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by sp527 10y ago
Hah that's really great. Thanks for elaborating!
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by sp527 10y ago
Interesting that the chat dynamic worked out so much better for this use case than an app with notifications. In theory, you don't really need an interactive chat agent for any of these use cases, but I guess what's being posited
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by sp527 10y ago
Wondering if anyone here has run into the same issue as me: I've wanted to learn Physics properly (post college) but can't find time to balance it with a job/having a social life. I've had a few false starts where I try
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by sp527 10y ago
I had a passion for tech. Then it was beaten out of me by large, successful tech companies. Some day, the majority of us who are relegated to inane, shitty work will wake up and acknowledge that. So what do you do when you are a capable pro
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by sp527 10y ago
If you're already a successful entrepreneur, the only reason you'd want to be a Google software engineer is if you have no idea what you're signing up for. There's absolutely nothing magical about working at Google and t
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by sp527 10y ago
It's biuriful tears up And now back to our regularly scheduled React component.
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by sp527 10y ago
This project is non-profit correct? Wondering if any of the engineers on it are being compensated.
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by sp527 10y ago
I had the same reaction and then started looking into the viability of terraforming Mars. I'd hardly call any of it conclusive, but the challenges and proposed solutions are endlessly fascinating. Highly recommended nerd deep dive.
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by sp527 10y ago
Honestly I was surprised they were able to scale as elastically as they did and we now know the reason why: they used Datastore instead of something like Postgres with sharding. That decision alone is most of the reason they made it. By con
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by sp527 10y ago
Sure. But pardon me for believing the only consequence he's liable to care about is a pitchfork mob assembled outside his gates.
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by sp527 10y ago
Strong username to post content ratio.
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by sp527 10y ago
I love this version of Larry Summers effecting an air of concern for the common man. It's almost like he never pushed for the deregulation of the derivatives market. Magic!
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by sp527 10y ago
Seeing a lot of arguments about profitability that don't make sense. At Twitter scale, profit sensitivity to even minor tweaks in ad rate/targeting/placement is massive. They could also go into 'maintenance mode' to
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by sp527 10y ago
Uhh if you think about it, it's probably just a (maybe weighted) dot product of binary vectors, sorted, and then a set diff.
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by sp527 10y ago
Uh actually most people on here understand you don't hack "mission critical" (involving peoples' lives).
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by sp527 10y ago
Actually, I'd rather see the system be corrected than a bifurcation in deaths due to anaphylactic shock according to income level, because Mylan decides to just accept the deadweight loss of poor DIY'ers instead of lowering their
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by sp527 10y ago
Oh I don't disagree at all. But that has very little to do with whether or not it's ethically responsible to propose an untested method for constructing a device that would only be needed in life-threatening situations.
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by sp527 10y ago
You know that's probably what they're getting at, but you have to admit it's dangerous to present their point in this way. I don't think it's a stretch to argue that if you offer an instruction manual for making som
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by sp527 10y ago
This doesn't feel like the right platform for DIY. When someone needs an EpiPen, it's because they might be dying. Presumably, a large and well-capitalized organization will have tested their device extensively and can offer bette
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by sp527 10y ago
Applies also to mobile, DevOps, and data engineering. Take the average ~$150K SV software engineering job and you don't need continuous math (just discrete to get in the door and maybe once every 6-12 months after that, when an interes
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by sp527 10y ago
I don't subscribe to Utopianism. I'm a pragmatist. And what you're describing is patently naive.
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by sp527 10y ago
Thanks. For anyone interested: the above linked medium post doesn't mention config management, but I see that Ansible has some form of ECS support.
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by sp527 10y ago
I like the premise of this, but can someone link a more modern guide that deals with Docker, ECS, etc?
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by sp527 10y ago
Surprised no one is commenting that their software has really poor usability. It may work well in providing secure certificates, but setup is a PITA and the documentation is abysmal.
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by sp527 10y ago
The problem with this argument (and why it comes across as somewhat reductionist) is that it fails to acknowledge the sharp dichotomy between employment and entrepreneurship. The question of working on something for 10 years is less relevan
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by sp527 10y ago
That's a valid opinion. Here's a different one: the ethical thing to do would be to repatriate Mexican citizens to Mexico, thereby demonstrating that we have a zero-tolerance policy for cutting the line and breaking our laws. It w
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by sp527 10y ago
Actually there are identifiable factors at play in what we're labeling 'racism' (and maybe it is for a lot of these people who knows) that could have nothing to do with racism. For instance, it's not at all weird to feel
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by sp527 10y ago
This is a good enough answer to the question. I would have delved into the realm of chaos theory and such, but suffice to say that our understanding of the universe suggests that nothing is truly random.
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by sp527 10y ago
That's another way of asking if we could (theoretically) simulate intelligence. Scientific consensus offers an emphatic 'yes' to this question. We debate the when and how (not the whether) of AGI.
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by sp527 10y ago
Because evolution ultimately reduces entropy in response to stimuli. This process, combined with time, can yield complexity. Countless studies abound ascertaining rudimentary aspects of cognition in even fairly primitive organisms. It'

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