throwawaythekey

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by throwawaythekey 21d ago
My experience was I thought everyone was aphantasic and it was a misunderstanding of language. Then one day when I was 18 I went to the pub and played pool with/chatted up some girls for one of the first times. When I got home I went t
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by throwawaythekey 21d ago
If you accept that drugs/trauma can cause altered states then can't you also accept that some people have the altered state as their default? Modern politeness encourages us to think of all humans as more or less the same, which I
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by throwawaythekey 24d ago
The majority of people don't reason themselves into anything, whether it's the mainstream view or the conspiracy. There's just a substantial bias where people assume all 'new knowledge' is wrong. Probably correct mo
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by throwawaythekey 28d ago
> I don't think that's ever saved money. I spent about a year as a consultant in the AWS space, visited about ~15 clients of varying sizes. More often than not there's a single pg aurora instance responsible for 50%+ of th
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by throwawaythekey 2mo ago
I think people overlook the natural experience of Dunning-Kruger we all have. You think you are good at chess because you win against your neighbour, then eventually a class mate absolutely embarrasses you multiple times and you realize the
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by throwawaythekey 2mo ago
> Simply: Anytime anyone overestimates their ability, they will perform worse than if they had approached it with humility (on average). Do you have a basis for that? It seems like in life some tasks reward overconfidence, e.g. starting
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by throwawaythekey 2mo ago
> In your link the ABC is claiming the footage wasnt edited by them. I'll admit I don't fully understand what they were claiming/how it changed over time but they later issued an apology for the incident [1]. From what I c
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by throwawaythekey 2mo ago
The ABC are sadly incredibly biased. A recent, prominent example is [1] where they edited footage to make it look like a soldier was shooting at an innocent civilian. They then appointed a 40 year abc/sbs veteran to investigate the inc
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by throwawaythekey 2mo ago
I hired a data engineer who was unable write a for loop in their primary language (python). The task was to write a simple sum of a list, but they had to convert the list to a pandas dataframe and then call some series of arcane functions.
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by throwawaythekey 3mo ago
> A person's total luck is constant over a lifetime Ah yes, the much revered cosmological fairness constraint.
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by throwawaythekey 3mo ago
More precisely -> the competitors heavily subsidize which causes cursor to feel expensive. > Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the
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by throwawaythekey 4mo ago
In my workplace AI has more credibility than humans, so dropping a block of claude with attribution can be: - A way to convince others of your position. - A way to demonstrate that you did research (because experience is worthless) - A way
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
Battlemage had the best perf/% and most the driver issues from Alchemist had been ironed out. Another generation or two of steady progress and intel have a big winner on their hands. Intel's foundry costs are probably competitive
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
> Part of the interview is explaining when and why these techniques are necessary as part of demonstrating your understanding. The slightly altered "explain when and why these techniques are *not* necessary" is much less apprec
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
>I would've expected the candidate to at least be able to talk about indexing, tradeoffs of joining in the DB vs. in the application, schema migrations and upgrades, creating separation between data-at-rest vs. data-in-flight, etc.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
Or at least counterbalance it with "America arms Israel to attack Lebannon and Palestine"
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
- Trump murdered top a top Iranian general (Soleimani) - Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy - Iran counterstruck Israel but relatively restrained and with warning - Israel bombed several high ranking Iranians, especially those involved with t
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
> "To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college camp
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
The first time founders I had couldn't keep 100% of the equity out of the VCs pockets, so YMMV.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
Isn't it obvious that (2) in practice entirely negates (1)? In Australia we recently had a proposed law to prohibit information that "potentially undermines faith in the banking sector" regardless of truthfulness.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
What's the better kafka/redis? Mongo I know you can just use your favorite relational tool with JSON support if needed (PG/MYSQL)
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
Not sure but molotov-ribbentrop provides an interesting precedent.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
Yes and to me it is a fine tone for all of 'hacker' culture if you will. Perhaps not if you were giving a presentation to your boss, but as this is a message between peers it seems fine. If it were on x it would seem fine.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
Not trying to flame or anything but what is your age? As someone in my early 30's who grew up on message boards/gaming the language he is using is fairly mild. I think we just have very different social norms.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
I'm thinking about him every day lately due to a new set of AMD GPU drivers which has stopped my pc from being able to reliably wake from sleep.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
You also have the crazies that initially advocated for the policy now reversing their positions.
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by throwawaythekey 1y ago
It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian > The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds
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by throwawaythekey 2y ago
I agree with the thrust of your argument but the idea that you need to have a really really large pile of gold sitting in a warehouse to fix it seems silly to me. Can't they just not print so much?
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by throwawaythekey 2y ago
Is there a fundamental repudiation to Austrian economics? All I know about them is that they don't like funny money, which to me as a systems thinker is perfectly reasonable. At worst you would expect it to be harmful, at best to obscu
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by throwawaythekey 2y ago
> Sounds like a line from "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies". Thanks I'll check it out. > Either way, you're certainly not in the middle, you're actually supporting the violent ones to be violent I think I unders

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