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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Can we just ban ads for booze, smoking and prescription drugs?
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I keep wanting to hand out copies of 1984. In reading your comment, it suddenly dawned on me that 1984 has turned into a how to manual for modern governments, much the way The Prince is misinterpreted today.
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> A primary issue was functional unblinding, or the ability of participants to tell whether they received a placebo or active drug... More than 90% of people in the MDMA group and 75% in the placebo group correctly guessed their treatmen
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
I love the stark admission of this > "... plus I'm not one to toss aside a carabiner even if it's a little boring." I love when people just embrace their nonsense and go all in on it. There is just such joy in other p
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> If you want a theory; a man who isn't in control of his emotions can present anything up to an immediate mortal danger to the people around him You cant posit this and then go on to try and claim Violence != anger. > The man w
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
I am going to dig up this gem from the old days: Richard Stallman has rider... (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3159210 )
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I have written some rust I like it. I prefer GO for day to day but I wont turn my nose up at Rust... Cargo on the other hand... I saw someone say "Rust is turning into the language that tokio ate" ... and this is a cargo shortcomi
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
What a hot hot hot mess. I feel bad for the consumers... the companies however, not so much. That having been said, this is a poor reflection on our industry and its state. Back in the post bubble era "sql injection" was all the r
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> What the hell does that mean fix your docs?? If you asked a company to run for a week, based on what its docs said, and nothing else I suspect it would be bankrupt before Friday. Knowlege is tribal, human, and adaptive. AI did this onc
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> If you want a theory; a man who isn't in control of his emotions can present anything up to an immediate mortal danger to the people around him (particularly if they are female). What emotions do you really control? We expect men
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The problem - solution perspective is also a pitch to customers it's your value proposition. IF you aren't solving a problem why do I want to give you my money? Entertainment is a thing for sure, is your product entertaining? Isn&
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I... Well dev/null is an option... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs It's all just history repeating.
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Thanks I will get down voted to oblivion for it. Cause getting angry at a problem and spending 2 days coding to completely replace a long standing issue isnt something that happens... People need to be less precious. You cant be happy all t
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> 'C-suite' and it's impossible to try and make them understand, I think we should do a HN backed project, crowd funded style. 1. Identify the best P-hackers in current science with solid uptake on their content (citations
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Open AI was betting on AI, AGI, Super inteligence. Look at the google engineer who thought they had an AI locked up in the basement... https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165535/google-suspends-... MS p
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
> This post has an unnecessarily aggressive style Im not sure its "unnecessary". He is, very clearly venting into an open mic. He starts with his bonfides (a Masters, he's built the tools not just been an API user). He add
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Go back further: At a point in time the database was a bleeding edge technology. Ingres (Postgres)... (the ofspring of Stonebreaker), Oracle, ... Db2? MSSQL? (Heavily used but not common)... So many failed DB's along the way, people ke
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>> RAG pipelines with your data FTA "Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit." > 5. Code generatio
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> Even if it’s meant as tongue-in-cheek, It is not this. There is actual anger there, he's pointing out WHY he's pissed. > it’s not at all evident that they’ve taken the time to interact with the tech as an end user (which m
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> GPTs were a dramatic shift IT was a massive leap forward for a 50 year old idea. IF it takes another 50 years to make a leap of equal size, we might get to AGI before the heat death of the the universe. > I don't see how AI, qu
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AI or LLM? The money flowing into the market has allowed for a lot of fuzzy data analytics to be "automated" and cross checked by people. Satellite image processing is a huge market that leverages this. We're not counting car
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Modern America baffles me. People spurn butter, milk and cheese for... oat milk? For heath reasons? Does no one remember margarine? For ethical reasons... Oatmilk in a Starbucks coffee for ethical reasons is... something. Give me some slabs
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Candidly in 25 years I have only see a hype cycle this dominant once. The dot com bubble. Most of the other waves were evolutions (Web 2.0), branding (SAS), or just a shift in responsibility (cloud). I am reminded of an Alan Greenspan quote
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> Most of conversation are on open channel. This is the hallway of modern Remote work. You either do it right and pay the price or the design gets updated... Email shit, make a point to keep asking the question till they reflect whats go
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Ahh windows. It's the Honda Civic of operating systems. Articles like this remind me of the old civic's... rims, stereo and an engine that burns enough oil that you just added a quart when you added gas.
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https://rjofutures.rjobrien.com/futures-trading-resources/gl... Futures are technically different than forward contracts... the former is public the latter is private. But a lot of the people doing cash forwards, trade
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Again... Not just price Payment date can be decoupled from delivery date... So it can be a "loan" as well. As a producer you're betting on yield. If you expected 140 bushels an acre and got 130 your on the hook for the rest.
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by zer00eyz 2y ago
Mike Mitchell is great. He's very Canadian but pleasant. And they have an operation on a massive scale (family business). Barn Talk is... something. IF you're liberal it might offend you at some points, but there is a ton of gold
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> Selling crop futures protect you against the price of your crops falling. Price contracts are a thing. You can do this in new england with fuel oil for heating. It is fairly common. But futures pay today for a product at some later dat
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> They should, it's basic insurance. If you grow corn: It can be sold as a future, and you can have crop insurance on it. IM not sure you grasp what a future is in the case of a farmer... Now if your in construction, or buying fuel

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