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by zmgsabst 3y ago
On is active. Just like most devices with signal lights — which have been that way for decades. Historically, the lights are signaling power being supplied.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Aggressive personalities aren’t the same as strong personalities, in precisely the way status trinkets aren’t class. I’d say strong personalities are essential for consensus: When it’s clear who is holding court, there’s much less talking o
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I think you can allow finite recursions, eg, a maximum stack depth.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Also, spending three hours optimizing away thirty minutes you only run four times is a net negative of one hour. You have to optimize the system, as a whole.
875.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
…no? There’s still a defined cost to swapping your DB code over to a different backend. At the point where it becomes uneconomical, you’re also at a scale you can afford rewriting a module. That’s why we have things like “hexagonal architec
876.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Your assumptions elide the benefits: - micro services don’t always block the pipeline; often the failing one can catch up later - scaling can happen for each micro service - removing faulty components from the main path means the key servic
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Neither of those has been shown to produce equivalent training data, no. They should do one of those instead of using search before they claim it’s possible to not use search. Or to borrow your analogy, you’ll need to show me a duck egg to
878.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Russia annexed those regions when it became the best way to protect the people there, after the collapse of negotiations. > I will fault Ukraine for many things, but being unwilling to negotiate with someone who will not moderate their g
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Putin just gave a two hour interview where he explains the efforts they made and why they view this as a US coup. There’s nothing about this which is colonial/imperial: Ukraine was already separate for decades, peacefully, until outsid
880.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Tangent, but what is an “executive coach” and why do you see her?
881.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
The hypothesis is that coding molecules predate cell membranes. So we have “every current cell membrane requires the nucleus” and “the coding portion came first”; nobody is disputing that membranes build on membranes, just pointing out they
882.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Russia annexed those territories, following referendums, because Ukraine refused to negotiate. Russia views them as Russian territory now — and has said they’re willing to use nuclear weapons in their defense (as they would for any territor
883.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Russia was negotiating even after hostilities escalated — up until April 2022, when Boris Johnson scuttled the peace settlement. Since then, Russia has repeatedly offered to negotiate a settlement, but Ukraine refuses to negotiate. You can
884.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
That’s obviously Ukraine and Western allies not implementing Minsk in good faith, as the post I was responding to claimed.
885.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
No — but perhaps we could have negotiated a peace during a conference at Minsk a decade ago or in Feb 2022 at the outbreak of hostilities, rather than frantically send Boris Johnson to subvert it. Russia has consistently angled for Ukraine
886.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
> In a similar way, every membrane in every cell came from extending and then splitting an existing membrane, again more or less independently of the nucleus. Can you elaborate? As I understand it, the manufacturing of the cell membrane
887.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I meant in the practical senses: - learn to make your arguments in terms that appeal to the sensibilities of bean counters, not engineers - learn to manipulate documentation so they’re forced to record overriding good engineering in a way t
888.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I don’t think there were two approved procedures. I think there was an approved procedure (“removing the plug”) and a deviance from process, justified with ad hoc semantic games.
889.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I think the hope is people of good conscience stop being political cowards. If you believe in quality engineering, but refuse to engage in the political and business dimensions of an enterprise to fight for that view, then you are just virt
890.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Okay — if you set off a 3KT bomb rather than leaving it safely stored, will they view you as having utilized a WMD against their nation?
891.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
The path of radioactivity through the missile facility would point at the facility with the beam, because the showers of induced particles would be along the same axis. You then nuke that country out of existence, as is standard policy if g
892.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
This is similar to not counting bank deposits as revenue and withdrawals as costs. Only when your money goes to pay fees is it booked as bank revenue. The same for money transmitters like Western Union. And perhaps is more obvious when you
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
You seem to misunderstand the 75% rate: The requirement is that the expected value for a play on a machine is >75%. And most are >90%. But that’s not a cap on profit margin, as 25% of the expense for a play may be more than the cost o
894.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
> Shadiversity (he’s made some pretty controversial and offensive statements as of late) Do you have examples?
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’m with you in spirit. But WA has 7.7M people of whom 3.9M live in Snohomish, King, or Pierce counties. I agree a majority needs cars, but it’s hardly overwhelming — and worth remembering that half of people live in a narrow, urban bubble.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
We integrated killing/violence. “Murder” is a word that means intentional wrongful killing — and “murder” is only defined within the context of integrating violence into society.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
Murder presupposes that violence is wrong — as murder is specifically a term for wrongful, intentional killing. A better example is “zero tolerance” for violence in schools — which has led to many documented cases of punishing victims de
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I like to compare it to gambling — another real gated isdustry, due to using professional psychology to engineer super stimuli for the purposes of addiction. Social media should be regulated for the same reasons gambling is regulated.
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’ve seen it a couple times, but have zero idea how it works (or what algolia is). I was trying to understand how people were using it (presumably) to make cool things like the Who’s Hiring parsers. I was hoping there was a “Hello World” fo
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by zmgsabst 3y ago
I appreciate the time to make a detailed reply. > Everyone with strong feelings on a topic, on every side of every position, feels that way As a small aside, do you have a page that explains the comment search?

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