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by LPisGood 2y ago
Wait that sounds like a really good use case. Do you still need a magic mouse/keyboard?
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m not even saying it doesn’t happen at all higher rate than the general population. But 90% is just too much to be feasible.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
You’re asking what is the point of being alive if you don’t have to work at a company?
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by LPisGood 2y ago
> Manager level to replace the dumb question manager. His were all Mac terminal eye candy. He did not get the job Huh? Please explain
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I’ve worked on a piece of software you have at least heard of, probably used, and it is so far from publicly available it’s funny.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I _highly_ doubt 90% of nerdy people were tormented during childhood. Have you spent time in/around academia? These people are massive nerds and horrendous childhood torment is pretty rare.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Any meaningful metric.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
That is 212 papers, not 5000. 5000 is the number of new authors of those 200 papers.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I think the other comment had an excellent breakdown of the various factors at play, so I will start by saying I fully endorse what was said there. To highlight a key point: “naturally” is slightly humorous because it implies that while the
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Of course that is exactly the middle ground that I’m not certain is so big. Developer productivity has gone up immensely in the last 50 years and the industry is larger than ever.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
> it seems likely that LLMs will obsolete precisely the skills that developers use to earn their income I’m not particularly worried. I think it’s obvious that software engineering is definitely an “intelligence complete” problem. Any sy
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by LPisGood 2y ago
My ongoing operation is a MacBook pro that costs pennies worth of electricity.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
State SIGINT is generally a lot easier than many of those actions. State SIGINT can especially if the state you’re primarily concerned about isn’t the one you live in.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
“Juniors with tons of experience are common” means that people with many years of experience who are nonetheless at the level of a junior engineer are common. This phrase is divorcing seniority from talent, albeit perhaps not in the way exp
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by LPisGood 2y ago
It was an ironic twist of fate that we were preparing specifically for this type of challenge and, when presented with exactly what we had prepared for we failed to see the solution.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Oh I don’t think of it like that - it was not a super serious competition and aside from some lighthearted ribbing there was certainly no suffering from any failure.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I gave a presentation on that attack in a number theory class - it made not getting that problem sting a little more.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Continued fractions are very cool. I saw in a CTF competition once a question about breaking an RSA variant that relied on the fact that a certain ratio was a term in sequence of continued fraction convergents. Naturally the person pursing
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I think that is kind of a big deal. You either need to prepare many identical decks in advance or come up with an elaborate selection procedure you repeat every 4 minutes.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Or data harvesting, or making games with addictive micro transactions, or…most industries.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
The blog post linked in the top comment itself is very well written though. I had assumed poker was a good game to teach traders to play and the counterpoints were insightful.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
How do you play in person? Are the cards for sale somewhere?
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I think you’re misusing the word “entitlement” as it is used with respect to US government spending. Can you elaborate what you think the connection is?
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by LPisGood 2y ago
>The power dynamics you're talking about are always in the context of North America, specifically the USA Well that’s where the people are that are having these discussions for the most part. People from other parts of the world wou
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by LPisGood 2y ago
The problem with everyone making long videos is that it leads to a situation where, intentional or not, it seems like everyone is trying to waste your time. Some things just aren’t worth talking about for that long.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
> Taking some time to point out the vulnerability is already charity work Sure, but if you’re not going to reason why the vulnerability you’re pointing out is an issue or respond well to questions then it’s almost as bad as doing nothing
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Cryptographic protocols are algorithms built on cryptographic primitives and they have plenty of footguns.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I see where you’re coming from but that comment didn’t strike me as particularly inflammatory.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
It is, of course not going to produce a “child” model that more accurately predicts the underlying true distribution that the “parent” model was trying to. That is, it will not add anything new. This is immediately obvious if you look at it
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by LPisGood 2y ago
I feel like nothing would turn me into a Karen more than interacting with AI customer service on a regular basis. It’s already severely frustrating that at many companies, you have to talk to several people (separated by copious waiting) to

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