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by Root_Denied 1y ago
And you should do some reading into the edit history of that page. Wikipedia isn't immune from concerted efforts to astroturf and push marketing narratives. More to the point, the history of AI up through about 2010 talks about attemp
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
Except AI already had a clear definition well before it started being used as a way to inflate valuations and push marketing narratives. If nothing else it's been a sci-fi topic for more than a century. There's connotations, cultu
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
>And if they really tied their livelihood to working at the same company for next decade because they maxed out their lifestyle relative to the income generated by that company, then that falls all on them and I don't actually feel
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
I think you're right that they don't care about the money from Windows licenses, but they seem to be pivoting to trying to pull data from consumer desktops for AI training. That's arguably way more valuable and no one besides
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
They don't want (correctly) unfavorable comparisons to China's "Great Firewall" made, which most Western governments have lambasted in the past, so there's a PR/Politics side of it too.
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
"Investment" here seems to be operations and personnel, resulting in taxes going to the UK government. They aren't making $630 billion per year in money off of those companies, but the operating income means they're gett
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
> We have no business judging others`s beliefs when we have enough trouble keeping our own sane. I agree with you except for this part here, because what other people believe can, and does, materially impact you when they vote. There&#x2
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
I'd be cautious of Blue Zones, they're potentially not actually a real thing and more of a statistical construct. https://www.science.org/content/article/do-blue-zones-suppos...
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
It's possible to believe that humans, as a species, in aggregate, are nasty and self-centered, all while maintaining that individuals can stray from that trendline. There's evidence for this in studies on mob mentality (not just i
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
> Knowledge is proliferating faster than ever, becoming more accessible than ever, and it’s easier than ever before to get the info that you’re searching for, even in this streaming world. The idea that I’m going to lose knowledge from a
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
I think it's a fair question. While I disagree with Apple's stance, I think there's a valid argument that Apple is running a platform that you can choose to utilize or engage with or not - similar to how Apple could refuse to
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
CAD software options are severely lacking as well. There's an unofficial snap package for Fusion360 but it's hit or miss depending on the distro, the day of the week, the weather, and whether Oracle's stock price is a prime n
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
This is especially true when you start vibe coding critical systems that human life depends on. Emergency services, hospital infrastructure, financial systems (like Social Security, where a missed check may actually mean people starve) are
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
I think you have a good point, but I think the paradigm shift here is that people are chasing careers and money using LLM tools in a way that wasn't possible with calculators, and enforced differently within well-paying, white collar e
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
>As though Google doesn't have a entire team of data scientists and top tier engineers managing this experiment and driving it to optimal results. (Spoiler: they do) Optimal for who, though? From Google's perspective I'm s
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
> Your use case may be desirable, but they've determined it's not profitable. This right here is the crux of the problem - profitability rules over any and all functionality. Even in a scenario where a given design/layout
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
It's infuriating that a plugin/extension is needed to bring back what should be the a setting, if not the default, in the UI for this.
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
>The hardest to kick for me now is YouTube Premium.. And in AU it's like $33/month AUD, but I just can't stand ads. Any reason you're not just running network level AdGuard and Firefox with Ublock Origin to block all
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
>Not only that, they also assume or pretend that this is obviously violating copyright, when in fact this is a) not clear, and b) pending determination by courts and legislators around the world. Legislation always takes time to catch up
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
It's a good analogy, one that I think also applies to other things that really are "drugs" that people don't normally associate with the word: alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, fast food, and sugar.
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
I think the reasoning here is to have the fabrication being done away from areas where a natural disaster might cause an issue. No earthquakes, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no heavy winter storms with a ton of snow, etc. If you locate it on
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
How hard would it be to push this into 3 dimensions instead of 2? It made me think of a starting point for a model of the universe and galaxy interactions.
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
The fun part is that I went the security engineer route instead of SDE/SWE. It has some pros and cons, but seems like it's one of the "high demand" roles that gets more traction looking at others who have moved abroad. I
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
My 5 year plan is to move to the EU, but it's a process. You're not going to be doing it as your next job hop from the US if you haven't been planning for it.
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
More than that, the incentives are inversely aligned - companies want to hire a "good match" for as little as possible, and applicants want to be hired at the maximum possible rate.
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
The weird thing to me is that I don't see this happening at the large FAANG companies - referrals don't seem to move the needle whatsoever anymore, and not just for me but for quite a few of the people in my network. On the flipsi
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
Top Rated movies aren't 1:1 with how much money the movie made. The incentives here are for these companies to make money, either through box office numbers or by increasing (and retaining) subscribers. They don't need to make a t
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
> In Google Play search is now moved to the bottom. My muscle memory still keeps trying to tap the now empty bar on the top I'd be fine with this change if they made it so that when you tap "Search" at the bottom it actual
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
As an alternative perspective: I'm still using reddit, but it's a very curated list of subreddits and once I stop seeing new content from that small list I end up going elsewhere. The subreddits I keep in my list are a mix of nich
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by Root_Denied 2y ago
Ok, but how do I find these types of jobs in my metro area?

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