brianshaler

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by brianshaler 19d ago
I think the point GP was making was that the co-founder was basing their judgment secondhand from stories from friends and headlines. Another bit I found peculiar was the mentions of anarchism while seeming to have a rigid idea of what the
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by brianshaler 10mo ago
I assure you I don't have any wishes one way or another. What tickled me into making the comment above had nothing to do with whether adoption rate was used by the author (or is used generally) to mean market penetration or the rate of
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by brianshaler 10mo ago
There's another axis on the charts.
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by brianshaler 10mo ago
> Have you read the graphs? Yes. The title specifically is beautiful. The charts aren't nearly as interesting, though probably a bit more than a meta discussion on whether certain time intervals align with one interpretation of the
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by brianshaler 10mo ago
It maps pretty cleanly to the well understood derivatives of a position vector. Position (user count), velocity (first derivative, change in user count over time), acceleration (second derivative, speeding up or flattening of the velocity),
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by brianshaler 11mo ago
> What is the price of a Carice TC2? > Prices for a TC2 start at €44.500 excluding taxes (€53.854 including 21% btw/Dutch tax).
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by brianshaler 11mo ago
I think that's nearly exactly what I paid for 2x32GB at a retail store last week. I hadn't bought RAM in over a decade so I didn't think anything of it. Wish my emergency PC replacement had occurred a year earlier!
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by brianshaler 1y ago
In 2008 I was given 2 offers from a company: WFH or paid relocation to work in-office. I chose the former, which came with a 26% lower salary, and have been remote ever since. Just comparing the salaries in that case is a little disingenuou
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by brianshaler 1y ago
You can use spherical harmonics to encode a few coefficients in addition to the base RGB for each splat such that the rendertime view direction can be used to compute an output RGB. A "reflection" in 3DGS isn't a light ray be
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by brianshaler 1y ago
This is a little off-topic and nitpicky, so I waited a day to avoid cluttering comments while the thread was on the front page.. I believe the term "going concern" means exactly the opposite of what you were trying to say here. Ge
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by brianshaler 1y ago
Even the 18 Pro Max Ultra with Apple Intelligence? Obligatory Jobs monologue on marketing people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
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by brianshaler 2y ago
> can't justify buying two watches I managed to eke out a couple more years after Pebbles were discontinued by finding replacements on ebay. If this is a low volume run, I'm contemplating the opposite—whether I can justify not
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by brianshaler 2y ago
It's absolutely essential to be able to differentiate between gross profit and net profit to establish unit economics, especially as the scale of a newly founded operation may drastically change relative to some amount of fixed capex o
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by brianshaler 2y ago
Re the second quote and response: One pattern I bump up against from time to time is the delta between using a perfectly defensible technique for a given use-case (safe delimiters when constructing an input for a specific function) versus a
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by brianshaler 2y ago
I'd rather have flagship specs in a smaller package. The smallest in the iPhone (SE) and Pixel ("A"?) lines are still too big and tend to have previous-gen specs
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by brianshaler 2y ago
> And then it ruined us with implicit returns What was so ruinous about implicit returns? That's one of the things I missed most when leaving CoffeeScript. ECMAScript only partially adopted it (single statement fat arrow functions)
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by brianshaler 2y ago
You should be just as mystified about the 4€ component.
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by brianshaler 2y ago
> If there wasn't another ride from the ISS available, would the astronauts be stranded? Yes. Seems like the answer to this would be no. Starliner's risk was elevated, not guaranteed to fail. The presence of a flight-proven opt
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by brianshaler 2y ago
Current generation computers, sure, but I think there's still steady progress toward increasing amount of compute per unit of energy. For phones, that's almost as important for heat dissipation as it is for battery life, as we&#x2
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by brianshaler 2y ago
No matter the prompt, there's a significant difference between how it handles common problems in popular languages (python, JS) versus esoteric algorithms in niche languages or tools. I had a funny one a while back (granted this was pr
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by brianshaler 2y ago
> "With a market this hot" Maybe the title should get a [2021] because it sounds like the market has cooled substantially in the last year or so. The article doesn't seem to take into consideration market cycles, assuming
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by brianshaler 2y ago
For anyone like me that wondered if "ReAct webapp" was a weird way of capitalizing the React webapp Javascript framework, it appears to be about a Reasoning and Acting methodology[0] with LLMs. Maybe obvious for anyone with more o
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by brianshaler 2y ago
I used to work in software sales in a call center. I hated my job and the highlight of my week was the Monday burrito special down the street at a place where the employees shouted "Welcome to Moe's!" whenever customers enter
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by brianshaler 2y ago
In a bathroom, a hot lamp is likely intentional. It's typically on its own circuit for use while taking a hot shower.
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by brianshaler 2y ago
It sounds more like a building material or geography issue. I've used LTE upwards of 10km off shore. In areas where there isn't good line of sight or if buildings tend to interfere with signal, the access points need to be positio
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by brianshaler 2y ago
Word of mouth, referral. Put another way, freelancing means your job is part your vocation and part sales and marketing. You generally need to be proficient at both in order to be successful. For me, personally, while I was an employee I we
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by brianshaler 2y ago
I'm not sure what business GP is in, but being encouraged not to be unethical and explicitly forbidding illegal activity doesn't seem like much of an infringement on one's freedom more than the applicable laws. I guess being
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by brianshaler 2y ago
A decade or two ago there was a push to paint as many roofs white as possible, which is why you may intuit dark is bad. Black surfaces convert absorb light energy and convert it into heat. Solar panels do get hot, but part of the point is t
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by brianshaler 2y ago
I think the point GP was making was that hot daytime temperatures in desert climates tend to coincide with peak renewable energy generation, while at higher latitudes in cloudier places the the source of energy is more likely to be from com
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by brianshaler 2y ago
I made an interactive WebGL implementation of this without realizing it was a thing: https://brian.sh/around/index.html I don't really agree with the claims in the articles linked in OP, and don't find it to

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