ppezaris

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Are you good at AI, or just using it?
13 points by ppezaris 29d ago|11 comments
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by ppezaris 2y ago
now do battle chess
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by ppezaris 2y ago
Tempest had the best implementation of this. Every 3-4 levels was a checkpoint and with 3 lives as long as you cleared at least one level, you can start at your last checkpoint. If you died 3 times without completing the level, you have to
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by ppezaris 3y ago
sorry if i'm out of the loop, but i've heard what you describe as GNU/Linux, not Emacs/Linux. did emacs change to be the branding label of things like the compiler, the ---- just saw that you're probably making a jo
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by ppezaris 5y ago
Our company had just transitioned from social networking to social commerce, and was starting to build out features like a shopping cart, product listings, etc. So the valuation was mostly hand-waiving based on the fact that we were the mos
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by ppezaris 5y ago
I sold a company to Naspers once (the parent company of Prosus). Their philosophy is to let their portfolio companies continue to operate independently. I continued to be the CEO of my company, and I reported to a regional CEO, who reported
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by ppezaris 5y ago
It was the child of a guest at a BBQ that I was hosting. The parents were socializing with other adults while some of the children were playing. They didn't see that the kids had gone into the gym.
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by ppezaris 5y ago
Why do I feel like there is so much more attention paid to every Tesla accident? It's not news when a BMW or Mercedes has a fatal crash when their version of cruise control + lane keeping is active.
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by ppezaris 5y ago
One of the 70 reported incidents happened at my house three days ago. A 4-year-old child got sucked under the treadmill and he got rather severe facial abrasions. Before the accident, we were very happy with both the bike and the treadmill.
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by ppezaris 5y ago
The problem with documentation is twofold: 1. it's broadcast-only. so you have to try to anticipate in advance what the questions might be. 2. it's disconnected from the source. so someone looking at the source code has no idea wh
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by ppezaris 5y ago
If a hypothetical vaccine could save a million lives, but kills 10 people who get vaccinated, are you arguing that it shouldn't be administered?
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by ppezaris 5y ago
The latter is a much smaller version of the former. GEB's central theme has to do with levels of meaning, which is delivered not only in substance but also in form. One has to look no further than Contracrostipunctus, or the final di
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by ppezaris 5y ago
Measuring intellect is one thing, valuing it is another. Within my lifetime I've sadly seen intellectual excellence valued less and less by society with each passing decade.
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by ppezaris 5y ago
We have a couple of black sapote trees in our yard; sounds similar.
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by ppezaris 5y ago
It depends quite a bit on what type of product or service you are selling. For us, we expected to find customers in our batch, but when we did not we learned a valuable lesson: that it was larger companies that valued our offering more.
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by ppezaris 6y ago
not intending to start an apple-vs-msft flamewar, but this has been a solved problem on the mac since forever. is the experience that bad on windows laptops that you don't want a big trackpad? genuine question.
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by ppezaris 6y ago
I'm sorry who is using RJ45 ports on a laptop these days? Seems like that question was asked and answered years ago, and wifi has won.
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by ppezaris 6y ago
> Streak: You add points to your streak every time you post. Read and post at least once a week to continue your streak. does this imply that the expectation is that you read a book a week? (just curious)
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by ppezaris 6y ago
...or have even more PR functionality with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeStre...
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by ppezaris 6y ago
Al-gore-ithms.
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by ppezaris 6y ago
oh please no. imagine if each tweet consumed as much energy as a current bitcoin transaction. that'd be great. /s
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by ppezaris 6y ago
There's a huge assumption in this assertion: that you catch the coin. If you let it bounce on a table, it's much more likely to land heavy-side down. Just imagine a very thick coin one side lead the other side balsa wood. That wou
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by ppezaris 6y ago
plus vscode, apparently.
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by ppezaris 6y ago
Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases? I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it&#x
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by ppezaris 6y ago
i talk to 10 dev teams a week. nobody seems to be using it, other than facebook of course.
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by ppezaris 6y ago
nope, i used to own an m5. here's a letter i sent to BMW years ago. To whom it may concern, I purchased an E39 M5 in 2000, which at the time was the absolute pinnacle of automotive achievement. No other car came close to the blend of u
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by ppezaris 6y ago
not really. a big part of the experience is the 17" monitor
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by ppezaris 6y ago
oops not that anyone cares but i realize my comment might be misleading. i owned the aston for years, and loved that car more than anything, but once i bought the tesla i owned both for a few weeks, then decided to sell the aston because th
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by ppezaris 6y ago
it'm not OP but i can tell you what i love about my model s. (coming from an aston martin db7 convertible). it's the quickest car i've ever driven, by far. instant acceleration. it's better than the day i bought it. my c
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by ppezaris 6y ago
modern performance bmws (which compete w/teslas) do not last 15 years. nothing even close. not even half that.

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