the-pigeon

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by the-pigeon 5y ago
What?! Everybody is very slow to update their outage pages because of SLAs. It's in a company's financial interest to deny outages and when they are undeniable to make them appear as short as possible. Status pages updating slowly
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Obviously this is "hey HR we need to layoff 900 people, what can we do to make it their fault?" Maybe it's a reasonable cover your ass move but comes off very slimy.
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Also if it works it works. I think people worry too much about a solution being a placebo. Yes, it may be that your solution only worked because you believed it would work. But take the win! Certainly solutions backed by double blind contro
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Unlikely but if they offered it on their own stuff it could create a trend. And increasingly they are losing the quality content that they didn't produce themselves.
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
What would you blame/credit this problem too? On the flip-side. Since I've had 3 or 4 years of experience on my resume, I've gotten interviews for about 1 in 10 applications I sent out. And been made offers for about 1 in 4 c
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Haha yeah. What an asshole move.
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Absolutely. To be really certain you'd have to test your soil. I don't think you could test seeds without destroying them. But if your soil was clean then you could grow a plant from potentially contaminated seeds and that plants
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
I thought the Colorado law was about base pay? Personally I don't care about stocks on a job posting. I consider stocks to be worth 0 when considering offers unless it's a public company with all the information available for me t
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. This seems to be aimed at investors more than anyone else.
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
But to what end? Gathering more data on a problem you don't know how to solve won't give you a solution to solving it. We don't have any evidence to support that current AI is capable of the advanced problem solving the city
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
This would be easy to fix with legislative that makes property taxes much higher for investment home properties. I don't think I've ever heard of a politician even talking about that though.
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Context is everything. Writing an app that going to do like 3 things? Keep it barebones. Writing an app that will eventually be 100k lines of code that runs a business. Spend a lot of time organizing and abstracting! Mistakes in your archit
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Great thing about using DDG is you can have both. In my experience DDG is fine for general information but Google is better for very specific information. But DDG supports !Bang. So you can do "!g" in your search bar for you speci
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
And what did censoring the theory do? It made actual researchers and scientists shut up to not hurt their reputations. And made internet conspiracy conspiracies go crazy in all directions. I believe the more we censor vaccine information, t
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
I think this is the best argument for these lists that I've heard. Forcing this stuff out into the light helps the system get fixed. This is a pattern I've seen in internal tools development for businesses over and over. When my s
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
And reality isn't a heist movie. Most heirs are not going to attempt to murder for the money. They normally are already enjoying that wealth. And if the money maker stays alive it just grows even more. Now even if they have a motive. H
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
SpaceX employees haven't gone to space. Just NASA astronauts on SpaceX rockets. And this privately paid for mission coming up. I don't think it's the CEO's job to be a test pilot. I think that's pretty crazy actuall
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
No. But it's just a demo. In perfect conditions if you run it 100 times this is the result. In the real world they have no application as they fail pretty much always in real conditions. But this is research, pushing things in controll
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
I would take this a step further and say that all social media recommendation algorithms should be publicly reviewable. The claim is that this algorithms are neutral. But we know many contain ways for the owner to artificially boost preferr
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Court precedence. Like pretty much everything else judges would have to define the lines over decades through court cases. I'm not sure if it should go that way. I don't like the idea that someone like Disney could hire a voice ac
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Michael Crichton wrote a great piece on this called "Why Speculate?" https://americandigest.org/long-read-week-speculate-michael-... Experts are so often wrong on their economic predictions that there's very
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
> and that governments and other major interests will go to almost any lengths possible to keep distorted markets propped up. This here is pretty key. Those on top will do just about anything to stay on top. As such I try to make sure my
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Yes. People see something dumb and decide the designers and business people involved are idiots. But often the business people and designers have very different goals and know that it's dumb. But they don't think it being dumb con
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Personally I find it pretty predictable which queries duck duck go will fail on. Basically very niche ones. So I just prepend based on what I'm searching for to begin with instead of after a failure. But I've also been using duckd
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
The entire idea that "x workers don't care about safety" is just dumb. Yes some individuals care less than they should. But every job has some people who are smart enough to value their own safety. And those people will serio
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
"Something as simple as an offsite tape backup completely thwarts the attack." Not true when they are also blackmailing companies to not release their internal data. Even something as simple as a companies customer base and contra
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
> In-office work needs to be compensated differently than WFH. Why? A company hires an employee because they think they can make more profit than that employee costs them. My expenses have nothing to do with the equation except when the
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
It really depends. I take this really just to mean "everyone has faults". People often idealize heroes and think of them as beyond human. If you do that and met your hero then your illusion will often be shattered. But the problem
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
> I think it really is that it's a very difficult problem of cat-and-mouse, without any clear path to victory for Amazon, and the sellers have a huge monetary incentive to evade detection. Honestly it's really hard to believe y
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
This analysis starts with a straw-man. > So: why is advertising good? I mean, isn't it annoying when sites show you ads instead of whatever it is you want to read? The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding mod

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