wh0knows

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by wh0knows 9mo ago
Curious if you have any links about the rapid progression of robotics (as someone who is not educated on the topic). It was my feeling with robotics that the more challenging aspect will be making them economically viable rather than simply
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by wh0knows 1y ago
Monorepo != all devs having merge permissions to all directories. Every single large monorepo company will have granular permissions on who can approve PRs into which directories based on team ownership. This is orthogonal to monorepo vs po
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by wh0knows 1y ago
I don’t think we have a great track record at fully understanding these complex biological systems well enough to engineer life.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
The issue is that algorithms are like a casino for your time. We all know that gambling addicts exist and how destructive it is to their lives, the casino exploits behaviors and gets all their money. As a result people know casinos are dang
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by wh0knows 2y ago
Crowdsourced reviews often provide objective information that is not offered by the restaurant. Sometimes the omission is unintentional, but more importantly, independent reviews will write negative things that a restaurant never would.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
It is interesting from a space-faring species perspective. By the time we can embark to other planets/asteroids our biology might require us to lug around significantly more technology just to survive.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
Citymapper shows this in their transit directions. They tell you the best part of the train to get on and the best subway entrance/exit.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
I think it’s not entirely accurate to say that we “learn” to walk from a zero state. It’s clear that our DNA has embedded knowledge of how to walk and it develops our body appropriately. Our brains might also have preconditioning to make le
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by wh0knows 2y ago
This neglects the first reason listed in the article for why you would use a lock. > Efficiency: Taking a lock saves you from unnecessarily doing the same work twice (e.g. some expensive computation). If the lock fails and two nodes end
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by wh0knows 2y ago
The copters can fly into a net suspended from the airship, rather than needing to gain all the altitude themselves.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
This is pure speculation, but is it possible that Android never would have been successful (or as successful) if they did not bow to the carriers? By taking carrier-friendly positions they built a symbiotic relationship that resulted in the
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by wh0knows 2y ago
I don’t believe that necessity will dictate our ability to create these technologies, the challenges are significant. Capitalism adjusting for reduced supply and greater demand by increasing pay is something more plausible as it has proven
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by wh0knows 2y ago
I don’t think we’re anywhere near the level of general robotics and intelligence that would obsolete human labor. None of the most labor intensive industries have been able to fully automate, agriculture, mining, construction, healthcar
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by wh0knows 2y ago
An anecdote does not prove that RealPage doesn’t have a greater impact in other markets… That’s just not how logic works. You also fail to consider that rents may have fallen further if RealPage was not in use.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
This definitely requires some citations. There is no evidence that you are presenting that supports the 2-5% claim. I don’t think you are fully understanding the impact of price collusion or the suit presented here. The DOJ very clearly
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by wh0knows 2y ago
Palantir runs on the customer’s own cloud, or a major cloud provider of the customer’s choosing in the region of their choosing. There’s no data aggregation/sharing across customers, it works similar to AWS.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
Inputs to standard libraries will obviously never NPE if you pass in a non-null value. For outputs, a lot of standard collection .get() calls are unnecessary when you’re working with small collections or Optionals, where you simply use st
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by wh0knows 2y ago
Usually you’re using a lot of Optional and Streams, so the collection method returns null inside a .map() and you don’t need to think about it. To be clear, it is handled by the checkstyle rules at compile time, so you won’t accidentally
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by wh0knows 2y ago
If you properly handle not returning/using nulls in your checkstyle rules and don’t allow nulls to be deserialized anywhere (forcing the use of Optional), then you can pretty much eliminate NPE. I can’t remember the last time I encount
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by wh0knows 2y ago
If you have insufficient material how can you capture the king? Checkmate is by definition one move before forced capture of the king, the game doesn’t change by making it end one move later.
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by wh0knows 2y ago
Given domains are not encrypted I’m not sure this holds true. Attackers can already target financial websites, messaging websites, etc…
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by wh0knows 3y ago
My primary mechanism to load books on my Kindle is via emailing ePubs, granted, I'm probably in the minority of users but I couldn't ask for an easier workflow.
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Aren’t these taxations generally regressive given poor people spend ~100% of their income and ultra rich people spend <1%. So you’re taxing the poor person on all of their money but barely taxing the rich person.
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Yes, I mean the amount that the cost is inflated by is much greater than 4%.
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Profit can be manipulated. Creating a giant bureaucracy of overpaid administrators and middlemen can siphon off any amount of money while declaring no profit.
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by wh0knows 3y ago
The fare isn’t calculated on the spot though, a base amount is authorized and then only charged later. Not that the plug needs to figure that out immediately but it’s worth noting.
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by wh0knows 3y ago
This is a nonsensical argument, the CBP doesn’t know if they will be sold illegally, the same way they don’t know that a company importing corn syrup AND honey is actually going to mix them and sell a counterfeit product. A bottle of corn
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by wh0knows 3y ago
I think it’s massively problematic that a few select mega corporations with deep pockets get to enforce what products are allowed to be brought into the US with no due process. CBP should train to learn what products to seize, but that tr
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Apple conveniently takes the public stance of user protection, but their real position is that they want to be the only ones who can collect and use their users data.
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Speaking as a Canadian who moved to the US for work, I think a huge reason is that if you’re an ambitious Canadian it’s a lot easier to move to the US than trying to make it in Canada. I can’t speak to the other external factors, but I thin

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