hibikir

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by hibikir 6d ago
There would be value in prep if one had an engine that automatically understood what positions are challenging for humans, as right now a big part of high level prep is finding opening lines that look like they lose by a bit in stockfish vs
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by hibikir 15d ago
It depends on the part of the system you are talking about. Under the covers, many a system will send reports higher up for 5 figure transfers, just for money laundering detection. And there will be all kinds of things blaring for anomaly d
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by hibikir 19d ago
Yeah, doing compute-heavy work a couple of jobs ago, we tried small images with musl, and the default allocator was a catastrophe: 75%+ slowdowns for our real life tasks. Even with a better allocator, we were way better off with the larger
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by hibikir 21d ago
Doing just payments is a really low margin industry, and the larger the contract you are after, the lower the margins. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to try to sign up startups, as their growth is your growth. And to win in the startup
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by hibikir 23d ago
The right way to read this isn't that all billionaires can face consquenecs, but that the line that makes sure you don't face consequences is quite a bit different than being a billionaire. You can still have a power center, and i
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by hibikir 26d ago
Because, given you aren't filing for PERM these days for someone that you have not already hired, someone off the street is going to be straight out worse than your current employee. PERM ade sense in a theoretical world without H1s or
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by hibikir 26d ago
Sid Meier himself warned about the difficulty of trying to design games tat are multiple games at once, as basically everything in the list other than Lemmings is). His whole "one good game is better than two great ones" argument,
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by hibikir 27d ago
The anecdote about the garden of earthly delights is going to be relatable even for art students. I've met art teachers that ended up "trapped" in Madrid by the Prado Museum: A green, American future Ph.D student that was hea
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by hibikir 28d ago
We developed creams that stopped sunburn, but were still great at getting you cancer. A lot of the ads from 70s and 80s talked about how they stopped UVB but let the tanning UVA through! So yes, they didn't burn, but the long term canc
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by hibikir 29d ago
On car insurance, you have a competitive market with actuaries trying to identify actual risks, and that, with their prices, modify bad behavior and purchases of cars that are expensive to repair. So all in all, you can end up with very nar
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by hibikir 29d ago
The flip side of Bezos' "your margin is my opportunity". But that's for competitive markets, not for heavily regulated multi-party setups with minimal competition. That's the real wonder of American healthcare, as i
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by hibikir 1mo ago
There's entire books on developmental economics which explain how states create institutions that might appear to be rules based, but are ultimately just negotiation and favor. They get more money from developed countries and investors
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by hibikir 1mo ago
You have to read the article: 2.9 includes interchange fees, 0.6 does not. It's a really bad headline
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by hibikir 1mo ago
Which makes perfect sense for face to face QR payments, as that's a very low risk payment system, in a situation with minimal fraud. Therefore, you go through a system with minimal fees. Moving far away from the expensive payment syste
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by hibikir 1mo ago
I worked on some of the very best funded plant research out there. When it comes down to it, there's enough variation caused by confounding factors, and it takes so long to capture more data, that almost everything anyone tries cannot
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by hibikir 1mo ago
I suspect that a lot about what we call being very intelligent is ultimately out-remembering people around us. I think of all the times in my software career when I did something that others considered very high performance, it either came
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by hibikir 1mo ago
It just changes the baseline. Maybe weight stops being an easy discriminator, but we go back to clothes, styling and make up quality. The lookism still exists even among the prettiest, as we can see in the eating disorders and other issues
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by hibikir 1mo ago
At which point, GDP growth sinks like a rock, and those rich people become poorer in absolute terms. It's the typical outcome in the vast majority of autocracies. It's all over development economics literature, based on purely emp
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by hibikir 1mo ago
It gets worse when you are not a solo dev, and there's sufficient variety on people's setups. Oops, someone updated a version, and then built things for just their processor, and now I am stuck in a 20 minute compilation loop beca
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by hibikir 1mo ago
The actual savings are minimal at best, as demand for cars is all about peak, and how the peak travels typically in similar directions. You see this in trains. In downtown SF, you will find trains parked near the stadium all day, because th
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by hibikir 1mo ago
There's significant trouble with routing, delays, and reliability: A self driving car does nothing naturally different that a cheaper Taxi, and you can see the lack of popularity of the carpooling offerings Lyft and Uber had. Ultimatel
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by hibikir 1mo ago
It's not a matter of the size of the country, but the density of the metro areas: See Spain, a low density country with high density cities. The US' high suburb, low density metro design is the one thing ruining transit
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by hibikir 1mo ago
Public transit is at its most useful and effective connecting dense, walkable locations. That's why it's so great in the world's best cities. The problem is a metro like DFW doesn't have the density to have said good pub
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by hibikir 1mo ago
Have you seen how it debugs? It's trial and error. As the most reasonable hypothesis fail, new data is found, and it keeps iterating. It's not a human intelligence, but if it has an issue, it's not some mysterious creativity
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by hibikir 1mo ago
I suspect that you have not read enough them. Ask someone in China (which yes, still has a capita owning class) if the proles were better off 50 years ago or now. The only real probes we have now in the west is that we have failed at housin
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by hibikir 2mo ago
You are comparing to the almighty, not to the kind of financial advisor most people would find while looking at random. Between those with very high AUM fees, those selling bad vehicles that they get kickbacks for and such, people are basic
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by hibikir 2mo ago
Yes, and that's from supposed professionals too, not just crazy youtubers or tiktok channels. My neighborhood has enough old people that Edward Jones reps come over to try to manage your money. So I get to ask them questions, and see t
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by hibikir 2mo ago
There was pushback if you look at per-team attendance situations, but there's more than enough people living in the US making a ton of money that can easily afford the crazy prices. It did lower how many people from some big football n
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by hibikir 2mo ago
A strange take, as the Lucasarts multi-character games, like Dott and Maniac Mansion at least try to push you forward and have reasonable hints. KQ6 has fewer nonsensical dead-man-walking situations (you should see how much worse earlier in
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by hibikir 2mo ago
Because the workers are also shareholders, and shareholders like money either way. Some of their business units were becoming extremely uncompetitive. So they ship a bunch of the manufacturing away to subsidiaries where you are not really a

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