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by yobbo 4y ago
> We have kitchens and netflix. Well that's also a date. Do you think respondents misunderstand the word?
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by yobbo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning
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by yobbo 4y ago
It's most likely a trained decision tree with binary output.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Housing, energy (KPI-XE), and interest rates (KPIF) are excluded from the models. Swedish households are extremely sensitive to interest rates, so there are big incentives to make the numbers smaller.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Read somewhere that a litre of milk in northern Europe costs around a kW/h in energy to produce. Whatever the exact number, it should open your eyes to the importance of energy prices on all other prices. It's not "just"
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by yobbo 4y ago
> getting a job at 21 as one of the lowest paid positions, worked hard, took on projects above my pay grade, and was eventually rewarded for it. This is how many people got their start, but it is rare for people to be rewarded unless the
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by yobbo 4y ago
> I don't know testing, cloud, or CI/CD practices Like has been pointed out elsewhere; if this was carpentry, these would be new words to make "cutting, masking, and gluing" sound modern. For web frontends, everyone i
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by yobbo 4y ago
If the value of the skill has a life-cycle of two years, then precisely how qualified is this job? The problem with a gap is that it "smells" of a "deficient person" that there is no demand for. I think the only solution
549.
by yobbo 4y ago
Youtube has higher quality and lower bit rates than Twitch. Maybe due to saving computing-resources used for transcoding?
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by yobbo 4y ago
> There is in fact a deskilling going on in our economy ... Yes, but in "software engineering" this has been a deliberate goal for decades. Every new language and platform is intended to make things easier and safer. One can de
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by yobbo 4y ago
Discrete maths is graph theorems, groups, galois fields, and so on. There are several algorithms (in for example graphs and crypto) that you can not understand or implement without discrete maths. But even then, only the basic level is requ
552.
by yobbo 4y ago
Anyone with some ability to understand the SIR model, and some statistics/probability, could gain some clarity and guidance what was happening in the pandemic. Complete lack of knowledge left people vulnerable to superstitions. Using e
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by yobbo 4y ago
Seems it's like ssh keys, but fiddled automatically in the browser. A password unlocks the local keys. This means keys need to be transported between devices. Which means even tighter coupling to google and microsoft accounts.
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by yobbo 4y ago
There are also abstractions that are so good they are invisible until someone tries to reinvent the wheel without them. They are then forced to confront some reality which is more complex than they thought. What seems to be the common threa
555.
by yobbo 4y ago
xor will not overflow and is obviously correct. I'm not sure modulus-addition would be correct.
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by yobbo 4y ago
To be accurate, the equilibrium price is the highest price a buyer is willing to pay, and that someone is willing to sell for. If the highest price is zero, there is no market, and mining would cease.
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by yobbo 4y ago
It's a quiz problem, and it's supposed to have "trick" solutions. However, if he wants to play that game, he should provide proof of his solution, not fiddle with syntax or error checking. That's why discussion is m
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by yobbo 4y ago
Classic confusion about marginal costs. The price of bitcoin is supported by inflow of "fresh money" from newcomers. If this inflow stopped, for how long would mining continue?
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by yobbo 4y ago
It has nothing to do with the protocol, it's the penetration of the services that used it. In the 90s email addresses along with domain names became part of professional fashion. Everyone wanted @mycompany.com addresses, and that creat
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by yobbo 4y ago
> The rise of SaaS and PaaS isn’t just laziness. My point is that none of the analogies are arguments for (or against) SaaS, or in this case "brand name" enterprise software. Whenever any of these comically banal analogies are
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by yobbo 4y ago
> because you can’t build a business on scamming people in the long run. When switching is effectively impossible, this is what happens. Oracle has been buying various application companies with installed bases that are difficult to migr
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by yobbo 4y ago
The pain occurs because of the symbiosis between technical lock-in and careerists. If a tech company has achieved both technical and organizational lock-in (or maybe "capture"), specs don't matter.
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by yobbo 4y ago
People are now starting careers as Office 365 "officers". From now until retirement, they will champion Office 365 and its successors in all situations, because in effect they will be championing their own CVs. Just like people di
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by yobbo 4y ago
> but needs software to run its business In this case, they have no need for VMWare or Oracle. Actually, the parent comment is on to something. "Brand name" enterprise software is a buoy that certain types of careerists handcuf
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by yobbo 4y ago
> I pay a barber to cut my hair. Meaningless analogy. Here some other meaningless analogies: Why would anyone ever own a frying pan? Not only do you need to rent a stove, you also need to hire a chef to cook with frying pan, you need a s
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by yobbo 4y ago
In Sweden, three months' salary.
567.
by yobbo 4y ago
It looks like part of the dropped rocket engine from an artillery rocket. Maybe something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-30_Smerch .
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by yobbo 4y ago
And that events, as much as possible, are formulated as observations or state-changes rather than operations. Events in the form of "set x=1" or "y=0 was observed" are idempotent, where as "do this with that" i
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by yobbo 4y ago
By that logic, any salary < 70% of AWS cost is justifiable. In reality there is a job market, and there are office politics. These determine salaries more than "marginal revenue of labour". This means that as long as someone wh
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by yobbo 4y ago
One design decision that, for me, seems to simplify things is to consider the "business system" a type of state machine that records all business events and serves as a "source of truth". If the events are not recorded,

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