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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
The only real improvements I'd suggest is switching back to NVIDIA across their entire product line and offering 32 and 64GB in MBP. I kind of struggle to think what else they could improve. Do you have any concrete suggestions? I do a
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
The best ab exercise that I have found is a heavy ass deadlift. Barbell squats are good too. They actually train _core strength_ rather than just abs, which is what you need. The advice is: start with compound barbell exercises like squat a
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That's not the exact opposite experience, that's just stupid. You have to work up to the weight. If I walk into the gym and try lifting my PR while cold, I will almost certainly fuck up my back. That's why coaches make so muc
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Of course. For endurance I got into the habit of doing daily HIIT cardio. Instead of "Netflix and chill" it's Netflix and cardio for me. Pro tip to those who would like to get into the habit: pick a tv show and only watch it
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I had really bad lower back pain years ago. Started going to the gym and doing weight training. Went from not being able to deadlift 80 lbs without pain to 495lbs for 3 reps. No back pain now. I also recommend "Starting Strength"
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I think he meant to say "two unsuccessful attempts". Who knows how many attempts were actually successful. I sometimes wonder what percentage of e.g. Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc are covert NSA/CIA agents. I'd be will
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
We're not talking that kind of price differential. A factor of 5x at most, with worse specific impulse than the Russian engines from the 90s. I get it, Elon is the second coming of Steve Jobs for many, and it is admirable that he'
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
It's not worthless, per se, it's just not a precursor to AGI in any shape or form, no matter how much the researchers pretend otherwise.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
It wasn't because it was impossible. Shit, those guys landed on the Moon and Venus with nothing but slide rules. It was because government is not spending its own money, so it can afford five times the cost.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
SpaceX is doing more or less the things that have already been done 50 years ago by truly the best minds of that generation, except they're cheaper and run as a private enterprise. They're standing way up there on the shoulders of
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I'd love to see Ubuntu or Yocto support for this, with accelerated Wayland. Is that a possibility?
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
The whole field of NLP and computational linguistics reminds me of that joke where a drunk is looking for his keys under a street lamp instead of where he actually lost them. This is true in particular of anything that pertains to reasoning
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
DDG is a wrapper on top of Bing. Maybe just skip the middleman and use Bing instead?
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Oh no, it's not simplistic. I actually worked on it at Google for a few years. The backends are actually quite impressive and Rube Goldberg like. It's just not what starry eyed fresh grads want to do when they join, and it's
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Not if others are willing to offer worse versions of those services for free. And Microsoft/Amazon are perfectly willing, since they're already getting paid for other things.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
The economy will be fine. Maybe even better than before. People will just figure out how to charge for content on the internet, and everyone will be all right.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
No, they could not "adapt". Ballmer's "one trick pony" comment is as true today as it was years ago. They derive the vast majority (90%+ iirc) of their revenue from ads. If ads are fucked, Google will be fucked too.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Google has a bunch of "PR" projects whose sole purpose is to distract the public, their own employees, and, importantly, potential employees from the fact that they're 95% an advertising company. Where would you rather work,
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
>> The vast majority of Facebook users accept And 86% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Do you have any data to support your claim?
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Bloomberg has something better, as far as narrative peddling is concerned: it is perceived as reputable.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
6 people controlling your bubble is still better than 5. Especially if the new guy is at war with the old guys.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Bloomberg and friends are just panicked over the fact that they're losing control of the narrative, which is really their main product.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Actually same here: there are plenty of potholes elsewhere, but only these few good roads get continually torn up and repaved.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Because of the law of budgets: use it or you'll get less next year. We have a few streets here which have been undergoing "repairs" pretty much constantly for the past decade. They aren't getting wider or better, perfect
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
And your argument is not new either. It was used to justify slavery.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
This could be rephrased as "can Amerca's farms exist without breaking the law". The answer to which is, of course, yes. It is illegal in this country to employ a noncitizen without a work visa. It is also illegal to pay less
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That's debatable if there is no information to be privy to. Even Feinstein and Pelosi stated publicly there was no smoking gun.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
It was, until this administration, somewhat rare for the press to _knowingly_ publish nothing but lies, and yet here we are. CNN (!) got caught on camera the other day stage managing a "Muslim protest" for the news. That's so
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I also publicly commented on the matter today. Doesn't make any difference, especially if there's no legal repercussions for lying.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
You sound like someone who's never been on a jury. Jury gets very exact instructions from the judge before it makes a decision. In these instructions judge interprets the law in a way that the jury will understand. She doesn't tel

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