Simon_ORourke

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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   > I'm really not convinced a text generator is an existential threat to the species. Well said - there's been too much "Skynet going rogue" sci-fi nonsense injected into this debate.
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   Not being flippant about it, but my current requirements to pay the mortgage and support my wife and kids tend to push any sense of burnout down the priority list. I simply decide to keep plugging away, because if I stop to "find mysel
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   The board is like a who's who of privilege and nepotism - https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/17/openai-sam-altman-firing-b...
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   So their argument is that since Gobekli Tepi is old (by sediment layer analysis), therefore the pyramids at Giza are older yet again? That's just bluster and whataboutery.
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   Seems workable - thanks!
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   I'm wondering how accurate this might prove measuring automobile traffic on a relatively busy street? I've been pondering some way to track the number of vehicles that pass my house each day, and would like (but not ideal) to get
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   Yes, definitely. See Lucius Sergius Catilina.
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   For a second there I misread the sub headline as "$19M in debt" and thought - that's not too bad. I guess the conning goes on, if knowing what I know about WeWork I could momentarily consider them folding with a mere $19M deb
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   by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

   > yes, that includes even the armchair criticism from cynical misanthropes who consider human deaths resulting from this species a good thing If ever there was a species under no threat whatsoever it's those guys. I'm all for e
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    I'm firmly in the steel pot camp, for any marginal benefit you can get from a timer or auto start feature, it just takes five minutes to cook some rice in a pot.
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    I use a personal system, more for filenames than anything else, calling files blah_yyyymmdd, so that I can easily sort them with ls and even grep on the filenames if I'm looking for a particular year or month.
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    I was there in Lāhainā a few years ago and I'm only finding out about this now!?! What a fantastic community to have suffered such a disaster recently, really hope everyone there can mourn and get back on their feet again soon.
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    I thought the only countries that imprisoned children, were the kind of ones that forbid women's ankles in public - guess I was wrong.
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    Yes, and it was done for the money too - artistic integrity be damned!
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    I'm getting a 404 error for this link!
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    > too secular and were teaching "sinful" sciences like evolution Kids shielded from this kind of actual reality tend, IMHO, are never really then equipped for going out into society of the workplace, where teaching evolution is
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    Not in the same league as this CTO, but as a (somewhat) senior hire interviewing for a well known business messaging company, the team I was supposed to be interviewing for never showed up in the interview itself. A completely different Snr
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    In fairness, all they were looking out for was themselves, as most companies do in most interviews. If it was someone with say 5 years of experience, rather than yourself, it'd be the same deal so don't take it personally. Waste o
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    Judging by some of the levels of driving around these parts, the brain may be very shallow indeed.
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    There's plenty of gold, or at least there was, in the south west of Britain back in the day. I'd assume pre Roman gold was all surface level stuff, but there were stories of way more industrial processing of silver by the Romans i
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    > People with that mindset tend to want it in others Totally agree, but folks like that will run into the "it won't scale" types and get frustrated with their corner cutting ways for the sake of future scaling opportunitie
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    by Simon_ORourke 3y ago

    Reading it with no previous context I thought it would end up with the author penniless and hacking away at some job just to make ends meet. Ended up reading like a humblebrag, kind of "I only had a six figure sum in savings, and how I