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by thanksgiving 2y ago
> The ‘Ask Meta AI’ thing they’ve put in Facebook and Instagram seems pretty useless, the comment summaries are potentially kind-of useful but surely actually reduces the engagement (if it makes people less likely to read the comments an
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> Why should they now pay for the mistakes of college students who partied for 4+ years in college majors with no earning potential? Why should we pay for the mistakes of silicon valley bank depositors? We should have let them get nothin
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
If I have documents in a locked briefcase in a hotel room, does the police get to read and copy them with the hotel operator's permission while I am in the shower? Assume that the locked briefcase is not particularly tamper proof. Anyo
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Reminds me of that famous clip from mad men where don suddenly realizes that if lucky strike can't say its cigarettes are safe, neither can its competitors and came up with "it's toasted". In general, I have a feeling do
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
It makes sense to me. Step 0. Some People make novel art like a jingle that is unlike anything yet. Step 1. Early use of said jingle creates a buzz and generated good sales results. Step 2. It gets copied everywhere and by everyone. It is n
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Context I found when I googled this sentence https://old.reddit.com/r/thewestwing/comments/uyh7db/there_g... In a terrible coincidence, I just watched The War at Home today. This dialogue really hit clos
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
I really wish it was easier to talk about mental disorders. People with (mild?) mental disorders manage to live ordinary lives just fine. I remember listening to one specialist on a radio show who claimed that at least half the population (
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
I think this is about mathematical theorems as in if you reject the axiom of choice, you can't use it to prove any other theorems either.
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I want to bring my own experience from a code base I briefly worked on, I worked on a module of code where basically all the unit tests assertions were commented out. This was about ten years ago. The meta is there should still be someone r
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> I think the standard for laptops was just really, really low. As someone who used windows laptops, I was amazed when I saw someone sitting next to me on a public transit subway on her MacBook Pro editing images on photoshop with just h
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Maybe it is too early in the morning or I am just an idiot but how do battery powered cars avoid the "spicy pillow" problem where batteries swell up?
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I would not take any advice from videos on an influencer account. I am sure the person Theo is a good person but the realities of viral video economy is such that he has to make YouTube shorts or whatever that are short and so on.
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> One is someone yanking a repo and breaking millions of builds across the world and the maintainers of npm stepping in to fix things (in a move that is still controversial, mind you). Thank you for stating the move is still controversia
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I worked for a company with people in India and they were available through like ten am eastern time. That’s about seven thirty pm which isn’t so bad but if there was any problem my manager would not hesitate to reach out to them even at th
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I can't even name all seven! > Hodge conjecture I for one have no idea about topology in general. I had to look up what a nice shape was... I thought it was some mathematical term. The only thing I remember about is topology is some
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
I always pour flour from the paper bag into my giant plastic container. I haven't in almost half a year though. You guys are talking about all purpose (wheat) flour, right?
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Exactly. If Wordpress dot org demanded that companies that use foundation server resources pay the foundation, I’d be ok with that. Why is automattic involved in this conversation? I generally assume other people are smarter than more compe
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
I don’t understand why Automattic is involved at all. I imagined this was between Wordpress dot org and WP engine or whatever. Nobody should ever have to pay automattic a dime. I came into this conversation fully in support of Wordpress dot
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Same with msteams. I have mistakenly called so many groups by accidentally pressing Ctrl shift C instead of Ctrl shift v (unformatted paste). When I ask Microsoft people, they say they use power toys to disable this shortcut so they know th
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> being guilty It is important to dispute this line of thinking because we are ALL guilty of many things through our lives. Our legal system is complicated and whether you think something is just or ethical has no bearing to whether it i
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I remember at one job, they were talking about the overall architecture of code at the company and when I asked how can I run this on my computer, they said well you can just run it but I pushed... How can I run this whole thing on my compu
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I am not convinced. I have tried using blazor and it has been painful at best. I know of at least one internal tool at Microsoft (Azure) still using razor pages. I don't know how much I am allowed to talk about this but most teams as f
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Minor nit: from what I understand dot net (core) is not a fork but rather a reimplementation / rewrite as far as I understand > It was forked out of .NET 4.x and dropped support for a lot of things in the first versions.
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
I wish we had free public transit everywhere like they do on the strip.
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
I am not a lawyer or a rocket scientist but the fact that at least ONE defect went undetected/unreported/mis categorized/something at launch makes me think now everything else that Boeing did here is suspect as well and you c
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
Prison time should be limited to the CEO and board members.
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Something changed recently though because yes there are those MBA types but the engineer in the room used to be not a sales type person. Now (earlier this year, just before IO), even the engineers are becoming more like salespeople in my ex
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by thanksgiving 2y ago
The only money if buy a bond with is money I'd put in a certificate of deposit (CD) anyway.
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> Starliner is fixed cost. It sounds like you agree that Boeing is failing to adopt to fixed cost? Just from pop culture, isn't starliner that thing that leaves people stranded for a year after making them shed "excess" ba
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> lifted mega-pickup Speaking of which, it blows my mind that it is legal to lift your truck.

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