thevillagechief

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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I moved to a C++/.Net/Python shop after working with Java, and I honestly miss Java.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Truer words have never been spoken. Every time I hear an exec say we're a Microsoft shop so we've got to use copilot/Azure, I wonder if they hear themselves.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I'm not sure Carmack's point disagrees with you. Meta is still big tech, and if your goal is to monetize at scale, rolling out your own isn't the most efficient way to do it. I don't think he'd discourage you rollin
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
This is true for EMs at my company. They are pretty heavily technical, with full manager responsibilities. I honestly always assumed that's what EMs were.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I see your Android, I raise you a google home speaker. Please someone help me understand, why is it a freaking pain to use these speakers with bluetooth? Why can I not use them as output for the tv? Is the audio lag just an artificial limit
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
My only use case for paypal is booking an internal flight in a country I visit annually because they do not accept my credit card, but will accept paypal. Literally the only reason I reluctantly got an account. The horror stories I've
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I find myself randomly recommending his videos to friends in the middle of conversations. Content like this is why I love YouTube.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Your phrasing seems off. Why does Meta care what Google needs? It would seem that it's exactly backwards. Meta needs this because training resources are scarce. And Google is in the enviable position of having TPUs.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
So this is just Thrasymachus - "Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger"?
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Still mad at IBM for screwing the pooch on that one. They basically handed the company to Oracle.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Nice coincidence! I'm going through his course as a review of FFT and SVD fundamentals. He's really good.
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
One of the most frustrating articles I've read in a while. Is everything in the US just well-off people colluding to keep everyone else down? Most countries don't have this advanced classes thing. Everyone just takes the same clas
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
One of the complaints about Google is that it's difficult to launch products due to bureaucracy. I'm starting to thing that's not a bad thing. If they'd done a careful analysis of the cost of jumping into this url-shorte
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
My point here is that "strong institutions" were supposed to stem this tide. Of course, I should have thought through who made up these institutions. In some ways institutions kind of held up pretty well 2016-2020. Which is why I
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Woah! This stuff is unwinding faster than my priors. I'm going to have to re-evaluate everything I thought true about the US. I just always assumed "strong institutions" meant something here. That it was all a house built on
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I thought it was sarcasm, then got confused because people seemed to take it seriously. So I decided to try the prompt on Gemini 2.5: Pro just says it can't generate an SVG, Flash generates a petty great one. Whatever copilot is using
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
A smallish city in Pennsylvania. Dropped my wallet/id and work badge rushing to catch the bus to work. Someone picked it up, googled me, found an article from the local newspaper announcing my wedding, all with my home address, dropped
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
Oh, really nothing special. I'll say something simple like "Which home gym leg press machine will give the best bang for my buck?"
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I went to a boarding high school in Kenya (most high schools are boarding there) and we were responsible for cleaning the hostels and the bathrooms, which we had to do every morning before class. The flowerbeds outside our hostels were also
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
The Gemini deep research is a revelation. I obsessively research most things I buy, from home appliances to gym equipment. It has literally saved untold hours of comparisons. You get detailed reports generated from every website including y
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by thevillagechief 1y ago
I've been switching between this and GPT-4o at work, and Gemini is really verbose. But I've been primarily using it. I'm confused though, the model available in copilot says Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview), and I've had it for
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
Thank you. I tend to be clueless on office politics, and this is actually a really helpful reminder.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
Perhaps you can help me answer a question I've had for a long time. How is that hardware VP still there? It seems to me from the outside much better fits have been pushed out, but he's still hanging on. Is he really that good that
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
It's funny, I drive a 22 year old car, by far the oldest at my workplace parking. I've been talking about getting a newer car but haven't been able to bring myself to spend 35K on one. It's running joke in the office, co
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
I love Tintin! People in the US grew up with Marvel comic books. We grew up with Tintin, as did our parents before us. Can't wait to see what people do with it.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
If you grew up in a 3rd world country, you know you could never afford access to any of the academic/training resources needed to get out of the cycle of poverty. So you did what you had to do. Now I'm addicted to buying books, so
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
This is great. Now everyone will get serious decoupling battery supply chain from China. Maybe companies making EVs will understand the stake.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
Hey listen, I come from a country colonized by the British, and it was brutal. It's created generational poverty because they stole the most fertile land and have kept it until today, while sharing with a few corrupt Africans. But have
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
Ideally, your representative's ballot should be open, so you know they are representing your concerns, not their own. So no, absolutely not. I do not want my representative voting secretly. Focus on fixing the corrupting influence of m
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
Looks like he in fact succeeded in avoiding the payments? Like the meme, the task failed successfully. Not sure what happens when he gets out of prison.

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