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jounker commented on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/ripe

miltonlost · 2 days ago

Also got to love the linguistic coincidence of Crabs and Cancer and how tech companies grow ever larger (monopolistic) to the detriment of their host (the greater economy/humanity)

jounker · 2 days ago

It’s not a linguistic coincidence. The disease is named after the animal.

jounker commented on Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading arxiv.org/abs/2504.06932... · Posted by u/doener

eru · 3 months ago

Once you sign up customers for 'cheaper electricity, but you have to agree to the occasional loadshedding', you can probably also sign them up for a bit of 'oh, and please burn some more electricity, when we tell you to'.

The former is already happening and useful, the latter would be a relatively simple and easy add-on that could be used to offer ever so slightly cheaper electricity.

jounker · 3 months ago

My washing machine has a timer. I do the wash when local electricity rates are near zero.

jounker commented on Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford nexo.sh/posts/microservic... · Posted by u/nexo-v1

elevatedastalt · 4 months ago

If you are building the same binary for all microservices you lose the dependency-reduction benefit microservices provide, since your build will still break because of some completely unrelated team's code.

jounker · 4 months ago

You’ll still get some isolation since not all pathways share the same code. It’s not all or nothing.

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jounker commented on When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024) katu.com/news/local/explo... · Posted by u/gscott

jlmorton · 6 months ago

The blown up whale in Oregon is sort of like the SR-71 speed readout story. Reposted endlessly, but you just kind of accept it.

jounker · 6 months ago

There’s film of the whale being blown up. The best part is the sound of whale meat falling from the sky.

jounker commented on Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021) arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111... · Posted by u/gnabgib

jounker · 6 months ago

Is this a joke paper? This is unoptimized bubble sort. This is the first sort I wrote when I was 13. This is literally the most obvious sort that exists.

jounker commented on Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock cnbc.com/2025/02/22/warre... · Posted by u/belter

jounker · 6 months ago

It’s almost like a global trade war would be bad for businesses.

jounker commented on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) johnsalvatier.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/lis

jounker · 6 months ago

My friend is a doctor. Her profession uses sections of the NIH and CDC websites on a daily basis. They are the references for drug interactions with medical conditions. These sections are just gone.

Trump’s “cost saving” measures are already actively harming medical treatment in the USA.

jounker commented on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009) engineering.mit.edu/engag... · Posted by u/sorentwo

Sniffnoy · 7 months ago

Note that if you did want to directly compensate for the decrease in sulfur (exclding reductions in emissions), I think you could just, like, spray water in the air?

jounker · 7 months ago

Water is a greenhouse gas. That might just make things worse.

jounker commented on Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019) jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/201... · Posted by u/hosteur

diego_moita · 7 months ago

Every form of manipulation of people through information is a "cancer": advertising, political ideologies, religion, escapist entertainment, etc.

The problem is that truth is very hard to establish for those that don't want and don't understand logic. They're "cancers" that people want because they're comfortable with it.

Also, if we try to control these cancers by restricting what information is allowed we will create an authoritarian society.

jounker · 7 months ago

That is a false dichotomy. We can certainly place restrictions without resulting in an authoritarian society. We can ban billboards. (Some states do this). We can ban gambling and drug ads. We can place ownership limits on media markets. There are all things we have had in the us at various times and in various places.

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KarmaCake day361April 5, 2017View Original