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by uw_rob 2mo ago
Wikipedia?
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by uw_rob 8mo ago
CGP Grey did a fantastic short video titled 'This Video Will Make You Angry'[1]. I'd recommend that anyone who is interested in this thread take a watch. The central knowledge shared is that knowledge behaves like germs and c
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by uw_rob 3y ago
It's a reference to the quote "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar" by Thomas Marshall
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by uw_rob 3y ago
The Golden Record acts as a good thought exercise about how we'd go about communicating with an alien species. It's also a good public outreach and educational tool. It inspires awe and encourages taking time to reflect on what we
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by uw_rob 3y ago
I don't think it's fair to consider the updaters for either Chrome or the OS to be simple.
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Here is Microsoft's implementation of map in the standard library. I think of myself as a competent programmer / computer scientist. I couldn't write this: https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/
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by uw_rob 3y ago
> “if regulations are created based on ideals, it is regular users who are the ones who suffer.” As opposed to the bystanders who are suffering from every ICE vehicle sold? Make better EVs.
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by uw_rob 3y ago
I believe ludjer is referring to S3 Storage Inventory. This is a daily, or weekly, file produced containing metadata on every file within a S3 Bucket. It does not use the synchronous List APIs. > You can use Amazon S3 Inventory to help m
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Interchanging USA with NYC is misleading
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Quality contribution to the collective knowledge of humanity by the installgentoo wiki.
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Configuring emacs isn't a test of intelligence, it's a test of investment. I wish the mindset that conflates intelligence and investment would go away. Software is going to continue to play a bigger influence on everyones life. Th
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Think databases which run across many different machines. Distributed databases are often conceptually modeled as a state machine. Writes are then mutations on the state machine. With a starting state (empty database), if everyone agrees th
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by uw_rob 3y ago
https://archive.is/TDV3T
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Looking around on Google, I see that each child in Oakland has a cost of around >10k/year of education ( https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti... ). These Chromebooks cost $200, so $50/year
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Internet connected devices absolutely need active maintenance. Especially so for a device which will be used by children.
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by uw_rob 3y ago
I think there is some confusion here. HTTPS is secure. Even with MITM attacks. This is because the MITM will not have a valid certificate to provide authenticity for the public key returned. The reason why middle boxes in corp networks can
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by uw_rob 3y ago
The app doesn't shows advertisements right now.
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Creating a minimal product that customers love is far harder than created a bloated app that has the kitchen sink approach. It's impressive to me that the devs were able to pick and choose the absolute minimum set of nice features and
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Outside of purity, why care about this? The functional requirement of a social media app is that it has a large and active user base, and this needs to take priority over non-functional requirements like install size. Since it was built wit
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by uw_rob 3y ago
The problem with brokers is that they can charge 1-2 months rent. That means you can easily be left with a 8k bill for moving into a new apartment. The job literally could not exist anywhere else because no one would pay it. But they aren&#
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by uw_rob 3y ago
> (4) The evidence of fraud detailed in our report almost certainly represents a mere subset of the evidence that the Harvard investigators were able to uncover about these four articles. For example, we have heard from some HBS faculty
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Bankers are known to be responsible and have a fantastic history of being responsible with others money. There are no reasons why a collection of individuals would make a bad decision which would impact other people 10, 20, or 30 years in t
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Double pendulums are a great example of complex, chaotic, and dynamic system. Given an initial state, I wouldn't be able to predict the outcome. However, I could easily go over and smash the toy and then have a pretty good prediction o
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by uw_rob 3y ago
I am not so sure that I agree here. What's interesting about reddit is that it is one site with very different UIs. The official reddit app has a focus on video/images and looks to be in competition with TikTok. old.reddit.com and
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Do you own a pair of AirPods? My Gen2 AirPod Pros are what I consider to be the best purchase I have made in the last 10 years. The small package and ANC is fantastic. Before purchasing AirPods I would walk around with ATH M50X (Great headp
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by uw_rob 3y ago
> This was predictable from the get go and many had had pointed that out already that soon people will start noticing that LLMs aren't as magical as they thought once the initial awe wanes away. Familiarity makes something novel app
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by uw_rob 3y ago
What's the connection between Apollo and getting data from scrapping. Wouldn't issuing a license to the Apollo dev that forbids persisting the data solve this concern? They could also require that users login if they want to use a
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by uw_rob 3y ago
My understanding is that Apollo isn't allowed to show ads based on reddit's new TOS. The only monetization strategy open to Apollo is a premium subscription.
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Arrow of Time(en.wikipedia.org)
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Something that I found interesting is: > There are no languages that place the past and future on a left–right axis (e.g., there is no expression in English such as *the meeting was moved to the left), although at least English speakers

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