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by ahtihn 8mo ago
> if I have to choose between firing an EM or a SWE When does this choice ever come up? My experience is that most engineers are seen as interchangeable while most EMs aren't. Only time I've seen EMs fired for economic reasons
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
> Yes, you can use a Mac laptop with your phone acting as a hotspot but unless you have unlimited data, that gets expensive real fast. And why exactly is that different from having the cellular connection on iPad? You can have the exact
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
Would anyone even care about Mona Lisa if the exact same painting was done by a random nobody? It's just a portrait.
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
> They already explicitly expressed the intention to take a percentage of your revenue if you shipped something with ChatGPT, so even the tech guys aren't safe. Wasn't there already a ruling that LLM output is not protected by
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
Why would the US enter into direct conflict with a nuclear power over a country they aren't even formally allied with? If the US actually cared they'd formally place Taiwan under nuclear protection.
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
> But it's not a valid reason to deny the warfighters the best possible weapons systems. Of course it is. Think about it this way: if you could guarantee that the military suffers no human losses when attacking a foreign country, do
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
2 people are now producing what took 50 people previously. What are the 48 other people doing now? Presumably some other economic activity.
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
12 year olds selling crack aren't making a rational decision based on the lack of sufficient long term consequences. So what exactly would worse long term consequences do besides ruin the life of kids making bad decisions?
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
The lack of ethics is a selling point. Why anyone would want a model that has "safety" features is beyond me. These features are not in the user's interest.
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
> working as a underling for organized crime to commit robberies, drug deals, and violent crime Have you ever considered that these children are victims of organized crime? That they aren't capable of understanding the consequence
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
> They have no idea where your car is. They could either just ask before answering or state their assumption before answering.
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
Most of the immigration is French, German, Italian. This isn't about racism. This is about unchecked immigration putting a strain on infrastructure and people feeling like they're losing their identity. This initiative is stupid b
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
What is Google Geneva? They're in Zurich.
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by ahtihn 8mo ago
Is there any country in Europe where you can't naturalize after 10 years? Maybe some micro state? My point is, if you're not willing to go through the naturalisation process when you're eligible, what's the problem?
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
> But it isn't true; if you resell your jewelry you're going to get basically nothing compared to what you paid, unless you like to wear gold chains. The resale value of new jewelry is more like the resale value of a new car. T
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
Why would you want to encourage investment in gold?
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
Xinjiang conquered? If you go that far back you can blame every big power for having conquered some of their territory.
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
What if I would prefer that these topics don't show up at all? What if I'm concerned that leaving such topics up would attract more of the kind of people that prefer discussing these topics over tech topics? Hiding doesn't fi
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
That seems like a better outcome than continuing when an error happened while thinking everything succeeded?
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
I've literally never been on a 5+ hour flight where anyone in the row in front of me didn't recline at some point. I've discussed this with various people IRL. No one, including taller people than me, ever complained about pe
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
I'm 185cm and I couldn't imagine having to endure a long haul flight without reclining. I never get these discussions. It's only ever online that I see complaints. Almost everyone reclines on long flights. It's normal.
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by ahtihn 9mo ago
If you start greenfield and ignore the code quality, how do you know you can maintain it long term? Greenfield is fundamentally easier than maintaining existing software. Once software exists, users expect it to behave a certain way and the
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by ahtihn 10mo ago
Why isolated? There's people demanding it every single time it happened. Just because it's ignored every time doesn't make this time okay.
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by ahtihn 10mo ago
> The emergent phenomenon is that the LLM can separate truth from fiction when you give it a massive amount of data. I don't believe they can. LLMs have no concept of truth. What's likely is that the "truth" for many
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by ahtihn 10mo ago
Europe doesn't need the US to defend Poland against Russia. If EU countries commit to a conflict, Russia has no chance. It makes nuclear escalation a real risk though.
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by ahtihn 10mo ago
> Given that the models will attempt to check their own work with almost the identical verification that a human engineer would That's not the case at all though. The LLM doesn't have a mental model of what the expected final r
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by ahtihn 10mo ago
> Saying there are bad comments in this thread and also that there is good literature out there without providing any specifics at all is just noise. Nah, it's not noise. It's a useful reminder not to take any comments too seri
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by ahtihn 10mo ago
> and further send notice to companies from time to time that I don't agree to certain objectionable clauses of their ToS and they're welcome to close my account And then you stopped using their service right?
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by ahtihn 11mo ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. R&D for new drugs is incredibly expensive while the cost to actually produce most drugs is reasonably low. The price of drugs that make it to market needs to not only cover the cost to produce
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by ahtihn 11mo ago
> Imagine you have poor eyesight requiring a substantial correction, but you can still drive. That's not a disability It absolutely is a disability! The fact that it's easy to deal with it doesn't change that fact. I would

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