zharknado

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by zharknado 6mo ago
“Flash” MOE is named for the sloth character in Zootopia I presume?
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by zharknado 7mo ago
Alternative hypothesis—-efficiency. Executives are very, very busy. As long as you can figure out what they mean, polish doesn’t add much. (Unless it does because it’s an earnings call, board meeting, etc.) I’m quite convinced in most cases
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by zharknado 8mo ago
My favorite part about Pratchett is that the characters who are most competent choose to act in the best interest of the less competent “normies” who will never understand or appreciate what they’re doing on their behalf.
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by zharknado 8mo ago
Interesting. You have me thinking of Candide as an answer to Quixote. In very broad strokes, Quixote says my perceptions and ideals are true and apparent evidence to the contrary must be a misunderstanding/ chance/ magic. His agen
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by zharknado 9mo ago
Agreed. Competitors will undercut a price that ignores the unit economics, because it’s super easy to do.
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by zharknado 9mo ago
> Giving it away for free puts that whole company out of business! It really doesn’t. The more toward “enterprise” a software buyer is, the more what they’re actually paying for is a reputation, reduced liability, a throat to choke, etc.
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by zharknado 9mo ago
The clearest example I’ve seen of this effect is with dental hygienists in the U.S.. Big labor crunch as lots of industry veterans left the labor force during COVID, wage and career growth prospects are weak vs. alternative options for newc
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by zharknado 11mo ago
“precipitates” ha! Wonderfully evocative.
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by zharknado 11mo ago
Fwiw sometimes I wear my APP2 inside my cheap passive 3M earmuffs haha. For an hour or two of use it’s been comfortable enough that I can listen and also attenuate loud tool noise e.g. a weed trimmer. Of course you don’t get any speech boos
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by zharknado 11mo ago
Not OP, but I would ban the tickets/prizes mechanism. Depending on how old is “old school” for you, every game in an arcade might be fine. If we’re talking 90’s Chuck E. Cheese, maybe half the games would be potentially interesting to
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by zharknado 1y ago
I’ll play! Chat thinks it’s a kana segmentation error in a list of possible hypothesized problems/causes that get mis-rendered as literal nouns, such as “XML風, 設定方法, 処理の流れ / 処理流” such that roughly “XML style” -> “-style” ->
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by zharknado 1y ago
My lingering question is how do you service a leaky pipe surrounded by dirt that’s 600C? Do you just have to forfeit a good chunk of your energy savings for the year? Or is there like a practical maintenance window each year at the end of t
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by zharknado 1y ago
Yes, the article addresses this explicitly. The key criterion to make it viabile is steady long-term energy consumption for the winter months. Otherwise the cost to rapidly extract the heat gets too high and wrecks the economics. The applic
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by zharknado 1y ago
Brainstorming applications of knowing your angle relative to a point source: - adaptive sports for visually impaired players like beep baseball? - robot swarm members knowing their relative 2d position with a single microphone? (frequency f
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by zharknado 1y ago
“Sure, your rocket’s reusable, but can it go 300k miles on the original engine?”
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by zharknado 1y ago
> Where are all these examples of products that have succeeded despite not valuing quality? Windows products since the 2000s. They may have won on quality early on but today succeed mainly via compliance controls and switching costs IMO.
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by zharknado 1y ago
Fantastic! Top notch explainer and engaging game. To me it’s important to say that tit-for-tat and the Golden Rule are not the same. My understanding of the two are very different.
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by zharknado 1y ago
> This is somatic editing. These edits will not be inherited. Genuine question- how do we know that? Is it just that the edits are very improbable to accumulate in the gonads in sufficient quantities to persist? We can’t actually prevent
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by zharknado 1y ago
Congrats! Great video write up also!
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by zharknado 1y ago
I feel this. I had a very productive convo with an LLM today and realized that a huge part of the value of it was that it addressed my questions in a focused way, without trying to sell me anything or generate SEO rankings or register ad im
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by zharknado 1y ago
And they were supported because they were useful labor. Even an unskilled, brand-new apprentice could pump the bellows, sweep the forge, haul wood and water, deliver messages. If it frees up the master to produce more valuable output, that’
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by zharknado 1y ago
Great observation! The legibility or the permission grant matters a lot.
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by zharknado 1y ago
I think it’s more productive to ask, “why would someone attribute a different value to learning about the geography, architecture, and language of a region vs. learning about the characteristics of the hardware and software one specific com
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by zharknado 1y ago
I played the demo of Craftomation 101 a while back. It was good! Had a good balance of watching emergent behavior and feeling the need to micro-manage/accelerate the process. Graphical-only instructions were maddening, though! Especial
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by zharknado 2y ago
The main thing is logging into your brokerage account(s) at least once a year so the custodian knows you’re still active. Laws vary by state but a sounds like it’s often 4+ years of no contact/activity before they have transfer it to t
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by zharknado 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of the gentleman who didn’t check his AMZN stock for ~20 years and found out it had gone to escheat with the state of Delaware. They had cashed it out years earlier for less than 10% of its present-day value. His play is to
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by zharknado 2y ago
I’ve always figured we’ll have robots mining our trash piles in the future for metals and other recyclables. Possibly bespoke, cobbled together, and manually piloted. Sounds dystopian and probably is, but also I feel like I would kinda enjo
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by zharknado 2y ago
Tail risk, basically. Amplified by cognitive biases that make horror stories more salient.
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by zharknado 2y ago
Fair, it’s probably incorrect to say there’s “no abstraction” in an ORM, maybe more precise to say it’s quite a leaky one. I’ve never seen an ORM used in the wild where you could actually avoid thinking about tables and columns and rows pre
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by zharknado 2y ago
Yes, ORMs came to mind for me as an example of indirection without abstraction. If you accept OP’s litmus test of “how often do I have to peek under the hood” I think ORMs generally don’t score particularly well.

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