saynay

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by saynay 4mo ago
AI certainly is the shiny new hammer, and it is tempting to see the world as nails. Traditional methods might not be perfect, but they also easily fit in the memory of even low power devices. Perhaps it isn't a problem worth burning a
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by saynay 4mo ago
Haven't they hemorrhaged a lot of the founding talent in the years since? Now it is full of ex-Meta ad-tech people trying to find a way to make it actually turn a profit.
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by saynay 4mo ago
It was pretty obvious he was wanting to enter a conflict with someone, and was mostly held back in his first term by the actual professionals in his cabinet at that time. But the guy wanted a military parade with tanks rolling through DC on
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by saynay 6mo ago
Claude folks proudly claim to have Claude effectively writing itself. The CEO claims it will read an issue and automatically write a fix, tests, commit and submit a PR for it.
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by saynay 6mo ago
I would probably say that both the city and the cop should, independently, be liable. Given the position of authority the city provides, it is ultimately responsible to hire and properly train people who will use that authority well, while
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by saynay 7mo ago
> But this makes the language feel like Python From what I remember of a presentation they had on how and why the made Go, this is no coincidence. They had a lot of Python glue code at Google, but had issues running it in production due
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by saynay 7mo ago
I wonder if we just don't have many of these types of satellites in a polar orbit, since we don't have as big a need for that type of imagery for the poles?
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by saynay 11mo ago
On the other hand, I had the misfortune of having a hardware failure on one of my Hetzner servers. They got a replacement harddrive in fairly quickly, but still complete data loss on that server, so I had to rebuild it from scratch. This wa
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by saynay 1y ago
> means you can stop paying $1000+/month to someone who is already a millionaire, that's still a savings even if it adds $20 in overhead. Only if these hypothetical millionaires you are stopping make up more than 1/50 of t
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by saynay 1y ago
Boo... I was worried that might be the case looking at the renders.
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by saynay 1y ago
The looks are what they are, but if that wide shelf will mean the phone doesn't wobble when placed on a table, that is a good usability improvement. One of the small things I missed when moving from a Pixel 6 to an iPhone was the abili
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by saynay 1y ago
I largely agree, but when we hold phones it is generally by the side without the camera. That means that this phone will feel smaller in the hand, which could be a very effective marketing gimmick to upsell people from the base iPhone.
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by saynay 1y ago
It isn't as bad as some practices, for sure. The question is how likely are the 'upgrades' actually upgrading anything for the user? Will the extra camera on the Pro be $100 of utility for the user over the lifetime of the de
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by saynay 1y ago
The confusing choices are deliberate way to exploit psychology of potential buyers into up-selling themselves. The idea is to entice them by the more reasonable base price, but use the uncertainty on if it will really meet their needs to pu
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by saynay 1y ago
Of course, but that was my point. Even in traditional media, exceptions are made for factors outside the control of the publisher. User-generated content is, by definition, outside the control of the platform so there should be at least som
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by saynay 1y ago
It is the end result if you expect the same level of liability as a newspaper or magazine. Every single thing you see in one of those was deliberately put there by a person (well... at least it used to be). If an agent of the print publicat
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by saynay 1y ago
"Algorithmic boosting" is not (always?) the same as an editorial slant. Promoting the post with the longest title would be an "algorithmic boost", but clearly not editorial in any way. The most common forms of algorithms
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by saynay 1y ago
This isn't entirely true in all cases. Consider something like a live broadcast of a sporting event. If some streaker runs naked across the field, are the stations held to account? That is, in a way, similar to the problem of user-gene
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by saynay 1y ago
There is no way private weather forecasting will be profitable enough to keep the required equipment running, at least at the quality we have had.
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by saynay 2y ago
The switchup of 'worst' subject in high school to college seems so striking to me. At best, I could see it coming from an over-fitting of data. At worst, it was a test designed intentionally to fail anyone without the answer key.
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by saynay 2y ago
Honestly, quotas would probably have been better than what was done here. Inventing a test (or 'questionnaire' as it was called here) where the goal was to filter out almost everyone who did not have the answer key, then only givi
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by saynay 2y ago
Potentially quite a lot, although it is hard to tell with how fast they have been moving and the dubious legal claims they have been making to support it. DOGE is not a department authorized by Congress to exist. Elon's appointment at
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by saynay 2y ago
I wrote a tiny one that worked as glue between our application's opinion on how node DNS names should be, and what ExternalDNS controller would accept automatically. When GKE would scale the cluster, or upgrade nodes, it was requiring
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by saynay 2y ago
The knowledge needed to do the 'shift-left' tasks. The downside of making your developers take on more tasks that used to be handled by someone further down the chain is they need to know how to do those tasks.
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by saynay 2y ago
Yeah, fairly cheap. Can grab a sandwich for about the price of metro fare.
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by saynay 2y ago
Probably true, honestly. High inflation impacts everyone, where high unemployment probably affects fewer people directly.
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by saynay 2y ago
That issue goes far beyond immigration. You want a job, especially one that has growth potential? You move to a city, regardless of if you are a native or not. You can see all the same trends in cities and countries without a lot of immigra
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by saynay 2y ago
"Lip-service" is probably a good way to put it, since all those issues are also happening in countries without a lot of immigration, but most people don't look too far outside of their own country when considering problems in
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by saynay 2y ago
This has been my thought as well. Inflation was high, so low-propensity voters against the current party show up while those for the current party don't. It will take some time to see what the actual voting shifts were, but the economy
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by saynay 2y ago
It would remove any incentive to intentionally worsen the non-Chrome(ium) experience. Relevant if you suspect they are deliberately sabotaging Firefox. (That would be a foolish move to make while they are in the middle of multiple antitrust

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