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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
The key distinctions are: we can hold people accountable, and the amount of shit produced by one person is limited. Neither of those are true for LLMs.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
In fact I'd argue it's the _exact_ opposite. I've seen countless engineers architect big complicated systems that are completely unnecessary. If anyone was measuring, they'd realize the impact of that system was: no incr
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
If you don't want to have any say in the work that you're doing, then sure don't judge based in impact. I'd rather have the responsibility and trust of letting me decide what to work on, rather than management tell me. T
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
I really dislike leading off with "create table". My brain is unable to read it except as DDL.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
FYI that burnout is not "working a lot". Burnout is the feeling of little control, ineffectiveness, COMBINED with stress. Working weekends could instead be an indication of excitement and enthusiasm, which as a manager is worth nu
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Yeah I think my complaint still stands, which is that they already tried this where I live, and having a literal train straight downtown did not incentivize building there at all.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
I have light rail literally a 5 minute walk from my house in an inner ring suburb, and I never use it. It was built to go downtown 100 years ago, and I never go downtown for anything. It's completely stuck, has to still cross over stre
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
It sounds like your describing models. Yes we have small models. Yes we have big models. We have rat models, we have matching models, we have twin models. We have lots of models I don't know about. I'm not sure what you're ge
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
There are ALL kinds of things we can't run experiments on. Climate, society, evolution, tech development, surgery, and more. We don't throw our hands in the air and say "science here is impossible!". Instead we roll up o
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Haven't you heard? The new president will fix this too! No more of these suspicious graphs! In all seriousness, wish there was more happening to fix this.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
I really appreciate this article, and I would like the author to know that there are lots of people - yes, especially in tech - that support their happiness.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Baby steps! Let's do both. Let's rid ourselves of a foreign adversaries influence, then let's ALSO get more competition and reduce big techs influence. Why not both?
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Maybe! Hard to tell. Personally I don't think big tech should own this space, I'd love to see a variety of companies and lots of startups. I'll leave it to the reader to decide if I'm astroturfing.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Thank you! I can't believe how much defense I see of TikTok on here. Is this website being specifically targeted for astroturfing, or has TikTok been that effective in spreading its propaganda? (And which one is scarier?)
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
One night ultimate werewolf fixes a lot of this. Many roles, easy narration, and no player termination (everyone plays every round).
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
This could go on indefinitely ("I know that you know that I know that you know that I know that..."). I always consider this related to the Byzantine Generals problem.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Kinda funny that in an article about translations, the author gets signal-to-noise completely backwards. A high signal to noise (over 9000) is very good. It means you are getting a lot of signal with very little noise. Decreasing signal to
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IRS tax withholding calculator down for an entire month for planned maintenance(irs.gov)
2 points by _dark_matter_ 2y ago|2 comments
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Meta's Chief Diversity Officer Demoted(about.meta.com)
7 points by _dark_matter_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
It means they live long enough to reach a point where stairs are no longer possible for them. Not sure I agree necessarily but the point makes sense - live to old age. It serves the elderly, of which we all want to be one (eventually).
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Agreed. This is a management failure, full stop. Unbelievable that they'd expect engineering to handle a single Livestream event of this magnitude.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
I don't think that live doesn't work with caches. No one watching live would care about a O(s) delay, which is highly amenable to caching at ISPs and streaming changes from there to downstream clients. Offhand I'd say that wo
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Was going to say the same. I ran into the same problems when I bought my first house and spent tens of hours trying to untangle and reduce costs. Thank you for tackling this
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
That just assumes that the crash tests are good indicators of actual safety. My understanding is that car manufacturers could go much further in the name of safety, but do just enough to scrape by on those crash tests. So there could defini
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Mine is French door without a front ice maker/water, and I love it. Way more room in the fridge too. Just open the bottom to get ice.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Recently, and this is just off the top of my head: banks (us bank, key bank), food ordering, Microsoft teams, at&ts website - all don't work or work less well on Firefox. I usually find one to two sites a week (I run fx nightly).
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
I'm not really talking about while debating. I just mean general attacks, both at rallies and in social media.
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
His first point - weighting by 2020 vote - is something that Nate Cohn pointed out very concretely as a methodological choice that wouldn't be obvious until the election [0]. Even in retrospect that seems fair, at least based on the an
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Honestly I think Trump would have labeled him "3-home Bernie"[0] or something and sunk him, similar to how he sunk Warren (w/ the Pocahontas meme). Don't get me wrong, Bernie is my favorite, but no one is immune to Trump
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by _dark_matter_ 2y ago
Preach! The job is straightforward - lot of these decisions they make are very clearly articulated by LLMs. We need more businesses, more competition, not bigger businesses.

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