if it is variable. Sleep deprivation is a well known treatment for depression [1]. Maybe you lean to the depressive side, that would explain positive
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by skirmish 1y ago
Also: telling a senior SWE (L5) that for good performance reviews they must act as a tech lead and spend most of their time in "alignment" meetings with other TLs and managers. Also: a team of 3 SWEs where each claims to be a tec
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by skirmish 1y ago
> Arch isnt supported at all by any version Not officially supported but it works well for many people who run ROCM on it (myself included). As always, documented on Arch wiki [1]. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title&#x
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by skirmish 1y ago
That matches my experience, local LLMs or diffusion models would lock up the GPU when VRAM allocated was close to the maximum available (as monitored by nvtop). After decreasing the batch size or reducing the number of layers offloaded to
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by skirmish 1y ago
Oh, I was not aware of this change. Hopefully, I just have to reject all software updates and continue running my 2 Synology NASes with cheap shucked WD drives inside.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Google added exactly this to SWE role attributes, to be checked each performance review cycle. Managers managing managers, directors managing directors. Are you shorting GOOG right now?
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by skirmish 1y ago
Synology Surveilance Station [1], it supports 2 cameras per NAS for free, extra cameras $50 per device. I use an old 2 HDD NAS with 2 cameras for a few years already, it works perfectly well. (One Reolink camera, another Amcrest, both reco
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by skirmish 1y ago
When I was small I used to think about recent dreams while falling asleep, and then I would sometimes have sequels. One memorable dream was where I was taking a walk in the forest with my friend a giant talking cat, and wolves would start
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by skirmish 1y ago
Already happened: "We found instances of the model attempting to write self-propagating worms, fabricating legal documentation, and leaving hidden notes to future instances of itself all in an effort to undermine its developers' i
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by skirmish 1y ago
Then it's one line, $10 / month.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Did you mean: Veritas socialis?
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by skirmish 1y ago
Almost exactly what I heard, he was told (paraphrased) "for people at this level and pay, we expect them to be working full on time on AI".
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by skirmish 2y ago
Consider this: there is no safe level of UV exposure from sunlight, it may cause various skin cancers. Does this mean you would never let your children outside to play? What I am trying to say, there is usually risk vs benefit tradeoff, a
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by skirmish 2y ago
It is well known that if you gain muscle then lose it, it is easier to regain it than the first time (IIRC, the cells store extra nucleii?). This could be a similar effect but with fat cells.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Oracle bought Sun (Microsystems), and you are selling Virtual Sun?
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by skirmish 2y ago
What? You just lie down across three seats and enjoy it.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Oh, you mean their children would be so much happier under Russia's rule once it invades more European countries? Those people may argue with that.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Just changing the white background into pale yellowish and leaving black text as it is for better contrast works much better to me.
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by skirmish 2y ago
I still find it hard to remember 8 digit OTPs, and work around that by repeatedly "singing" them in my mind while I type them. I can easily repeat those 8 meaningless words in my mind, and then decipher only the next digit I need
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by skirmish 2y ago
> I'm not aware of cases where the father and son have different endings, but technically you could I am Lithuanian, and I never heard of that happen. This [1] also concurs: "Sons inherit their father's surname, with no c
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by skirmish 2y ago
> The “blame {some new technology} on the downfall of society” racket is getting old. Same old, see Socrates circa 400 BC railing against reading and writing: "and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affect
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by skirmish 2y ago
Maybe ask on Monitors Reddit [1], people there are usually helpful (although often very gaming-oriented, so you should make it very clear it is for coding/office work). [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Monitors/

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