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by xmprt 2y ago
I hate that content is rendered so inefficiently today that the whole document can't be rendered at once and breaks the browser builtin search. It feels like such a regression in modern software.
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by xmprt 2y ago
I'm not sure I even agree with this. If by conquering your neighbors, your civilization grows 5x (as opposed to just having you + your neighbors), then doesn't that by definition mean it's not zero sum?
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by xmprt 2y ago
The world is very much not zero sum and never has been. If it was then we'd be stuck in the stone age because every advancement that benefits one person would hurt the rest. Instead we see that over the course of history the average we
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by xmprt 2y ago
I did this. I was a freshman in college, didn't know better, and needed to pad out my resume somehow.
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by xmprt 2y ago
But it's still a useless question isn't it? If someone literally wrote the book on the subject then you should probably know that if you're interviewing them. And anything below 8 feels meaningless. How do you differentiate a
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by xmprt 2y ago
Well it depends on what software you're talking about. Browsers are way more capable than they were before. I'd be surprised if old computers would be able to play a 1080p video at 60fps even if somehow your network card had the b
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by xmprt 2y ago
Author here. This post is from a few weeks ago but what I'm realizing is that I do pretty well taking in new information like a firehose and then letting it marinate for a while so it can solidify and connect to other ideas I see in th
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Fear of missing out on the AI train and what I'm doing about it(preethamrn.com)
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by xmprt 2y ago
My rule of thumb is that if someone was super bullish on crypto 3 years ago and is now super bullish on AI then their opinion is probably not worth that much. But if they've been consistently optimistic about AI progress over the last
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by xmprt 2y ago
I think it's a valiant cause but even if that's what they claim right now, eventually they will have to weigh whether it's worth taking the $100k donation from sponsor A who doesn't demand working on feature X but just s
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by xmprt 2y ago
The change stations are decades old technology so I don't think there could be any real regulatory capture because the core patents related to this invention have expired by this point.
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by xmprt 2y ago
Culture for code reviews doesn't start out of thin air. Unless you have processes for CI/CD, testing, task estimation, retrospectives, incident postmortems, etc., there's never going to be a point where you will convince peop
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by xmprt 2y ago
Curious what other features you need where merge requests for documentation is the primary requirement but Git (or some other VCS) isn't sufficient?
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by xmprt 2y ago
To be fair, the same could be said about a lot of gamers. People spend $1000+ on a gaming PC and even if they enjoy playing competitively, most of them never go pro. I wonder if pro tennis is a case of people not wanting to go pro or not be
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by xmprt 2y ago
Was this published early? The date says July 1st, 2024
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by xmprt 2y ago
But where do you draw the line? In college, I used Word a lot and barely used Excel. At work I use Excel way more than Word (and often times I could easily just use a simple markdown editor instead of Word so I arguably wouldn't use th
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by xmprt 2y ago
I think the implication is that these are people who trained in their home countries and were brought to Italy so the luxury brands could continue claiming a "rich history of Italian craftsmanship." In a way it's true but it&
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by xmprt 2y ago
The cost of a Ferrari isn't in the car. It's in the insurance, maintenance, and stress of anything happening to the car. I for one would hate to have a luxury vehicle even if I could afford it and even if you guaranteed to buy it
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by xmprt 2y ago
I don't think it's that simple. It's a cat and mouse game but the cat can't catch two different mice. If the classic Google algorithm is significantly different from the new one, SEO that's targeting the new algorit
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by xmprt 2y ago
Title is a bit misleading. Originally I was under the impression that this was regarding some vulnerability in the new "recall" feature they released. Turns out it's just a warning telling users to upgrade to Windows 11 or el
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by xmprt 2y ago
Why is that suspicious. The rights holders core competency is in making the content. If they can offload poster/thumbnail creation then I'm sure they would.
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by xmprt 2y ago
I think this is more of a quantity vs quality thing. You make 100 low effort posts in the time of 1 high effort post. Even if there's a 1% chance of the low effort posts getting traction compared to the 10-20% chance of a high quality
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by xmprt 2y ago
The problem is that symbols are also easy to misremembered or misidentified. It's easy to identify a red square but if Bob accidentally recalls a blue square or a red triangle, then all of a sudden you're looking for an error that
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by xmprt 2y ago
> You need Face ID to disable lockdown mode It's impossible to use the apple ID password or lockscreen password/PIN for this?
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by xmprt 2y ago
make still has a better UI than shell scripts. With shell scripts you have to maintain multiple files whereas a Makefile has all the scripts in a single file.
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by xmprt 2y ago
I find this hard to believe because this issue was known for years.
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by xmprt 2y ago
I was thinking this too. You're giving AWS a lot of credit if you think they're not going to do some kind of analysis about how much they were making (albeit illegitimately) from invalid responses. I'm just surprised that the
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by xmprt 2y ago
The two reasons I think it's not that black and white is: 1. This brings up the question of being able to agree to a contract before the contract is written which makes no sense. 2. If it's legal then why don't all companies
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by xmprt 2y ago
I suppose a better question would be "how drastic can the change be to the license?" because by adding that term, you're basically superseding every other term on the license. How do licenses deal with contradictory terms if
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by xmprt 2y ago
Towards the end the author talks about how Google News doesn't do a good job of actively promoting good, well researched content. I wonder why YouTube doesn't face this same problem. I know it's very subjective, but I've

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