lemmsjid

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by lemmsjid 1y ago
Interesting. Things I think of as quite reasonable, though certainly with counter arguments, are to him fundamentally preposterous and not even worthy of reasonable consideration. My kid goes to a very liberal California school. The main di
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by lemmsjid 1y ago
You’re ignoring general heavy workloads such as observability. How much telemetry do they gather and analyze for tracking and fraud detection. A quick google on Tesco engineering shows that they process 35k qps against couchbase, and 35 ter
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by lemmsjid 1y ago
I’d say a useful way of thinking about caching is through the lens of the CAP theorem. You are facing a situation where compute requirements exceed the bounds of a single process. There are a variety of things you can do here, all with cons
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by lemmsjid 1y ago
Quite agree, this is how I explain it to people. When you think of cache as another derived dataset then you start to realize that the issues caches bring to architectures are often the result of not having an agreement between the business
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by lemmsjid 1y ago
I enjoy wordle and wouldn’t automate it to replace my play. I also enjoy techie people demonstrating that you can automate X with Y tool. That’s another form of problem solving. Can’t those enjoyments exist simultaneously?
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by lemmsjid 1y ago
Huh, I agree with your last sentence but think the author did a good job of explaining that the cost of layout experimentation in a startup can grow over time if the results of the experiments are overstated. The first question for a startu
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
As an ex new englander I approve of y’all over youse because it’s hard to use “youse” efficiently without saying “youse guys”.
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
I partially agree with you but have some counter thoughts. Tone is something that can be adopted intentionally or unintentionally. If you hear a pilot on a radio dryly say something in a calm and detached tone, it could be in the context o
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
I was intrigued and took a Quick Look at the top studies on this subject and the metrics used are things like relative overdose deaths in an area, crime statistics, and usage of treatment programs. They say that by virtue of a number of ep
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
Personally, I find a team seems to be healthiest if a mixture of personalities are on it. They should all be competent. When it comes to incompetence, people can hide that behind kindness, or behind bluster and bullying. Both are certainly
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
Huh! If I reflect back on my involvement in projects that had difficulties, there was rarely a dearth of competent people, and in fact it was often political and communication concerns that led to suffering. Look at Conway’s Law: “any orga
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
I think what you're seeing there is Jemisin actively foregrounding and exploring a difficult fact, which is that people who were abused are more likely to turn around and be abusers. Often times books turn abuse into the catalyst for a
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
On your first point, you have to at least acknowledge that a ton of people strongly disagree with you. I've certainly bounced off of widely read and highly rated novels before, but rarely do I leave with a complete dismissal of the qu
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
No flamewar here, I quite agree! I really enjoyed The Fifth Season (if "enjoy" is a word that can be applied to something so dark), but it did have flaws (I used "visceral" and "imaginative" in my above commen
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
Interesting. I've made it a point to try to make my way through the canonical sci fi greats over the years, and I'd put Left Hand of Darkness near the top. It's kind of because of that tonal difference: there's somethi
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by lemmsjid 2y ago
Jemisin is one of the more visceral and imaginative writers I've encountered in recent years, and she did indeed produce and publish written works, so I do believe she is a real author, yes. I'd certainly be interested in reading
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's a crude way of approaching the problem, it's a crude way of solving the problem. Taking the fraud example, taking unsupervised approaches to understanding patterns of the data before you impose assump
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I might be misunderstanding your point, but there's use cases that have repeatedly come up for me in multiple businesses, below being some examples, without getting too specific: - identify latent features of customers via their behavi
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Poor choice of words on my part. In my example one is going "off course" in the sense that one is spending more time on the yak shaving than is justified by the scope of the problem being solved (e.g. let's say refactoring a
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I've heard the term used in a purely negative sense, while personally thinking it's often necessary and sometimes brilliant to do some yak shaving. Some of the best yak shavers I know are essential people, even in a "move fa
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
It would be interesting to do an experiment on people playing one another (online) with these pieces vs regular pieces (e.g. one player with a regular set and one player with this set). Because I do feel like I can visualize the state of th
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I just finished reading Children of Time and was indeed imagining that he was looking at earlier research on this subject, because the way he describes the spiders' initial thinking skills quite echos the article. It was very fun to r
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
It is not racist to make an observation about race. It is racist to believe that one race is superior to another and act accordingly. For example, it is not racist to acknowledge the frequently measured metric that African Americans on av
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I am as layperson as they get on this subject matter, but I would think that even if your statement is true, perhaps we can get to the point where bacteria need to evolve so much to overcome new antibiotic approaches that they lose some of
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Ah good show :). I was rather preoccupied with the question but didn't have one handy. Well, I do, but my kid would roast me slowly over coals if I so much as smudged it. Ah the joy of the Internet, I did not predict this morning that
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I did some reading and it seems that rubber's relative density to water has to do with its manufacturing process. I see a couple of different quotes on the specific gravity of so-called 'natural rubber', and most claim it&#x
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I think atomic bombs is a good analogy for why it's alarming, actually. Humanity had a great and brief time putting radium in all sorts of things until they realized that it was doing something that penetrated deeply into and through
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I think you're really re-stating his case, which is interesting because you then call it 'empty virtue signaling'. He's applying a standard analytical lens to AI startups, e.g. looking for their moats through finding dif
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I'm a supporter of free speech, and like most free speech supporters I tend to believe the suppression of speech leads to a paradoxical effect: the metastasis of the suppressed ideas. Of course there is a but coming! When twitter launc
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
To me this blog post doesn't fully make its case, though has many good points and is a good read. I think my main logical objection is that the alternative best practices at the end of the article were all security best practices befor

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