expazl

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by expazl 2y ago
That adressing throughput not costs. If you keep costs contant, lower prices but acchive higher throughput, the only thing you acchieve is to lose money faster than you would have done otherwise by just lowering costs straight away.
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by expazl 3y ago
> In the aftermath of 9/11, the government has to be seen doing "something". This was the something. No, that might have been true then, but the real reason is the same that Airlines suddenly unlearned how to group people
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by expazl 3y ago
> They didn't kill RSS - they introduced people to it. For myself and most people i knew that knew of RSS feeds, we weren't introduced by google reader, we migrated to it because it was a great reader. Then once they had everyo
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by expazl 3y ago
> It turned out the distribution (and to some extent, ownership) problems eclipsed every other problem in software. I have a different perspective. I see it more as a question about runtime environment. We still have 20y old Delphi appli
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by expazl 3y ago
You can do that in confluence.
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by expazl 3y ago
Despite the odd angle used throughout all the western media propaganda. It was an Iraqi group not Iranian group. The constant push to frame this as "USA vs. Iran" by calling it an Iran-backed group, instead of an Iraqi group, or b
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by expazl 3y ago
Micky mouse was inspired by "a real world animal". That doesn't mean that all IP is suddenly void.
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by expazl 3y ago
> It feels like almost all the issues with self-checkout technology come from the attempts to minimise shoplifting, which don't even seem that effective at doing that. In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way chec
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by expazl 3y ago
Thank god, finaly! I was getting so annoyed at my ice melting when cooking fish and the beeswax melting when cooking tenderloin. Why didn't anyone think of this before? /S When you have a product you think is cool but you don&#x27
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by expazl 3y ago
Human level means at the level of a human. Replace your 6 senior software engineers with 6 random humans, heck, replace them with 600 random humans. Let them lose on a problem and report back the results.
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by expazl 3y ago
I might be glossing over a lot of subtleties, but if you ask me South park single-handedly rerouted Disneys trajectory through nothing but targeted satire.
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by expazl 3y ago
That's like demanding that anytime a F1 driver takes a pit stop he should be fired. Obviously the pit stop itself doesn't improve the time, and he's just sitting still. Imagine if a driver was sitting still after the race sta
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by expazl 3y ago
> Yes, the latter more difficult to do accurately, but if people were really able to evaluate themselves, they would be able to understand they’re, on average, below or above the median. Lets suppose I ask you "How tall are you?&quo
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by expazl 3y ago
Too late to edit, but I think Adam D'Angelo staying on the board proves my speculation completely wrong.
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by expazl 3y ago
> I think if people at all levels of skill were reasonably good at measuring their own ability, we would see two curves that roughly overlap. Instead we see the graph given. Actually, due to the construction of the test, the ability to e
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by expazl 3y ago
> But in reality, it would be very surprising if performance and evaluation of performance were independent. We expect people to be able to accurately rate their own ability. This seems to be attacking an irrelevant point in the analysis
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by expazl 3y ago
Everyone who sat in the meeting with the board ousting Sam knows enough of the reason as to why he was ousted. They all voted Yes, and even if some of them regret it now that they see it didn't unfold as just a simple "we now have
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by expazl 3y ago
It looks like 90%+ of the company is ready to join him and other senior members at Microsoft under a new banner and with the backing of Microsoft which is the major cost center for OpenAI, and also own 49% of OpenAI. It's got to be a f
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by expazl 3y ago
So from all the news it's difficult to figure out what might have been the boards Idea. But I have a fealing it went something like this: Adam D'Angelo has a solution for selling chatbots using ChatGPT(Poe). He asks Sam "is O
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by expazl 3y ago
Another great point in this discussion is the page on why fossil deliberately does not have rebase: "Rebase considered Harmful" https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md
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by expazl 3y ago
Believe it or not, but if you manage to damage your engine by driving through deep water that snot under warrenty either, unless you own an ambitious vehicle. There is this incredibly odd and incridibly forced mentality in drivers of "
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by expazl 3y ago
My laptop can't handle being submerged in a puddle why would a car? It's batteries being submerged, the doors aren't waterproof. It's not a amphebian vehicle. If the puddles are deep enough to leak water into your car an
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by expazl 3y ago
I mean the owner pretty much admits to driving through puddles, the question is how deep they were, but my bet would be that they did in fact submerge the bottom of the car. Most electric car owners would be aware enough about what type of
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by expazl 3y ago
> Ok so a lot of folks have fine motor control problems. The scrollbar is not there so you can use it to change your scroll position. It's there solely for the purpose of visualizing what your current scroll position is. Every devic
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by expazl 3y ago
I get that the luxury watch crowd will look at this as a failure because they count the time a watch works not in years but generations. But the Apple watch isn't that type of watch, it's a wrist computer. And from my perspective
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by expazl 3y ago
> Often with natural selection people will presuppose that different traits must have purposes or necessary advantages. This is very true and even experts with good communication skills fall pray of perpetuating this misconception. It&#x
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by expazl 3y ago
By "people" you mean humans? You're a human, at least I suppose you are, my apologies if you're a ChatGPT bot. But assuming you are human, why did you people think killing all sparrows would save the grain? Seems arbitra
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by expazl 3y ago
Remember kids, breakfast is the most important meal of the day (TM)! So make sure you start it huge dose of sugar dressed up in funny colors! This will all but guarantee you'll have a blood glucose crash in the early hours of your day,
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by expazl 3y ago
> Hey we can't pay workers $250/hr without raises prices to above what customers are willing to pay There are restaurants that charge north of 800$ per person which are always fully booked half a year in advance with glowing re
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by expazl 3y ago
I haven't read the study, but I think there is an extremely high chance that this is showing confirmation bias. And i feel the video they show supports this interpretation. I don't know monkeys so didn't know which ones had o

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