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by skndr 2y ago
It's definitely possible (I'm part of a new tech worker cooperative). Cooperatives can be many legal structures, though you need your bylaws to reflect cooperative principles (one member one vote, etc). Here's a list of tech
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by skndr 2y ago
Congrats on the launch! Looks like you can only play one game as a guest before getting stuck in a loop when hitting "play now" between "forgot to buy items?" and "you must be logged in to buy". I also wasn&#x2
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by skndr 2y ago
I recommend: - Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer - Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer - Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
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by skndr 2y ago
The cool thing is that you can, with the BEAM, connect your shell[0] to a running server and use something like recon_trace[1] to watch functions as they’re getting called. The same principle is used for libraries like this distributed prof
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Elite Capture(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by skndr 3y ago|0 comments
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by skndr 3y ago
I've been finding Livebook ( https://livebook.dev/ ) really useful for iterating on a script or manipulating some data in a reproducible way. I'll often try out one solution and if that doesn't work, create a n
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by skndr 3y ago
There's also defining a module and then `import`ing it.
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by skndr 3y ago
I tried averaging embeddings at first but a GPT-3 prompt gave more interesting results!
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by skndr 3y ago
Must have come from the Möbius strip dimension.
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by skndr 3y ago
Go for it! Really enjoying it :)
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by skndr 3y ago
Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.
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by skndr 3y ago
This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash ( https://ash-hq.org/ ) and is deployed on Fly.io. Some fun ones: - imagination and vacation -> fantas
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Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others(halfwaywords.com)
36 points by skndr 3y ago|23 comments
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by skndr 6y ago
The point of the control room in CyberSyn wasn't to make second-by-second or minute-by-minute decisions but rather on longer timescales like days or weeks. In Brain of the Firm, Beer argues specifically against overloading it with numb
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by skndr 7y ago
Alternatively: “For what reason did you not choose...”
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by skndr 7y ago
Didn’t Alan Kay coin the term “object oriented”?
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by skndr 8y ago
Make sure you have vesting (and check the footnotes): https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...
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by skndr 8y ago
For those who've switched over to Firefox recently and find Youtube inexplicably slow, it's "because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome." [0] The YouTube
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by skndr 8y ago
I think the implication is that it's captured via salaries paying high rent.
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by skndr 8y ago
> - However the worst thing so far to me has been i have watched as UI developers go from writing simple rest queries, and doing a bit of work on the front-end to writing extremely inefficient and convoluted queries. Even worse is when a
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by skndr 9y ago
> There was an uproar about the legality of Trump's travel bans, but followed by a 7-0 supreme court victory on the subject. Weren't there multiple versions that went through the courts?
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by skndr 9y ago
It's the same Bigelow creating inflatable space habitats: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16488646/bigelow-aerospa...
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by skndr 9y ago
The data set could be really useful.
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by skndr 9y ago
Hi Alex! I don't have the answer, but I just sent this over to Seth. Looking forward to seeing you all again in December!
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by skndr 9y ago
Alternatively, the question is a proxy for: Are there people that look like me? Will my opinions be heard by others?
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by skndr 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the demographic makeup of your interviewees? I can see how someone might value diversity while feeling uncomfortable raising the point.
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by skndr 9y ago
Reminds me of this: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650... -- Interviewer: First of all, we're working in a subdivision building a l
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by skndr 9y ago
Any hints about the architectures used?
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by skndr 9y ago
With a potential reduction in the Department of Energy's budget, this might not hold. There may not be enough funding to properly dispose of the waste. Not to mention that some of the effects of past storage aren't well-catalogued
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by skndr 9y ago
Racism is more than just calling out race in a specific dynamic: ..."racism" is defined not only in terms of individual prejudice, but also in terms of a power structure which protects the interests of the dominant culture and ac

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