I_am_uncreative

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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
I really wanted to work at the historic Bell Labs campus. Sad they're leaving.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Yes, you don't get severance if you're fired, in some cases.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Yes! If you eat too much, take up smoking instead. That's one old habit gone, and a new one added!
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Yes, but if you need to compile something, isn't it nice to have those threads?
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
But... You don't need academic credentials to submit to arXiv. Anyone can submit to it, and arXiv doesn't do peer review either, they just have a bare minimum amount of review to ensure you're not submitting things that clear
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
I dunno, the moat Sam tried to build might make it hard to make a competitor.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Back in those days, most families just had one computer, too, so it made it easier to monitor use.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
If it wasn't abrupt, why did they release this news BEFORE the stock markets closed, instead of after?
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Well, Source was the last Counter Strike game that allowed people to use custom skins. CS2 enforces sv_pure when playing on official servers, so you can't make up your own skin and use it. It sucks.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Are they still friends?
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
This is such a stupid take. Even if there was a 5% chance of super-human level AGI destroying the world, we're not going to reduce that risk by restricting general computation. If it is possible to create AGI, it will happen, regardles
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
What a world we're in where Meta might actually be the Good Guys.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
What is the penalty for non-compliance? "Nullum crimen sine lege" is a pretty fundamental part of the law; and Congress has not passed any laws that would give the President the authority to do these things.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Is there a penalty for non-compliance here? Because if you were a wealthy recluse with 50,000x H100 cards, the executive order might say you have to report your models, but I'm pretty sure that there's no penalty that could be enf
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
What amazes me is how things really haven't changed. Teenage angst has always been a thing.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
In fairness though, Twain predicted that this would happen.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
This is ridiculous, and calls into question the integrity of the Ubuntu project. Yikes.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
The Windows 95 user interface was really something special.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
OK, but why is America's economy so much healthier than Canada's?
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
I'm not getting this until LineageOS becomes available for it.. and maybe not even then, given that my 4a works just as well.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
He's quite clearly on the autism spectrum. When I saw him at FOSSETCON in Orlando (RIP that conference), he was.. interesting. I will say that I was pleasantly surprised, given what I had read about him, at how he handled a question fr
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
They do! But paper copies do not exist. You can have a paper copy of your dissertation printed, but it is unofficial.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
I'm a PhD Candidate and was very disappointed to find out that my university no longer does printed copies of dissertations. I really wish they did.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Someone born in 2005 is a freshman in college now.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Truth does have a left-wing bias.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Wikipedia is actually trying to figure that out. Right now WMF legal says no.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Yes, yes there is: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/767.pdf
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
> You can become a proper Japanese if you want to I'm really not sure about that. I'm a white man with red hair, I'm pretty sure I'd always be "otherized" in Japan, as would most westerners.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
And yet, Australia's population is slated to decline, while the US is not.
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by I_am_uncreative 3y ago
Plus, where is it hosted? Looks like somewhere called inmotionhosting. I wonder how much it costs to host this static page there..

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