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by webel0 5y ago
> (who probably receive 25% of that themselves) This tidbit suggests to me that it might be useful to delineate between the two archetypal tech contractors: 1. Less experienced workers who are having trouble breaking into FTE world. They
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by webel0 5y ago
100s of DL groups with little previous experience in this area set out to train similar models at the outset of the pandemic. Many rushed out models. I’m not surprised that they ran into similar pitfalls.
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by webel0 5y ago
The title prompted me to look into the history of matlab a bit [1]. My main takeaways: - It was given away for free for years. During that time people wrote _reliable_ numerical packages that other people glommed onto. - matlab users aren’t
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by webel0 5y ago
This is a good question. As much as I find them hard to stand, there are cases where having an ideologue in the back of your mind (or one on each shoulder) makes it easier to play out a situation in one’s mind. In other words: I don’t need
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by webel0 5y ago
Probable explanation: > The Amazon webpage linked above says Sidewalk "is currently only available in the US."
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David Brooks: How to Get Really Rich!(nytimes.com)
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by webel0 6y ago
> Imagine walking into the office of someone who spent the last ~10 years at school and then potentially 20 years practicing their craft as a successful psychologist and then you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and yo
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by webel0 6y ago
One of several. But I agree with the general sentiment.
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by webel0 6y ago
I hope this article takes off so that my company will have to change its initial code screen. We make no use of xor in our rather large codebase (I’ve checked) yet pin a lot on whether an interviewee is aware of this trivia.
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by webel0 6y ago
This was my exact initial reaction. However, suppose that Bill Clinton, George Bush, or Barack Obama had declined to attend the inauguration of there predecessors. That would surely trigger a crisis worthy of de-platforming. We’ve become so
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by webel0 6y ago
My issue with the “obscure” comment is what it suggests to the non-dev reader. It is easy to think that “Obscure” companies can be pushed around more easily by state actors. That their product has never been critically evaluated for secur
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by webel0 6y ago
I think you’re mixing up a few different items. The streetcar is, indeed, a disaster. I think that is largely because they built it essentially as an amusement park ride for the weekends rather than a serious commute option. A subway that h
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by webel0 6y ago
I believe the paper discussed is here [0]. I've skimmed it and am somewhat underwhelmed by both the methods and theory: * All of their regressions are in levels. * Look at Table 1, Column 1. * Robotics investment is pos
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by webel0 6y ago
It is interesting that the only way to draw attention to this issue was via Twitter DM. For many big companies this seems to be the one place where you can hope to get a response. For example, a year ago I was in a pinch and ended up bookin
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by webel0 6y ago
The tone of this article (plus my experience on indeed) suggests that a lot of these roles are for larger companies, not for little companies who are suddenly online and need a FT/PT web dev. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a shif
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by webel0 6y ago
Trump had a hilariously bad password. But it appears that twitter has even worse password protection policies. The account was “hacked” by manually entering several different password ideas into Twitter’s login. The guy got it on the fifth
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by webel0 6y ago
Wow, I wasn’t aware of the Skype IP battle [1]. In that case EBay licensed the underlying IP from the founders. It is especially interesting in the context of quibi because it appears that most of their content deals allowed the content cre
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by webel0 6y ago
This is my greatest fear when it comes to terraform: > terraform destroy (And either a confirmation or a flag) and everything is deleted. I know you can add some locks but still :/
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by webel0 6y ago
This sounds rather similar to a lot of the work being done in macro/public finance right now. If you look at a model from someone like Mendoza you’ll see that they have several parts of the economy characterized as recursive optimizati
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by webel0 6y ago
In this case, idleness appears alongside the requirement to maintain a plantation. So I think it more has to do with a requirement to be able to provide for oneself (particularly when it came to sustenance) rather than a prohibition on any
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by webel0 6y ago
I also think that most of these “lots” are just for one item. However, I think that the bids are probably mostly earnest. As streetware a lot of this could probably be considered collector’s items among the hype beast crowd. The prices seem
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by webel0 6y ago
Good on you guys for listening and putting out what seems to be some pretty awesome auth! Row level security is far more than I was expecting but exactly the sort of thing that is needed in a lot of my applications. I look forward to diving
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by webel0 6y ago
Interesting...my first few small entries were sort of neat. Then I tried creating a longer story including quotations and references to “you.” The reply seemed to be hard-coded to deal with hard case. Something like, “You think I’ll tell a
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by webel0 6y ago
Could someone link to original article? Didn’t see in post. Notice that they don’t cite what the authors’ computed R^2 was but conjectured it was low (and I agree that it is likely low). Thus, doesn’t appear to be a case of blind p-hacking
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by webel0 6y ago
Can someone explain how RStudio is a competitor to datacamp? Have briefly used RStudio IDE in past but don’t follow them or datacamp very closely.
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by webel0 6y ago
I think that this is a nice gesture. For those who are puzzled, I think that they’re just trying to help us to keep our work and programming in perspective by providing a reminder where we might not expect it. If you really need to read the
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by webel0 6y ago
Check out hypothesis [0]. No fun styling but the same functionality. [0] https://github.com/hypothesis
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by webel0 6y ago
This reminds me of how Jonathan Franzen writes on a giant old laptop with no internet. (Forgot where I read this.) Different dimension of keeping it simple. Interesting to contrast with the likes of grammarly or google suggestions. I can’t
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by webel0 6y ago
Ah, okay, whenever I think webrtc I assume p2p with no server but I am now actually reading into what SFU is, etc. Makes sense. Thanks for pointer to these resources.
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by webel0 6y ago
Can someone explain how mediasoup differs from the RTCPeerConnection object (and related events) discussed in this Mozilla webrtc tutorial [0]? Given that it uses c++ I figure that mediasoup is more than just a wrapper around this? Any usab

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