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Tao331
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> I suspect the trait helps wrangling a machine somehow Disruptiveness, for lack of a better term. These are people who are well-acquainted with finding the boundaries of systems and barreling through them.
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IQ tests tend to cluster around a pretty specific kind of thinking. Pattern matching. Logic. Math. Sometimes vocabulary. This doesn't correlate with programming ability: it is indistinguishable from programming ability.
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Maybe you have to stop the discriminatory firings.
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Turn the table. How would you feel about your employees doing work for someone else on the side? I know some people are cool with their employees moonlighting, but I'm pretty sure it's still a minority.
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Instagram is Meta, but the point still stands that you can't count on 'em. My long term goal is indeed to stop relying on the MAANG and publish first to my own site. I'm not really that interested in building a following. I h
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They didn't say it was. They said it's a barrier to having ones gifts recognized. Or at least that's my interpretation.
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By the end I wasn't convinced why I should be playing these games. What's status for? Is it going to make you happy? Alan Watts: > We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the e
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> A variation of the superstition also forbids quoting lines from the play within a theatre except as part of an actual rehearsal or performance of the play. This one was probably born out of people getting sick of hearing Macbeth refere
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A video of myself and my kids singing a >100 year old shanty was flagged on YouTube for DMCA. A modern folk art drawing I made of a squid was blocked on Instagram for a content violation. I joked that the AI must be afraid of tentacles.
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Magnus, is that you?
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> you know what we lose even more artists to? Commercial art I remember a commercial for Mucinex (cough medicine) where anthropomorphic boogers get their house wrecked by a tornado courtesy of Mucinex. Somewhere in the chaos, a painting
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IIRC this is the punchline of a story about Seymour Cray programming a BIOS in octal via front switches and blinkenlights. Or somewhere in that ballpark. It's a person, so the answer is DNA.