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by apothegm 5mo ago
All it takes, though, is for one unscrupulous or lazy individual to join, and then they vouch for a few people they don’t really know, and then you get a bot vouched for, and then a few more, and the first few bots vouch for other bots, and
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by apothegm 5mo ago
There’s a clear route to sales through the “sales engineer” role at many companies. That shouldn’t be too hard. To change where you are in the stack, get hired by a smaller company that has a need for each engineer to wear many hats — they’
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by apothegm 5mo ago
TRUE and FALSE are also aliases (technically macros, I think, at least in early versions) for the integers 1 and 0 in C, which so many modern languages are derived from or inspired by and the core Python implementation is written in. Bools
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Tbf, the east/west split is the one part that wasn’t the Nazis’ fault unless indirectly as a consequence of starting and losing a second World War in a row.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
All production access should require SSHing through an instance in your VPC, enforced by a firewall. Remove access to hosting provider accounts; remove user account on that stepping stone instance. Voila, production access to infrastructure
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by apothegm 5mo ago
I think you may have run afoul of Poe’s Law.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
They’re barely even pretending any more. Just enough for Fox News to spin it as legit for the most unquestioningly faithful followers.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
On the flip side, if you redistribute effectively, going from N people on the brink of survival to N/2 people living a moderately comfortable lifestyle is unlikely to decrease overall demand much. Its only if you’re keeping those N&#x2
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Oh no! More than half of them have 15 years of experience with the language. Which means some of them are over 35 years old! And we all know once they’re 40 they won’t be capable of programming anymore! And it’s impossible for anyone with a
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Mine cryptocurrency. Rent extra capacity for other purposes. If neither of those is profitable, sell in anticipation of FLOPs being cheaper by the time they need it again.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Isn’t that what a computer is?
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Correctly pricing in externalities feels like a feature, not a bug. (Not that I’d expect the current administration to use any such tax revenues in such a way as to mitigate the externalities of this particular industry.)
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by apothegm 5mo ago
I’m not suggesting pythons package management was good. This thread was started with a post about JS and Python, and I was responding to a message saying JS is so vulnerable to package repository attacks because its stdlib is so small. Bu
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Why Python, tho, in that case? Its stdlib is quite robust. Surprisingly so in some areas.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
I only bother with files I expect to want to look at again after the next 48 hrs. Which is maybe 5% of what I download. Those usually also get moved from the downloads folder and filed somewhere useful. Or for some stuff like family snapsho
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Does your operating system not allow you to rename downloaded files?
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Is there a question in here? Something interesting we’re supposed to take away from your post?
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by apothegm 5mo ago
That… would explain a lot.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Sounds like they had ChatGPT do their research and write their paper for them.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Because AI is a stochastic parrot deliberately tuned to express the positive traits you listed, not a being with emotions.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
I expect if we hit a singularity or anti-singularity it will in itself — like nearly all tech — be morally neutral. It’s how humans are likely to use it that makes me pessimistic — mostly in terms of near to middle term suffering in a world
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by apothegm 5mo ago
In American English idiom, “next Friday” is the Friday after the coming weekend, regardless if there’s a Friday (“this Friday”) in between. With some ambiguity if it’s currently the weekend.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
The latter because as soon as it’s know Putin isn’t there a power vacuum is evident and a broader struggle for power ensues. Then whoever wins has to establish legitimacy. Whereas a few people in agreement about how to direct a widely-recog
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by apothegm 5mo ago
Or even have a small model check the output of the larger one. Doesn’t work with APIs, but then the person/entity integrating the API should have that responsibility.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
There’s a dark money campaign somewhere paying people to frame as a threat just about anything you can think of that happens to collide with the interests of some well funded commercial, political, or geopolitical group or other.
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by apothegm 5mo ago
GameStop. Uh huh.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
There’s an “in the news” entry on their site from this January (and a skim of the article does find them mentioned), so signs point to yes.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
It’s not just about time to increase production. A lot of crops that grow at lower latitudes won’t have enough time to mature in the short summers of higher latitudes and may suffer from weaker sunlight due to the lower angle resulting in m
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Birds also tend to be reactive to forward facing pairs of eyes (because raptors, especially owls), so that would make sense. Beyond that, women are on average more likely to wear clothing or hair that flaps around. Or heels that make loud n
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by apothegm 6mo ago
“Biggest” in the sense of most populous, not “best at”!

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