PittleyDunkin

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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Where are the release notes? Edit: I suppose they'll be here at some point: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-no... These seem like extremely shitty release notes. I have no clue why a
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> It's so common place that few are going to remember they applied to a specific company years ago to begin with. Additionally, it take a single lazily-managed spreadsheet to identify this dysfunction. Surely any positive effect fro
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I completely understand why you would behave this way, but I would absolutely not apply to the same place. I've never hired someone I've seen twice. I'm sure it could theoretically happen (hell, it's likely to happen for
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> That is no longer the case. For all I shit relentlessly on this country and its culture, it's still an extremely attractive place to live if you're well-situated to make money. (Most people are not—hence my contempt for how
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> - The chips still need to fly back to Taiwan to be packaged as there are no facilities here with such a capability. This seems to be a much more achievable barrier to work around than not having a fab.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Doesn't hurt them either I don't think. Well those are 3000 resumes that won't be resubmitted when you actually want to hire. Many of those resumes will belong to people who since found work. Weeding through that would b
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> This wasn't some LinkedIn "quick apply", these were direct "Fill out the form" on our website. Not a single one of these applications got read. Surely this would basically immediately backfire as people would
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> With light traffic a 4 way stop should have no cars at all at it most of the time Unless there's protected right turns, of course.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Have you any idea the launch costs of NASA/ESA versus SpaceX? This seems to be the result of intentional incompetency by our own politicians and refusal to fund the program in any comparable way than a serious sign of inability to
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Much evidence shows that state owned competitions are significantly less efficient than the free market. How is this possible? Profit, by definition, inefficient. Privatizing the production of rockets just penalizes american citizens w
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
It would not be my first time! Worst three months of my life. Regardless, my friends in china seem to work hours that roughly align with 40-50 hours a week, similar to you'd see here.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Forcing me to come into the office spending more of my energy, time, and money, not to mention socializing with people I don't want to socialize with, is miserable and unnnecessary. Not to mention I'm far less productive in such a
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Databases seem to grow much slower than other assets, so maybe this price advantage just won't be worth the vendor lockin. Hell my current extremely valuable postgres database worth literally millions of dollars is about thirteen gigs
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
They seem to be struggling more to retain their quality actors and writers (nothing against Yang, he's not who I'm referring to). I can't say I can put my finger on why I've come to this belief. Either that or there are
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I can't wait to see what the show looks like without him.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Well, I wonder what he thinks non-performative social justice looks like. The civil rights movement was certainly performative (as is all protest) and that's basically the only narrative we were offered growing up for how to affect soc
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
what does "performative" mean in this context? I honestly can't tell. It would really help if pg provided an example so we could evaluate for ourselves. Meanwhile, basically all national politics is performative bullshit. Why
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Pretty much, but what was left off is the union demands for healthcare as an employment benefit that truly entrenched the practice in the US. This just doesn't make any sense—single payer would free up the union to fight for more.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Can't really agree. Especially in the wake of the 2024 election, there's been quite a bit of discussion about wokeness on the left. We'd have to figure out what the hell people are referring to first before there's
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Knowledge workers do not need to be there in the office like the labor unions. Nothing about a labor union implies this, either, just that labor is necessary to produce revenue. This is still true for service-based companies, even if i
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> try to find an actual proper double blind academic study that demonstrates a taste difference between sucrose and high fructose corn syrup. I'll be here waiting. That doesn't imply there isn't a taste difference, just t
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Labor unions seem like the wrong model for organizing people in a lot of "knowledge workers." A professional association like the American Medical Association might be a better way to structure things. Please explain—knowledg
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Sure but that's not really replacing workers at all, it's just moving the work around. Same as every other automation technology of our lifetimes. Very odd to position this in terms of replacing workers rather than increasing prod
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> We’re deeply concerned that companies will try to get around the law and continue to exploit vulnerable workers by pretending they are self-employed when they should enjoy the full protection of the law. This is really the crux of the
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> "Freedom - the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints" Yea, this is a nice thought if you don't live in society. However, it falls apart pretty rapidly once you
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Sure, for some meaning of "work" we've been there already for decades. I don't think anyone is doubting that AI can increase productivity (and in this sense, displace midlevel engineers) but I don't see any reason t
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Man, we've seen so many replacements for make over the past two decades. Make is gonna be a really, really hard tool to unseat: it's small, it's reliable, it's pretty cross-platform, it solves a narrowly-defined problem
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
It's one of two literate programming books I've read—the other one is PBRT, which provides about the same level of quality as the TeXBook IMO (I haven't read metafont). > On balance I think modern tools achieve Knuth’s goa
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I just don't have this paternalistic instinct to try and protect people from rootkits. Even if I did, this is certainly the wrong way to do so—you need to hold companies accountable for the flaws in their software (for which we have
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> The real conversation is about how to best balance these. How do you even formulate these values so that they're in conflict in the first place?

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