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by spicymaki 3y ago
There are plenty of examples of honor culture within western culture, such as the Antebellum South. Dueling was huge amongst the aristocratic cultures of Europe and US (see Alexander Hamilton). It is certainly making a comeback today. In th
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Apple certainly uses hardware partners to make components of their systems. Apple has an advantage in that they can charge more for their systems due to their brand value and reputation. Since the value of their products are high they have
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by spicymaki 3y ago
This might be controversial, but I like the idea of school specific exams for elite schools. This allows the school to select the students they want and filter out the rest. They should have one for each of the majors (perhaps a more genera
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Random thoughts: This is a zero win situation. Customers do not want telemetry on their system, so they tell Microsoft not to monitor user behavior. If Microsoft asks customers why they did something unexpected (like close OneDrive), people
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Some TPMs are FIPS-140 compliant and go through 3rd party audits and extra screening. If you purchase a device that is compliant you can then retrieve a certificate of compliance. Some TPMs can be made compliant with the appropriate firmwar
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by spicymaki 3y ago
> It’s the bubble of very online people and start up culture who think tech people age out at 40 Shhh... please don't tell the tech bros that there is a world outside of the Silicon Valley bubble! Where you can raise a family and ma
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by spicymaki 3y ago
> ... most climatologists think that humanity should eventually stop contributing carbon into the atmosphere on net. Yes, that makes sense. > It's unlikely that we'll completely delete all car dependency any time soon. That
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Who hasn't been hacked?
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Thanks for posting this. I wish they had a curated list for the more popular titles. Scanning through the collection is like a treasure hunt. The voices are a little bit robotic, but it is really remarkable how good the technology is gettin
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by spicymaki 3y ago
First off sorry for all of the employees that will be affected by the cuts. On one hand, it seems that if there is a contraction in the employment market, there would be less need for LinkedIn job boards and the staff around it. On the othe
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by spicymaki 3y ago
It is great that his prognosis is good, but who is stepping up to bring the movement into the next generation?
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Honestly, I am not rich enough to be upset about this! If you could comfortably afford a $17,000 Apple Watch, this probably would not bother you either.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
I agree we need more nuclear, but it takes five years to build a new plant and we need the EV batteries now.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
I have not been laid off, but everyone I know from my company that has been laid off has found another job.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Funny enough when I saw the gobbledygook, I immediately thought to myself this looks like an AVX instruction.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
I think the author undersold this as Mistakes for New Golang Devs.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
> Tech is such an shitty abyss right now... You sound spoiled. How often would you like a technical revolution? I could honestly use a break. We just got off of the crypto train(supposed finance revolution) and are now jumping on to the
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by spicymaki 3y ago
I would not mind a reasonably priced pay toilet. The toilet should make enough revenue to pay for itself ideally.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
I wonder if ChatGPT is overloaded due to the influx of students returning to school.
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From Merlot.org: Keisan Online Calculator site is provided and supported by Casio Computer Co., Ltd. This site contains various Free Online Calculators that enable you to carry out high accuracy calculation using arithmetic operation system
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by spicymaki 3y ago
This illustrates a serious problem with AI. We (Humans) are ceding our autonomy to AI without any evidence of the validity of the outcomes. The industry puts up a front saying they will be careful, but the reality is that they are faking it
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by spicymaki 3y ago
> I think I spend more like $3000/yr for quite a nice car. You are lucky! Currently the average cost of a new car is ~$48k. Not including fuel, if I priced out a car to around $40k and took a loan at 5% interest for five years. I wo
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Is it possible that Edward Blum does not know that there are VC funds that fund specifically Asian American entrepreneurs and scholarships that fund only Asian Americans and Jewish Americans as well? If he is balanced and targets groups oth
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by spicymaki 3y ago
Sure I think there is broad agreement with taste argument. However, I think we can agree that humans are on another scale with respect to animal killing. We are way past the survival of the fittest on the plains of the Serengeti here.
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by spicymaki 3y ago
The US Supreme Court already has: https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/citizens-uni...
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by spicymaki 3y ago
There is no objective criterion on left vs. right leaning. These are all based on impressions. The only thing you can do is survey readers and ask if the NYT has a bias. It is pretty well acknowledged that NYT does have a left lean, but it
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by spicymaki 3y ago
That sounds plausible, it sure seems management consulting (McKinsey, Bain, etc.) are involved in someway. The companies all over hired around the same time, laid off staff at the same time, and are doing the back to office at the same time
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Rolls eyes. I thought in tech it was skills and deeds that matter not credentials. I suppose meritocracy devolves into credentialism in the long run.
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Are you sure he can pay? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twit...
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Hacker's Delight already has a 2nd edition. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hackers-delight-second/...

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