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by SR2Z 2y ago
I'm sure that you have a point, according to written policy and law. Trump has made a point of not caring about stuff like that, so who really knows?
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by SR2Z 2y ago
> If they choose to lie down and wait to get run over, that's a nihilist doomer. So... almost all doomers?
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by SR2Z 2y ago
They absolutely do, but those companies end up getting labelled "burnout factories" like Applied Intuition or Scale AI and as a result have trouble both recruiting good seniors or retaining their juniors long enough for them to be
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by SR2Z 2y ago
> Again, it's a flawed heuristic. Military contracting is wildly profitable. Value to society is questionable. It's not questionable at all but if you don't already see that I'm not interested in arguing it with you.
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by SR2Z 2y ago
Musk is a troll. IMO the salute was 100% intentional and done for attention, but the man doesn't actually believe in the core tenets of national socialism.
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The UK is a Tier 1 partner. The administration seems like it's one Xanax-fueled dream away from saying the UK should be the 52nd state and suspending technical support in the exact same way the US has done to Ukraine. That's the
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by SR2Z 2y ago
> You never hear "Oh we should give everyone a raise, that's just good business" Lots of big tech companies give people raises automatically when they think they're too underpaid. > Frankly, maybe if companies need
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> Ideally, however, businesses exist to carry out a mission (beyond making money). I mean, sure, but the defining difference between a business and a nonprofit is making money. It's important for companies to provide value to societ
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> But that's the risk you take when you fail to adequately fund your military and try to get by on the cheap. Except it's nuts to pretend like this system hasn't been working out great for the US. Competent leaders have e
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by SR2Z 2y ago
We've had removable lenses forever. Is it really an impossible engineering challenge to ship a phone with a low-profile swappable lens?
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by SR2Z 2y ago
I'm glad to see you agree with me that Tesla is not trivially the best!
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> Cool, but what about replacing the regexp with straightforward parsing code written manually? It would not be faster - an FSM can trivially be created as a few jump tables which fit in cache. This is one of the rare cases where a comp
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The court did not agree with the plaintiffs - this case was settled outside of court.
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If Apple had their way, they would LOVE to sell you a $2000 aluminum brick with no screen, speakers, microphone, etc., that still required a proprietary cable to charge.
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This is true! Funnily enough, mandatory individual arbitration can and does backfire on companies: https://www.levernews.com/how-corporate-americas-favorite-le...
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by SR2Z 2y ago
So your "trivially Googleable" proof is... a tweet from four years ago that doesn't actually say what you think it does and a three minute video from a no-name account with 37 subscribers showing test results in broad dayligh
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by SR2Z 2y ago
> This is how Robin Hood can offer free equity trading. They sell your flow to another firm that can front run it. This is not true, and front-running trades is both easy to catch and illegal. This is a bad combo for any white-collar cr
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by SR2Z 2y ago
Fair enough, but my bet is that even trivially recontextualizing an interview question is enough to wreck an LLM's performance. If you change the "find a word in a grid of letters" question to a "find a Collatz sequence
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> The value of most software for most companies has a limit, pushed down both by supply of software engineering labor and that manual labor is actually quite cheap and your software must inherently cost less than what it would to just pa
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Sure, but during the entire time of Autopilot/FSD so far, Teslas have been crashing in ridiculous ways and killing their drivers. The "but they've patched that failure!" excuse has ALSO been around, and while the cars ar
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by SR2Z 2y ago
From your link: > The poor-rated vehicles also struggled in the tests with the passenger car target. Most failed to slow enough in the 37 mph test with the target centered to qualify for additional AEB testing. However, in most trials wi
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by SR2Z 2y ago
Why don't you actually "trivially Google it" and see what comes up? Spoiler: it's not Tesla. Normal, non-luxury cars from virtually every other manufacturer come STANDARD with radar. It's hooked into AEB and cruis
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by SR2Z 2y ago
The true value of software, post-ZIRP, is still obvious for the largest and most powerful companies in the world. They print cash. Yes, ZIRP increased tech comp. It did not magically inflate the value of software, which is always directly
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by SR2Z 2y ago
> LLMs can do it just fine. No, they can't. They can (sometimes) bang out a frontend app or some CRUD service, but if that's all the code you write you should not be a senior engineer. The process of writing a specification an
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> so as to better prepare for the class-action lawsuit. I 100% guarantee everyone who uses one of these was railroaded into mandatory arbitration.
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Attacks on the rule of law are explicitly anti-capitalist, because they're attacks on property rights and contracts. Big business always wants deregulation on the margins, but at some point the law is required to allow business at all.
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They are required to follow ATC instructions and obey airspace restrictions. They do this willingly because it's really, really easy to get into a midair collision of you're flying near an airport. The only exceptions are for urg
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The system is responsible for making people want to do work. Communists believed that ideology alone would be enough, and the capitalists appealed to people's own selfishness. The difference in effectiveness between these two strategi
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And yet the data still seems to leak pretty frequently...
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There are ten million stated reasons for the minimum wage! Pretty much the only one that economists can agree on is that it's helpful to prevent abuses of monopsony power in small towns. Regardless of what FDR said, a living wage is gu

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