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by yobbo 3y ago
A thought experiment. If the problems (housing for teachers, for example) could be solved in a way which demoted "the 1%" from their position, would they be evil for not accepting that solution?
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by yobbo 3y ago
The tools that people learn on (mac books, IDE and so on) are far more polished today than they used to be, and they don't require or invite learners to "look beneath". Frameworks are even marketed to developers a bit like fa
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by yobbo 3y ago
> Doesnt it cost them thousands of dollars Not in cash terms. The recruiters/interviewers' salaries are "sunk costs" anyway.
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by yobbo 3y ago
It may give you explanations/code of numerical methods that run and look very plausible, but are subtly wrong; and you have to know both the language and methods in order to untangle the bug. But I have found asking questions like &quo
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by yobbo 3y ago
But how does one get enough uranium to produce enough enriched uranium to reach critical mass? My guess you have to start with hundreds of kg:s.
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by yobbo 3y ago
The limiting factor is access to materials, tools, instruments, and "engineering capabilities". Access to these can be controlled. Joe's machine shop can not gain access to plutonium, or enough uranium to enrich to build a bo
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by yobbo 3y ago
Article is trying to support a normative argument, which is fair and seems correct, with minutia in word definitions and different levels politeness. Accountability is synonymous with responsibility. Identifying who is responsible for a fai
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by yobbo 3y ago
Eh, no. Linux and bsd had process isolation and ran packet-filtering with little effort on contemporary hardware. You should also be aware that early android/ios phones did all this in "modern times" on limited hardware by to
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by yobbo 3y ago
Yes. Large queries, many tables, many FKs will make it easier to see why these conventions exist. Patterns like "users JOIN things USING (user_id) JOIN stuff USING (user_id, thing_id) ...".
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by yobbo 3y ago
Or ever younger and less experienced pilots are doing more of these missions. The missions might also be viewed as part of training.
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by yobbo 3y ago
A patent is not meaningful as protection unless you also have the wherewithal to go through the legal process. Your idea of what is not only patentable, but also defendable in a court against a better funded opposition may not be realistic.
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by yobbo 3y ago
Probably technology shift; the apps that used to be delphi/visual basic became web apps in java, dotnet, or php, and those were free.
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by yobbo 3y ago
Wind turbines need to be de-iced in cold weather. In practice, it is accomplished by spraying warm water.
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by yobbo 3y ago
But what the parent is saying is true. Production from wind and solar is random and doesn't work without corresponding guaranteed (controllable) capacity, unless you are willing to accept so-called brown-outs and black-outs. (Increasi
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by yobbo 3y ago
> including biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) is considered, renewables accounted for nearly a quarter (24.1%) of total generation and outproduced coal by 50.8%. Electrical production by the mix of renewables also surpassed that of nu
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by yobbo 3y ago
A fair point; the only reason the questions are asked is because they have known answers. And unless the questions are trivial, their answers are essentially little tricks. Some candidates have already seen the answer, others have not. Bu
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by yobbo 4y ago
Prose used to function as proof-of-work for humans everywhere - marketing, academia, and so on. Credibility was assigned based on the quality (and quantity) of the language instead of the content. I see mostly positive effects of this endin
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by yobbo 4y ago
Both meanings exist in English - "stonemeal" or "oatmeal" for example.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Not quite; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_log Not obvious what it originally meant.
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by yobbo 4y ago
The name of Thor's hammer "mjolnir" (as english speakers would see it) did not come through latin though, so the version of the word in germanic languages was inherited independently. "Mjolnir" means something like
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by yobbo 4y ago
Seems like we agree in everything except you seem to think that the management's judgement about value is a priori correct and final. What I am saying is that value in a product can be "discovered" along the way. An engineer
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by yobbo 4y ago
When you have a certain level of investment of time and effort, you don't have to be John Carmack (owner/founder with your name in the end titles) to care about it. Many people feel pride and ownership of code and parts of product
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by yobbo 4y ago
Does not seem to have been mentioned: - Oil resources and the "petrodollar" - The uniquely stable currency (shall we say) has enabled decades of government and current account deficits. Deficits which are effectively injections in
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by yobbo 4y ago
Not really. The specifics about how a product is differentiated might seem like irrelevant minutia (fps or rendering times, for example) to an outsider while still being critical for market success. Installing people into senior positions d
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by yobbo 4y ago
This seems like the most realistic take. They are not voluntarily reclusive but rather ostracized/excluded for being failures/losers relative to the social standards of their societies. Subsidies don't seem so bad. (If done r
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by yobbo 4y ago
Eh, again no. > You can afford a 1950s house Where I am from in Europe, most houses from 1950s are in use. The apartment buildings are generally constructed to higher standards than modern ones (thicker concrete, less use of aerated conc
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by yobbo 4y ago
Eh, no. It is not the house that is expensive, it is the real estate. (Prefab houses today are built far more efficiently than anything before, accounting for both materials and man hours. Same with cars.)
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by yobbo 4y ago
Most pre-GPT NLP research is obsolete for all languages, but this was understood before ChatGPT.
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by yobbo 4y ago
There was a fashion in the 70s that seemed to have permeated everything. Avacado green or burnt orange kitchen tiles, furniture, thick brown window drapes, and so on. Side burns. It must have felt like everyone/everywhere looked the sa
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by yobbo 4y ago
> Does a calculator truly understand math when it spits out a correct answer? I doesn't seem implausible that some of the first civilians who were exposed to calculators could have been convinced that they were capable of intelligen

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