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by smeagull 4y ago
HN is pretty much like any subreddit. And there is a line of prevailing thought that you can't go against.
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by smeagull 4y ago
If you thought it was garbage, why would you continue to pour your time into reading it in detail? That's just silly. You throw it in the bin and move on with your life.
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by smeagull 4y ago
There's more housing in NY now than there was in the 1900s and house prices have only increased. There's no more choice in using roads than there is to live somewhere.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Okay, but the libertarian state that is now the property of the large multinationals that bought it seconds after it established, doesn't care.
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by smeagull 4y ago
> your property. Money is the property of the state that prints it. Land likewise. You're leasing at best.
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by smeagull 4y ago
> dropping config files in .programname is the de-facto community standard. Fuck you so much.
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by smeagull 4y ago
That's fine, every hiring place has arbitrary rules to cut down on resumes. You can't just guess at what those will be and use those guesses to base major Career decisions. You'll always miss some stupid filters - it's w
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by smeagull 4y ago
In the past, civilisation has been held together by the threat of violence on the landed classes. Now that is essentially no longer possible, corruption and inequality have grown unchecked. It is a solution - "Those who make peaceful r
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by smeagull 4y ago
Building more houses is just like building roads. It increases demand for that housing. Higher population means more demand, which outstrips how fast you can build, which leads to higher prices. There's your "somehow". Being
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by smeagull 4y ago
The problem here appears to be the landlords are being assholes. When that happens, you don't give up trying to regulate - you regulate them further. Clearly they need a LVT or tax on empty living space to make them play ball. Rent con
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by smeagull 4y ago
You're right, Google have long been incompetent at managing user generated anything. They should probably stop building things that depend on it, because they're so bad at it.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Being required to touch a screen at a restaurant that is most often used as a public restroom is a barrier to wanting to eat there.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I find it painful to emulate the Amiga to just play games. It feels like using a mac does today - as much as I might develop on it, I develop in the linux portions and the OS itself feels like a place to get away from as soon as possible.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I've rejected a job for pulling similar things. I'm not sending photos and copies of my passport to any third party.
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by smeagull 4y ago
> So you should be worried about this if you have an android 11/12 phone, even if you don't use wifi. Android 12 is 4.14
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by smeagull 4y ago
I don't think this needs to be tremendously expensive, and there are side benefits to this. More reflective footpath and road surfaces (think paler in colour rather than mirror like) are cooler - urban heat will be a problem that also
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by smeagull 4y ago
Yeah, just use literally. It's literally a better word.
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by smeagull 4y ago
What I want from a note taking app: * Takes pages from my browser * Uses github to sync across platforms * Has offline reading on mobile * Tagging and a todo list for triaging notes. Haven't found one yet.
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by smeagull 4y ago
We have horrible ways of measuring economic growth. I'll be worried when it starts affecting things in the real world.
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by smeagull 4y ago
We've seen a few people leave for other jobs, and are still hiring. Still getting offers from recruiters. I haven't seen this play out in the real world yet beyond news stories.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Yup. Made a massive mistake getting an AMD graphics card last time around. Has never worked for any ML workload ever.
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by smeagull 4y ago
You don't need a framework. You can control execution and use libraries. Once you use a framework changing back is hard. Removing a library on the other hand is easy. Because for libraries you control execution, and for frameworks you
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by smeagull 4y ago
The memory is the model. Having high probability to a particular area in latent space is copying it from the memory of the training data. You're a massive pedant, and this style of comment is a large reason HN comment sections are a pa
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by smeagull 4y ago
There is a reasoning loop that LLMs are clearly missing.
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by smeagull 4y ago
You know what I like about tar.gz? gzip is often a transparent compression layer on some tools, like say Athena. Tar is a simple concatenation of files + header. Therefore, even though Athena/Hive/Presto doesn't handle tar, I
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by smeagull 4y ago
"America has such massive problems that most programs doomed to fail"
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by smeagull 4y ago
No we haven't.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I think if you were optimising the goals of a touch screen keyboard, your focus would probably be in minimising mistakes, and you'd end up with different sized keys. I doubt you'd end up with Dvorak. I'm also highly skeptical
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by smeagull 4y ago
The one thing my local co-op does is being able to buy a random box of seasonal fruit and veg for cheap. That's ended up being cheaper than our supermarket.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Just transfer learn to a bunch of likely architectures.

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