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by kotxig 3y ago
If the outcome of all of this is that Altman ends up at Microsoft and hiring the vast majority of the team from OpenAI, it's probably wise to assume that this was the intended outcome all along. I don't know how else you get the t
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by kotxig 4y ago
"should probably be reconsidered" isn't exactly outrage is it? We can have sensible discussions about appropriate naming without being extreme one way or the other, as much as the internet seems to hate moderate discussion.
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by kotxig 4y ago
I think brainf*k is a great example of a potentially offensive name that actually conveys meaning and doesn't harm adoption by its intended audience.
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by kotxig 4y ago
Let's just put it this way, I'm not advertising in anything associated with my professional credibility that I use "lunatic", for the very obvious reason that it's possibly offensive to some people and that the word
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by kotxig 4y ago
definition of "lunatic" - "a person who is mentally ill (not in technical use)." I didn't say it was offensive. If it was called "autistic", the word is not offensive but... why? It's just a really st
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by kotxig 4y ago
I mean, I had to think about it. Whether it's hugely offensive or not isn't necessarily the right question here. With the whole English language to pick from there are probably better choices that are less ambiguous.
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by kotxig 4y ago
I wish they had called it something else. I hate to be that guy but you know, it's not that hard to be maybe just a little bit more thoughtful. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17997413
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by kotxig 4y ago
If people in science really do understand that correlation is not causation, why are they publishing papers in journals that show meaningless correlations without doing the actual work of uncovering patterns of causation? If you really unde
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by kotxig 4y ago
It's good for climate change because it will gross enough of us out to stop eating meat all together.
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by kotxig 4y ago
You can compute an autocorrelation with FFT's by applying the convolution theorem which IIRC the audio api can do the FFTs for you. I also found the the YIN estimator is a lot better as a time domain estimator http://auditio
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by kotxig 5y ago
I am surprised to find in these comments that using the debugger routinely and by default isn't a popular idea. I couldn't do my job as well as I do without having the reflex to use the debugger. I shouldn't be surprised thou
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by kotxig 5y ago
The reason debuggers are often hard to use in these environments is because people who don't routinely use debuggers to do their job do not see the value of them, and so organizations do not prioritize your ability to do this. The tone
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by kotxig 5y ago
It's easier that the US blocks it for diplomatic reasons than the UK. The UK will almost certainly block it if the US doesn't. It could be interpreted as a snub if the UK interferes with the deal, so the US has first dibs on block
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by kotxig 5y ago
I refuse to ever work for facebook or have a facebook account. I regret having a whatsapp account, created before it was acquired. Still migrating friends+family onto signal. I get it, Facebook has scale and some cool hard problems to solve
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Vaporwave: A Cultural Autopsy [video](youtube.com)
2 points by kotxig 5y ago|0 comments
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by kotxig 6y ago
Is there a list of companies that fall into category 3 that offer fully remote positions? I worked at a tier 3 company in the bay area and have since settled into what's probably a tier 2 company in Europe. I am considering moving back
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by kotxig 6y ago
> Providing customer value is a business model, and it's rather independent of the license underneath. Yes, my argument and tl;dr is that flooding the market with free software has created an environment where superior for-profit al
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by kotxig 6y ago
Yes they have been successful and continue to be. I still think they have made a mistake, I don't see why success would invalidate that. If amazon are eating into their profits their mistake was to not protect their business against th
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by kotxig 6y ago
> Like it doesn't make sense to code a complete OS from scratch every five years No but it does make sense for us to pay for using an OS given that it's fundamental to what we do. The free as in free beer model means that the e
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by kotxig 6y ago
Elastic made the mistake of building a whole business on open source software by relying on the poor experience and artificial overhead to launching that software independently and in a production ready fashion. It's no surprise then t
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by kotxig 6y ago
1. The culture around equity should be changed. There are too many companies where employees are only offered equity if they ask for it, and people don't understand it. We can educate the SWE community about matters of financial litera
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by kotxig 6y ago
Moved to signal today, plenty of people in my contacts are following suit (was way easier than I thought). I've never had a facebook account, had WhatsApp before facebook bought them. I will also have to jailbreak or dump my oculus que
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by kotxig 6y ago
Pretty sure the UK reduced cooperation with the US after it refused to extradite Anne Sacoolas to face fair trial in the UK after accidentally killing Harry Dunn.
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by kotxig 6y ago
"Take the 3% otherwise you'll own 40% of nothing" I would call the bluff. It doesn't look like you have many options to exit with a cash settlement unless you're allowed to sell your own equity. I wouldn't take
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by kotxig 6y ago
I understand what you're saying. What I was trying to illustrate was that by virtue of knowing the ins and outs of the codebase, it's easy for them to make changes (hence the quotes around "super effective"). It would be
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Ask HN: How can I work with OG engineers?
4 points by kotxig 6y ago|3 comments
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by kotxig 6y ago
This is only a problem because we live in a world where political issues are strongly affiliated with political ideologies in a binary fashion - i.e. identity politics. Even so much as people interpret a company's intention to remain p
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by kotxig 6y ago
> If you're OK with locking up your money for 30+ years, sure. 55 isn't 30+ years away for me. > this leads to higher property prices, which negatively impacts you as a first-time buyer. And yet it still looks more affordabl
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by kotxig 6y ago
> The marginal tax on a £100-125k London salary is 62% This is why you should reduce a 100 - 125k salary by 40k through salary sacrifice, paying into a self directed pension. Taxable income is reduced to £60 - 85k. > Also, VAT there i
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by kotxig 6y ago
My tax concerns are essentially being unable to leverage the tax efficiency vehicles while working in the UK. i.e. having to pay tax in the US on income that attracts zero tax in the UK. My actual concern is about going through the immigrat

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