andrew_v4

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by andrew_v4 5y ago
It's a big shift because we have never as a society catered to the most cowardly before. Personal responsibility used to mean if you cared about something it was on you, now its shifted to forcing it on other people. This is really ant
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I think it's a direct consequence of media and government trying to remove free will from the equation and present taking the vaccine as the only choice people have. If you're going to essentially force people to do it, a statisti
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Agreed - the article is tips and tricks to use google effectively, not an editorial about the value of googling
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
That's not unique to cryptocurrency mining, there are other things that are rate limited by energy costs as well.
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Re team structure, most consulting firms are a collection of mini pyramids, with partners or equivalent at the top that are supporter by project teams. Partnere are responsible for sales, client relationship, and quality of the delivery, an
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
This is a question I have had too. One place is LinkedIn, but it suffers from the social media issue that it favors pre-digested flashy stuff, many people don't really go there to do a deep read. And it's not really technical (alt
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
> There's really nothing to gain from nay-saying a new space like this, tbh. Dismissing a new technology is not helpful. But I think it's valuable for people that understand the tech to debunk proposed uses of technology that a
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
This is spot on. I have worked as a consultant doing reviews of a handful of diverse government departments, and leadership's priorities were always identical: justify headcount increases. Every one will have a presentation about the c
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Why do polynomials have a bad reputation for overfitting?(old.reddit.com)
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I'm not familiar with this specific product. But this is really a dark side to SaSS, broadly defined, that I have not seen a good solution to. It's not helpful to have a service provider that can renege on commitments when they ta
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Not sure I completely agree, but I definitely do think this kind of project can be derailed by proponents who want to be uncompromising about it and don't think it's acceptable to compromise in something like location because its
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Yeah, this is an underrated comment. I mean the origin of some of this stuff is to be inclusive and diverse, but ironically it has the effect of making people walk on eggshells all the time and not feel like they can act normally. It's
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Wow, how unhelpful. I don't know the acceptable way to call this out, but how about focusing on substance instead of just bringing pedantic language stuff into the mix. I see this happening a lot, when people can't find a real way
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Safety engineering is a matching between user expectations of safety and actual safety. If there's evidence that this treadmill is disproportionately dangerous for it's category, that's one thing. But if it's just "
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I think you highlight a weakness of formal "tell me about a time" type questions generally. They are more about testing the framing (spin) abilities of the candidate vs the underlying competencies you ask about. That is largely ho
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Are you saying that all "equipment" sold should be in the category that it can safely be installed in a multi-use area of a home with kids in it? I get the idea that there is demand for such products, but it's pretty backward
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I agree that's fair (normalized for any past regulatory overreach). Products that are death traps compared with others in their category should definitely be called out. I did a google search and the first link [0] says about 3 treadm
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I've read a lot of the comments here condemning Peloton, and I don't think I completely agree. A treadmill is a big fast moving piece of gym equipment. It is definitely dangerous to kids, as are all treadmills. And what about like
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
"Non-contrubuting ideation" - people from other groups without real skin in the game who don't want to take responsibility for anything but insist on providing input on how it's done, and often have some political standi
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Is there anything dangerous about linoleic acid? I.e. is there harm in trying it, even if it turns out it doesn't work? Just curious how a trial like this would go. If it's essentially benign, it seems like people could just use i
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Python (in common ML frameworks) is really just wrapping well optimized native code. The overhead is very minimal. The advantage here is about easy access to the internals. I don't know that any material speedup is expected just becaus
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I had to look it up too, I had forgotten about it as it was not very interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470 Note that the link is to an article on HN, not flagged, and the comments pretty clearly debunk
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Really? In North American english, a flashlight is a handheld light, there is no thought of the toy you're referring to when it is mentioned. That "light" got its name as a play on flashlight. It's funny to see that now
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Just for contrast its interesting to look at an example of writing a similar kernel in Julia: https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/CUDA.jl/tutorials/introduction/ I don't think it's possible to achieve someth
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
It's actually "accountability" that's a big part of the problem. Government procurement is so focused on the appearance of fairness and money saving that all other goals, like actually getting something that works, take
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
(This looks like a throwaway comment but as a Canadian, this is the correct reaction)
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
What are some examples that don't favour entrenched interests (Rogers / Bell / Telus ) looking to legislate away competition, or subsidise politically approved "artists" while making it harder for us to access conte
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
I agree with you, its something only possible because they are throwing off cash. But is it worth them having turned much of the internet into a cesspit? I'm conflicted. On one hand you could argue it's like some dictatorship putt
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
What I had in mind was money being given to the masses through covid related benefits and then quickly concentrating into the hands of a few.
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by andrew_v4 5y ago
Something analogous happened to me where my role was changed to something that had nothing to do with what I was doing before and was for a much different (and bluntly a lesser) skillset. To me it was a sign that management had no understan

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