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by Escapado 8mo ago
My clients are. I do web dev for a living and I use these frameworks day in and day out. It’s not even that I dislike the dev ex on most of them and I’ve seen a lot of good code and bad code and I don’t even wanna blame anyone in particula
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by Escapado 8mo ago
I hate the state of affairs. That said my guess is what we „gained“ is tons of telemetry, tracking and the likes, engineers not needing to think about performance to get a feature out, which absolutely lowers the bar to entry, high level ab
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by Escapado 8mo ago
So it is just the right wing neoliberal playbook then. Protect the rich and put everyone else against each other so we don’t focus on them. I want this to stop.
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by Escapado 8mo ago
First off, the following is not meant to combative but I think this confuses me. If there was no cliff there was nothing to do administratively on that front, no new checking at all. We already have progressive tax systems in many countries
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by Escapado 8mo ago
To me it appears as though the success of the right wing politics everywhere is that they made socioeconomically disadvantaged people identify other socioeconomically disadvantaged people and the middle-class as the cause of their suffering
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by Escapado 8mo ago
I am also confused by cliffs. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me could explain why you would ever want them for something like this instead of just having higher progressive tax rates for well off people to make up for it. Naively I w
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by Escapado 9mo ago
Genuine question: How does it happen that a heart surgery costs 100k? 2 surgeons (200$/h) + 6 nurses(100$/h) for 10 hours would be 10k. Where do the other 100k come from? Is it the equipment cost? Consumables? After care? Or are t
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by Escapado 9mo ago
Interesting story. I want to agree with the general advice not to use it for that - especially if that is how you use it. And I want to preface this with: Don’t take this as advice, I just want to share my experience here. I tend to do it
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by Escapado 1y ago
I keep hearing this but sometimes I am not 100% sure if they are _much_ better so asking honestly: Is there any reputable quantitative analysis of this in the context of language learning? For example: I have spent the last two years in jap
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by Escapado 1y ago
Naive question: Are the current (from what I have heard not very effective) export restrictions of HPC GPUs to china truly productive in the long run if the goal is to retain an edge? As in, to me it seems that it just fuels an expansion of
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by Escapado 1y ago
I have to second this. I study Japanese myself and the entire way the Japanese communicate is reflected so deeply in the language. There is so so much nuance to pretty much every sentence they speak and there are certain grammar points that
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by Escapado 1y ago
Now compared to Berlin I think Hamburg is still pretty conservative and I am not in a position to make apt comparisons to cities in the US but I do have to disagree with the statement that Hamburg is more conservative. I was born and raised
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by Escapado 1y ago
N=1 datapoint here. I studied physics in university and before I started I was not aware that physics is basically just math where the results sometimes relate to reality. The pure math courses I took were the most difficult and in the begi
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by Escapado 1y ago
Yup, maintained an e-commerce site where the products were coming from a third party api and the products often had 200+ properties and we often needed certain combinations of them to be present to display them. We created schemas for all o
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by Escapado 2y ago
I am currently living in Tokyo and for the most part smoking is prohibited except for designated smoking areas. And while compared to Germany way less people seem to smoke and mostly follow the rules I see about one or two people during my
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by Escapado 2y ago
Thanks for pointing me to that. One thing that stands out about that argument though is that voting is already discriminatory, right? Permanent residents and minors are not allowed to vote (the latter because we take age as a proxy of compe
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by Escapado 2y ago
That's an interesting perspective, but I wonder if we can't have both.
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by Escapado 2y ago
I see. In a sense we are already doing that. Minors can not vote (and if I am correct the reasoning is that they don't have the competency to cast a proper vote) and even foreign permanent residents can't either, even though the
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by Escapado 2y ago
Honest question/thought experiment: if we only elected people who are qualified for their job (assume we can measure competence at least in some dimensions like we do for a myriad of other professions before we allow people to work in
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by Escapado 2y ago
Agreed and I would add to the list the ungodly amount of hours they work. I know per hour they might not be as productive (or simply held back by antiquated processes within their companies) but they seem to make up for it in part by workin
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by Escapado 2y ago
I have not investigated this as much as I should have but if I remember correctly there were cases where the NN approach was yielding smaller solutions. Would be a great follow up to the thesis. The way this was turned into an optimization
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by Escapado 2y ago
I didn’t include this in my thesis but from what I remember looking at hundreds if not thousands of matrices and their QC solutions some symmetries would immediately make it so that way less gates would be needed but it could also be decept
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by Escapado 2y ago
University of Hamburg in Germany.
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by Escapado 2y ago
My master thesis was on using machine learning techniques to synthesise quantum circuits. Since any operation on a QC can be represented as a unitary matrix my research topic was that, using ML, given a set of gates, how many and in what ar
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by Escapado 2y ago
Not only that, runtime schema validation was also way faster in my last project for larger arrays of complex objects with lots of union types. Went from 400ms to 24ms all else being equal. Since our validation was running on every request f
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by Escapado 2y ago
Another part of the reason is that in every company I have ever worked for some SEO dude insists we need to add literally 10 different tracking scripts and insists they need to load first and consume megabytes of data. At my last gig the la
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by Escapado 2y ago
This is so cool! I am genuinely happy that through this I barely ever had to boot up windows anymore when I still had my gaming PC. I wish we could have something similar on Mac. I tried GPTK and Whiskey before but a bunch of my steam games
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by Escapado 2y ago
I have been using typescript as my primary language for years and since I am used to it I actually enjoy it (much more than I enjoyed Java or Python in the past). And depending on what you built I agree, especially for one off scripts or if
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by Escapado 2y ago
Thanks for that link, I genuinely laughed out loud while reading some of those points! Love the presentation and what a wonderful reality check I can’t agree with more.
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by Escapado 2y ago
Interestingly that’s less energy than the mass energy equivalent of one gram of matter or roughly 5 seconds worth of the worlds average energy consumption (according to wolfram alpha). Still an absolute insane amount of energy, as in about

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