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Babby's First AI Art - Put in some text, get some art(colab.research.google.com)
3 points by slyall 5y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 5y ago
The immigrant supply is cutoff and there is upward pressure on wages but employers are not panicking yet. Just grumbling that usual pay is not attracting good enough candidates. Plenty of places have not increased wages yet and interview pr
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There are inter-college Chess competition. A few US Universities are serious about it and they do have people getting scholarships to play on the chess team. Source: Local (non-US) player got one of these.
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I think you are overestimating the importance of "revenue impacting incidents" to company employees. If the company makes a couple of million extra or less this year it doesn't effect the majority of workers. Their bonus isn&
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From “Secondary Storage” to Just “Storage”: Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection(honeycomb.io)
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It's $7 a month now. They just announced a price rise. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/subscription-changes-for-comp...
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You are allowed to keep thinking as long as you have time on your clock. Isn't really considered good sportsmanship but is legal. Recent instances I saw was an adult was in an almost-lost position with over an hour on the clock while h
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I think in fastly's case they were not very well known and suddenly the market became aware that they were actually a big deal with lots of big customers. Probably a one-off event. Note: I am a fastly customer, reasonably happy.
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My Treatise on the Champlain Towers Report from 2018(old.reddit.com)
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The Launch Landscape: Small Rockets(spacedotbiz.substack.com)
50 points by slyall 5y ago|43 comments
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Code as Infrastructure – The Next Critical Talent Shortage Won’t Be Fortran(oreilly.com)
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Article on How the video was made is here: https://medium.com/the-rectangle-behind-you/the-making-of-fo...
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Four Laps – A looping ignite talk recorded live. (5 min video)(vimeo.com)
2 points by slyall 5y ago|1 comments
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Video Version of article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Sfw58jApo
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Small Satellite Launchers – A Comparison(everydayastronaut.com)
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Think of all the people who made an impact on history and the world. How many of them did it by having children? This guy at least got an article written about him, what have you done?
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From the same author ( Everyday Astronaut ) Why won’t Starship have an abort system? Should it?! https://everydayastronaut.com/starship-abort/ Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6lPMFgZU5Q
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by slyall 6y ago
11 years payback is pretty good when you are lucky to get 1% interest on savings at your local bank.
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by slyall 6y ago
It's a standard sort of thing. The idea is that a non-manager has minimal ability to affect the company's bottom line. While those further up have the ability (and now have the incentive) to affect the profit of their division or
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Devops has 50 definitions. One of them is "What we call Sysadmins these days but with more scripts and APIs and less manually logging into machines and running commands"
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Except that business is not like sports. There is no "level playing field" that matches teams 1 for 1 against their counterparts. In many cases most parts of the company just have to be "good enough". If you have a great
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by slyall 6y ago
That site was very hard to read on my browser. Every couple of seconds the author's byeline would flicker (too fast for me to see what it changed to) and the text would jump up and down.
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Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 2: Successfully executing (some) instructions(mcla.ug)
36 points by slyall 6y ago|7 comments
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The geeks who saved Usenet (2002)(salon.com)
81 points by slyall 6y ago|32 comments
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Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together(thenewstack.io)
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The First Conversation was back in 2006 when he was interviewed by Jim Gray https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142065
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His twitter profile has "spiceshop = https://etsy.com/shop/RavenholmSpices " and "food pornographer" I wonder if it triggered a block for drugs or porn.
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I had some frustrations with the service in the years when it was running on auto-pilot, but since it mostly worked I shrugged it off (although I warned people not to join). If I had been paying $22/year at the time I would have been a
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Upgrading Kubernetes From 1.11 to 1.18 in a Month(ideas.bywetransfer.com)
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The point I am making is that in any Hacker news thread about "engineers" somebody will always bring up this Canadian thing. To the extent I have now read this fact at least a dozen times. I provided a link as proof.

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