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by Cacti 3y ago
you seem to have confused the two. Sam’s entire reason for being there was to decrease transparency, make open research proprietary, and monetize it.
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by Cacti 3y ago
Sometimes smart people make stupid decisions. It’s really that simple. A young guy who is suddenly very rich, possibly powerful, and talking to the most powerful government on the planet on national TV? And people are surprised to hear this
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by Cacti 3y ago
They did compromise. The creation of the for-profit and Sam being brought in WAS the compromise. Sam eventually decided that was inconvenient for him, so he stopped abiding by it, because at the end of the day he is just another greedy VC g
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by Cacti 3y ago
Right?! Anyone paying attention back when Sam was brought on is not surprised. Sam and his investors _were_ the coup. They took an org specifically set up to do open research for the good of humanity, and Sam literally did the opposite. He
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by Cacti 3y ago
lol there’s thousands of Sams out there, he’s not that special, and he’s certainly not indispensable. I don’t know why so many here are struggling to accept that this guy fucked up, lied to his boss, got caught, and got fired for it, and th
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by Cacti 3y ago
Last time I talked to our Azure reps, the technical folks seemed to be saying (or rather wanting to without explicitly saying so) that basically all present and near term GPU capacity (of recent gen) is either being consumed or will be con
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by Cacti 3y ago
Both of these are manifestations of the same underlying cause: arrogance combined with ignorance.
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by Cacti 3y ago
UI frameworks, OO, and databases/SQL get reinvented every 5 years or so, usually by younger programmers who seem particularly ignorant of the lessons learned from decades of research and development in these areas.
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by Cacti 3y ago
CCP member nervous they will get dragged out into the street by angry, unemployed, unmarried 20-30 year old men
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by Cacti 3y ago
Two things will happen in that scenario: - the economic damage to china will cause the overthrow of the CCP - any serious escalation would be met by a naval blockade of china and mass starvation
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by Cacti 3y ago
I mean, British kings holding French land and French kings holding British land is… well, not new.
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by Cacti 3y ago
you think war between two nuclear powers is likely?
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by Cacti 3y ago
No, the current most reasonable explanation for the dynamics of the bullet cluster are merely consistent with our current best dark matter theories. It is suggestive at best.
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by Cacti 3y ago
Dark matter is largely an instrumentation problem. The universe is very big, and direct observation of individual objects is largely limited by distance/luminosity, which is problematic when you are looking for lots of old dark stars v
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by Cacti 3y ago
My understanding is the thing about the binding system that drove adoption more than anything was due to how easy it was to generate bindings for an existing C library. This drove stdlib expansion and allowed rapid repurpose of huge amounts
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by Cacti 3y ago
A closely related sin: stealing/changing the users key or mouse focus.
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by Cacti 4y ago
Without the browser, JavaScript wouldn’t even be called JavaScript.
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by Cacti 4y ago
This comment would seem completely absurd if I didn’t work in a massive corporation and see precisely what you mean every day. On the one hand, they’re ultimately just plain old full of shit, but there is definitely a subtle, structural dil
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by Cacti 4y ago
Race conditions are not limited to those “caused by language”, whatever that means.
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by Cacti 4y ago
wow
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by Cacti 4y ago
Man, Americans are good enough endangering their own democracy just fine on their own. Don’t act like things _just_ got his way, this has been picking up steam steadily for 50+ years. Facebook is like an average gust compared to things like
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by Cacti 5y ago
Well since there are other search engines that don’t suffer from this, it is in fact precisely Google’s fault.
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by Cacti 5y ago
It’s become noticeably horrible lately. Half my search results these days are bot sites, just entire sites of copied material or material generated by neural nets that is completely worthless. I don’t know what’s going on at Google but the
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by Cacti 5y ago
This is like saying you can’t see what the value of the internet is. If you can’t imagine _any_ reason why technical info on subs would be highly sensitive, you are going to need to read some books, because there’s literally thousands of re
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by Cacti 5y ago
Well, there has been a little-noticed revolution in meteorology in the US in the past 15 years, driven by improved simulations and measurement systems (mostly funded by the federal government). Our predictive capability is well over 10x imp
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by Cacti 5y ago
1. verify it against published benchmarks for that model 2. open up the case and see if it’s actually what you bought
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by Cacti 5y ago
Frameworks are a spinning wheel that reinvent technology every 3-5 years. It only seems like an improvement because the people using and writing it are relearning the same lessons that their predecessors already learned, but are unaware of
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by Cacti 5y ago
How long have you been looking internally? Promotions at huge companies usually aren’t just a matter of checking boxes, your manager really has to push for you using both the formal and informal routes. Also, do you trust your manager? Just
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by Cacti 5y ago
lol obviously you’ve never worked in a giant bureaucratic corporation.
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by Cacti 5y ago
That’s not what that doc says at all.

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