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by twelve40 2y ago
> Almost two years ago now, I was exploring If a story from two years ago had to be dug up as an illustration of usefulness... I don't know where the author positions himself on that graph, but that's like the direct opposite o
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by twelve40 2y ago
i think this is actually good advice when rephrased as: you are now a low-to-middle manager (that is called out specifically), so you neither call the shots nor are you mainly measured on your daily tech contributions, so from now on you ca
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by twelve40 2y ago
Yeah if they have time for "deeper discussions" about this, just run. Apparently, it's higher up in the article than the "choose postgres" managerial advice lol
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by twelve40 2y ago
they will probably fix it once the lawsuits settle, kind of like what they did to SF's millennium tower. The article seems to really focus on Fortis and surrounding scandals, but all the drama aside, this is the most expensive land in
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by twelve40 2y ago
> getting a taxi license was a serious monetary investment. People took our huge loans for this it was a terrible system that sucked for everyone involved. For all of Uber's flaws, would you rather go back to that today? really??
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by twelve40 2y ago
i have very little knowledge of any of this, but i had an impression that OpenAI was trained on commodity cloud hardware that's available for purchase/rent to anyone, including off-the-shelf GPUs from Nvidia and AMD? are those wha
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by twelve40 2y ago
Isn't it amazing how one company invented a universally spread format that takes structured data from an editor (except images obviously) and converts it into a completely fucked-up unstructured form that then requires expensive voodoo
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by twelve40 2y ago
both can be true! if a huge ship can be destroyed by a $100k drone boat, we still have a problem
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by twelve40 2y ago
> real value of tailwind is being able to read all the styles that affect a an element in one place there are helpers for that in the IDE (e.g., "Show Applied Styles for Tag" in Intellij) or even in chrome dev tools that show a
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by twelve40 2y ago
maybe? how is this relevant. My point is this is not very different from what other countries are doing with cash subsidies or tax credits, perhaps with a PR angle of a human touch of a "free daycare". Worth trying of course, who
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by twelve40 2y ago
i don't and i honestly don't know much about it, but > there are no working analogs in the US to use as an approved guide small reactors have been installed on ships and submarines for over 70(!) years now. Reading up on the ve
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by twelve40 2y ago
Why would Coinbase and Gemini and A16z care about an obviously shady person who reportedly tried to hire a person to kill someone? surely they could find a more legitimate hero to advance the legal crypto case? i mean, it's kind of lik
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by twelve40 2y ago
it's just a form of subsidy, $500-$2000/month worth depending on where paid for by the people who don't have kids not very different than just giving out cash or tax credits
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by twelve40 2y ago
i don't have the numbers, but i started seeing Indian clerks at 7-11 there. never seen them when i lived there a couple decades ago
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by twelve40 2y ago
somehow, it doesn't work that way. For example, Latvia lost 30% of its population but housing didn't get cheaper.
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by twelve40 2y ago
for the last several thousand years it's been a matter of survival, a help in the fields and your social security, and with a crazy high mortality, had to have many it's objectively hard work that nowadays may not even pay off at
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by twelve40 2y ago
how often do you get to learn an unfamiliar language? is it something you need to do every day? so this use case, did it save you much time overall?
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by twelve40 2y ago
fwiw the article seems to describe a pretty mild type of automation to deal with tons of job ads and mundane stuff like cover letters that often get completely ignored by all sides, so why not try to automate that in good faith? didn't
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by twelve40 2y ago
you're talking about humans, a civilization that cannot fully win the decades-long fight for one portable charging format, and proposing all governments get on the same page about their passports?
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by twelve40 2y ago
i don't even know if it would work for majority of Mexico tbh. Around covid time, especially in non-Cancun airports, they would basically refuse to let me leave the country if the stupid physical entry stamp was not perfectly readable.
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by twelve40 2y ago
> slapdash comedian > extraordinarily amusing Nabokov is a genius but not once did i get this vibe ever, much darker, almost hopeless.
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by twelve40 2y ago
Way to blow up a point into absurd! Nabokov wrote about tiring of specific patterns and cliches obviously
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by twelve40 2y ago
disagree with what? I said dieting, not cutting muscle and sticking to it long-term for most people is absurdly hard, which you seem to echo with "struggle for years"
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by twelve40 2y ago
lol well you, on the other hand, sound like the real deal! direct personal experience unlike all those posers, right? except why do you keep bringing up your friend then? This is a really stupid argument, your data point of "one friend
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by twelve40 2y ago
bringing it down is not even half the battle, it's what happens next is the more interesting part
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by twelve40 2y ago
> In my experience it's easy > Do some resistance training, get some protein jeez, if people actually did that they wouldn't need the drug to begin with
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by twelve40 2y ago
if I was a douchebag boss, I would manipulate them into staying then publicly reprimand and fire them shortly thereafter to come out a "winner" in the situation. I haven't seen managers stoop that low yet, but state-side I&#
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by twelve40 2y ago
> If you haven’t experienced the future of transportation for yourself yet Suburban trains in my hometown have been electrified since 1920's. It only took about 100 years to start experiencing the future here in the Bay!
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by twelve40 2y ago
> OpenAI has announced a plan to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) within five years, an ambitious goal as the company works to design systems that outperform humans.
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by twelve40 2y ago
i'd laugh it off too, but someone gave the dude $20 billion and counting to do that, that part actually scares me

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