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by underwater 4y ago
Except there is more competition in brick-and-mortar stores.
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by underwater 4y ago
If you're really interested you can dig into `about:tracing`. It looks like the majority of the slowdown (for what it is) is the document recalculating styles for the `transform` property.
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by underwater 4y ago
The whole idea of renting books rather then owning them is gross, and I deeply regret purchasing a Kindle. But I don't understand the hand wringing about the publisher changing newer editions of the book. All media either changes wit
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by underwater 4y ago
More like a compiled version of Windows.
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by underwater 4y ago
The only reason to display the subtotal (a subtotal being "the total of one set of a larger group of figures to be added" ) as "$387 x4" is to deceive the customer.
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by underwater 4y ago
Schools haven't been focused on rote learning for eons. I don't know where you get that idea from.
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by underwater 4y ago
In my opinion values and philosophy would fit with a vision document. That said, the actions section does feel too tactical to me. Strategy would be more about the goals and targets.
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by underwater 4y ago
> The second effect is related to the fact that companies usually target older people with expensive jobs. In an a big org these are the wizards who have the unwritten cookbooks in their brains. When they leave en masse, a lot of the org
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by underwater 4y ago
If your words will get you cancelled then maybe you should just keep them to yourself.
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by underwater 4y ago
I really don't understand the paranoia around employee surveys. In 20 years as both an IC and a manager I've never seen them used in a way other than described. If your manager wants to fire you they don't need to create a co
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by underwater 4y ago
Amazon's very first stated leadership principle is Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obses
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by underwater 4y ago
> Even if this AI is just as good at speaking as a professional voice actor (which I'm not sold on), a voice actor does more than just read the line. In ideal circumstances, they have a lot of context for what their character is doi
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by underwater 4y ago
I'm in the midst of a similar situation to the Slack team, but on a smaller scale. Our app is a product of the people and the culture. You can't just steamroll the culture and not affect development and the end product. I've
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by underwater 4y ago
Scale is also an issue. So many things are either owned by a megacorp or run via a centralised platform. Getting banned by a store pales in comparison to being banned by Uber, Google, Visa, etc.
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by underwater 4y ago
Here's a simplified example of your scenario. Imagine a video of a pattern of black dots on a white surface, moving around. The video is pixelated in an attempt to hide the precise layout of the pattern. But the nearest-neighbour pixel
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by underwater 4y ago
Facebook leans into making everyone feel like their opinions matters: "Nothing at Facebook is someone else's problem". But not everyone can be right, so of course you end up with people being ignored and feeling shirty. At ot
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by underwater 4y ago
Allowing sideloading of apps is a business decision, not a technical one.
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by underwater 4y ago
To add to that, how is it a meeting of the minds of the contract cannot be altered by one of the parties? If it is a EULA, a rental contract on an iPad, or an employment contract delivered through DocuSign then I can't strike or amend
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by underwater 4y ago
Because of course it's a scam when you step back and see how all the pieces fit together. But when the victim is in the middle, they're being confused in a lot of ways: * The scammer keeps the focus on the upsides (job, office sup
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by underwater 4y ago
It's also possible their top candidate is has competing offers, and the recruiter is waiting to see if they need to fall back to you.
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by underwater 4y ago
The is the hallmark of bureaucracy. Seperate the functions, and then let each team externalise the costs without any checks and balances. Finance purchase Concur because it solves their problems and integrates with their existing tools. The
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by underwater 4y ago
Yeah I agree. In his story it sounds like he put himself into a situation with no backup if things went wrong. He didn't have water, only had dehydrated food, and only bought a single gas bottle. He hiked down a steep mountainside whic
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by underwater 4y ago
Why can't you hook it up to canonical references? If you asked it how to search those references then I feel certain it would be able to navigate to, parse and summarise the answers with ease.
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by underwater 4y ago
This article seems confused about the claims it's making. The embedded Tweet shows that the thumbnails for push notifications are stored on AWS as a secret URL. Thats not great, but also expected for the convenience of having push noti
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by underwater 4y ago
It seems I'd gotten the wrong impression of how it works. Do you have any recommendations for primers on GPT and similar systems? Most content seems to be either surface level or technical and opaque.
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by underwater 4y ago
People solve this by getting the GPT to describe a series of computations and then running those steps externally (e.g. asking GPT what Python code to run). Thats not so different from how humans do this. When we need to add or multiply we
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by underwater 4y ago
That joke is a great example of why the creativity is surprising. A human might have a thought process that starts with the idea that people are food for Bigfoot, and then connects that to phrase of "playing with your food". But G
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by underwater 4y ago
These messages are hard to balance; he is writing a message to the laid off staff, the staff staying on, and the public. The "I'm sad about this" is aimed at the remaining staff. He wants to retain the appearance of being emp
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by underwater 4y ago
He was right on the details of the two different issues, because those were explained to him. But he conflated two things that he didn't really understand and reached a completely wrong conclusion. He's shared that conclusion with
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by underwater 4y ago
To take a contrarian view: Raising kids is not curing cancer, having a fruitful career isn't solving world hunger. Many people get to retirement age having worked hard for their own benefit, nothing more. How does that earn them the ri

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