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> The fact it didn't cross their minds that maybe this is a bad idea to release in the US really shows the cultural difference between the West and other countries like India. There are plenty of things wrong with the US but blatant
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> The emulator in this context is the BEAM VM that is running the whole application (including the supervisors) You are correct - one could still architect is such that the genserver hosting the NIF(s) run in a separate process/VM&#
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> Because it uses NIFs (natively-implemented functions), an unhandled exception in Pythonx would take down your whole OS process along with all other BEAM processes, making your supervision tree a bit worthless in that regard. What'
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2y ago
Sonnet 3.5 is the best non-Chain-of-Thought code-authoring model. When paired with R1's CoT output, Sonnet 3.5 performs even better - outperforming vanilla R1 (and eveything else), which suggests Sonnet is better than R1 at utilizing R
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2y ago
I'd say prior to Financialization, i.e. before the "greed is good" zeitgeist of the 1980s. When wages and salaries grew in tandem with increases in productivity.
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2y ago
Unless Cursor had agreed to an exclusivity agreement with Anthropic, Antropic was (and still is) at risk of Cursor moving to a different provider or using their middleman position to train/distill their own model that competes with Ant
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2y ago
> Americans wanting to export their value system and use public dollars to do so This is a cynical, but accurate definition of soft power: exerting your will using words. Your argument is all over the place - you call soft power a "
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The "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality and short-termism has been festering for decades at many American institutions, such as for-profit companies. Openly selling the country short for personal benefit is just one small step after
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2y ago
> What you're saying doesn't even make any logical sense. Musk is the primary contractor for ISS contracts It makes lots of sense to torch a crowded market & lean-in on heavy-lift first-mover advantage. He will be the only
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2y ago
> Europe has never been composed of dwarfs, but that's what every single EU country has become in the past 50 years How do CERN, ESA and Airbus fit into this worldview? They are unquestionably giants in their respective fields, from
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2y ago
As someone who's lived through a despotic regime - there will be more elections. Whether those elections are free and fair is the question. This also explains the haste at which they are attempting to purge non-partisans from governmen
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2y ago
Didn't your change in behavior also prove that your harassment "worked"?
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2y ago
Debian 11 & 12 detect the wifi on 2014 Mac Minis. I had to enable the nonfree sources, IIRC
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> So why why do you support explicitly not doing those things when the livelihood of 300 million people depend on the economy being stable?!? Culture warriors only care about about their "side" winning. It's not an intelle
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States also have their national guardsmen, does that mean it's a good idea to disband the army?
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> What of those who do not want to be included as a token or talisman, but would rather participate based upon their qualifications and merits? There were plenty of companies like Coinbase that ignored DEI initiatives and requested that
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2y ago
Killing mawmaw to own the libs.
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2y ago
> I doubt public demonstrations would do it. Trump is itching to trigger provisions of the Insurrection Act as far ahead of the mid-term elections as possible. Public demonstrations by anyone associated with the left will achieve nothing
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2y ago
You said it was "easy" to get a job with Kaiser upthread - what percentage if CA residents are on it?
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> Here is a person who has the typical experience This is bullshit: not seeing a bill is atypical in California. Parent is also bullshitting by saying it's easy to get a job with no-bills health insurance in CA, unless they are i
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2y ago
> It doesn't occur to you... It did occur to me, which is why I couched my statement with "may". Though your framing is still compatible with "rationalization" I found the tone of your comment needlessly - and
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2y ago
AMD has been doing IF-connected CCDs/chiplets for a while now - since Zen 1, released in 2017. All the x86 OSes work fine on each iteration. Application authors who care about wringing out the last drop of performance need to be mindfu
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> I was really surprised that my daughters (avid teenage TikTok users) are much more relieved than mad. A sense of relief may be a coping mechanism. I've heard laid-off colleagues inform me they felt relief in the immediate after
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An ideology that highlights the existence of, questions, and probably seeks to undermine a number of current social hierarchies, and power structures. Whether this is seen as a good or bad thing depends in where one falls on the left/r
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2y ago
If you look at all the green, you'll notice the fires are in the equatorial rainforest that runs along the equator. Fire is a quick, non-mechanical way to clear land of vegetation for farming or other uses. Additionally, in a rainfores
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Why did you assume they are burning trash instead of log fires? What was the primary fuel for cooking and heating for poor people in the part of Africa you got your PPL?
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> I assume you've never tested the negative hypothesis and gone ahead and hired somebody who couldn't program fizzbuzz to validate your assumption A former employer of mine inadvertently did! He wasn't asked to complete Fi
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Meta is not similar to Amazon at all in broad company culture. It's not even close. The RSU vesting schedule differences are one hint.
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> I must say the experience is pretty damn good. I can see people getting addicted to it an unhealthy way I don't disagree, but I think interactive sex apps (with virtual partner or teledildonics) would be a much better experience t
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2y ago
It's for the paid online masters degree. Searching for "UT Austin MSAI" will lead you to the program.
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