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by xplt 1mo ago
Old and busted: serverless New hotness: DNS-less
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by xplt 2mo ago
> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create personalized, reality-distorting bubbles. It's coupled t
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by xplt 4mo ago
Username checks out :))
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by xplt 7mo ago
E.g. Uber / UberEats offer lower fairs to drivers if the client is expected to tip higher. I'm not an insider, but it can be observed in the wild as discussed on Reddit.
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by xplt 10mo ago
Because it's awkwardly close to the letters AGI, maybe
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by xplt 11mo ago
> You open your laptop and begin. FizzBuzz in an on-site interview on your personal laptop?
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by xplt 1y ago
I especially love the part of "instant responsiveness" where a UI changes on interaction an then just shows placeholders while actually fetching data for 2-5 seconds. Otherwise, snappy interfaces are kinda nice.
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by xplt 1y ago
/irony ? Honestly curious -- does your mileage vary that much on LinkedIn? It appears as though the feed is mostly a rolling dumpster fire + couple invites every week.
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by xplt 1y ago
> I’m assuming these days AWS is just fleecing the big companies who feel like there’s only one option. My employer is a customer at a scale that AWS calls us strategic industry or something. Some years ago, the young engineer in me wa
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by xplt 2y ago
This. I've been in a similar situation working as a data scientist for 2.5 years and went back to software engineering a couple of years ago. I'm not trying to say that data science and analytics are necessarily bad environments;
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by xplt 2y ago
@nineteen999 makes a valid point, but I don't think this is a case of protectionism. From what I can tell, it's more about RH's ludicrous licensing policy and the economic practicality of using something "application bin
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by xplt 2y ago
I'm really not sure how to feel about the fact that, meanwhile in Germany, RH has made its way onto the non-preferred vendor list of at least one large enterprise in the automotive industry.
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by xplt 2y ago
Well played
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by xplt 2y ago
On point. Just because the L2-norm yields the same rankings as cosine similarity for the particular case of normalized embeddings when retrieving relevant documents doesn't mean that any other L-norm or commonly used measure in the f