AstixAndBelix

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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
You'd figure we would have treated SWE like other kinds of engineering and avoided the pitfalls of 2000 years of civil eng and 200 years of electrical eng, and yet here we are in 2023 where using at least static analysis is not the nor
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
This article is meant for tech people and the purpose of the quiz is make you realize how little you know about the subject even as an expert. This is not a pop-sci youtube video
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Sir, this is an electrical circuit class
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Because when you find a new law of physics you can't patent it. But if you make a newfangled device thanks to that new physics law you can put a nice patent on it and earn millions
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Nothing I said implies intellectual work should be free, unless you have a skewed idea of what selling your services or a product means
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Intellectual property and copyright are not the same thing. Also the presentation of something is an idea just like the something itself, so copyright is also a scam.
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Because ideas are not property. Are mathematical theorems property? No, because someone who proved the theorem "owns" it just as much as someone who has studied the proof and learned it by heart. And what about independently disco
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
OpenAI is an opinionated startup, they don't owe everyone the same things. Probably they thought KhanAcademy would be a very ethical way to use GPT-4 for good and they gave it early access.
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
These people clinging desperately to the US and trying every trick in the book to not go back to their native countries is exactly why the country they left is in shambles. It's a self-fulfulling prophecy of the country not improving b
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Maybe it's unrelated, but I'm finishing college and in a couple of years we've gone from almost nobody using tablets to take notes to almost everyone having a pen-enabled device to take notes with. This is because we finally
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Nobody who is jacked has ever been considered obese. This weird "gotcha" about bodybuilders and alike having the BMI of an obese person and being healthy is a meaningless edge cases that tries to stray away discussions. The vast m
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
This is exactly what happens when lack of scientific literature and manager hubris collide together. After decades and decades there are still no conclusive results about how different types of workplaces influence productivity and mental h
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
And you can with GP? GPT is incredibly good at summarizing, it doesn't make stuff up in those cases
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Public banks should also be needed for a cashless society. How can you expect people to be deprived of cash if they have to rely to a private corporation to simply survive? Give a state issued and guaranteed bank account to every citizen
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Has anyone found a decent use of the 100x zoom on these phones? Could it be that the sheer hype it causes compensates for the extra cost of putting it on the phone? Like, even if nobody uses it it stills turn an overall profit because of th
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Identity cannot be self-signed. "Self signed identity" as you call it is just a pseudonym. Anyone who has access to your private key can post with your "identity" and there is no way for checking fraudolent usage. If you
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Self signed identity is meaningless, especially online
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Web3 offers digital identities owned by the type of strategy the blockchain uses. Do you use Bitcoin and tomorrow Venezuela buys up 51% of global hashing power? Your identity is now managed by Venezuela, have fun
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
>humans learn from a relatively tiny number of interactions with other humans but those interactions are infinitely complex and contain an enormous amount of data
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
The funny thing is that you could run a whole company with just this device. It has enough processing power to manage everyone's payroll, keep track of cashflow, inventory and orders and calculate a myriad of spreadsheet formulas.
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Absolutely not because printer patents will kill you. There are a handful of companies that hold all the patents necessary to build a printer. If you try to build one from scratch "taking inspiration" from consumer ones you will b
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Unlike Facebook, Sony is a hardware company that basically makes everything. If Sony wants to spit out the best VR headset they can just call up their display division, camera division, sensors division, design division and put into a singl
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
I like my profession => I want to earn as much money as possible doing it => if I work my ass off and you don't reward me I will look elsewhere It's not that difficult. As I already said, if I didn't want money I would
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
My income is a reflection of the value I bring to a company. If I do something extremely valuable without getting a raise or a bonus or a promotion then the company is not valuing me enough and I should look elsewhere. If I work for a for-p
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Why would I help my organizatiom reach its goals of the organization is not interested in helping me achieve mine ?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
- Italian city-states had a level of antagonism towards each other that is not found in 2020 Europe. The amount of freedom europeans have today to travel and work and do business in the EU is incomparable - Armies in those times in Italy we
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
If building the grid would take as many electricians as maintaining it we should totally incentivize people to learn the trade, they would be practically guaranteed jobs. Otherwise it would be a big bubble of people being put out of a job o
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Spaced repetition is distributed practice
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
>I run into little things like hardcoded Ubuntu paths in apps what are you referring to? do you mean packages shipped on your distro are broken because the maintainers didn't change the paths or do you mean that pre-compiled binarie
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
it's incredible to me how laxly we treat driving multi-ton vehicles at high speeds. you'd think operating such beasts would be something for which a real license and strict guidelines were put in place, instead it's just trea

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