PNewling

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by PNewling 2mo ago
...Fair, I completely misread it. I'm going to blame it on the jet lag, but your comment is accurate and my response is off-base. My bad.
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by PNewling 2mo ago
> Laurelhurst I can’t tell if this is a ‘whoosh’ over my head or what, but saying Laurelhurst is more affordable than just about anywhere besides Medina is wild. They literally had enough sway to have the hospital reroute their flights (
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by PNewling 3mo ago
I think that is a little bit disingenuous, Guinness just saw it as a trade secret. Not something that was too dangerous to release to the public for the public's own 'good', just that it could be bad for their business.
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by PNewling 3mo ago
As an outsider: which countries lean which way? I'm curious how things trend where and I didn't even really know that debit was used by a majority in certain places (Countries? Regions? Historical based delimiters?).
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by PNewling 4mo ago
This is a very pithy comment so I apologize in advance, and I agree with you completely, but all I can think at this moment is: "The real Roko's Basilisk is the corporate surveillance state we made along the way"
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by PNewling 4mo ago
> The S&P 500 does not add companies to its index until at least 12 months after IPO. Unless you're SpaceX [0], then the rules have exceptions... [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles&#x
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by PNewling 6mo ago
Not that this is the perfect fix, but at least for sci-fi books you can usually look the Hugo Award winners[0] for ones that are solid. Not all of them are my cup of tea, but I have found that I definitely love some of the series that are f
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by PNewling 6mo ago
You and me both. This was a surprisingly elucidating post about something that has essentially hasn’t been an option for me in a long time, hah.
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by PNewling 8mo ago
The age groups who spend the most time on Facebook feeds though are the most likely to have voted for this administration...
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by PNewling 8mo ago
Why did the dealerships not want them? (Honest question, I have no idea about any of this)
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by PNewling 8mo ago
I did this, and yeah google maps is all but unusable without color, that and the camera takes some getting used to. I'm on an iPhone, but what ended up doing was creating a shortcut that toggles the phone to grayscale and back, and the
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by PNewling 9mo ago
Shout out to KEXP!
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by PNewling 10mo ago
Wow, I actually had no idea what he was a UW grad, let alone that I went there the same time he did... TIL
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by PNewling 10mo ago
> Your brain doesn't live in isolation Well, we can't completely prove that...[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
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by PNewling 10mo ago
Wow, and if you go to their website listed in they're profile, not only do almost none of the links work, the one that did just linked out to the generic template that it was straight copied from. Wow.
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by PNewling 11mo ago
I can't find anything that would suggest this is true, but I would love if you were able to link me something proving me wrong, as I loved that movie growing up and like reading about it still.
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by PNewling 11mo ago
I have no idea what your source is for this, but I'm shocked it's that low per day
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by PNewling 1y ago
You're referring to Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, right?
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by PNewling 1y ago
Tell me more about this privacy request you submitted. I wasn’t aware this was a thing.
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by PNewling 1y ago
> but according to the studies I looked at (Not trying to be flippant, more just curious) Want to link to those?
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by PNewling 1y ago
Your username makes me think you'd be a good person to ask: Sorry, what? (Edit, this sounds like I don't believe you, but it is more that I am in disbelief!) Ants evolved from stinging wasps? Were they flying at that time? Or were
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by PNewling 1y ago
Funny enough I feel the other way about JetBrains IDEs. They * seem * super powerful, but there is always a lot of config that needs to go into them if I'm doing app, infra, and pipeline work. (Edit, not saying they aren't powerfu
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by PNewling 1y ago
> Both of which are statistically likely. It's seems a little dishonest to not include that 'statistically likely' is on a geological time scale.
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by PNewling 1y ago
> you tell everyone up front what your timeline is, months ahead of time Honestly curious how this conversation goes, like "I'm busy with xyz for the next four weeks, then I can do round two of interviews..." or how does t
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by PNewling 1y ago
Not sure if you'll get an answer (I'd be interesting in a response as well), but from the blog in their profile it looks like they moved to be a 'member of technical staff working in the AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) team
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by PNewling 1y ago
These are all incredible stories. I appreciate you sharing them with us. Could you link-to/tell-us more about the 727 affair? I've always had a fascination with autopilot (and autoland) systems, so I would love to read/hear m
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by PNewling 1y ago
Some certifications I’ve taken make you do a full room scan, including using a mirror to see the computer itself if you’re using a laptop, to ensure there is nothing you could cheat with. Normally a human reviews it before they open the tes
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by PNewling 1y ago
Less environmentally friendly and greatly more damaging to the infrastructure. Spain is even looking to introduce legislation to reduce/remove their use[0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may
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by PNewling 1y ago
From the state of Duolingo, I think we've already passed that point by a bit. And I'm not even a huge AI-replacement-alarmist. It's more that Duolingo is not optimal (or even good/great) at teaching language. I will give
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by PNewling 1y ago
(Blameless) 'Post-Mortems' are crucial and certainly help improve process.

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