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by beachy 2y ago
> because you think China is making Skynet drones I'm pretty sure China is making Skynet drones. Why wouldn't they be? Russia, North Korea as well. Seems a no-brainer to me. They are dictatorships where a handful of people rely
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by beachy 2y ago
I don't get this hand waving. Does anyone really think that nefarious foreign powers aren't already researching with no guard rails, with the explicit goal of developing AI-powered autonomous weapons, propaganda platforms, deepfak
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by beachy 2y ago
The effusive praise for the customer in Google's statement makes me think they have free GCP for the next year, in exchange for not going public with their frustrations.
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by beachy 2y ago
All of these can be true. 1) Sam is a conniving weasel. 2) Sam has made many OpenAI employees rich. 3) The board knows that Sam is toxic and must be removed. 4) The board knows that removing Sam would mean the end of the company.
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by beachy 2y ago
Perhaps borrowing from IBM's Watson strategy of flooding the zone with marketing shit.
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by beachy 2y ago
80 column punched cards were a very strong influence
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by beachy 2y ago
My brother lives over the ditch in Australia. He developed very serious metastasised melanoma. He was prescribed a very new drug which has worked brilliantly and saved his life. The first time he left the pharmacy with his monthly prescript
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by beachy 2y ago
When I started at Oracle yonks ago, there was a bizarre bug management system. When a bug was found, it was assigned to the next available developer in the team. It didn't matter who wrote the code and created the bug - there was no fe
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by beachy 2y ago
Identical experience! Though ironically, having useful bookmarks pushed me into turning on sync in chrome so they would be accessible one all devices, pulling me further into the Google tarpit.
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by beachy 2y ago
It's easy to get up to quite a high number of joins if you have a well normalised database that uses a lot of lookup/reference tables. Common in a situation where you're writing for a presentation layer and you need human rea
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by beachy 2y ago
Used to paint over the indicator LED
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by beachy 2y ago
Red nail polish would like a word
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by beachy 2y ago
The world, and our monkey brains, are not evolved to deal with threats like modern media and climate change. A wizened nonagenarian Australian with little time left on this earth pulls the strings that control half the population of the wor
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by beachy 2y ago
Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975) It astonished me that people can ever think this is a good idea (everything in a single json docum
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by beachy 2y ago
Back in the old days, the primary users of many mainframe UIs were the data entry team (almost universally female). Sitting in large offices with rows of desks and a huge clock on the front wall, they weren't interacting with customers
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by beachy 2y ago
Obligatory Fred Brooks quote: "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”
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by beachy 2y ago
I found this a little confusing. The article contains several simplistic examples of garbage collection algorithms - written in Java! A tantalisingly meta concept, but snatched away half way through when the article clarifies that of course
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by beachy 2y ago
Kudos for using "anticipated questions" instead of the always bogus "Frequently asked questions". But brickbats for not having "does it run on linux?" in there as a question (I guess the answer is no).
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by beachy 2y ago
Also your responses here show you in a good light. It's easy to lose your cool when facing even sensible criticism online. Great work and you have an exciting career ahead of you.
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by beachy 2y ago
Though it makes sense, quite a jarring use of the word to Antipodeans, who mostly would say it relates to the native people of Australia.
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by beachy 2y ago
> If the culprit is caught, and lives in a place with a reasonable government, prosecution would be a better way to address it By "lives in a place with a reasonable government" I guess you are talking about somewhere that wil
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by beachy 2y ago
> Lost opportunity: We could’ve started fighting climate change in 1971 The wording kind of implies we are fighting it now. Rather than just early skirmishes, or whatever this is.
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by beachy 2y ago
It's an easy challenge. Just ask someone to name a natural key that will never change. They are as rare as rocking horse shit.
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by beachy 2y ago
They may be concerned, but what can they do? Google has poisoned the well, and the entire web is now a swamp of SEO driven drivel. Forget about a "Jobs returning to Apple" miracle. As they say, "you can't get there from
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by beachy 2y ago
Google's SEO malarkey created the intense vacuum which AI will now happily rush to fill. The article mentions recipe articles, and how these now invariably have a waffly preamble designed to please the SEO algorithms. It's been ob
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by beachy 2y ago
As far as I know the only practical downside with UUIDs in the modern age - unless you like using keys for ordering by creation time, or you have such enormous volumes that storage is a consideration - is that they are cumbersome for humans
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by beachy 2y ago
> For example, I'm a big fan of surrogate keys and UUIDs, in database design. You would think this (using surrogate keys) would be such well worn wisdom by now that discussions about it wouldn't be a thing. But somehow new gene
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by beachy 2y ago
Animals usually realise there is something off about a trap. They interact with it extremely cautiously, sometimes leaving it for a few nights and then coming back. Eventually their desire for whats in the trap overcomes their caution and t
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by beachy 2y ago
As I remember it, OS/2 failed mainly because IBM were a day late and a dollar short with presentation manager, the gui for OS/2. Customers unfavourably compared the dull character mode appearance of OS/2 to the flashiness of
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by beachy 2y ago
> Readers considering antivirus software should also be aware that such software – ironically – presents a risk just by its very nature. My stepfather went to a grey power meeting (a kind of seniors meetup) and the speaker of the day ter

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