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by timr 10mo ago
> A lot of software gets a foothold in an org by starting with the ICs, and individuals, not groups, are often the ones that request or approve software. Not really. Even if we keep the conversation in the realm of startups (which are no
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by timr 10mo ago
The kind of products hidden behind sales calls are generally the sort where the opinion of IC-level tech staff is next to irrelevant. With these kinds of products, the purchase decision is being made at a group level, the contract sizes are
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by timr 11mo ago
The default is what matters.
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by timr 11mo ago
You know that Google literally spends billions to ensure that people don’t switch, right? That’s possible because they’re immensely profitable.
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by timr 11mo ago
The plot you're citing is an imaginary projection 100 years into the future given what was known up to the year on the x-axis. That is why the units are 100x larger. The uncertainty on the rate of change is quite large (relatively), th
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by timr 11mo ago
Sea level rise rate is what matters (we cannot measure “sea level” absolutely, and therefore must work in terms of relative rates of change). The authors explicitly tell you that the data is not sufficient to conclude what they’re allud
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by timr 11mo ago
> When we compare those to what actually happened up to 2025, we see that we are slightly worse right now than their highest sea level prediction that was made. No. The paper does not show that. Figure 3 shows that recent sea level rise,
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by timr 11mo ago
He literally says the opposite. It's why I quoted what I did. Very first link: > We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. > What we need is to #DefundT
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by timr 11mo ago
linkedin posts. it's practically the house style.
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by timr 11mo ago
Re [1], he explicitly says the opposite in the posts I linked to. You're just ignoring what he literally says and writes, and substituting your own feelings on the matter. Regarding prisons, again, he is explicitly talking about clo
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by timr 1y ago
Touché. I shouldn't have said "ad hominem attacks", because, while these arguments are certainly specious, and completely unrelated to the subject of the article, they're not strictly ad hominem. I agree with your commen
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by timr 1y ago
It's so depressing that the entire Mamdani debate has become mired in Israeli politics. You can completely ignore that issue, and still have plenty of questionable stuff to talk about. He has repeatedly talked about defunding the polic
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by timr 1y ago
Where did I say it was an ad hominem?
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by timr 1y ago
He literally, repeatedly said “defund and dismantle”. He’s not trying to be subtle. I’m not taking anything out of context. It’s obvious that he didn’t mean “reduce funding”, and while that may be what you think is reasonable, it’s not
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by timr 1y ago
It’s not what I said? Not even remotely.
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by timr 1y ago
I'm sure there are, just like everywhere else.
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by timr 1y ago
> Not "abolish", reduce funding. Yeah, I understand that's what people are saying to rationalize it. And like I said: we'll find out! But see my reply to the sibling comment, where I link directly to his words: http
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by timr 1y ago
> people are calling it a clown show Not "people" -- a single, unnamed, VC. It's right there in the article. Read it. > Prasad was ousted No, he wasn't. He voluntarily resigned pre-emptively after the WSJ editori
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by timr 1y ago
I mean, yes...but having lived in multiple states with various forms of state monopoly on alcohol sales: state-run liquor stores suck . Citing them as an argument in favor of state-run anything is sort of making the case for the other si
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by timr 1y ago
There isn't a market failure in groceries in NYC. There's a huge number and diversity of stores, and profit margins are as low as anywhere else in the world. Also, of course, see the sibling comment who is complaining about grocer
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by timr 1y ago
It's an article about a single corrupt individual. Instead of just reporting the facts of the case (as was done by the Stat piece, which they're ripping off) they spend multiple paragraphs making ad hominem attacks about the C
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by timr 1y ago
Yes, that's one scandal, from one person. It has nothing to do with Vinay Prasad, certainly nothing to do with the CDC, and whatever you think of the administration, connecting this event to "everything else" is political hac
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by timr 1y ago
If you roll a 401k into an IRA, those will be pretax dollars in the IRA. It doesn't take a very big rollover to completely swamp the tax benefits of a 7k annual Roth contribution limit.
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, I understand the symmetry, but…it begs the question.
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by timr 1y ago
Uncertainty and tolerance implies that you have a predictable distribution in the first place. Engineers are not just dealing with a world of total chaos, observing the output of the chaos, and cargo culting incantations that seem to work f
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by timr 1y ago
There’s nothing particularly wrong with the article - it’s a superficial summary of stuff that has historically happened in the world of LLM context windows. The problem is - and it’s a problem common to AI right now - you can’t generalize
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by timr 1y ago
lol. who is “we”? I honestly can’t tell if you’re being serious. I’m going to start a second career in lottery “engineering”, since that’s a stochastic process too.
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by timr 1y ago
I've used both, and you're exaggerating. Whatever difference in performance there is between providers changes constantly, and like I said, it's more than offset for me by the practical advantage of being able to switch model
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by timr 1y ago
Meh. The context stuff is changing by the day, so whatever you're saying now will be out of date by next week. Regardless, you're basically saying that GHC is trying to optimize for cost, which is true for any provider. Even if
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by timr 1y ago
I agree. People either have never tried it, or tried it a long time ago when it was something else.

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