vraghuram.bsky.social
Software Engineer. I think about the Roman Empire more often than I ought to. Views my own.
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You should turn off your watch history as well. It’s an annoying combination of knobs you have to twiddle before your home page goes completely blank.
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Pro tip: you can turn off recommendations entirely on YouTube, via the settings. It’s made my experience a whole lot healthier, because now I only see the videos I explicitly search for or subscribe to.
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Now that I think of it, it would be really scary if compilers used AI to generate machine code…
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Another thing is that, as LLMs generate code, if they generate a bug, I can pretty easily find and fix it myself. What happens when we start treating AI-generated outputs as black boxes? Does fixing bugs become a matter of arguing with an LLM until you get a thing you’re sort of confident will work?
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My own experience is that LLMs are useful for coding only because I already know what I’m doing. They’re no substitute for an expert developer, but they help a lot, especially with repetitive work (including writing unit tests).
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This is all a dog-and-pony show by the DoJ. I would love a Lambo, but I have neither the money nor the space in my garage to have one. There is only one company in the world with both the money and the product fit to buy Chrome, and that’s Microsoft.
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Yeah Indo-sushi is definitely new. Did it actually taste Indian, or was it just, like, sushi that happened to be served at an Indian restaurant?
Incidentally, while I’d never heard of Indo-sushi, Japanese curry does originate from Indian spices by way of the British.
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To add, Indo-Chinese dishes are still incredibly popular in India today.
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For anyone who doesn’t know, “Indo-Chinese” is really a thing. Basically it’s a kind of creole cuisine created by Chinese immigrants who settled in Calcutta and Bombay during the 19th century.
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As crass as it sounds, maybe someone should make a Netflix adaptation of “The Jungle.”
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Isn’t this backwards? Didn’t the push for self-government come as a result of heavy taxation (which, in turn, came from heavy expenses the British ran up during the Seven Years’ War)?
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UCs and CSU do by ballot measure, but private schools like Stanford and USC aren’t subject to that
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I’ve never seen the word “leftist” used except polemically. The minute you see that, you know what to make of the rest of the piece.
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I feel like just being associated with Zuck and FB was a big reason why the metaverse flopped. Yes, there other reasons, but the public would have been less skeptical at the outset had it been any other company that didn’t have the reputation problems that FB does.
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It’s as if they’re like “who can we find who has absolutely no business running a restaurant? Let’s feature them!”
Except for Momma Cherri; we need more episodes like that.
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I tend to believe this; I happen to be reading now about how the modern synthetics industry was created in a span of a couple of years in the US, while it faced critical resource shortages during WWII. As they say, necessity is the mother of innovation.
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What about Temu? Their UX is a dumpster fire, so my hypothesis above doesn’t really apply. I think their appeal is more about making tons - even moreso than Amazon - of dirt-cheap shit available to consumers. Maybe all of the wheel-of-fortune popups help gamify the shopping experience? IDK.
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With TikTok, however, small nibbles of content take up the whole screen, and all the user needs to do is swipe to see the next thing. UX is more passive for the user, and signal is more granular for TikTok - hence feedback loop is more powerful.
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With YT/FB/Amazon, the user is still expected to do a lot of heavy lifting - either supplying search terms themselves or scrolling through their feed until they find content to engage with. User spends more time finding content, and company gets less signal per second of user interaction.
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I don’t think the service/app distinction applies here; FB, YT, and Amazon all have apps to talk to their services, and TikTok has services that power their app. So apps and services work hand-in-hand here. As you pointed out, the diff btw TikTok and the former 3 is down to a “refinement” in UX.
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Wow. This reads like something I might have written back in school if I procrastinated too much on a paper.
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Maybe not, but it certainly looks like they SEO-ed the shit out of this article.
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Every nice-ish place has its tradeoffs. If it isn’t fires in LA, it’s earthquakes in the Bay Area, or constant rain in Seattle, or blizzards in the northeast, or hurricanes in FL.
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(This was State Farm just tbc)
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I was about to pull the trigger on a home insurance policy last year, but ostensibly because of the flooding that had happened (nowhere near my area), the associate I was working with told me they don’t sell policies in CA anymore and abruptly stopped talking to me.
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Don’t forget “when are you getting married?!?”
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“Her” kids. Don’t forget.
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It is, because it’s exactly what has happened. You can’t make a law with loopholes you can drive an aircraft carrier through and then not expect companies to do just that.
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Well, the UK is not to be outdone; they’re busy with their own “protect the children” BS
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Well then you can just as easily say the law creates the wrong incentives for companies, which probably goes to problems with how the law is drafted
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So that’s what it looks like when a cheap suit folds
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AFAIK no other car brand has a subculture of idiots who buy FSD and then, e.g., put bowling balls in the driver’s seat so they can nap while the car drives itself. On the flip side, I have never heard of a Honda-bro; the people who buy Hondas want a reliable car to take their kids to school in.
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Plus by supporting these laws, they can curry at least a bit of favor with the politicians who are pushing them.
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Nah, she will henceforth be known as Governor Senator Director Lake
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I might be wrong, but isn’t the sign, like, not even good Spanish? The verb isn’t conjugated, and I think “no ciudadanos” means “no citizens” not “non-citizens.”
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Isn’t a curved apse a common feature in Byzantine churches? Is there any relation, or just a coincidence?
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Hey but Richard Blumenthal got his headline, so…
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Dare I say, he should change his name to No-Kash Patel
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Silver lining: Kash Patel will have no budget
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Nah, staying “out of the way” seems to be Jeffries’ usual MO
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At least his fingers will be too slick with pudding to touch the nuclear launch codes
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Mitch McConnell is our only hope? Damn, what a timeline.
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This stands in contrast with how they basically pulled out all the stops to get Lina Khan confirmed *and* named FTC chair. It’s not as if the White House was incapable of shepherding Sohn’s nomination through.
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The Biden admin didn’t provide nearly as much air cover to Gigi Sohn as they should have while Republicans and Telecom-aligned groups were smearing her. They clearly deserve a good deal of blame here, as they could have gone to bat for Sohn and brought her over the finish line.
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I tried a Chromebook at work, and - within the Google ecosystem, at least - everything works stunningly seamlessly. But for the small screen, I’d probably still be using it now.
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It’s almost as if news reporting should be done by someone with a general education, journalistic training, and subject-matter expertise. Who woulda thunk?
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The headline seems to conflate principled intellectual consistency with Trump’s pigheadedness, but these are not the same.
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Wasn’t there a huge panic in the ‘80s the Japanese car and electronics industry American companies’ lunches? I would assume his views stem the general public anxiety about that.
Also, I hate how the headline makes him seem like some kind of economic thinker when he’s really not that bright.
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Yeah - “it’s the economy, stupid” is still applicable, although “the economy” to most people means rent and gas prices rather than stocks and GDP growth.
It’s sad that, for all that we claim to value our democracy and freedoms, the average voter is still mainly animated by bread and circuses.