whitej125

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by whitej125 8mo ago
TR will not disappear. But their value to the market was "data + interface to said data" and that value prop is quickly eroding to "just the data". You can be a huge, profitable data-only company... but it's likely
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by whitej125 1y ago
I learned of the lid angle sensor due to my MBP draining its battery. Whenever I flew across the country I'd always end up with a dead battery. Originally thought it was some process preventing sleep but was spinning circles hunting
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by whitej125 1y ago
That which might be of additional interest... look at how the top 10 of the S&P 500 has changed over the decades[1]. At any point in time the world thinks that those top 10 are unstoppable. In the 90's and early 00's... GE wa
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by whitej125 1y ago
Likely to steer clear of regulatory scrutiny or approval processes (specifically FTC and DOJ).
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by whitej125 2y ago
> Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study; > So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list li
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by whitej125 2y ago
Would be neat if instead an open-ended challenge ("here's some data, do something cool") the MTA instead shared a list of hypothetical or real problems to solve and provided data that could be potentially useful in the explor
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by whitej125 2y ago
I ask this question - always - but it goes like this. Q1: Rate yourself 1-10 on X language? Their answer is Y (and almost always 7). Q2: What's the difference between a Y and a Y+1? Q2 is real question with Q1 being there just for fra
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by whitej125 2y ago
Happen to be in France and can confirm (along with many others on Reddit) that cell service is indeed out. Interestingly it’s not one carrier but seems to be all the major ones (VZ, ATT, TM) and has been this way for 24 hours.
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International roaming outage for US cell carriers(9to5mac.com)
3 points by whitej125 2y ago|1 comments
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by whitej125 2y ago
I used LangChain early on in it's life. People crap on their documentation but at least at that point in time I had no problem with it. I like reading source code so I'd find myself reading the code for further comprehension any
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by whitej125 2y ago
It’s got a term - “garden leave” and yeah it was prevalent in finance. I say “was” because I think some states are changing laws wrt/ non-competes and this calling this practice into question.
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Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music(suno.com)
44 points by whitej125 2y ago|82 comments
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by whitej125 2y ago
Does this change a lot for many people? This doesn't mean you can scurry off a just build a competing product/service to your existing employer. You probably also have NDA and/or IP agreements too. > The Commission found
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by whitej125 3y ago
20 years ago nobody thought there'd be a another US automaker beyond the big three (Ford, GM, Chrysler)... yet today here we are with Tesla and a list of others. Are there any other US companies today that could ostensibly be viable al
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by whitej125 3y ago
I'm confused. The articles talks about the data not being available for download and cites another article[0] which talks about it being available only for a fee. However if you go to the maps you see the data available for download a
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by whitej125 3y ago
TIL APL...neat! Found this for others who want to play along. https://tryapl.org/ (Note: took a while but the special characters for producing lists, etc... are from "virtual keys" you can see at the very top of
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by whitej125 3y ago
More specifically... "probate issues". If you die with assets... you assets are going to be transferred to beneficiaries in accordance with a will if you have one. It's a lengthy legal process called probate. Because its go
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by whitej125 3y ago
I grew up having pinball machines in our house (my dad bought and fixed them as a hobby, sold or gifted them to friends). I have my childhood Black Knight pinball with me now. Love playing it, the kids and their friends love it. Honestly
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by whitej125 3y ago
Live near Boston. Natural gas is the predominant energy source for heat and electricity[0]. The NG pipeline that feeds this geography is too small[1] so LNG is shipped in[2]. Sadly, while the US is one of the larger producers of LNG in t
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by whitej125 3y ago
Matt Levine (of MoneyStuff/BBG) covered the events[1] of the oddness that led up to the eventual layoffs. His perspective seems to convey that the layoffs were not a "AI can replace staff" play but more so... there was a lot
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by whitej125 3y ago
I must say this is indeed a fascinating threat vector. "We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network." I don&#x
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by whitej125 3y ago
Agree that the range degradation is unsettling. My model 3 started with 320 and now its about 7-8% lower after 2 years. However, this is my daily driving car for which I put on average 25 miles a day... but maybe an occasional peak at 150
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by whitej125 3y ago
Similar experience here with a ~2021 Model 3 in Massachusetts. Maintenance has been 0 thus far. Electric rates are high, I think.. compared to most of the US. I'm at $0.27/kwh looking at the last rolling 12 months. Still, at $0
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by whitej125 3y ago
All the focus is on Boeing (as it is a household name) and they have final signoff... but Spirit Aerosystems (the fuselage manufacturer, not the airline) is also a big, public company that doesn't seem to be sharing any of the blame he
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by whitej125 3y ago
Honestly she loves all her subjects in school. I’d say the “engineering tendency” that she picked up from her mom and I (both eng) is the desire the go deep on learning something. I see it when it comes to math, but equally see it when it
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by whitej125 3y ago
Years ago when my daughter was around 5 I was showing her a raspberry Pi zero I had just picked up. I told her - years ago before Daddy was your age a computer like this used to be as big as a house. Her response was - “houses were that s
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by whitej125 3y ago
Favorite office setup as a programmer - was early 2000's. First key feature - 50% of the exterior building walls was windows, the other 50% had offices. Second key feature - cubicle design. It was staggered duets of cubes. Great for
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by whitej125 3y ago
Depends what you're solving for. Building a website that requires user authentication and basic relational DB... I default to Django. But if I'm building small internal services then I go FastAPI or Flask. Django's ORM is
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by whitej125 3y ago
... and kudos for a timely status page!
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by whitej125 3y ago
Might not need it? Ultimately these are the "bones" of the wall to which you afix stucco or house wrap + furring strips + siding on the outside. Inside would be stucco (if in warm weather climate) or furring + insulation + wall bo

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