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by vgel 4y ago
Interesting--I didn't know why the first ingredient is listed as broth--but the doom and gloom attitude was a bit much. E.g.: ```quote As Moss pointed out, even the FDA-mandated nutrition facts box that has appeared on most packaged fo
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Show HN: GPTed – use GPT-3 for semantic prose-checking(vgel.me)
1 points by vgel 4y ago|0 comments
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by vgel 4y ago
If you're going to be working on CSS anyways, I noticed that the tables on the pronoun page could use a little bit of padding—the text is touching the table borders ( https://vgel.me/imgshare/xe-pronouns-no-padding.
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by vgel 4y ago
The problem is a lack of trust, same as a contractor. If you go to a new mechanic and he says you need a $1,000 repair—do you? Or is he trying to sell you replacement blinker fluid? A lot of managers feel the same way when engineers talk ab
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by vgel 4y ago
Backlinks are links to your website used by algorithms like PageRank^1 to weight how important your site is. Roughly speaking, more links, especially from sites with their own high pagerank = higher rank. [1]: https://en.m.wikipe
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by vgel 4y ago
> More specifically, although not everyone in semiconductor manufacturing requires a PhD, pretty much everyone has to be of above average intelligence and many will need to be in the top echelons of IQ. The entire article is predicated o
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Go to college (especially if you can't afford it)(linneaisaac.com)
5 points by vgel 4y ago|1 comments
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by vgel 4y ago
Out of curiosity, I just checked: ~/goatcounter-files on my VPS was created 2021-03-12, and that was also the last time I thought about it beyond checking the stats. Great, very stable piece of software.
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by vgel 4y ago
> It makes me throw up every time I see corporate messages speaking of family and employees being their most important resource. Relevant joke: An engineer is messaging with her boss on Slack after hours. The boss is talking about how hi
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by vgel 4y ago
Athenian democracy worked this way--you had to opt-in to the candidate pool, but then the candidate was chosen randomly from that pool. (Also, if people are interested in randomness in antique decision making, me & my wife made a simula
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by vgel 4y ago
Some relatively simple things I've repaired around our apartment. Not all of these people would replace , but they might call a professional when it's quicker and cheaper to DIY: * Top-loading washing machine. If it spins really
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by vgel 4y ago
No. If your instance defederates from another you can still link to it (though you might get banned if you link to something nasty, depending on your instance's rules). Defederating simply prevents your instance from automatically pull
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by vgel 4y ago
tl;dw: It's hard to get SBF to admit to fraud involving Alameda because he can fall back on the excuse that he wasn't the CEO and didn't know what was happening (even though there's every chance he actually did). So the
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by vgel 4y ago
Funnily enough, this is actually a millenia-old way of writing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
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by vgel 4y ago
I put in an old business idea (that I started working on and parked a domain for) and it suggested the domain I had parked (in red to show it was taken). Nice! :-)
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by vgel 4y ago
Talented people have intrinsic motivation and don't need artificial incentive systems. Extrinsic rewards or punishments are at best poor substitutes and at worst destroy intrinsic motivation.
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by vgel 4y ago
Worth noting that open-source projects where your password store is saved locally are vulnerable to the same attack.
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by vgel 4y ago
tiktok's search sucks and doesn't seem to interact with their algorithm much. it's kind of silly but to bootstrap it you need to flip through the feed until you happen upon something you like, then like that video. you can al
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by vgel 4y ago
In a system at $WORK I recently optimized a structure from String to Box<str> (similar optimization to remove the 8 byte capacity field) and saved ~16Gb of memory. Granted, the program uses 100-200Gb of RAM at peak, but it still was a
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by vgel 4y ago
"lit review on condensed matter physics" ... The most common state of matter at room temperature is solid, but the solid state is only one of many. There are liquid, gas, and plasma states, and the liquid and gas states are furthe
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by vgel 4y ago
They clarify later on that Godsey changed his mind and allowed the author to publish it.
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by vgel 4y ago
twitter has hundreds of millions of users and 7,000 (less now, unfortunately) employees, not all of which have production access. i don't know anyone at twitter, so them accessing my data would need to be a random choice from the whole
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by vgel 4y ago
yeah, but on twitter you're probably a nobody, the staff have no incentive to read your dms. on mastodon, you're at least a friend-of-a-friend of the operator unless you're on a huge instance.
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MMAP(1Tb): A Rust arena allocator (ab)using Linux overcommit(vgel.me)
2 points by vgel 4y ago|0 comments
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by vgel 4y ago
The first thing you mention is a common problem in marketplaces: used cars, online dating, etc. Term is "market for lemons"
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by vgel 4y ago
categorical imperative: if everyone did that nobody would do the actual work. there are problems in the world that must be solved with software engineering. software engineers need to work on them, and highly skilled ones, too. disclaimer,
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by vgel 4y ago
What has Mastodon improved on this process, though? It seems the same issues are in place -- difficult to administer technically (this post) and hard to deal with spam (have heard before, don't have a link on hand unfortunately). This
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by vgel 4y ago
I had a particularly funny result: Trying sample #3 (put a record into S3) from Typescript to Python, it reliably... outputs a completely different program, which instead downloads an image from S3 and resizes it in /tmp. Weird.
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by vgel 4y ago
The argument isn't that they did evil stuff for no reason. The argument is they "bet" that growth would continue at pandemic levels, and hired to support that growth, with the plan that if the growth didn't continue and
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by vgel 4y ago
I agree that Shopify is a business. My point is exactly that a business decision made for the profitability and stock price of the company is presented as an emotional story. > that messages from a CEO are not meant to be treated as blog

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