acconrad

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Anthropic and the Department of War(thezvi.wordpress.com)
4 points by acconrad 7mo ago|0 comments
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Numbers Station(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by acconrad 1y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 2y ago
https://archive.ph/7ZbkA
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Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges(ft.com)
12 points by acconrad 2y ago|2 comments
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by acconrad 2y ago
I've been remote for years even before Covid. RTO vs remote comes down to how and where you work best. When folks want to go remote I ask them "when you were in school, did you study better in the library or at home in your bedroo
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How input buffering works [video](youtube.com)
21 points by acconrad 3y ago|0 comments
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The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by acconrad 3y ago|5 comments
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by acconrad 3y ago
> 30 million monthly active users when it was acquired...[they] had just six generalist developers [1] So they got to 30mm users with 6 engineers...scaling linearly with 5mm customers/engineer. Incredible. [1] https://rev
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Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
4 points by acconrad 3y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 3y ago
Don't Think of an Elephant will completely change how you view politics and what anyone in politics says and how to interpret it. Aristotle's Ethics helped me reconcile my desire to constantly strive to do more and what to mak
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by acconrad 3y ago
https://www.adamconrad.dev A lot of it is around engineering management best practices but there are some more philosophical and personal bits sprinkled here and there. It has hit HN a few times but I’ll admit I have no analytic
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by acconrad 3y ago
Is there a phenomenon that describes why I feel a sense of unease when I see the other maps? Seeing the various projections and changes of those maps left me _very_ uncomfortable and I'm not sure why.
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by acconrad 3y ago
Sure a lot of stuff is high status crap (like the LV weekender bag that was torn apart here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EktumN7N5l8 ). But your comparisons don't factor in total cost of ownership and usage, and in
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The Most Grueling Race Journeys 1k Miles Down the Yukon(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by acconrad 3y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
If you want to skip the article and go directly to the conclusions of the research: > ...given all the data available on red meat intake and risk of a subsequent outcome, we estimate that consuming unprocessed red meat across an average
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by acconrad 4y ago
https://archive.ph/nmO6Z
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The FTX bankruptcy filing in full(ft.com)
2 points by acconrad 4y ago|2 comments
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The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and It Will Hurt(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
30 points by acconrad 4y ago|3 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
This is a big deal because it’s only the second time in the publication’s history to do a cover-to-cover story on a topic (since one about code). I’m not fully through it but I will say it starts a bit rough and suspect but he does a great
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18-year old recreated the “entire universe” in Minecraft(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by acconrad 4y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
https://archive.ph/arkxI
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Travis Kalanick-linked lobby group to fight food delivery apps(ft.com)
5 points by acconrad 4y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Pvu0g#selection-1401.0-1406.0
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by acconrad 4y ago
I got mono 2 months before college graduation. At the time I didn’t think “oh I won’t graduate” but in retrospect being out of school for 2 weeks without doing any work can really make things difficult, especially that close to the end of t
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On the Troubles of Naming Species(economist.com)
2 points by acconrad 4y ago|0 comments
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Webb’s exoplanet data are almost too good(skyandtelescope.org)
2 points by acconrad 4y ago|0 comments
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Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another one just like it(technologyreview.com)
3 points by acconrad 4y ago|1 comments
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The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack(economist.com)
629 points by acconrad 4y ago|547 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
1. I watch foreign films so that’s how I got started 2. Then I put on CC so I could watch things at 2-3x and still keep up 3. I’ve got young kids and I can’t watch shows at times with the volume up if everyone else is sleeping 4. I got it a
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Ask HN: What programming languages are you excited about?
6 points by acconrad 4y ago|6 comments

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