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by sollewitt 1y ago
It’s not a sequence if you produce it by ordering aggregates. Next year no matter what happens the sequence will be broken until at best everyone advances one place (so best case scenario in 21 years), or a new team wins 21 straight titles.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Fellow SF cyclist: Even setting aside the malicious SF stuff, Waymo's have enormous advantages over humans relying on mirrors and accounting for blindspots. I never have to be concerned a Waymo hasn't seen me. I can't wait un
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Answer for your serious question: hiring contractors isn’t “privatized” - that’s outsourcing. The thing you’re saving on is the ongoing cost of having permanent staff. The difference is the government and public entities like mayoral office
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by sollewitt 1y ago
I’ve never seen one that worked long term. The basic premise is “what was done for $X dollars with no profit motive can be done for <$X dollars with profit motive doesn’t hold up - you make something private, it wants to make more profit
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by sollewitt 1y ago
He was effectively appointed by Steven Mnuchin in 2017: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/23/trump-is-reportedly-diss... This go round Trump is liable to appoint someone from Fox Business.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Kinda like some HN posters write the way they think academics talk?
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by sollewitt 1y ago
"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, &#
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Aside: I still object to the use of “engineering” for a practice that doesn’t understand why what it does works. This is more similar to the “skilled masons” era of construction than “structural engineering” - “we know from experience this
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Steady, we’re taking things like having outlets every three feet of countertop in kitchens.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
A beloved Terry Pratchett character defines evil as when you treat people like things.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Generally it’s the time it takes for you to get back to physiological baseline. If you do a lot of activity, the amount of exertion can be measured in EPOC - how much extra oxygen your body needs for the extra metabolism to support repair (
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Oh neat, thanks! Yeah Virtual DJ integration was great, I got frustrated with their beat gridding (I come from Ableton where it’s always been magic and the Traktor where auto grid was really good) but they’ve been pushing everything else fo
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Djay’s killer feature is algorithmic stem extraction. The streaming audio services that have integration (Tidal, now Apple Music) don’t allow this processing. It’s an arbitrary technical limitation that I suspect is rooted in a licensing ag
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by sollewitt 2y ago
One thing I've tried using Gemini for, and been really impressed with, is practicing languages. I find Duolingo doesn't really translate to fluency, because it doesn't really get you to struggle to express yourself - the topi
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Well, purely going on who it is of value to, probably life insurance providers or pharmaceutical companies.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/get-started/learn/intro/sand...
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by sollewitt 2y ago
This is about process privilege. Apps and services are a layer above.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Global narcotics are about 1% of world trade. So in the worst case scenario the USD is doing about 99% more legitimate transactions than crypto.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
You still have to meet the hiring bar, it doesn't change the hiring criteria. I've been on hiring committee at FAANG, I'm never made aware of a candidates DEI status, I assume that discussion happens amongst management.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Sour grapes rather than valuing fairness? Elementary school kids are huge on fairness and injustice. It seems like it's built in to facilitate group social dynamics in great apes. It takes a lot of sophistication to be able to frame va
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by sollewitt 2y ago
I noticed this and the ghost artists in my recommendations after playing some ambient. I'm done with Spotify. I've had the service since it was beta in the Nordics, maybe 2008? It was amazing to be able to stream almost every piec
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by sollewitt 2y ago
I was expecting the article to explore how you are basically interrupting sleep to achieve this. The purpose of sleep isn't to dream, it's to garbage collect. Activating parts of the brain to control dreams means they aren't
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by sollewitt 2y ago
LLMs suffer from the "Igon Value Problem" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Igon_Value_Problem Similar to reading a pop sci book, you're getting an entertainment from a thing with no actual understanding of
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Not really, it's just time before spreading and time for the soil bacteria to do their thing.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
"Why LLMs do the one and only thing they do (and how to fix it)"
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by sollewitt 2y ago
In TY in 1998 I: worked at an architect's, an archeologist's, a hospital, an epidemiological research institute where I got to use _my own computer_ all day - decided I needed to work with computers, got a summer job there. earned
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Right, and do you verify the result? You have to know what the answer is supposed to be before you can write a test case.
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by sollewitt 2y ago
Given many people don’t have an inner monologue and function just fine, it’s more likely inner monologue is a product of the reasoning process and not it’s mechanism.
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by sollewitt 3y ago
I would guess because natural gas has hundreds of years of us handling it, and we already have a lot of things from power generators to domestic driers that consume it.
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by sollewitt 3y ago
But most homes in the UK are single family homes (66%) and women changed from having 2.4 kids on average in 1970 to 1.66 in 2021, so you would expect household size to fall.

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