duke_sam

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by duke_sam 1y ago
His genuine interest in such a vast range of topics and his ability to keep experts away from rabbit holes made the show exceptional. He will be sorely missed
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by duke_sam 1y ago
It’s impressive that Airbus caught up with Boeing after a 20 year head start. It sounds like Airbus’s bet on the future paid off but the article reads more like a PR piece than a case for why the A320 out competed the 737.
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by duke_sam 2y ago
And will anyone talented enough to put all the pieces back together want to work for the federal government after all this? Feels like a good way of ensuring the only path forward is to pay large sums to private enterprise to fill the gaps.
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by duke_sam 2y ago
The schadenfreude is strong here but it’s hard to argue with results. By treating space launches as a process to refine through iteration (so the more the better) they’ve come to dominate the market. It’s also a process where others don’t g
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by duke_sam 2y ago
The whole new iteration of attempts to game this are going to be fascinating. The adversarial nature of AIs trying to produce content better able to fool the AI judging the content sounds like the perfect Petri dish to quickly increase soph
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by duke_sam 2y ago
This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlighting “supporting” content for human review? Even if you sup
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by duke_sam 2y ago
Not that I think TikTok is particularly spotless but this sounds like the result of an algorithm learning what groups will engage with, ie democratic leaning accounts were more likely to do _something_ with republican content than vice vers
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by duke_sam 2y ago
You’ve been given the chance to show that your previous success wasn’t just a function of the domain you were in and team you were on. Taking a flailing org and being visibly a part of turning them around will open a lot of doors in your cu
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by duke_sam 2y ago
The risk of deployments isn’t entirely technical. Depending on your business and customer base it might be necessary for some groups to have access to the feature earlier or later than others.
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by duke_sam 2y ago
Whatever problems or limitations the existing approach had dropping everything on the floor is one of the least helpful ways of trying to fix it (assuming good intent).
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by duke_sam 2y ago
You are assuming the business is entirely located in one city or at least region which is rarely the case beyond a certain size. It would also be an argument against function specific offices or locations (eg a NYC sales office) which has b
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by duke_sam 2y ago
Ireland tends to top the list of countries happy to be part of the EU. Which would be an odd position if European was a touchy identifier. It’s also not unheard of for people to refer to the mainland as if it were the whole continent.
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by duke_sam 2y ago
Absolutely, it’s possible the name could be misleading but surely this is one of those times where maybe you make the mistake once and then never again. There are far more painful gotchas in Python (see mutable args).
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by duke_sam 3y ago
Most shops in Ire/UK have stopped providing thin plastic bags for sale. All bags are either bags for life or (much) more expensive reusable plastic bags. Only small convenience stores still have the thin bags available.
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by duke_sam 3y ago
In an ideal world the state would prosecute the company and the evidence from that would be usable in a class action suit with huge punitive damages.
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by duke_sam 3y ago
For a hack day project someone took our IRC logs to do something similar for employees who had left (one bot per engineer, small company so a handful of bots). This made for a great afternoon until the bots started talking to each other and
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by duke_sam 3y ago
If you work for a company where your whole immediate team are co-located it can be great. In my experience I end up spending most of my time working with people in disparate offices so I get the worst of both worlds, constant in-office vide
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by duke_sam 15y ago
I just bought a couple of the Builders of Tomorrow Set #6177. All regular pieces, no tie-in or specialist parts. Expand with a couple of specific sets for the minifigs or custom pieces and you are set. If you are lucky enough to live near a
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Salesforce & Verizon Help Pump $15m More Into Urban Airship(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by duke_sam 15y ago|0 comments
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by duke_sam 15y ago
I was lucky enough to get a startup to sponsor my H1B. It was a big investment for them since I'd cost them a large chunk of money and time before I'd written a single line of code. You spend most of the process feeling guilty for taking ti
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by duke_sam 15y ago
So much better in fact that they are the trope namer for a series suddenly getting better: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingTheBeard
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by duke_sam 15y ago
Isn't the whole idea of the government taking action against people for marketing goods against free market capitalism?
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by duke_sam 15y ago
>>> from decimal import Decimal >>> 2 * Decimal("3.1") Decimal('6.2')
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by duke_sam 15y ago
The problem with the market judging is a bank is worth your money or not is that by the time everybody decides that bank X is going under it's probably too late to get your money out (e.g. a run on the bank). This is why we have the FDIC.
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by duke_sam 15y ago
I know a number of people who fell back on using the mobile version but it was so much hassle they just found alternative sources. I used to hit Kotaku and io9 multiple times per day but the new design meant I spent more time trying to find
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by duke_sam 15y ago
I think the networks are missing the point, the alternative to Hulu and other online offerings isn't cable or satellite it's P2P. Hulu allows them to get _some_ money from people who otherwise would be worthless to them. Paying $2 per episo
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by duke_sam 16y ago
I understand that differences of opinion can exist on the function of the government and it's interference in private commerce but seriously: "First, the proposed settlement only calls for loan modifications that would produce a greater “ne
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Also in some parts of the world there is a leading H sound, specifically Ireland. We also pronounce R like 'or' instead of 'are' which causes endless amusement every time I use the abbreviation HR in the states.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
One of the concerns of the 2nd amendment was protecting the people from an unjust government. Back then I could see a citizens militia being able to violently protect their rights as a form of last resort. These days unless you live in a fo
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by duke_sam 16y ago
I'm also pretty sure this is why software houses run as widget factories will produce sub-standard solutions. The hierarchical structure gives more weight to the ideas of the people managing. This works if the manager is an expert (or at le

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