jgwil2

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by jgwil2 5d ago
1. I'm not sure what you're advocating here that wasn't already a best practice in software engineering. 2. This is a real benefit. 3. Not sure I follow, can you expand on this? 4. You don't have to be a perfectionist bu
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by jgwil2 6d ago
I wish more companies would just focus on webapps. It's infuriating how many services try to push an app on you when it's completely unnecessary. The other day I went to a restaurant that had an app. Not a fast food chain, a nice
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by jgwil2 22d ago
This is just bad training. Water should be brought out and refilled without asking.
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by jgwil2 22d ago
This is opinion, not information. Of course people's opinions will conflict.
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by jgwil2 22d ago
If all you want to do is remote into your desktop, Neo seems like overkill. Why not just get a $200 Chromebook and save yourself $500?
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by jgwil2 1mo ago
> thankless job His annual compensation was over $10 million.
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by jgwil2 1mo ago
The purpose of having a human look at LLM output is not just to verify correctness but also to understand a system. The parallel to math is that the value of a proof is not just the verification of a statement but also the working out of th
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by jgwil2 1mo ago
I stand corrected. Still I'd recommend it as a followup for anyone intrigued by this post as it shows a real world, non-trivial example of removing abstractions in order to improve performance.
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by jgwil2 1mo ago
See also the more in-depth followup "Simple Code, High Performance ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY )
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by jgwil2 2mo ago
On the subject of functional languages with JS as a compilation target, is anyone still using PureScript?
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by jgwil2 4mo ago
> If someone kills a family member and the court gives them 6 years and a parole officer, the remaining family will and has taken justice into their own hands and that has a much higher blast radius and margin of error than executing a g
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by jgwil2 4mo ago
> Whether or not you believe the United States' leaders, whether or not you think there was a better way for them to achieve their goals (something something Obama deal) is up for debate. But it's very facetious to say you &quo
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
That comment mocked German customers; it didn't mention companies at all.
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
> The commenter didn't say "I don't like that the only two serious competitors are from the USA and China" That's literally what the comment said: > Still not sure how I feel about China of all places to contr
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Who Killed the Florida Orange?(slate.com)
4 points by jgwil2 5mo ago|2 comments
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
Ah yes, I remember this one. Very challenging indeed. Thanks!
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
Do you have a link by by chance? A quick search didn't turn anything up.
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
Seemed to really accelerate around 2007-2008 when Facebook became massive and turned a bunch of kids into billionaires overnight. After that it sort of turned into a gold rush, and we were the shovels.
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
Hah, nice catch. I found that my brain actually corrected this as I was reading and I had to look back again to see the error.
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by jgwil2 5mo ago
Plenty of people worked to ban handguns only to have it shut down by SCOTUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
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by jgwil2 6mo ago
This was the title used when I came across the video. Apparently YouTube uses many different titles for A/B testing but this is the one I got. Can't edit it now, unfortunately. EDIT: seems like dang or team took care of it, thanks
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How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video](youtube.com)
177 points by jgwil2 6mo ago|69 comments
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What's Going on with the IRS?(theatlantic.com)
7 points by jgwil2 6mo ago|1 comments
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I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse(nytimes.com)
11 points by jgwil2 6mo ago|4 comments
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I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jgwil2 6mo ago
I remember thinking that wheeled suitcases were funny the first time I saw them. How silly I was...
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by jgwil2 6mo ago
> Those who liked being able to be able to rent a movie without planning days ahead are stuck with streaming now. Just want to point out that public libraries often have great DVD collections (also music, games, and more) and are often u
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by jgwil2 7mo ago
It's interesting because it's undoubtedly true that bias and prejudice affect one's interactions with the world. At the same time, it's true to that this can contribute to a vicious cycle via self-fulfilling prophecy. I
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by jgwil2 7mo ago
They're not hired to swing a hammer hard, they're hired to swing it at the right thing, and if they can't swing it hard enough they pick a different tool.
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by jgwil2 7mo ago
Not sure how you feel about them as a company, but I use Cloudflare because they sell domains at cost.

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