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by smcin 9mo ago
Don't distort my words. If SO Jobs was one of the key engagement features bringing thousands of experienced developers to SO to contribute free content (and the site was valued at $1.8bn in the acquisition), then any reasonable account
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by smcin 9mo ago
If SO wanted to keep experienced developers on their site and contributing content for free, it shouldn't have been unthinkable to find some model to fund SO Jobs. Yahoo is one cautionary tale of what happens when a site pursues more o
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by smcin 9mo ago
Stack Overflow Jobs was a superb, uncluttered, direct interface to the hiring manager, with accurate details about a position. So when they canned it (but kept their advertising revenue stream plus started "SO for Teams" in 2018),
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by smcin 9mo ago
Instantiating classes is in general not a performance issue in Python. Your issue here strongly sounds like you're abusing OO to pass a list of instances into every method and downstream call (not just the usual reference to self, the
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by smcin 10mo ago
Don't you think the domain name 'www.somaliscan.com' is intentionally misleading and offensive, given the vast majority of fraud is not by Somalis, e.g. the $1.7bn healthcare fraud at ex-Florida Governor Scott's former c
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by smcin 10mo ago
Probably because a few articles contain curse words (which corporate filters may hiccup on).
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by smcin 10mo ago
> Carvana will be included in the S&P 500 starting on December 22nd, 2025. And that should not sit well with anyone... Carvana meets these criteria [for S&P inclusion], but seems to be doing so using inflated numbers.
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by smcin 10mo ago
It's an interesting sidebar discussion what are cultural norms on social interaction vs using someone like a free therapist. I guess consent to whatever topic, equal airtime, not saying inappropriate things, not slowing down their work
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by smcin 10mo ago
You live in the suburbs, or a small turn, or a city? How do people in your area generally get groceries?
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by smcin 10mo ago
What's their main point, as in reason? I can't get through the subscriber wall and I can't find out from other articles.
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by smcin 10mo ago
Subscriber-walled
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by smcin 10mo ago
It makes a difference since if you're not logged in to them in browser they are less likely to know which ones you use.
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by smcin 10mo ago
It's in general possible to only access social media via browser, not apps.
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by smcin 11mo ago
If Arthur C Clarke was still alive, he would be much in demand as sci-fi frontperson for these.
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by smcin 11mo ago
"LLMs" is the new catchall term for Machine Learning or automation, to laypeople. For now.
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by smcin 11mo ago
Leetspeak ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet ), and similar things obfuscating letters with numbers/ punctuation/ symbols (or subsequently, obfuscated with Unicode or lookalikes). Now experiencing a renaissan
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by smcin 11mo ago
> Sounds like their biggest problem is that the product is so good the domestic market may be saturated. Sad how rare that is these days. Which other companies does that apply to?
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by smcin 11mo ago
The standard etiquette on HN is not to bother saying that, just post its archive link already.
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by smcin 11mo ago
I don't believe the "2–10% CPU savings" claim for general computing, or servers. Only maybe for IoT devices. And you don't cite any source for that claim. What is your source?
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by smcin 11mo ago
Okay but who are you referring to by "pro biz democrats in NY are losing traction"; the NYC mayor election, Hochul retaining governor, Stefanik's ambitions for 2028/32, or else who? It seems the wrong take to read Mamdan
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by smcin 11mo ago
"thought-terminating cliché"/"knockout argument"/fallacy Anyway "as if values and decisions are always shared absolutely by everyone" is moot because you can GDPR opt out, or else read it via the arch
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by smcin 11mo ago
Ah ok, I hadn't noticed there was also recent discussion on the Senate itself, wrt not being numerically representative. People often say stuff like "the founders would have changed their mind if they knew just how concentrated t
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by smcin 11mo ago
I think you're referring to "abolish the Senate filibuster rule"? recent lobbying.
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by smcin 11mo ago
Post is unironically suggesting another fitness test for students, not Presidents.
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by smcin 11mo ago
Well, Mastermind has 6 colors and 4 positions; Wordle has 26 letters and 5 positions. So at first it seems a larger solution space. In Mastermind all feasible candidates are equiprobable (assuming the cluegiver isn't biased), but in Wo
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by smcin 11mo ago
Also the combination of the unique timing of the launch (late 2021) and the mass psychological/social effect of hundreds of millions of people worldwide working on the same daily challange, since they only published one per day, during
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by smcin 11mo ago
Curious, what was your offence?
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by smcin 11mo ago
Ok but in regular Mastermind, you get a white key peg for every code peg that is present but not in the correct spot.
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Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump(apnews.com)
5 points by smcin 11mo ago|1 comments
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by smcin 11mo ago
"Data scientists perform last rites for ‘dearly departed datasets’ in 2nd Trump administration"

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