KSteffensen

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by KSteffensen 24d ago
The cost of buying the encyclopedia becomes disposable income to be used on other consumer goods. In that sense in shows up in lots of other companies profit-and-loss statements.
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by KSteffensen 1mo ago
Here in Denmark there is no block list, but you have to explicitly opt-in to receiving telemarketing calls. By default, it's illegal to call you. I never opt-in to anything. If I do get a call, I usually ask for the callers employee na
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by KSteffensen 1mo ago
Why does Doug Burgum need to underscore the fact that the RWE investment is 'voluntary'?
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by KSteffensen 2mo ago
Why use LLMs at all if you're doing this?
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by KSteffensen 3mo ago
1984 is not inspirational, it's cautionary. The main character has already lost from the first page of the book.
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by KSteffensen 4mo ago
If they believe it's OK to cane the kids, why limit it to boys? Girls can also be extremely nasty to each other
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by KSteffensen 6mo ago
Didn't the Dunedin study also find that childhood self-control and delayed gratification correlated with adult life outcomes? https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/files/1571970023782.pdf
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by KSteffensen 7mo ago
Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stocks would crash.
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by KSteffensen 1y ago
I'll get some downvotes for this but PhD vs master's degree difference is mostly work experience, an element of workload hazing and snobbery. Somebody with a masters degree and 5 years of work experience will likely know more than
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by KSteffensen 1y ago
Remember to factor in all the trees that will need to be cut down in order to provide the wood. Of course, over time we can increase the amount of industrial forest, but that will take 40-50 years.
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by KSteffensen 1y ago
To someone that knows nothing about car SW architecture, that is surprising to me, I would have expected a number of control loops for things like fuel injection, ABS brake control, drive-by-wire, EV battery charge and discharge, etc. each
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by KSteffensen 1y ago
There is a low-stress driving environment in Italy? Where's that? Milan is the only place I have ever been where reversing on the high way is a reasonable solution to missing an off-ramp.
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by KSteffensen 1y ago
Lost techniques are the field of experimental archaeology.
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by KSteffensen 1y ago
The main problem with development of new antibiotics is not that it requires groundbreaking new science to be invented, but that there is no business case for it. Or at least the business case for spending your R&D on anti-obesity medic
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
My preferred solution to this logic problem: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
To me that panoramic view is scary, not magnificent. It's a monoculture desert. There is no life there, other than the very carefully cultivated one organism.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
Believe me the farmers have been doing their best to buck this.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
I don't understand how a tiny country like Israel has become so important in global politics. By population Rwanda is ~30% larger than Israel.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
China has a lot of interest in the war not ending one way or the other. Their peer competitors are spending resources on it and a potentially problematic regional competitor is becoming more irrelevant the longer it runs.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
It that really a precedent we would want to set? It sounds like it would be bad for global trade that state actors could arbitrarily seize privately owned property.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
Cure cancer? Solve this climate change thing?
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
I don't know anything about the author and their situation, but in my experience the first time you realize that your life is not going to be as you expected in major ways can be quite hard. I don't think mourning is an inappropri
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
Are you absolutely sure there is no Arrakis involved in the choosing of that acronym?
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
LLMs don't have anything to gain, but the people publishing their output do. I find it entirely appropriate to call LLMs "bullshit generators" rather than "hallucination generators".
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
Whichever is cheaper. My gut feeling says pallet, but I have no idea.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
Aligning the EPAL pallet and the 30' container is another great candidate that is just not going to happen.
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
First law implies that it is impossible to change a badly designed system into a well-designed system through incremental changes. I disagree with this, it is certainly possible to improve the state of some system without starting from scra
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
"The lesson you should draw is not that object-oriented is bad, but rather that whatever is the current trendy technique and trendy idea, is likely grossly overrated." Generative AI
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by KSteffensen 2y ago
Will they continue to be easy to disable?
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
This article and related discussion might be relevant. It addresses more or less exactly this sentiment: > This is the reason why I get a bit frustrated whenever I see somebody in tech dismisses the EU as just trying to protect European

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