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by zo1 2y ago
So when we have anecdotes, we get told to look at the stats for objective facts. Alternatively, when we do have stats, we get told "no those numbers do not mean what you think they mean" as a way to dismiss the abysmal numbers. So
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by zo1 2y ago
I think Matt should reach out to Elon Musk to assist him. And I don't mean that in a weird or snarky or "jabbing at Elon/Matt" kind of way. Clearly he is struggling to deal with a competitor and community wanting to impo
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by zo1 2y ago
Not OP, but that point has nothing to do with them being lesbians or females. That label distracts from the actual criticism and bias that sadly played a part. It could just as well have been "obese native americans with amputations&qu
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by zo1 2y ago
I think it's something unique to python's ML ecosystem, to be honest. There is a lot of up-in-the-air about how to handle models, binaries and all of that in a contained package, and that results in quite a few hand-rolled solutio
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by zo1 2y ago
Half the time something breaks in a javascript repo or project, every single damn javascript expert in the team/company tells me to troubleshoot using the below sequence, as if throwing spaghetti on a wall with no idea what's wron
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by zo1 2y ago
The guy doesn't know what he's talking about as pip certainly has dependency resolution. Rather get your python or tech info from a non-flame-war infested thread full of anti-pip and anti-python folk.
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by zo1 2y ago
The requirements.txt file is the lockfile. Anyways, this whole obsession with locked deps or "lockfiles" is such an anti-pattern, I have no idea why we went there as an industry. Probably as a result of some of the newer stuff t
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by zo1 2y ago
Of course the "answer" is never that people were biased in favor of DEI groups in the first place, and removing said overt markers of their race just removed that bias because individuals could no longer discriminate. No, the answ
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by zo1 2y ago
The "well" has been poisoned for all such groups of people, and DEI as a concept will eventually be held accountable to the harm it did to the groups they supposedly aimed to help. DEI as a concept was a leech to society, feeding
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by zo1 2y ago
It's weirder. If you insert an empty string into a VARCHAR field in Oracle, it returns Null back to you when you query that same field. At the very least, I'd expect a software system to behave in a deterministic way. I.e. either
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by zo1 2y ago
Let's also all be reminded about how Oracle DB doesn't let you insert empty strings, and instead treats them as NULLS even if you gave it an empty string initially. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/203493&#
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by zo1 2y ago
For one, I have children in the house and scalpel-like sharp knives make me uneasy. Doubly-so as they are usually pointy and can stab too. Besides that, serrated knifes make it practically impossible to cut yourself. You'll feel the cu
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by zo1 2y ago
I cut up all sorts of stuff. Fruits, vegetables, cheeses, meats. Seeing as other poster asked about mincing, I guess I also finely dice various herbs and garlic. Sure if I have to smash (mincing?) it I'll find something that can do tha
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by zo1 2y ago
And yet I've never once cut myself with legal near-scalpels in my kitchen, the serrated knives that "mangle" my food cut food perfectly fine, and my plates last as long as plates do.
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by zo1 2y ago
He's also unaware of the controversy and debate many places in Europe are having over immigration. At this point I'd really like to know what country doesn't have some large backlash and controversy against immigration.
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by zo1 2y ago
I just use a plate for my cutting needs. No idea about this "cutting board" obsession. Plate just goes into the dishwasher. No wood or plastic particles to worry about and cleanup is easy. Then again, I also exclusively use serrat
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by zo1 2y ago
It's news to me, and somehow hasn't up until now popped up prominently for me in any online area, including HN. Thought it's relevant with today's discussion about OpenAI and AI in general.
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Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead(cnbc.com)
5 points by zo1 2y ago|2 comments
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by zo1 2y ago
Wow I never thought about the "joining" stage of this whole brexit topic. If that's the case then that adds a whole new level of dysfunction to "democracy" as a concept. It seems like democracy really is an experime
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by zo1 2y ago
In my experience, most people that have semi or full decision-making control over this kind of thing have absolutely no idea if they even need cookie consent banners. They just fall for the marketing speak of every single SAAS product that
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by zo1 2y ago
Personally it helps me sleep having "TV" playing in the background. But my SO uses it while she works, having something to break the monotony as music is distracting.
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by zo1 2y ago
There is very little good or "main" content these days on Netflix. Every single time without fail whenever I have an urge to watch a specific show or movie, sometimes an old one, it's never available on Netflix. And even if t
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by zo1 2y ago
It's very easy for us to doubt these things because they suspiciously and conveniently fit the "anti-russia" narrative. From there, a simple belief in the corruptibility and money-influence in media makes us question the stor
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by zo1 2y ago
People could potentially properly implement them if they were open and available: "Contact the CAP for more information about licensing and using the CAP electronic Cancer Protocols for cancer reporting at your institution." This
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by zo1 2y ago
Or even more importantly, why aren't lawyers and consumer protection organizations promoting and spreading this knowledge? The lawyer field is captured and they know they'd get taken to court by other lawyers if they "recomme
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by zo1 2y ago
"Biometric identifications using the fingerprint and the anal creases (the distinctive features of anoderm, or analprint)" As far as I know, one can use the sphincter's unique pattern to identify people to some degree. Exactl
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by zo1 2y ago
There a big difference between being an involved and active parent, and what the schools expect, which is for parents to be little secretarial-assistants and pseudo-teachers to make up for the school's lack of planning, lack of engagem
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by zo1 2y ago
My pet half-serious quip about laws/lawyers. Imagine writing a complex program without loops and functions, but you have access to C++ templates, and if statements can only be written as in-line switch statements that can't have a
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by zo1 2y ago
Except we go out of our way in programming to make everything as easy as possible. If you think about it, half the non-video and non-social media internet is just programming related, with guides, tutorials, and various tools to make it as
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by zo1 2y ago
I agree with this take. It also has the unique property of causing a lot of drama and sound-bites in the media on both sides of the left/right spectrum. One side applauds it for getting things done finally, while the other bemoans the

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