tforcram

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by tforcram 5mo ago
This. Incremental progress is one thing, but incremental movement that makes the problem worse and actually harder to solve later is not progress. It's indicative that maybe you're attempting to solve the wrong problem.
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by tforcram 6mo ago
The dot-com bubble/crash had just happened and a lot of non-tech folks thought it would never come back. I remember telling my uncle I was going to intern at Amazon around 2005/6 and him asking me in all seriousness, "aren&#x
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by tforcram 7mo ago
I accidently clicked on the article instead of the comments link for this one, a rare mistake as I usually glance at the comments before deciding to read, but I'm glad I did in this case. I read it all, and found myself engaged through
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by tforcram 7mo ago
Actually all of those sound fine to me... I guess it's really just Internet advertising that feels wrong to me, especially when they try to fill in as the source of revenue themselves rather than a means to drive revenue for the main
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by tforcram 7mo ago
Tenable for what, global business? Many local businesses do fine without advertising and/or using these methods. Making global business harder and forcing things more local actually sounds like a great benefit.
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by tforcram 10mo ago
Similar experience with a 2010 Honda Odyssey, drove it for 10 years and never saw a crack even though I'm sure it took a beating. Then we got a 2022 Passport and I swear every single trip has a new crack or chip. I was surprisingly fo
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by tforcram 1y ago
I've had a malignant melanoma, my mother and extended relatives had it as well (including a great uncle I never met who died from it), 4 (of my 9) siblings have had multiple, mostly those of use who have red hair/fair skin. I don
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by tforcram 1y ago
I just had that conversation with a coworker last week, they started with 'I wonder if there is anyone left who isn't using AI daily?', and I had to reply with.. 'um well me actually'. I only occasionally try it out
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by tforcram 2y ago
I remember living in Japan around 2001 and having to handle random addresses. We had several atlas books of regions and neighborhoods. Looking up an address was an exercise in getting the right book for the neighborhood, then using an inde
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by tforcram 3y ago
I thought it would be in the article, but it only mentioned muscle mass. I believe lifting weights actually improves bone strength as well, but I don't have the references available that say that.
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by tforcram 3y ago
`the sweat of thousands other people's brows`. This is a great point, and I think lends itself to a better solution than taxes. Why give all the excess to the government, who will do who knows what with it? (actually it's pretty
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by tforcram 3y ago
This reminds me of a time I tried to install Ubuntu on an old thick Dell laptop many years ago. Each time I would try the system would overheat and then crash. The existing (windows) system still appeared to work fine with light loads so I
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by tforcram 3y ago
This reminded me of early days running AWS SQS. We didn't charge for storage as message size was limited and the expectation was any message was going to be read immediately... But sure enough some users would just leave messages ther
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by tforcram 4y ago
I think pragmatism would be the middle ground, or 'dealing with reality as best you can'. I don't think it's possible to actually sit perfectly in the middle, won't you always end up thinking slightly positively or
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by tforcram 4y ago
How would that compare with US based pay? I'm bilingual (brushing up on my kanji with wanikani) and considering moving to Japan, but I've always heard the comp packages aren't great.
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by tforcram 4y ago
What children? The reason the population is declining is because they didn't have children, increasing the burden on the government. I've been to rural Japanese towns where it felt like there were no young people at all, only eld
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by tforcram 5y ago
This exactly. Someone may be aware that it's possible to change the flags for improved performance, but they likely have a mountain of other things they need to deliver and the current set up seems to work fine so no attention is give
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by tforcram 5y ago
Wouldn't trying to interface with the brain be a good way to understand more about it? It does sound unlikely that neuralink actually accomplishes anything impressive, but I don't think it's a joke to try and maybe it will be
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by tforcram 5y ago
I interned on the SQS team back in 2006 and subsequently joined the team full time for a few years including briefly managing it. I have some great memories of that time. Keeping things 'simple' while scaling as AWS grew was a g