ericsoderstrom

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by ericsoderstrom 3y ago
I do think it's still true in my experience that someone with the the capabilities to build useful things on their own tend to not stay very long at these giant companies, unless for specific visa reasons
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you&#x2
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
What are they supposed to do then?
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
wait what. I just read neuromancer and don't see how that applies? Were rio/wintermute ever involved in detecting an alien signal?
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
twist: these posts are written by chatGPT
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
it is
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
precede?
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
Personally I've used it more in the past week than ever before. And if Elon's tweets are to be believed, DAU is also at an all-time high. So i guess the answer is: if people are in fact leaving twitter, more are joining
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
Why was copilot a fiasco? This [0] hn thread from two months ago is filled with predominantly positive reviews [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825742
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
English is missing some seemingly basic answer words too, which are present in other languages. Like no single word for unambiguously answering a negative question. E.g. Q: Aren't you finished yet? Answering 'yes' or 'no
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
Yes, because inflation is already the first derivative of cost. So the 'rate of increase' of inflation is the second derivative. And to say that the second derivative is decreasing is another way of saying the third derivative is
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
20% APY for staking UST
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by ericsoderstrom 4y ago
I think it is a problem though when a game's revenue mostly comes from cosmetics, as it shifts the developer incentives away from "developing a game that lots of people want to buy and play" to "making the type of game t
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by ericsoderstrom 5y ago
Nope. There are some distributed blockchain file storage systems, but by and large NFTs don't use them.
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by ericsoderstrom 5y ago
Think you misunderstood the parent comment. Full screen doesn't somehow add pixels into a bezel
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by ericsoderstrom 5y ago
I think the interesting addition is his point that adding some amount of literal randomness to stages of the process would be a good thing, if the culture around interviewing could change to accept it
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by ericsoderstrom 5y ago
Isn't that marketing?
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by ericsoderstrom 5y ago
If someone pays you in cash, do you really look up the serial numbers of all the bills you receive?
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
(hint: it's a joke)
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Does anyone know what conclusions (if any) could be drawn from the psychedelic studies of the 60's? The wikipedia page on the harvard study [0] is pretty light on details. Though it looks like the study only lasted 2 or 3 years before
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
This was (is?) used as a case study in MIT's system's engineering course (6.033)
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
The USB C connection on my laptop loosened over time. To the point that the cable now just falls out unless I keep the laptop completely still. Having a magnet in there to keep the cable in place would be nice. No reason you couldn't u
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
With so many studies being done on covid (by basically every lab in the world capable of doing so), the self selection biases are especially strong. That is, every study that confirms some statistically significant effect (often with a smal
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Yeah, that one was weird. If you follow the link it leads to this [0] lecture about why you should exercise your 5th amendment right to remain silent if being interrogated by authorities. Which seems like more sensible advice than "DON
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
I think it's more like an oncologist who avoids smoking for health reasons being on the board of a cigarette company.
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
> Imagine writing a blog but everyone suggesting to you that you have to consume other people’s blogs in order to contribute your own It would be pretty weird to write a blog, but never read others. Especially if you avoided reading bl
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Huh, there's no difference for me. How do you tell if you're using the redesigned UI or not? [edit] If I open reddit in incognito then I can see the redesign, otherwise I can't. Maybe I opted out of the redesign at some point
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
I wonder how much of this comes down to problem selection, rather than effectiveness of the interviewer? Interviewers usually stick to a couple of problems, so their predictive power might depend primarily on the problem set. I've been
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
"US officials view f-91w wearers with suspicion"? Better keep an eye on this guy then: https://i.redd.it/5o061ntl2m651.jpg https://i.redd.it/b4j5fzl4d6f41.jpg
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
From the HN guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I think these examples you cited are pretty clearly off topic

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