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by zer00eyz 3y ago
Does every one who goes to acting school become Meryl Streep? Does Mery Streep do community theater? There is a reason that I want to work with talented people, passionate people ones who are smarter and/or more knowledgeable than I am
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
> "Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet." Tipper Gore The more things change the more they stay the same. > A 5-7 year old kid having access to certain thin
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
No, we dont want jr level tech talent. If are walking into your first job and you dont have an internship or some open source on your resume I know that you got your degree for the money, not because your passionate. I can also tell you tha
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
Parents have been complaining about books, tv, radio... If your an American of a certain age Tipper gore was complaining about music corrupting children.... Moving the goal posts all the time is a terrible means to form an argument.
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
There is an XKCD that covers this topic: https://xkcd.com/1601/
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
Ask the bottles team how they feel about maintainers and the job they are doing. A fair number of upstream developers are unhappy with what maintainers and how they deal with bugs and updates. The real problem is that software packaging and
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
> In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the last remaining polio-endemic countries, we have seen significant progress, yet work remains to be done as the world pushes towards making eradication possible. The pledge from Saudi Arabia today will en
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
Thats who pushed XZ out as far as it went. Everyone is asleep at the wheel.
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
You make them take all the words they dont like out of their copy of 1984.
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Bad link
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> I thought it wasn't a big issue until I saw how hard one side fought to keep the name "master". Master craftsman? Master mold? Master copy? Head Master... Just because this word was used in relation to slavery doesn&#x27
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
By that rational: Do you eat food, drink coffee, chocolate. Do you avail yourself of modern pharmacology. Everything you do upholds a status quo of human suffering. You posting on HN is a political statement, from a place of privilege, by t
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
NO one wants to admit that the tyranny of leadership is probably a good thing for a projects success. DDH, Linus, Poettering, Im sure someone is offended by hearing one of these names, but look at the status and reputation of their projects
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
I like Postgres, a lot. Most of the things in this article are avoidable, and good to keep an eye out for. But let's be clear we're not talking about the worst part of Postgres: roles. There is a ton of power there, it would be am
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2024/04/26/neil-you... The irony of a group of people who loved the slang "ok boomer" going back to a boomer moment and a boomer song should not be
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
> past two years This is the expiration date for any job. You hit the 2 year mark you need to be out or actively looking. The internal raise has never met inflation or market demand.
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
>> thinly veiled anger among those in the 35 to 45+ age At 48 I'm on the edge of this group. I look at my cohort outside tech and the words "failure" spring to mind. I look at my cohort in tech, who are pulling in great
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
Make a list of 50 year old technologies that were still dragging around... C, *inx, sql... There is a reason these things are still highly valuable to this very day. Battle hardened, tested, performant... There are billions of sql lite inst
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
15 percent on the first million in a year 30% for everything after. Subscriptions are 15% for renewals (and maybe for all subs). If your pulling in more than a few million a year from apple, and your not "gaming" or gaming the sys
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
World Trade Center bombing 1993 The Oklahoma City bombing 1995 Most people with a high school level of chemistry and a trip to the library can cause a lot of damage. David Hann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
> I don’t know sql. Buy the book "Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design" Read it, read it again, read it till you can normalize in your sleep. Candidly the RDBMS isnt hard, and once yo
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> A key issue with the bill is that it criminalises creating a model that someone else uses to cause harm. Build a model that is trained on the corpus of gun designs. Should be an interesting court case and social experiment.
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>> Predicting language is being able to tell if input is valid or invalid. If this were the case then the hallucination problem would be solvable. That hallucination problem is not only going to be hard to detect in any meaningful way
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
As A CA resident living under the thumb of PGE I have to say that nothing shocks me any more. The current PGE rates basically redline a whole portion of the state. Gray Davis got run out of town on the back of Enron's nonsense. The fac
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
If you're reading this and the cost prohibitive part of this story doesn't make sense you have to understand how far forward the Texas grid is when it comes to renewables. There have been many occasions where the cost of power in
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
At 5 bucks a customer, you need 200k new ones a year to break a million bucks. TO break even with apple you have about 80k a year all in cost to deal with all your refunds and charge backs.... after taxes, insurance and overhead that's
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
>> then you would already have CS anyway Would you? Because I would argue that CC processing is the point where you NEED near real time CS. Before that handling customer issues can be done better through forums, and you're going
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
And browsers are larger that some operating systems. And talk about a closed off ecosystem ... WASM is still crippled and JS/HTML/CSS is your only real viable option for web development. The web feels like 2005 again. Only thing i
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
Ok Set up CC processing on the web: How much are you going to pay stripe? 2.9% + 30¢ ... that means you have to charge 10 bucks to get down to a 6% transaction fee. Quite the price floor and an interesting cap on your pricing model! What do
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by zer00eyz 3y ago
No simulated water isnt wet. But an LLM isn't even trying to simulate cognition. It's a model that is predicting language. It has all the problems of a predictive model... the "hallucination" problem is just the tyranny

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