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by themafia 8mo ago
Points are often presented as a proxy for trustworthiness. They're even implicit on sites like HN where certain features only become available once you've crossed a threshold. It's a bad tool. I always think of the Bill Bur
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by themafia 8mo ago
I don't think you can "build" a community. I think you can only serve them. Perhaps they haven't been served that well before and your service will foster their growth. You still didn't "build" anything
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by themafia 8mo ago
> was the most trusted way to send and receive money This was mostly due to century old banking regulations and the difficulty for any new type of money processors to get themselves connected to the necessary backend systems to actually
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by themafia 8mo ago
I wouldn't know. I use DynamoDB almost exclusively. These simply aren't considerations that occur with that product. It is true that it can be hard to size workloads into lambdas rather unusual CPU configuration; however, the
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by themafia 8mo ago
Does git use "slave?" Then does simply performing a search on bitkeepers documents for "slave" then automatically imply any particular terminology "came from bitkeeper?" Did they take it from bitkeeper because
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by themafia 8mo ago
> “This EC2 instance type running 24/7 at full load is way less expensive than a Lambda running”. For the same amount of memory they should cost _nearly_ identical. Run the numbers. They're not significantly different service
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by themafia 8mo ago
"gun deaths." You ever wonder _why_ they state the problem in such an abstract way? It's because that statistic is an abstract itself. It combines, in my view inappropriately, suicide, murders, and accidental injuries. T
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by themafia 8mo ago
The seediest amonst all in this example. If you're into cryptocurrency you should have /some/ pause over the fact that child pornographers, drug dealers and murderers all share your love of the technology. I'm sure tha
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by themafia 8mo ago
> AI writing will make people who write worse than average, better writers. If they don't care enough to improve themselves at the task in the first place then why would they improve at all? Osmosis? If this worked then letting a w
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by themafia 8mo ago
Buggy whips are a tool. No one in their right mind would use one. Using the wrong tool for the job results in disaster. It's like watching a guy bang rocks together to "vibe build" a house. Good luck.
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by themafia 8mo ago
Or.. Only boring people use AI.
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by themafia 8mo ago
The chrome browser and the v8 engine are innovations. The Go language is an innovation. Pet cameras, simple as they are, are an innovation. Uber is a rebadged taxi service with seedier people than before. AirBnB is a less disguised but
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by themafia 8mo ago
I wasn't aware I could read 95% of Harry Potter through constructed queries using Google's search index. Can you demonstrate how I might do this? Also can you point out how copyright law changes because we're using an "
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by themafia 8mo ago
Reproduce it. Sit in a clean room and write it all out. Then go check your accuracy. I'm curious to see what it is.
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by themafia 8mo ago
Half the point of "AI" is to squeeze the labor market. This is why you don't see people chiming in. It's a nearly fully corrupt and monopolized system.
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by themafia 8mo ago
I have a new operating system. I call it "Vindows." Any similarity to an existing product is merely conincidence.
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by themafia 8mo ago
"Steal stuff and get away with it." Is not an 'innovation' even though it may feel like one. The side you should pick is honesty.
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by themafia 8mo ago
npm i nostalgia
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by themafia 8mo ago
This isn't about ideology. This is about money and control.
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by themafia 8mo ago
Take your judgement somewhere else. No one asked for them. You're being rude, bullying, and arrogant. Which is worse than "useless." I would rather, all day, deal with "useless pedantry" than deal with your k
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by themafia 8mo ago
The same amount of time it feels like it takes for my google functions to deploy.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> but we still wouldn't say the sentence is false. Yes "we" do. It's false. It's false not because it's a lie but because it's very poorly worded and under specified. Inside of a work attempting to c
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by themafia 8mo ago
The congressionally created entity is called "Sound Exchange." And.. don't worry! They _will_ audit you.
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by themafia 8mo ago
The biggest problem is failover configuration and the needs of programmatic advertising insertions. So most providers will have you carry at least a 60 second buffer to start, but possibly closer to 120 seconds in most observed cases. Th
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by themafia 8mo ago
LPFMs are licensed. You are responsible for everything that is broadcast and you can be held liable for FCC violations or for any criminal acts conducted on or through your station. I would simply not feel comfortable opening the door to t
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> so what we remember is not exactly what we saw. Yet there are savants with nearly perfect recall which has been tested multiple times. I strongly doubt there is a single model for memory or even a single mechanism for forming memories
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by themafia 8mo ago
> achieved the abilities they have with great safety numbers. Driving around in good weather and never on freeways is not much of an achievement. Having vehicles that continually interfere in active medical and police cordons isn't
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by themafia 8mo ago
> are bringing a bad name to the entire field of autonomous driving. A small number of humans bring a bad name to the entire field of regular driving. > The average consumer isn't going to make a distinction between Tesla vs. Way
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by themafia 8mo ago
> HR has a huge bag of tricks. Yea, one of them is called "actually doing their jobs." In my company they spend far more time mediating problems than they do thinking up clever ways to fire someone without just cause.
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> "what if we had a consistently available tech stack and data model" And Palantir is the only company that provides this? They didn't have this before? After they bought it what changed? Again, what new capabilities d

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