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by yifanl 1y ago
The Fenwick tree in your cheat sheet seems a little broken
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by yifanl 1y ago
There are no best practices for domain names, there's nothing that can differentiate between NPM and a fraudster from hosting "npmjs.help". It also doesn't help when you have to visit a new domain for the first time, whi
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by yifanl 1y ago
The only real difference that matters between a fake site and a real site is that the information on it is genuine, the form doesn't really factor into it. Which makes this a very tricky problem: You can't tell if the data is genu
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by yifanl 1y ago
Those tiny businesses are reasonably well-coordinated, so its not really the same type of "small organization" as what Tao is talking about.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Ways AI have made me more productive: Spellcheck has reduced the number of typos I've made in slack threads between 4 and 10%.
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by yifanl 1y ago
There's this very weird idea that makes some people think that the maintainer must have a godawful workflow and if I just showed him the output of _my_ workflow, I can ~~save the day~~ fix a bug for them.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Depends on the project.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Making profit with art and making art for profit are tangentially related topics at best.
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You enforce them by pointing out the policy and closing the issue/patch request whenever you're concerned about the quality of the submission. If it turns out to be incorrectly called out, well that sucks, but I submit that patche
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by yifanl 1y ago
Anecdotally, it worked for me, but I'm not really in the mood to look up the literature right now.
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by yifanl 1y ago
For anyone else who's accidentally watched the video and feels uncomfortable with the gore, immediately go do a high focus activity to not let it settle in your mind, can be something like Tetris.
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by yifanl 1y ago
This is failing to consider that 100 wealth doesn't have the same buying power over time, and continuing wealth inequality necessarily means that someone who's comfortable today will be uncomfortable tomorrow.
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by yifanl 1y ago
They should learn to write a few lines of code themselves while they wait.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Which is worse, buying Marlboros for the students, or buying books for the library?
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by yifanl 1y ago
There's no question to the quality of Copilot.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Asking people to run random install scripts just feels very out of place given the context.
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by yifanl 1y ago
BigTech arent interested in developing efficient products while they have a captive audience.
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by yifanl 1y ago
If the only way to appease shareholders next quarter was to detonate an ICBM in Times Square, do you do it?
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by yifanl 1y ago
I should clarify I was told this by a guy who lives in Montreal, who apparently was retelling the story he heard from a guy who lives in Toronto with minor editorializing.
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by yifanl 1y ago
I've been told the intent of the PATH was to make sure that people from Montreal could take the train to Union, walk to Scotiabank Arena and watch the Habs beat the crap out of the Leafs without getting snowed on.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Thankfully, the president doesn't need to be fully cognitive to be president, they just need to win an election every 4 years.
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by yifanl 1y ago
I assure you as someone working FoH at the time, Groupon's impact on me was far greater than AI ever could be.
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by yifanl 1y ago
> Yet it is here to stay, won't go away Source for this claim? Are you still using Groupon?
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by yifanl 1y ago
Climbing institutional hierarchy usually comes with being rewarded with more credits that I can trade for food, and I like eating food.
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by yifanl 1y ago
I have never heard anyone speak of the TSA favourably, so maybe it's not the best model to emulate?
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by yifanl 1y ago
My problem with your statement isn't if its believable Elon came on stage or not, my problem is why would you trust Elon to pay you your money back, whether its the authentic or imposter Musk.
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by yifanl 1y ago
This presumes that you're okay with giving the real Elon your wallet but not a fake Elon, but why?
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by yifanl 1y ago
The blogpost is transparently an advertisement, which is ironic considering the author's last blogpost was https://blog.efitz.net/blog/modern-advertising-is-litter/
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I would suspect that any next step comes with a novel implementation though, not just trying to scale the same shit to infinity. I guess the bitter lesson is gospel now, which doesn't sit right with me now that we're past the stag
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by yifanl 1y ago
There are people convinced that if we throw a sufficient amount of training data and VC money at more hardware, we'll overcome the gap. Technically, I can't prove that they're wrong, novel solutions sometimes happen, and I gu

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