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rjmccall posted:someone who’s found something they love and spends their time doing it actually does know what’s important better than a lot of people, op That's not how that guy is thinking about it.
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I guarantee you that person doesn't actually understand machine learning.
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Carl Sagan posted:But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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tbf when Carl Sagan said that Bozo was current.
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rjmccall posted:at an earlier job, some of our directors were the sort of people who read management magazines, and they found some article about how humans can supposedly mentally handle relationships with about 144 people before they start to depersonalize everyone else, which i’m sure was just typical pop sociology nonsense. we were growing a lot / doing a major reorg / getting bought out at the time, and they gave us a pep talk about how they were aiming for that as the ideal size for an organization. every one of us was like, even if this amazing science fact were true, maybe some of us want to save some some of those relationships for, like, the other people in our lives? and management was just so disappointed in us From Dunbar's number (bolding mine): quote:Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships. There is some evidence that brain structure predicts the number of friends one has, though causality remains to be seen. Dunbar explained it informally as "the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar." Dunbar theorised that "this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this, in turn, limits group size [...] the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained". On the periphery, the number also includes past colleagues, such as high school friends, with whom a person would want to reacquaint himself or herself if they met again. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150.
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NihilCredo posted:Google says it's 1h 10m, is that realistic? On a good day, but many days will not be good.
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If you work somewhere near one of the Metro stations in Reston you could theoretically take a commuter train from Baltimore to DC and then take the Metro out to Reston. It's not faster but you're not driving and could do some work on the trains.
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Just imagine what Rembrandt could've achieved with a scrum master.
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I've worked with some senior web developers and they're a huge add to any product team, so hire them if you can.
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Antivehicular posted:"Monkeys are not primates" is a particularly good phrase coming from a Smart HN Science Explainer Guy
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > hn thread: too hellworld to be funny
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quote:This is the problem with HN: The community is too smart for its own good. 
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Silicon Valley libertarians. Someone proposed "ubertarian" as a name but I don't think it caught on.
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I really don't want to know what hn posters think about teenage sexuality.
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Is there a way to stuff someone in a locker over the internet? Asking for a friend.
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Doesn't seem to be all that rare.
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"needs help being passive aggressive" really does describe a lot of these posters.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > hn thread: oops the author is a pedo
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Chris Knight posted:hn thread: it's no fun to compute
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fritz posted:extheat 2 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] Writing a random number generator is a valuable exercise but writing a random number generator anyone would ever use is a different thing entirely.
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alexandriao posted:Thats perfectly fine tho because 99% of rand implementations aren't for cryptographic purposes There are degrees of quality of random number generators and "not suitable for cryptographic purposes" is far from the worst you can get.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > hn thread: i will never log off
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mystes posted:If you aren't keeping your software up to date, your "simple funny website" has already been hacked and is serving malware.
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hn thread: The average HN commenter is extremely stupid
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Penisface posted:i could also interpret this post as the OP realizing that situations that are win-lose must be reworked to become win-win. and if someone in power is content to have a win-lose relationship with their workers then they should be fired You know that's not what he's saying.
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rjmccall posted:it’s a cryptocurrency stablecoin, which is just inherently hosed up All the rest is details.
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Let's play "guess the law". I'm thinking something related to bitcoin or crypto more generally.
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Achmed Jones posted:i would've guessed a country outlawed cartoon child porn I thought it might be something like that but wanted to be more optimistic.
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Subjunctive posted:(the real severance thing you want in the US, AIUI, is for them to pay your COBRA for a year) Cause if they don't, oof.
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Jose Valasquez posted:i have now
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > hn thread: What is the incentive to avoid prison?
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Saying it's genetic is that saying a lot of the variation in dental health is explained away by different genes. That model has residuals, sure, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have explanatory power.
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Internet Janitor posted:hn thread: Based on my limited knowledge of the history of societies,
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Too long for a thread title but it fits.
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fritz posted:In my experience, real-world fellatrices are either naturally good at it, or aren't. A conclusion you can draw regardless of your experience.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > hn thread: blowhards missing the point
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So wrong that he almost makes a good point.
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mystes posted:hn thread: I aspire to work in a role where pedantry is appreciated
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The people being mean to Cloudflare execs are the real racists.
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