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Most teams that “use raw SQL” end up accidentally writing ORMs anyway. You have a bunch of similar SQL queries so someone writes a SQL generator. Someone notices that if we are using one field from the account table, then we usually want the others, so they create an Account object and share it to reduce duplication.

You’re usually better off starting with a good standard ORM at the beginning.

I just tried bite sized task post it notes. It’s incredible. The gamification is like the notice boards in the Witcher 3.

The problem is that housing and health insurance are too expensive. Tech isn’t responsible for either of those problems.

When algorithms improve with exposure to more data are they still algorithms?

Where is the line where they stop being algorithms?

It’s quick and free to identify someone’s race.

A genetic test takes several days and costs a few hundred dollars.

The patient wants the best treatment right now. If race carries useful information that helps the doctor treat the patient, then the doctor should have access to it.

> instead of managing browser clusters, and handling all the corner cases

The cost with running a docker container is you have to manage that container. You’re paying with dev time not money.

It’s amazing how slow cars are in cities. I was recently beaten by a pedestrian over a 20 minute drive.

Incompetence? What if he was sent to El Salvador by accident?

Maybe everyone is calling him a gang member to cover their own asses?

Without a hearing we don’t know.

If you don’t have a title or ownership history then people think the car is stolen. That’s why scrappers won’t take it.

If you have a title then people will pay you to come and pick it up.

It doesn’t matter who he is.

The problem is that he hasn’t had an opportunity to plead his case.

Good law enforcement officers regularly make honest mistakes. Courts are a safeguard against this.

Imagine that you get caught up in an immigration raid. Maybe you were at a Mexican restaurant. ICE shows up and half the staff quickly sit at tables pretending to be customers. ICE arrests everyone, including you.

Will ICE let you go home to go look for your birth certificate? If your wife hires a lawyer what process will your lawyer use to present your birth certificate to ICE?

Due process and the rule of law protects you from the arbitrary power of the state.

Trump wants to deport a few million people. You can’t do that while following the rule of law. The hearings and appeals take too much time and money.

This is why they’re not trying to fix mistakes. Once you set a precedent of allowing appeals everyone will want one.

Trump is using ICE to create a parallel legal system where people have no rights. This is exactly what early (1933) Nazi Germany was like.

Well done for changing your mind. Most people would find this post impossible to write.

The arguments that changed your mind are important information. If we want to change the minds of fence sitters then focusing on these arguments should be the priority.

You make an interesting “right-wing” case against mass deportation of immigrants.

> This approach diverts resources from pursuing violent offenders, erodes faith in the rule of law, and forces the whole country toward a “papers-please” surveillance culture, where everyone must carry ever-stricter IDs.

If you include our crops and livestock then our civilisation has about half the land biomass. 38% of the earths land is farmland. (We use the richest parts as farmland) https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/what-percentage-of-land...

Another 34% is Forrest, much of which is managed for logging.

Yes.

50% means that they are indistinguishable. Deviation from 50% means that the channel has information about whether the subject is human or LLM. 0% is a perfect correlation (humans always correctly identify humans). 100% is a perfect inverse correlation (humans always think the machine is a human)

You can identify LLMs by asking the human to pick the most human participant. Then you invert their answer. The real human is the least human like participant.

It’s not as involuntary as I made it sound. I think if he decided not to share the meat then he would have problems with the rest of the tribe.

Most hunter gather societies have big differences in productivity between members. I remember reading one example where one man did all of the hunting for a tribe of about 40 people. He really enjoyed both the hunting and the status of being the best hunter. He shared the meat freely. No one was taking it away.

I think that best paper really means best discovery, or best finding.

No one really cares how well written a paper is.

Obviously I’m talking about re-creating the economic policies of the 1950s, not the equality policies.

Go back to what the western world was doing in the 50’s. High tax and high public spending. In 1950 the US had a top marginal tax rate of 91%. The 50s were great, let’s do that again.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/04/26/taxing...

Reaching out to the residents leaves you open to legal risks. You processed their data without any kind of opt in.

If the drill bit slips off the screw it could go straight into your hand!

This is the right answer. Bring a map and an action camera, maybe a burner dumbphone.

At work, would you rather have a boss that makes you implement dumb ideas? Or would you prefer a boss who recognises that your idea is better, then rewards you for it?

You are interviewing them too.

I would also have hired the candidate.

I think you’re an A player. You were rejected by a B player that was looking to hire C players.

Apply to other companies. In this case it’s not you, it’s them.

One of the failures is selling a business to Richard Branson for $10 million.

Great comment, from a carbon perspective it’s even better than 51% .

16% is nuclear, and 19% is imported from France which is about 60% nuclear.

Right now only 10-12% of our electricity is coming from burning gas.

Anecdotally, all of my old recruiters rang me up over the last week or so. 5 unsolicited jobs that were a good fit.

I’ve had very few inbound calls from recruiters for 2 years.

I think our organisation needs to increase headcount.

Go on a psychedelic retreat. Psilocybin or Ayahuasca. Spend at least a week with a registered Shamanic Practitioner.

It’s a fast track to the acceptance stage and it’ll help your friend enjoy the last part of their human experience.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...

It has an interesting response to the queens gambit accepted. Immediate queen sac

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