graedus

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by graedus 3y ago
Interesting comment, thanks. Two questions out of curiosity: > Even though I have top notch viewing gear properly configured and calibrated Any chance you'd be willing to share a few details about this? > While some pre-compresse
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by graedus 3y ago
> Everyone in the big city is a transient, only there to make money and find love before it's time to head for the suburbs. I might be taking this bit of hyperbole(?) too literally, but while this might be a common trajectory for yo
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by graedus 4y ago
Yes, he refers to his source throughout the piece. I believe it's just one anonymous source for the entire thing though.
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by graedus 4y ago
https://archive.ph/EOVNX
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by graedus 4y ago
Related, from March 2021: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking...
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by graedus 4y ago
From the article: "Zuckerberg indicated that Meta plans to slow its hiring plans for engineers by at least 30% this year – adding roughly 6,000 or 7,000 workers rather than the 10,000 it initially expected to hire." So yes, still
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by graedus 4y ago
I thought this was an odd name too, but I'm guessing it's intentional, as git also is a derogatory word with a similar meaning. : a foolish or worthless person https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git
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by graedus 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyGw3U8JdFA "friend track" big fan of this one, reminds me of selected ambient works era aphex twin
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by graedus 5y ago
https://archive.md/MW0cN
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by graedus 5y ago
twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim related tweet: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1465327529238183940?s=2...
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by graedus 5y ago
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710075
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by graedus 5y ago
Not a strawman at all, it's a very common attitude if you are not on HN or in a similar bubble. I heard it in person (verbatim, actually) about 5 days ago.
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by graedus 5y ago
Delightful! Really challenging.
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by graedus 5y ago
That's what the one star reviews are for. (I read "unexceptional" to mean "neither exceptionally good nor exceptionally bad").
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by graedus 6y ago
it's per subdomain i think.
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by graedus 6y ago
This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identify. I think those are weighted less, or the scoring
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by graedus 6y ago
> Capital One used to offer different mortgage rates to IE users and Firefox users That's amusing, I didn't know about it before. Looks like the story broke 10 years ago: https://hothardware.com/news/at-cap
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by graedus 6y ago
> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a second in the video. There was a nice little examination o
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by graedus 6y ago
More generally Enter acts as a left-click on whatever element has focus in the browser. If you press tab, you cycle the focus to the next link/input/button/whatever. Shift+tab cycles through them in reverse order. If a normal
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by graedus 6y ago
This is a concept that matches my lived experience, and I find it's very useful to keep in mind.
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by graedus 6y ago
I'm not denying the unfortunate reality that in many/most cases in the US today, the employer holds outsize power relative to employees. If you are precarious - you don't have emergency savings or the ability to quickly find
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by graedus 6y ago
Imagine framing your employer as "the hand that feeds you", as if it is generously giving you a gift by paying you your salary in exchange for your labor. Here is a different view: don't expose your most vulnerable and precar
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by graedus 7y ago
It's scary not because this specific dataset was used to train Teslas that are on the road today. Rather, because it makes us aware of an entire class of errors that most of us probably hadn't thought about before. I guess you are
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by graedus 7y ago
This is a book review of Katharina Pistor's "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality". The review is written by Adam Tooze, himself the author of the excellent "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial C
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by graedus 7y ago
Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
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by graedus 7y ago
Adding to the chorus: this was superb and I'm looking forward to the book. Here's the HN post from April 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565691
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by graedus 7y ago
I got two. For those that don't know, a good portion of these nagging modal windows play nice in the sense that pressing ESC closes them - good to be able to instantly dismiss them without having to hunt for the close button. The first
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by graedus 7y ago
> we want the Iranian people to stand up to the Mullahs How are you defining "we" here?
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by graedus 7y ago
I did near the height of the frenzy (Jan '18), but I got lucky and got it for MSRP. That's a great example though, I remember seeing retailers charging 2-3x MSRP.
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by graedus 7y ago
> 'MSRP stands for the average suggested retail price and that because it's an average, sometimes the actual price will be higher.' It stands for manufacturer's suggested retail price, but I guess your point stands be

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