IceMetalPunk

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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
In an ideal society, the number of people who want to learn as much as possible about the world would equal the number of people in the population :D There definitely needs to be some sort of government-imposed improvement on the cost of hi
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
When you say "regardless of structure" -- if it's a relational database, that inherently implies a set structure. Or did you mean the information is consistent enough to be represented in one relational structure, but is pres
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I think many of us wish Twitter wasn't a company at all...
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
PostMan's the standard, in my experience. But if you use VSCode, I recommend Thunder Client instead. It's more or less identical to PostMan, but integrated into VSCode as an extension, which is nice if you're already spending
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
The risk I'm concerned about isn't that my current employer will fire me. It's that if I switch to another job, I might not last long at the new employer. That said, I'm doing the job switch thing anyway; not to get more
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Oh, sure. But that's the big caveat, isn't it? "If you're not having to sacrifice any of your other life priorities in the process." If attempting to go for the bigger paycheck leads to unemployment, then I won&#x27
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> In a way I can agree with that, but we need to change the narrative. Instead of telling kids to go to college to get a job, we would need to change it to "go to college to learn interesting things." When we tell kids that, th
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I can't watch this at work, but as I'm subbed to Two Minute Papers, I'll definitely be watching it later. I see from the video description it's about Minerva, though, an AI I read about the other day. In my understanding
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I think college/uni should be about personal growth and education first, career opportunities second. Can it help you get a job? Great. But that shouldn't be why you do it; you should do it because you want to learn about the wo
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
So I've heard. But I don't really care. I'm single. My current salary is enough to pay my mortgage, all my bills, all my student loans, my food bill, etc. and still have enough to not only save, but donate. I give a minimum o
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Never knew Grammarly was Ukranian; neat! A quick Google later and I found that they've also taken all the profits they made from Russia and Belarus over the last 8 years and donated it all to Ukranian efforts. Which I find hilarious: &
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> 1) I am certainly not arguing over the idea that professionals... Well, sure. But that's what's happening here: experts in multiple fields of medicine, epidemiology, etc. formed a consensus about what will help reduce the spr
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out :)
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I applied for my first career job (read: first job that wasn't "you don't get a living wage" retail, and which actually used my degree) 4 years ago. It's the job I'm currently still at. When I applied, it was f
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I'm in a similar (but different) position. I'll give you the advice my current boss gave me: keep your day job while you learn the skills needed to find another. Then keep your day job while you apply to jobs that are more aligned
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I think the idea of copyright being applicable to training data in the first place is absurd. The point of copyright isn't supposed to be "no one can ever use my things for anything", it's "no one can take my work a
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
1) I'm not sure I agree with you on that. Laws that are not based on evidence are doomed to cause more harm than necessary. If the evidence shows that Action X will increase harm to others by Percentage Y, then Action X should be regul
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
As a JS dev, I tend to go with Node + Express. For more complicated projects, I go straight for the MERN stack (add MongoDB and React to the previous two bits of framework). As for deployment... I use Heroku. Or, I guess I used Heroku, past
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
And everyone knows the only GPS on the wing of a plane is in the pocket of a gremlin tearing the wing apart.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Who decided you have to be dead to have something named after you, and what basis did they have for deciding that?
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
So the number of parameters metric here is the sum across all their models, right? There isn't yet a single model with 10 trillion parameters... right?
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I'm a JavaScript dev, so I tend to go for Node with Inquirer + Commander.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Probably not much. People have believed BS forever, and mistrusted actual facts for just as long. Deepfakes are just another tool BS-slingers have in their box of dickish tricks.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I'd argue that, in the case of stable diffusion (and AI in general), the pivotal year was 2017, not 2022. 2017 is when that team of Google researchers invented transformers, and AI (including stable diffusion) has been zooming at light
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> Do not try and force that recommendation on people and be willing to have that recommendation challenged. How dangerous does "not doing the thing" need to be to the people around those making the decision before it should b
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Never expect capitalism to take a decency break.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you. I've been watching Dr. Alan Thompson for awhile now, and I don't sense any BS from him. Is there an aspect of marketing on his site? Definitely. But it's always seemed to me to be marketing
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Yep. Unfortunately, government regulations here in the US explicitly make the minimum wage for a "tipped job" much lower than the minimum wage for any other job, and the amount is not high enough for the tips to necessarily offset
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
On the one hand, yes, this is why I tip every time. On the other hand, if I'm already paying basically twice as much as the food order in delivery fees and service fees, DoorDash should be able to afford to pay its employees a living w
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
You wouldn't even have to put in that amount of effort. Set Firefox's homepage to Google, and they'll be using Firefox and still saying their browser is Google.

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