vanusa

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by vanusa 5y ago
I was wrong! I failed FizzBuzz! The English 'and' doesn't have the same precedence as in software - it actually goes in the opposite direction. What it does in English is this: Find the smallest prime number that (
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by vanusa 5y ago
Axie Infinity and how it’s bringing entire nations out of poverty Yup, that's quite a zinger there. Seriously, what is with these people? Do they have any idea at all what they're actually saying?
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by vanusa 5y ago
An "astounding" achievement, you called it. We get the achievement part. But the astounding part, no.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Those are externalities, not service costs. In strict accounting terms, yes. But in practical terms -- the cost offloading that is inherent to BTC is so blatant and direct that it barely qualifies as an "externality" (and only i
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by vanusa 5y ago
A truly intelligent machine would hand the test back to the instructor, saying: "Nice try, but I think you need to edit these questions a bit more carefully. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to treat myself to an early rece
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah, I can see how surprise formulations like these can be useful. The thing is, it almost certainly wasn't ntended by the algorithm in this case. Nor does the it seem to have any understanding of what may be "off" about pro
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by vanusa 5y ago
All without any meaningful service costs No we can't, because there's no way you can dismiss the climate costs (and the impact on energy prices and chip supply) as not meaningful. It is this blue-sky pollyanna-ism among crypto a
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by vanusa 5y ago
It wouldn't, because in English as in programming -- the 'and' operator has precedence.
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The 1890 law that’s blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting(theguardian.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
This represents a milestone for higher education. Just from that sentence, you know the paper is suspect. Whatever the merits of the algorithm -- there's no reason to be believe that what it produces (a set of random auto-generated q
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by vanusa 5y ago
And led to a huge retardation (in the literal sense) of learning. Which is fine (from the point of view of the people who run these schools). Because the modern HS process is designed around passing tests, and generating positive signals
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by vanusa 5y ago
Would you? Actually, yes. Getting fired means that (at least in principle) I've done something "wrong" but under real-world conditions , and with no artificial clock. So if things get bumpy (as they inevitably do in real
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by vanusa 5y ago
They are happening faster than expected because IPCC reports have been sandbagging for decades. Could you elaborate + provide a few sources for this? I'm not doubting you -- I'm just curious about this assessment and would like
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by vanusa 5y ago
All I can tell you is: The article stands or fails on the basis of its content . That's how you should evaluate it. It doesn't matter what any other article in the world says about any other topic.
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by vanusa 5y ago
First, I would suggest you edit your post right now to remove any hints about the school where you did your PhD (even the geographic location). There's no reason anyone needs to know who you are, but from what you've written, i
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by vanusa 5y ago
What did you find misleading about the bar chart? Do you really think there was a 5x increase in climate disasters between 1st and 4th decades as indicated in that chart? And doesn't this suggest to you that there might be something
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by vanusa 5y ago
Author's entry at the Climate Denialists Database: https://www.desmog.com/ronald-bailey/ This guy is what you call a piece of work. Here's one of his more interesting quotes: “And on the climate change issu
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by vanusa 5y ago
1. Is taking a lower salary just the cost of working at a startup as compared with a FAANG? Yes. 2. Is it stupid to decrease your salary by that much when changing jobs, or is this something that everyone does in exchange for working at
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by vanusa 5y ago
Article seems to fit perfectly within site guidelines. I don't see any reason it should be flagged.
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by vanusa 5y ago
This article now nostalgically glorifies [this kind of housing] Not in the slightest. The article's stance on the matter is probably bessed summed up by this line: “It was a step above homelessness,” said a former tenant, John S
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by vanusa 5y ago
The doom and gloom types might say the end of the world is only 2 years away, No one talks of the "end of the world" being 2 years away. There are some who speak of "tipping points" happening N years from now, but that
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by vanusa 5y ago
Strong BS smell on the basis of this manifestly false statement: The vaccines are reducing transmission only for about eight weeks for Delta, with Omicron it's probably less.
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by vanusa 5y ago
If the goal is to create a successful product, then no. If the goal is to get another round of funding from, or bought by someone with tons of cash but lazy in the diligence department -- then it can definitely "work".
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't get why companies play such games when paying someone. Because (some of them) are narcissistic jerks and play games with others on general principle, just to test their mettle. Or to separate the wolves from the sheep, as it
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by vanusa 5y ago
5. Unlimited PTO
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by vanusa 5y ago
Gone, no. But both seem to have distinctly ebbed since their peak (especially Rails).
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by vanusa 5y ago
[flagged] Title makes claim not supported by either the repo or the paper. (That is: what the title says is somebody's interpretation of, or inference from the result -- but not any result that the authors themselves present).
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by vanusa 5y ago
"I can't believe you could ever do this to me, Employer! You - you said we were like Family! I mean, it seems just the other day you, me and the CFO were tipping cheap IPAs and bonding at the foosball table ..."
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by vanusa 5y ago
That's precisely the value proposition for employers.
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by vanusa 5y ago
"don't see much"

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