Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 2y ago
That reminds me of a note on the door I saw in a research department: “A month in the lab saves you an hour in the library.”
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
It’s not the state that put the immigrants there, but outside those areas it’s almost impossible to find something to rent, and as an immigrant without a steady income it’s kind of impossible to buy anything.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
As a Swede, we have always been very bad letting foreigners in. Most, even otherwise liberal and well educated, have been low key racist. One part has been that anyone not speaking perfect Swedish has been seen as bit stupid. Having a forei
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I remember as a poor student, having to pay the equivalent of 50 cents felt like robbery. Today with a steady income I’m happy to pay a dollar, or even two, to be able to use a clean restroom. I think the general problem is interesting: how
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
The last time I went I just had to blip my credit/debit card. Very convenient. (Stockholm Central Station, Sweden).
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
We did, but then they managed to convince us that the unions weren't on our side. But there's not much stopping us from organise ourselves again.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I suspect that is one of the reasons they are in power. Shame is what keeps us plebeians in place.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
But they probably thought there would be more contracts, and keeping you on for 6 months, or even a year, would probably be cheaper than hiring and onboarding someone new.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Yes! I still meet too many people who think what we are manufacturing software, while what we are doing is designing it. The manufacturing, that is, the building and deployment is already highly automated and very cheap.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I’ve seen companies rapidly collapse because they couldn’t adapt their code base to current platforms or new requirements. As long as nothing changes and you don’t have too many bugs, your code can look like crap under the surface without i
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Exercise doesn't have to suck. For it not to suck, it has to be on the right level for you (if you think you'll about to puke or die, it's not on the right level), and it has to stimulating in one way or another. If you can&#
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> You can program a concept of truth into them, ... The question was, how you do that? > Nobody here said that, that is your interpretation. What is my interpretation? I don't think that the problems are unsolvable, but we don&#x
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> You can have a generative model that cares about the truth when it tries to generate responses, its just the current LLMs don't. How would you do that, when they don’t have any concept of truth to start with (or any concepts at al
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> the key worry of the management is who left who knows how to deploy the foo-banana service. While it might be uncomfortable to be reminded of, it is in most cases true. The company isn’t your family or your friends, and most managers a
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Compared to the amount of CO2 we add to the atmosphere continuously (still!), I’m quite sure that the CO2 from all the plastic in the ocean is insignificant. edit: just to make sure that my guess wasn't too far off, I looked up some nu
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
“We in computer science”! I interpret that as people doing research, not the rest of us who mostly do bean counting programs. For those that pay our salaries, not losing any beans is way more import than how much fun we have, or how much we
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
That only works when the fraudster already have enemies at the top who are happy to weaponise any anonymous tips about wrongdoings. Otherwise they will be ignored and forgotten, and in certain cases a witch hunt for the traitor inside will
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
It’s not philosophy that needs help.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
No, my argument is that you lack even a rudimentary understanding what it is all about. You only need some curiosity and an open mind to get that. I’m certain there are something in Wikipedia that can help.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
You very clearly illustrate andybak’s point by showing that you just don’t even know what philosophy is.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Cliques can easily occur just by a few people researching the same thing. If you are maybe two or three research groups in the works that use a particular method to try to solve a particular problem, of course you are all going to cite each
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
This looks like a straw man to me. I’ve never heard opponents of nuclear power claiming that mining uranium ore would lead to less mining than renewable energy sources. The arguments usually brought up are the consequences of accidents, the
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I don’t remember exactly, but it must have been around 2002 or so.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I certainly ran into scammers on ICQ.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Not at all. I should have chosen my language more carefully. I think we are in general agreement. My only point was that we don’t need any laurels to rest on to be happy with a “small” life.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I haven’t achieved shit and I’m perfectly happy with that. I have a decently (maybe top 10%) paying job, not a career, and am trying to spend as much happy time as I can with my kids. No one, except my family, will remember me. So what?
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Maybe Iran this time?
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
They are my enemy. I’m living in a country with borders less than 300 km from Russia. NATO wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Russia. The only reason Russia’s neighbours strive to join NATO is because Russia’s habit of invading them when
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I got it from: > This is a facade. The talking point the NATO/US/west uses, while they violate every such rule when they see fit. Which expresses that exact sentiment
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
This is exactly one of the Russian talking points. "You see, we might have invaded a few neighbour countries with the intention of annexing the territories, but look at NATO, they are equally bad because they invaded Iraq." (NATO

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