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OT, but the superlogical browser tab icon gives me flashbacks (pun intended) to the flash player icon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Adobe_Fl...

A generic name for a collection of things used to gain access to something. That’s not really helping explain it, so here’s some examples: Airplane tickets, library membership barc…

In the video you show a 2D mask to blur diagonal lines. How is that mask applied to the DFT? Is the mask also converted to a DFT and the two signals get combined?

The summary of the post says that lambdas/procedures/etc. are another type outside of composition and inheritance. I’ve always thought of lambdas as composition though. You’re assi…

Thanks for the link! I read through it and agree with most of your points, especially the parts about presence and separation of tasks. I personally liked the intellectual aspect o…

I've been reading through the book The Courage to be Disliked recently. I'm not a big fan of the writing style of the book, but some of the ideas in the book appear in this post to…

There was another reply here earlier that was saying it isn't a trade deficit. I wanted to steelman the parent post: Foreign investment into USA companies reduces the USA trade def…

Showing my age here, but this reminds me of knex. You would get different models but you could make whatever you wanted out of the parts. It was a great creative toy back in the da…

I put down $50 to reserve one. I grew up with an old car that I tinkered with endlessly. Mostly because it was simple enough for me to get my head around! This car reminds me of th…

Do you have a doc or article that describes more about this? I’ve worked with relational algebra before but I’ve never heard it described with an API before. Are the responses all …

For all my GTD-style note taking I'm using Things. I stuff everything that I need to remember into its inbox as soon as I think about it. Adding context + sorting happens at a late…

According to this post it looks like new accounts can’t onboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41104997

Yes and you can add me to the group. FS is Field Separator. It’s ascii code 0x1C. Theres a whole group of these separators in ascii: > The separators (File, Group, Record, and Unit…

Yep! I haven't read the article, but the core issue that DevOps is trying to solve is the old division between coding and deployment/ops. Back in the day you would have one team wr…

Would content moderation be possible via LLMs? If so, would it be cost effective vs human moderation?

There's probably other levers as well that I'm not aware of or have forgotten. But you'll be seeing companies everywhere using most, if not all of these levers, not just tech.

We can replace some of the engineers income with company equity ie: shares of the company. This way we don't have to take out as large loans, but we have to give up a certain perce…

Management can pay down the existing debt, which makes future debt payments easier. But they need cash to pay down existing debt, which they may not have.

What about cost-cutting measures? As long as it doesn't impact your ability to generate revenue, this is a good strategy. However, other companies that are your clients are doing t…

Let's say management decide to lay off 50% of their engineering workforce. This decreases our new loan amount to $1.5M. Revenue now needs to increase by $74,150 instead of $105,800…

I'd say they're holding off on investments and focusing on increasing their bottom line, ie: reducing costs. Software engineers cost a lot of money. Their employment is largely dri…