ivanstojic

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by ivanstojic 8mo ago
> If you asked me six months ago what I thought of generative AI, I would have said It’s always this tired argument. “But it’s so much better than six months ago, if you aren’t using it today you are just missing out.” I’m tired of the h
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by ivanstojic 8mo ago
When tractors were invented, there was a notable reduction in human employment in agriculture in the USA. From a research paper ( https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/alolmstead/Recent_P... ): > The lower-bou
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by ivanstojic 9mo ago
At the same time, I actually wouldn’t mind a world in which AI agents cost $5000 a month if that’s what companies want to charge. I feel like at some level that would remove the possibility of making a “just as good as humans but basically
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by ivanstojic 9mo ago
I started reading the article and immediately got hit by the incorrect statement in the opening: > If AI agents help each support employee handle 30% more tickets, that's like adding 30 new hires to a 100-person team, without the co
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by ivanstojic 2y ago
TL;DR: on-call manages acute issues, documents steps taken, possibly farms out immediate work to subject matter experts. Rate on-call based on traces they leave behind. Separate on-call with same population, but longer rotation window handl
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
Thanks for being here over the years. The faces changed some, stayed the same some, but it’s good people and good conversation! May you all have a happy new year, and many more!
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
https://archive.is/2023.11.17-204745/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
Tossing mine in the pot too: make + pandoc: https://ordecon.com/2020/07/pandoc-as-a-site-generator/index...
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
I've been playing around with a limited PCB autorouter for mechanical keyboards. You feed it a KLE layout file, and it spits out a KiCad PCB, layout map for QMK firmware, and various SVG cuts for case machining.
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
The country lines on the globe are ridiculously out of date, and show countries that haven’t existed for 30 years.
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
How would this work against scrapers that are based on driven anpproved browser instances, eg. something like Selenium?
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
The length of a law doesn’t reduce its murkiness - in fact it makes it more pronounced. That is why (in the common law systems) there is so much discussing and re-discussing of topics that plenty of other cases already covered, using new ap
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by ivanstojic 3y ago
What happens with eSIM devices?
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
I had to research who that is. I stumbled onto this: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-pr... Loaded associations.
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
My TTRPG group has been playing together for several years - on and off. We'd been mostly playing D&D 5e, even though we had members clamoring for other systems. After the WotC fiasco started blowing up, we finally bought a couple
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
This is true, but only by omission: we don't know everything he believes. We do know he publicly supports the genocide in order to protect himself. MLK day is around the corner. It's worth considering what it cost some people to
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
Seeing stories like this makes me very averse to the idea of running a business myself. I don’t mind the idea of trying and failing because the market isn’t there or my execution sucks, but trying and having my earnings be trapped in an alg
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
How does this differ from XUL?
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
Isn't the real performance gained by eliminating the triple nested for loops and memoizing over a sliding window, rather than the use of XOR? You would get the same order-of-magnitude improvement if you used a map combined with iterate
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
This is to me peak social media in 21st century. Somebody has been curating or authoring content for 13 years, but if they don't have clearly identifiable personalities that you can track down, we ask ourselves if they are real. In gen
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
Kura Sushi ( https://kurasushi.com/ ) that's mentioned in the comments is one place, but there are also a few others whose names I can't remember in the Sawtelle Japantown. It's worth noting that Kura is highly
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
There’s a number of restaurants in LA that use robots for delivering drinks to your table. I found them strange the first time I saw them but eventually they become invisible. I’ve never yet seen them misbehave in a notable way, but they se
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
Working on mechanical keyboard design. I learned so much about CNC and other manufacturing methods, relearned a lot about electronics and most entertainingly learned more than I ever thought I’d know about the USB protocol.
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
We should recognize that there are universal needs for geezers and kids: we want some form of personal security. For a lot, that means home ownership. Let’s look at data: If the geezer is 60 and paid off their loan today, they got it 30 yea
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
We easily claim the opposite for other companies (Apple, Facebook, Google) and other countries (mostly Asian fabrication centers). Why do we have such a strong belief that Uber USA != Uber Germany? (Edit: I'm Croatian and fairly well a
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
After years of playing it and putting probably thousands of hours into Angband, I switched to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup ( https://crawl.develz.org/ ) and I love it to bits. Text mode, turn based dungeon crawlers aren't fo
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by ivanstojic 4y ago
> There IS risk to the employee; they now have a real loan outstanding and 100% personal recourse, so if the common stock becomes less than exercise price, their personal assets are on the hook https://twitter.com/theryan
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by ivanstojic 5y ago
Does anyone else feel awkward about the use of the word "attack" in this context?
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by ivanstojic 5y ago
Interesting thing to remember: quaternions are a special application of rotors, a concept which may be easier to understand as a base: https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
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by ivanstojic 5y ago
If you’ve never seen the “five whys” technique before, then you are probably unfamiliar with its criticisms as well. This shows a broad spectrum of proponents and critics of the approach: https://www.google.com/search?q=five

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