trowawee

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by trowawee 1y ago
They'll be trash, but after a decade bouncing around startups, that's not exactly a problem unique to LLMs. There's probably going to be more startups with more trash than there used to be, but hey: that's job security.
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by trowawee 1y ago
The interesting thing about art is mostly not its physical existence. The interesting thing about art is that another human being made it to try to express something, in words or colors or film or whatever medium. It's a person trying
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by trowawee 1y ago
The financials have always been crap, though. A lot of his previous assholery was limited to very online people. Guarantee if you poll 100 people if they've heard of the "Thailand pedo guy thing with Musk", most will have no
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by trowawee 2y ago
Probably worth noting that Pratchett wrote most of the "Adam and the gang" sections of Good Omens, while Gaiman was responsible for the riders and the more "mythological" parts. So I do see a pretty clear throughline fro
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by trowawee 2y ago
Hey! I got diagnosed with ADHD last year as an adult and getting diagnosed and medicated has been a massive improvement in my quality of life. If you have the energy to do it, I would strongly recommend it. The medication is great—I have fa
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by trowawee 2y ago
I think the author dismissed that too casually. Anything that makes the three less valuable will result in less space around the hoop. That's not necessarily a bad thing if we want to reemphasize the mid-range shot. The only way to til
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by trowawee 3y ago
Yeah, on web with extensive adblocking it's not as miserable (or routing my phone back through my pihole install). But most people aren't adblocking, and the "normal" user experience was jarring.
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by trowawee 3y ago
The Facebook aside was interesting. I've been back on FB periodically this year to try to sell some stuff after years off it and it cannot be overstated how terrible the basic experience of browsing the feed is, at least on mobile. It&
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by trowawee 3y ago
All true in the abstract. But doing it the day before an acquisition is always gonna earn you a door knock, even if you're a serial gambler.
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by trowawee 3y ago
"short-dated out-of-the-money call options that cash out a day after a merger/acquisition" is, like, the definition of a suspicious transaction. Somebody's gonna get a knock on the door from the SEC.
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by trowawee 3y ago
Radley Balko has a great overview on the fundamental flaws with ballistics forensics[1]. The tl;dr is that the core claim of ballistics forensic analysis, that it is possible to reliably differentiate between two models of the same gun usi
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by trowawee 3y ago
Yeah, the “ew, yucky gay people!” asides are both very revealing about the author and fundamentally undermine his argument for the value of libraries.
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by trowawee 3y ago
> the above 2 passages cannot be serious at the same time as translations of a literary work This honestly reads like maybe you don't understand how translation works? I mean, you're clearly coming at this from the standpoint o
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by trowawee 3y ago
Right?! This is the dumbest bit from a pretty dumb statement. Politics is just people working out how they're going to interact with each other. There's no way to cordon that off from anything else. You can certainly pretend that
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by trowawee 3y ago
Hard to imagine a sillier complaint about a translation than "it tries to convey an ancient text to the people in the era when it is translated". It's like complaining that cooking a steak changes the nature of the meat. Yes,
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by trowawee 3y ago
I was just pointing out why your suggestion that hybrid work is a solution was a dumb idea because it's the worst of both worlds, but you appear committed to a willful misreading of my comment, so...have a great day!
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by trowawee 3y ago
Hybrid is the worst of both worlds. You still have to live close enough to the office to get there without an insane commute, so you don't get the "live where you want" benefits of fully remote, but you also have to have enou
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by trowawee 3y ago
It's quite fast if you've got 240v outlets in your kitchen. Otherwise it's a little slower, altho I do like being able to hit a button and wander away to do something else, which I never feel comfortable doing when something&
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by trowawee 4y ago
Even if you throw out SF salaries as a wild outlier, this isn't actually that ridiculous. An average quality mid-career dev (5-10 years exp.) in a second tier market like Chicago/Denver/Austin/Boston can pretty easily ma
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by trowawee 4y ago
Not really; definitionally an RSS feed is just a big list of everything a site publishes. Sure, the rules-based approach will work, and I assume anyone who's been using RSS for a while has built up a set of filter rules that amount to
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by trowawee 4y ago
The firehose issue is definitely a problem with RSS, especially if all you've ever experienced is algorithmic social media feeds. It's solveable, but it does require either a very specific approach (I quickly scan my unreads in Fe
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by trowawee 4y ago
Right, the current system is 40% government via bureaucracy, 50% government via lobbyists/industry (including the parts of the bureaucracy that have been fully captured by industry), and 10% "the kind of freaks who run for and win
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by trowawee 4y ago
You go to a bank and tell it "I would like to buy this company. It has assets worth $N, which could be put up as collateral for a loan of $(.60 x N)." The bank says "Yes, those assets are worth that much. We will sign a contr
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by trowawee 4y ago
Yes, that's just for the interest.
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by trowawee 4y ago
You do not seem to know what you're talking about. The 12.7bn that was borrowed is going on Twitter's books. Their debt load prior to this leveraged buyout was 5.5bn; it's now 18.3bn[0], with yearly interest payments of rough
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by trowawee 4y ago
> If so, even just moving to on-prem would save them the $1B easily Except you can't wave a magic wand and shift the entire distributed infrastructure for one of the five most visited sites on earth on-prem. Twitter has two DCs. Run
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by trowawee 4y ago
Why does he think anyone would be ashamed of _not_ advertising on Twitter? Twitter ads are worthless. If you're a CMO who manages to kill your entire Twitter ad spend, that should probably go on your resume.
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by trowawee 4y ago
Still doesn't really address the reality that onboarding is dreadful at most startups, I think. Docs tend to be bad/outdated/nonexistent and even "grab an onboarding buddy and talk through it with them" can fail eas
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by trowawee 4y ago
Exactly. Of course, none of this is going to come down on the heads of the people in the C-suite who are pulling down the hundreds of millions in comp to prevent, at least in theory, _precisely this scenario_. We've built a system wher
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by trowawee 4y ago
Very good point. His stories about his personal sexual kinks, lightly disguised as news, are probably accurate. Disturbing, but accurate.

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