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by yobbo 9mo ago
The Pearson correlation coefficient is covariance normalised to the range [-1, 1] by dividing with the standard deviations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_correlation_coefficien... ). So not quite same as the nor
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by yobbo 9mo ago
They offered KTM a 10 hour advertisement series, which would go on to become a classic for motorcycling enthusiasts worldwide. KTM's response was "eh no you could never pull that off, and will make us look bad". It had nothin
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by yobbo 9mo ago
That would be the source code. The default debian kernel is around 12 MB but it could be much smaller. It doesn't bundle full random external libraries compiled with debugging symbols and "whatever other stuff".
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by yobbo 9mo ago
> It is by far the most useful skill to have in workplace. This might be defacto true in most workplaces, but defending "politics over competence" boils down to "I deserve the rewards from other people's work". P
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by yobbo 10mo ago
LLMs produce human readable output because they learn from human readable input. It's a feature. It allows it to be much less precise than byte code, for example, which wouldn't help at all.
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by yobbo 10mo ago
You can limit access to your db credentials. But other code can still launch missiles etc.
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by yobbo 10mo ago
Db access in rust typically needs some sort of handle and a mutex. Limiting access to the handle makes the rest of the code pure with respect to the db. The handle plays a similar role to the IO type. Actor-like patterns makes this nice. Me
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by yobbo 10mo ago
Something feels suspicious about those top three revenue numbers.
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by yobbo 10mo ago
> hunt in several places for business logic But that is the result of having multiple applications needing to enforce valid states in the database. "Business logic" is a loose term. The database is the effective store for state
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by yobbo 10mo ago
It's not about good or bad times. All compasses are broken so any particular direction you believe you are walking deliberately might as well be uniformly random. "Direction" and "design" are probably the wrong meta
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by yobbo 10mo ago
The problem with translating between languages is that code that "looks the same and runs" are not equivalently idiomatic or "acceptable". It seems to turn into long files of if-statements, flags and checks and so on. Th
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by yobbo 10mo ago
It seems relevant that the categories healthcare, housing, and higher education are not paid by wages/cash but rather through various means of financing (in the form of insurance for healthcare). (In addition to not being outsourcable)
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by yobbo 10mo ago
It helps with all types of speakers, not just subwoofers. For the same reasons, it can work as structural parts of furniture.
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by yobbo 10mo ago
> MDF and veneers are inherently worse than hand-crafted wood. Generally incorrect, but it depends. Wear can cause mdf/veneer to have "bad optics" compared to solid wood, but mdf/veneer can have more suitable physical
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by yobbo 11mo ago
Kicking up is very different from kicking down. Zig is not kicking down here.
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by yobbo 11mo ago
A 2015 smartphone could be eight 2 GHz cores with 2-4 GB memory and 128 GB SSD. By far faster and more powerful than anything but the heaviest 2000-era servers if that.
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by yobbo 11mo ago
A hidden markov model (HMM) is theoretically capable of modelling text just as well any transformer. Typically, HMMs are probability distributions over a hidden discrete state space, but the distribution and state space can be anything. The
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by yobbo 11mo ago
"had managed to increase revenues by 108%" This sounds less than the consumer price inflation over the period.
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by yobbo 11mo ago
Average of costs of compensation - "including employee-related taxes and pension contributions". The employee sees around half of that. But there must be more to it, since it is still an unrealistic number.
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by yobbo 11mo ago
"100.000 servers" sounds like the entirety of 2008-era Google, but with today's 10-100x performance per server. It could be bigger than Dropbox or Netflix.
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by yobbo 1y ago
No, it supposedly makes things more efficient and thus cheaper.
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by yobbo 1y ago
The number of iphones sold per year is about constant over the last decade. The amount of materials and work-hours in each iphone is probably constant. So if there are no alternatives, "number go up". The phenomenon is probably a
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by yobbo 1y ago
Build a snake game in stages: https://github.com/lsmor/snake-fury Build a small web-app: https://jaspervdj.be/posts/2017-12-07-getting-things-done-in... (the video link is down, but exists somewhe
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by yobbo 1y ago
It sounds as though there is unclarity in roles. You might have a style of avoiding or de-escalating confrontation which could make him believe your call for a post-mortem is a suggestion he can set aside. My advice would be 1) to not phras
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by yobbo 1y ago
The devil's advocate would lift a few points. The OP equates disagreement with conflict and sees the main cost as being loss of status and "hurting team vibe". They seem to make a point that their own main contribution is bri
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by yobbo 1y ago
It's a generalised typeclass for wrappers. It's not called "then" but "bind" and spelled (>>=), which doesn't exactly evoke useful associations for newcomers.
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by yobbo 1y ago
Were there any deaths from the Fukushima nuclear disaster? A large area was evacuated and "human costs" were great. But as I recall, no deaths from radiation.
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by yobbo 1y ago
Many startup business models have no chance of becoming profitable unless they reach a certain scale, but they might have less than 1% probability of reaching that scale. Making it scalable is easy work since it is deterministic, but growin
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by yobbo 1y ago
> Guess what happened next? Stimulus and zero interest rate followed by 10% inflation.
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by yobbo 1y ago
From an economist's perspective, energy is not typically recognised as a critical quantity. In so far as it is considered, it's thought of as an incidental property of some good or service being traded like oil or electricity. But

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