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by eloff 3y ago
That matters little. The point is people on HN missed the potential of Dropbox because for them it was a problem they already had a half solution for. For regular people who don’t know what an rsync is, Dropbox seemed like magic. The moral
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by eloff 3y ago
I stand corrected!
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by eloff 3y ago
Then you get a revolution and the whole system is torn down and rebuilt in a different form. That's highly undesirable, and as I mentioned, is a real tail risk to consider.
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by eloff 3y ago
"progress is inevitable": It's not actually. Progress is only made if people take the risk and effort to advance progress. That does require rewarding them appropriately for the risk taken. I'm not saying we get that bal
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by eloff 3y ago
How that is handled really comes down to how your society has agreed to establish a social safety net. In Northern Europe it’s handled quite well. In the U.S. it’s handled with a “callous lack of empathy” as you phrased it. My point is disr
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by eloff 3y ago
I agree, I said as much about winners and losers being created. It’s still a good thing for society - the alternative is halting or slowing progress.
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by eloff 3y ago
That cycle has gone on since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Jobs are destroyed, people complain and protest, new jobs are created and the total economic pie and the absolute size of the average person’s slice increases. A valid q
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by eloff 3y ago
It’s both really if you look at IQ tests. It’s part of the reason immigrants will often score lower, they lack the culture or language specific knowledge being tested. IQ is a proxy for intelligence. People often use them interchangeably, b
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by eloff 3y ago
Is there something like this for the command line in general? I'd love to have a ? command that takes an optional prompt and feeds my current shell history to chat gpt and gets a recommendation for the last command that failed. Somethi
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by eloff 3y ago
I use gbd so rarely that I often forget the commands between sessions. Then I use print debugging when it’s not the best tool just because I don’t want to lookup the commands. I could see the use for this kind of thing. Same problem when co
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by eloff 3y ago
Even the plants are trying to kill you in Australia. That continent seems to have a bonanza of deadly critters. Still, when you look at the statistics, any urban area in the U.S. is more dangerous than Australian wildlife. Both the roads an
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by eloff 3y ago
I’m just a computer guy, but I also see that as likely. When it comes down to it there’s less than 100 elements, made of a handful of forces and subatomic particles that make up the incredible universe that we live in. It seems somehow to g
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by eloff 3y ago
That’s a fair point, but of the over twenty programming languages I’ve used in my career, only C uses null terminated strings. All the others store the length. There’s good reasons for that. I think C strings are objectively bad and error p
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by eloff 3y ago
Would it be better to stock your head in the sand? I’m honestly baffled by your comment.
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by eloff 3y ago
We have a clear understanding of why the difference matters here, see my other comment in this thread.
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by eloff 3y ago
Two main things. One is that women are smaller and body mass matters a lot to alcohol metabolism. The second thing is many women lack an enzyme that helps metabolize alcohol, which makes them even slower to metabolize it.
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by eloff 3y ago
Thanks, that makes sense now.
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by eloff 3y ago
Yes, but the point is the danger from the warming contribution is less than the danger from an ozone hole, so why focus on the warming? Unless the ozone depletion is below the recovery rate.
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by eloff 3y ago
If they’re that incompetent that they need to fake their database and think it’s a good idea, there’s little surprise that they’re also too incompetent to realize that task is only a couple hours of coding.
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by eloff 3y ago
He doesn’t give any numbers there. I may well be completely out to lunch, but that source doesn’t modify my opinion. Here's the results of the first large randomized clinical trial - the gold standard in medicine. The study involved ov
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by eloff 3y ago
The free version is still on 3.5. I still use it, it’s faster and I can’t use the plus version that my company pays for for personal stuff.
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by eloff 3y ago
chat.openai.com, create an account and upgrade it to plus ($20/mo). There’s currently limits on how many messages you can send. There’s also an API.
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by eloff 3y ago
Thank you, my source was probably wrong, or my memory. However, I wouldn’t be quick to say it invalidates the conclusion, without more careful analysis.
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by eloff 3y ago
Your should assume your odds are 1 in 1000, without reason to believe otherwise. Your actual odds are obviously going to be different, but that is unknown to you and shouldn’t affect your reasoning about the risks.
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by eloff 3y ago
There seems to be some solid data that mammograms, colonoscopies, and treating prostate cancer (with many caveats on that last one) is actually mostly not beneficial in reducing overall mortality. The reasons are likely complex and nuanced,
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by eloff 3y ago
Probably not the best example, you get the idea though.
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by eloff 3y ago
I’ve been using GitHub copilot and ChatGPT at work for a year now. I think you’re wrong. You don’t just wily nilly accept code from the AI anymore than you would from stackoverflow. But it would also be silly to ban yourself from copying co
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by eloff 3y ago
Yes, nothing is a given when it comes to the stock market.
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by eloff 3y ago
Also the reason the stock jumped on the news is the company is potentially worth more this way, by breaking out higher margin / faster growth units from the big retail business. A lot of Amazon investors would love to see the same with
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by eloff 3y ago
I guess if you never grow that much. I don’t know why you would purposefully handicap yourself by not taking advantage of the tools available. Why make yourself less competitive?

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