eep_social

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by eep_social 3d ago
Not that he got it all right or anything like that but it’s amazing how much of the current macro discussion around AI capabilities is covered in the Foundation series which was published over many years, 1942 to 1993.
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by eep_social 4d ago
I definitely do not know the feeling you’re describing. My favorite quirk of mine is aphantasia but kids are more entertained by ear wiggling.
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by eep_social 2mo ago
> when Amazon was first established, one of the largest loopholes that they had used.. I thought for sure you were going to mention USPS “media” rates which allowed Amazon to ship books very cheaply.
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by eep_social 3mo ago
Interop standards for this like Open19 are not widely deployed and without interoperability it’s a dead end since you need the hosting provider to give you the drop to your rack or cage. Hyperscalers I don’t know, but I’d guess they don’t d
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by eep_social 3mo ago
What you said is not what the linked video says, so at best this is terrible advice piling onto terrible advice.
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by eep_social 4mo ago
Phone numbers have become the unique identifier used to build profiles of people and the providers can still claim “security” when they change it to pursue that revenue stream.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
“great UI” and “burned to death because the door handle wasn’t” is a bold juxtaposition
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by eep_social 5mo ago
My understanding is that as people age their skin stays drier and causes this issue. The parent post is a chef’s-kiss-perfect illustration of the problem with modern tech.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
which is why you went with Delta and not Nocturna I would think? Deltas are fine in an otherwise noisy environment but they’re misery in say a bedroom at night.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
I have also flown out of that airport. The early flights maximize viable onward connections but the logistics are a real pain.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
He’s a hack, now you know.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
If you tap into the address bar, start typing your search, type enough for it to be specific enough that autosuggest crap clears, and “On this page” appears. Wildly undiscoverable in practice.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
In a similar vein, I remember encountering a site where the frontend enforced basic complexity requirements ala “use at least one number and one symbol” but the system would silently drop all non-alphanumerics when it saved (presumably in s
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by eep_social 5mo ago
Unlike equity options, commodity future options are typically written with european style exercise rules.
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by eep_social 5mo ago
based on my experience, I suspect the latter similar, user-hostile behaviors I have found include: - wifi network passwords are persisted through a system wipe and reinstall in recovery mode - a phone home is required by an activation step
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by eep_social 6mo ago
US dollars or equivalents mostly, money market funds, treasuries, sgov, etc
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by eep_social 6mo ago
as an american I might call those “local ordinance” when they come from a smaller rulemaker like a town
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by eep_social 8mo ago
edit: op also has this, disregard hugged but someone caught it: https://archive.is/VrEtg
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by eep_social 8mo ago
A company I worked for used start date anniversaries rather than birthday for a variety of reasons.
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by eep_social 8mo ago
> bottom management “line management” is the term I am familiar with
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by eep_social 9mo ago
in high scale stateless app services this approach is typically used to lower tail latency. two identical service instances will be sent the same request and whichever one returns faster “wins” which protects you from a bad instance or even
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by eep_social 9mo ago
surely gp was referring to HD ;)
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by eep_social 9mo ago
I wasn’t in C++ style land but my recollection is that distilled experience would be backed up by extensive mailing list discussions. in case of contention the discussion might extend into case studies or other quantitative techniques atop
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by eep_social 10mo ago
My understanding is that the hardware is always installed but the dealer will not fill the liquid reservoirs unless the customer specifically requests (and pays) for it.
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by eep_social 10mo ago
Not sure what you mean. His legacy to date is ruining the iphone because he couldn’t think of anything to do beyond “thinner”.
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by eep_social 10mo ago
I think six dev teams is small in terms of kube. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s close to the perfect size to move onto kube and create and adopt a standard set of platform idioms. at orgs significantly larger than that, the kube team has
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by eep_social 10mo ago
Stuxnet was very high profile but I think the incentives to go public and place blame are complicated.
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by eep_social 10mo ago
yep. I got hold of someone on the phone and they’re closing out the account.
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Slow moving UX disaster: Passkeys are now required
9 points by eep_social 10mo ago|3 comments
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by eep_social 10mo ago
let’s start with cars. I’ve accepted that I’ll never buy a new car again which is a real shame as EVs have a ton of potential. I’d be so happy to be wrong but the trend seems to be inescapable right now.

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