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by tqi 2y ago
The magnitude is surprising for this to be attributed to the trade dispute - I wonder if this is primarily due to immigration concerns? I know a lot of folks on H-1B visas from Canada, and I imagine for those folks any non-essential interna
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by tqi 2y ago
> Same as people who can't be bothered to comb their hair. which was definitely considered a desirable look at various times.
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Monster Cables is a name I hadn't thought about in ages... I mostly remember them as the company that tried to convince people that digital images would look better via a more expensive cable.
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Thats interesting - am I understanding correctly that the reasoning is that forward air bases will become more vulnerable, so we need to be able to operate from domestic bases?
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Do we really still believe that fewer, more expensive and complex planes is the best path forward?
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I know the folks at 538 meant well, but I think the ultimate impact of their work was to accelerate the politics as entertainment, team sports-ification of elections, to our nations detriment.
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Going to be some incredible long exposure night photography in urban areas that comes out of this
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> It's relevant because this furthers this idea that current early AI technology is not about making the world a better plance and is instead used to accelerate the worst aspects of humanity. Can't it be about both?
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by tqi 2y ago
But that's my point - Y Combinator and tech companies are complicit in the inhumane conditions of sweatshops, the how is irrelevant to why it is bad. But framing it as a story about "AI" and "machine vision" just ca
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by tqi 2y ago
FWIW, I think people are getting confused because this is framed as a technology story, not a story about the inhumane conditions in sweatshops. I feel like this framing is common in a lot of news stories (big tech being the villain du jour
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by tqi 2y ago
"got a job with the Flight Propulsion Division of General Electric in Evendale (just outside of Cincinnati), initially working night shift in the Controls and Accessories department... the engine required the efforts of hundreds of eng
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by tqi 2y ago
Followed by a federal bailout, presumably
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by tqi 2y ago
Wants is maybe too strong, but I've seen this chart in a couple of different substacks / editorials, which I assumed is the fed's press office shopping this story around because "AI taking jobs" is zeitgeist-y right
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by tqi 2y ago
FRED wants the implication to be AI related, but it seems pretty clear that all/most of this decline is related to their interest rate policies creating a raft of bullshit companies funded by too many dollars chasing ever more far-fetc
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by tqi 2y ago
Yup, and empathy along with it.
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by tqi 2y ago
Can it not be simultaneously true that NASA has areas of bloat/inefficiency AND haphazard amateurish cuts will cause more harm than good?
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by tqi 2y ago
https://theonion.com/man-s-food-poisoning-could-realisticall... Food poisoning is actually a great example of why we need health regulations and inspections. In a given day, we eat so many different things, it would be near
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by tqi 2y ago
> My inquiry is motivated by the observation that AI-generated text has become increasingly prevalent in online discourse You ever notice that only stuff you disliked is AI?
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by tqi 2y ago
So for me, the example query in pipe syntax (up to the enrich: FROM orders |> WHERE order_date >= '2024-01-01' |> AGGREGATE SUM(order_amount) AS total_spent GROUP BY customer_id |> WHERE total_spent > 1000
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by tqi 2y ago
Interesting - the examples I've seen seem to have multiple layers of FROM > WHERE > AGGREGATE > WHERE > JOIN...[1], where the goal seems to be to remove the need to have nested CTEs? [1] https://news.ycombinator.
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If this helps people write queries more easily, I think that is unequivocally a great thing and have no reservations. Personally, I continue to prefer CTEs because it allows me to write queries in a more modular way, and in conjunction with
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by tqi 2y ago
What else would the "Full" in "Full Self Driving" mean?
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by tqi 2y ago
I absolutely hate how much CEOs acting like children / influencers has become the norm. Maybe they were always like this, and twitter has just given us a window into it, but I for one would wholeheartedly welcome a return to "resp
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by tqi 2y ago
> We are destroying software by no longer taking complexity into account when adding features or optimizing some dimension. Yet: https://x.com/antirez/status/1885994950875046164 The reality is that man's &
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they are certainly leading the dance, but it takes two to tango
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Sure, in the same way that a hacksaw and diet/exercise are both effective weight loss tools...
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by tqi 2y ago
I hate that in this country, everything is political and everything has only 2 sides. Is there waste and inefficiency in government spending? Yes, I think so. Should we do our best to cut and trim this? Absolutely. Is DOGE's ham-fisted
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by tqi 2y ago
Smart is not the same thing as qualified. None of these qualifications you've listed have anything to do with running a government agency. People around here love to talk about the Dunning–Kruger effect, but seem to be of the mistaken
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I wonder if AI valuation bubble will continue to grow because there is nowhere else for investor money, and until interest rates go up again OR something better comes along, firms will continue to chase shakier and shakier investments becau
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by tqi 2y ago
> I want to move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform If you're serious about this, then you need to ask yourself (as dispassionately as possible) why you think this should happen. What benefits are you tryin

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