proteal

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by proteal 23d ago
One of my guilty pleasures in life is coming up with convincing conspiracy theories. A personal favorite of mine is flat moon theory - the idea that the moon is a thin disc, not a sphere. A surprising number of people struggle to provide co
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by proteal 1mo ago
Here’s my understanding as a native Texan with examples (don’t take this too seriously): Y’all -> group of people (howdy yall) All y’all -> everyone (all yall need to listen up!) All’s yall -> only thing (alls yall need is another
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by proteal 4mo ago
What if instead the manager was saying: “hey team I need you to all buy as many lotto tickets as possible!” I feel like that’s a better analogy. Some charlatans are buying fake tickets, but as a manager who wants to win big, I’m ok with som
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by proteal 4mo ago
It sounds to me like the safe assumption with software is that no matter how solid your stack is, there are vulnerabilities, potentially catastrophic. A question to folks more experienced than me - if my business depends on software, and I
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by proteal 4mo ago
I’d like to point out that TF2 was part of the Orange Box bundle that included Half Life, Portal, and TF2. Those single player games were never given away for free, so as a purchaser of the bundle, I wasn’t miffed TF2 went free to play. In
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by proteal 5mo ago
Barbarians at the Gate is the classic LBO book. It gives a nice mix of story and financial mechanics.
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by proteal 6mo ago
It’s also one of the thinnest floats IPO’ing. They’re only selling less than 5% of the company. That introduces a lot of sensitivity in the valuation, not to mention there exists a bit of game theory around fund managers needing to join in
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by proteal 6mo ago
Thank you for sharing! What are your thoughts on intentionally degrading service over the course of an hour instead of a hard cutoff? Like implementing an increasingly restrictive cap on download speeds/intentionally dropping a % of pa
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by proteal 9mo ago
Hey - plugged this into chatGPT 5.2 and it seems to think this theory needs more work. “As written, this looks closer to sophisticated curve-fitting (numerology with constraints) than a legitimate geometric unification, mainly because the c
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by proteal 10mo ago
I think we’re in agreement, but I’m afraid I don’t have the philosophical language to precisely pin my mental model into words (what a meta conundrum lol). I’ll try my best here, but I may come back in a few days with an edit if I can more
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by proteal 10mo ago
I think a succinct way to describe my thoughts on linear algebra/language is that language has high dimensionality (ie many different basis vectors that may not necessarily be orthogonal) and that individual languages use a unique coor
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by proteal 10mo ago
I tried the new battlefield game and it’s bizarre how some of my friends play it. There’s this expansive battle pass (pay $20/quarter for access, on top of $70 base game) where you’re given tasks in game to make progress towards cosmet
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by proteal 10mo ago
It has to do with how ATC needs to be able to communicate with all planes in the air, even ones built 100 years ago. They have to use radio so everyone can hear everyone else. There’s no other technology that is as ubiquitous as radio, so t
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by proteal 11mo ago
I understand the sentiment about a skilled user not needing this, but I think having a little buddy that I can use to offload some menial tasks would be helpful for me to iterate through my models more efficiently; even if the AI is not per
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by proteal 1y ago
I bet the folks who implemented the system do have checks and balances. The article said they placed 2 million successful orders which realistically can’t happen without some form of error correction. These reports seem like black-swan Taco
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by proteal 1y ago
He mentions s&dbox, his new engine/gmod spiritual successor. They maintain an interesting devblog over at https://sbox.game/news if you are interested in how the sausage is made.
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by proteal 1y ago
Figured I’d ask the HN crowd- what’s the best way around these geofence blocks? Have you had success with a system that can work smoothly on mobile/desktop without any of the disastrous privacy and performance implications that VPN ser
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by proteal 1y ago
The black hole has two conceptual parts - the event horizon and the singularity. The event horizon is a one-way imaginary shell where once you pass it, you will end up at the singularity which is a point at the center of the event horizon.
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by proteal 1y ago
It’s kinda like why they make compsci majors take a history class - the actual knowledge may not be particularly useful unto itself, but learning that information/skill tickles a part of the brain you dont normally use. So that later,
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by proteal 1y ago
If you are a monopoly producer (which seems fair in this context) you would set the price of the rocks where your marginal revenue equals your marginal demand. Loosely, you’d do a market survey to see what price the market would be willing
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by proteal 1y ago
How does one ensure that every seed can be completed without glitches? The website says this is the case, so I wonder how they do it because it seems nontrivial to generate valid seeds efficiently.
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by proteal 1y ago
This is a brilliant company idea! So happy it exists.
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by proteal 1y ago
I’m about to graduate from a top business school with my MBA and it’s been wild seeing AI evolve over the last 2 years. GPT3 was pretty ass - yet some students would look you dead in the eyes with that slop and claim it as their own. Fast f
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by proteal 2y ago
“Now comes the clever part.” God bless our soldiers who see that regex is turing complete and choose to implement fun programs. Yall are truly a different breed :)
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by proteal 2y ago
Well, the US dollar is an instrument to serve the interests of the US people. Many Americans were harmed by the collapse, so the government is going to try to claw back what it can for its people. After all, doesn’t matter where you are in
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by proteal 2y ago
Likely no - by simply watching the content you are signaling to the algorithm that it should promote the video to others. I’m sure he prefers you would engage with his revenue schemes, but even flippantly commenting here grows awareness for
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by proteal 2y ago
Yeah, I switched to an iPhone solely for the blue text bubbles. Among young women in my bubble, 98% have iPhones. I’d get sneers at bars from girls when my first text on their phone was green. People would complain openly about my phone rui
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by proteal 2y ago
This is actually one of the big differences between generations. It’s not just the norm for young people to share locations, but rather almost expected, with real social consequences for not. Yes it’s probably a little weird to have someone
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by proteal 2y ago
Internally we get grades. fail, low pass, pass, good, excellent. I tend to get high marks (good+), but there are forced percentages of what grades are awarded. Maybe 15% get excellent? Nobody fails unless you are super truant. Kids hunting
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by proteal 2y ago
I did undergrad before chatGPT and now I’m back in school for an MBA at a school where the school pays for all students to have access to GPT4o. Maybe because we’re all older the tools are less of a problem, but I would say they have been a

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