conover

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by conover 2mo ago
This is the bitter lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson
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by conover 5mo ago
Yeah. And the penalties for wire fraud are steep. Up to 20 years in prison and $250k fine _per_ count.
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by conover 5mo ago
Object Permanence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence
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by conover 7mo ago
See Certificate of Need requirements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
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by conover 8mo ago
I think the traffic cone robbery threat model also exists for non-Waymos (e.g. car jacking).
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by conover 10mo ago
This is the classic precision versus recall discussion. The discussion centers around how you think about the cost of a false positive versus false negative. Some people think it's fine for the process to have low precision but high re
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by conover 11mo ago
I think there is a tendency to project the modern era's speed of technological progress back in time, which isn't reasonable. We went from the Wright Brothers to Apollo 11 in 66 years. The first transistor to the iPhone in ~60 yea
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by conover 11mo ago
In my experience, you can weaponize processes like the Five Whys or the Amazon Leadership Principles. I don’t think that means they don’t have any value. That being said, in this case, I agree with your manager. Both the QA team and your te
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by conover 1y ago
The problem is that these companies are locked into years long, multi-billion dollar contracts with the sports leagues. Those contracts are predicated on their existing monetization model. The economics of those contracts no longer make sen
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by conover 1y ago
The government (and/or society?) have already deputized private organizations to enforce various types of controls either implicitly or explicitly. Banks (AML) and Payment Processors (recent Steam content removal news) come to mind. Ir
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by conover 1y ago
A French Drain has nothing to do with France! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain
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by conover 1y ago
Fully operational in 2030. I guess better late than never, but that’s a long time off.
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by conover 1y ago
Bainbridge Island (connected to Seattle by ferry) is like this. There is approximately one Uber driver, at least the last time I was there, and good luck if you get back to the island later in the day. A single Waymo would be amazing.
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by conover 1y ago
At least in the US, you are going to run into problems with the First Amendment (eg Central Hudson Test).
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by conover 1y ago
Oh yeah? You don’t use your sense of hearing and your internal sense of direction, vertical elevation, etc.?
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by conover 1y ago
To play devil’s advocate, salt and milk aren’t pumped into your house by the government. You can also buy iodine-free salt and vitamin d-free milk if you choose.
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by conover 1y ago
Uh, it’s given you a lot in return. It abstracts away a lot of the human condition for a lot of people. Personally, I don’t want to go back to growing food to feed myself and bartering. Most people are aligned with that point of view. Edit:
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by conover 1y ago
Isn’t this the deal we’ve made? You can, legally, deny someone access to private property for any non-protected reason. On the other hand, if the private property was constructed with public monies, which MSG probably was, that’s an interes
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by conover 2y ago
Honestly, do these people hear themselves? I guess the product echo chamber is too loud to hear the needs of actual customers (or what they don’t need).
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by conover 2y ago
Right. "The world's best cookie". I think the idea is that no reasonable person would understand that statement to mean that literally, of all the cookies in the world, this one right here is the best.
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by conover 2y ago
Along with the reconnect solution already mentioned, you can also decouple your Websocket and business logic layers using something like Pushpin: https://pushpin.org/ . This allows you to deploy your business logic layer wit
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by conover 2y ago
Output metrics are things you can't control. For revenue, you can't force people to by your products. Inputs metrics are the things you can control. You can (to a degree) control price and selection. And you've established vi
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by conover 2y ago
In the 2016 shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos wrote: It’s always worth asking, do we own the process or does the process own us?
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by conover 2y ago
Yup. If this isn't Congress' intent, all they have to do is pass a law saying so. "...when Congress addresses a question previously governed by a decision rested on federal common law the need for such an unusual exercise of
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by conover 2y ago
Given how A to B to C the logic of the ruling is, this case seems like a gigantic waste of the Court's time, though it was 6-3. So there was significant dissent. I don't see how this weakens SEC enforcement. They can still seek en
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by conover 2y ago
Yeah. Reading the opinion, the logical argument of criminalizing a status (homeless) versus an action (camping in public) makes sense. The action applies to everyone. We as a society need to continue trying to solve the problem of homelessn
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by conover 2y ago
Nvidia’s profit margin for the H100 is supposedly in the neighborhood of 1000%. So they can afford give up some profit if they need to. Couple that with the fact that the software toolchain advantage is significant. That being said, I’m all
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by conover 2y ago
You don’t usually hear the notion that Iran has a winning strategy. Rather than downvoting, I’m going to say that your comment lacks credibility.
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by conover 2y ago
This is a classic ethical dilemma. Self-driving cars will kill some amount of people via malfunctions, accidents, etc. Some amount will be children. Should we ban the development of the technology? What if it only killed 1 child? What about
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by conover 2y ago
"The world moved on", as it's said in the Dark Tower series.

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