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by bena 4y ago
The issue isn't about the position itself, but who is claiming it. Or on whose behalf it is being claimed. Musk pitched a $44 billion fit because Twitter wasn't "free speech enough" for a "free speech absolutist&quo
902.
by bena 4y ago
I'd hesitate to bring in 4chan as a good example of anything. It's not technically "all" racist hate, but the number of users who don't engage it is probably an insignificant percentage. Anything good you could find
903.
by bena 4y ago
I've gone through the full-job interview with Amazon recently (right as they were laying off thousands, so weird timing) so I can relate my experience. They want you to have stories prepared for each of the principles. That's 16 a
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by bena 4y ago
All alcohol has carcinogenic properties. That's just a simple fact. Cancer is bad. Anything that increases our chances of cancer is bad. And considering alcohol has no beneficial qualities when consumed, it's technically all downs
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by bena 4y ago
Because you're not getting that hardware out of Russia through normal channels. In the best of times, in the best of places, you'd be able to do that. Decommission the hardware in use, pack it all up, ship it wherever. It is not t
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by bena 4y ago
No, it's not just a game, it's a (complex) game. But like you, I agree, that's cool. That's like a pretty good start if you wanted to make an actual game. You have movement, physics, and collision detection. There's
907.
by bena 4y ago
The original Intel processors that kicked off the personal computing revolution was the 8086. It itself was a variation on earlier chips, the 8008 and 8080. It took off and spawned its own line, the 80168, 80286, etc. Eventually, the 80 was
908.
by bena 4y ago
Are you seriously trying to flip this around? No one is saying "pure merit" got these people on the mission. But they are all qualified. They can all get the job done. They do have the credentials. Beyond that, they have other qua
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by bena 4y ago
What's also impressive is that the youngest of these people is 44. The oldest will be 49 when they take off in November of 2024. It's a testament to the amount of experience and training required for these missions. The Apollo ast
910.
by bena 4y ago
It is an actual athletic event. People come at pro wrestling from the wrong angle. It's a stuntman exhibition show. And no one is going to say that it doesn't take athleticism to be a good stuntman. That it's not dangerous. T
911.
by bena 4y ago
Every generation gets fucked up in new and interesting ways. We all grow up with our own traumas. How we lived our lives informs how we view life. And we respond to all of that in two major ways: acceptance or rejection. Acceptance is repea
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by bena 4y ago
I think it's fine. It represents the opinion of the corporation as a whole. The opposite of "the opinions here are my own and do not reflect blah blah blah". It has no singular author.
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by bena 4y ago
The problem is that everything is technology. The wheel is technology. But since there wasn't any good words to use to describe the practical application of computer science and other skills related to computers, we just used the ter
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by bena 4y ago
Their market cap at their peak was nearly triple the offer, they probably figured they were rejecting life-changing, never-work-again money for life-changing, empire-building levels of money. In other words, they didn't see a future wh
915.
by bena 4y ago
No wants to be fired. No one wants to lose a game either. But it happens. People get fired. People quit. Seeing yourself in him is investing him with your ego. This is not an insult, it's the core of the behavior. It is why we do these
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by bena 4y ago
Their claim is that of the fentanyl seized at the border, 90% of that is from Americans in American cars. The other 10% would be from other sources. That does not include: Fentanyl seized at locations other than the border. Which we would k
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by bena 4y ago
Firing people doesn't make you a jerk. Your decision cost the company and likely also that person. You kept him on in a position he was either going to still get fired from, quit, or cost the company more than his paycheck. All because
918.
by bena 4y ago
Don't confuse "polite and friendly" with "nice". And don't confuse "terseness" with "jerkness". We do no one a kindness when we allow someone to continue to make mistakes that could be preve
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by bena 4y ago
I think it's partly because we believe our ideals to be who we are and not what we aspire to. If you set your filter to 5'0", you can say you consider shorter people. And you can say it's for some other reason that you d
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by bena 4y ago
Also, explored in many other episodes. Like the seventh season episode Bloodlines, fourth season episodes Suddenly Human and Final Mission, and countless others. It is heavily tread territory. Picard offers nothing really new to it. But it
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by bena 4y ago
Bonsai Kitten, a website that purported to be reviving the lost art of shoving cats in glass jars, had more than one person complaining to remove the site.
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by bena 4y ago
You talk about it evoking the feeling of Star Trek more so than the previous seasons. Which I assume means Star Trek of the TNG era. And it doesn't. At least no more so than Discovery. It crams in a lot of reference and characters from
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by bena 4y ago
How? Like Season 3 is definitely better than Season 2 and maybe Season 1, but besides the majority of the actors being in Starfleet uniforms on a Starfleet ship, it still feels way more Discovery than TNG. It's just cramming the nostal
924.
by bena 4y ago
Yeah, sure, why not. There's no reason for this to exist and yet, there's also absolutely no reason for it to not exist. The creation itself is a level of performance art.
925.
by bena 4y ago
Ah, Stallman. Even when he has a point, the sheer amount of wankery surrounding that point makes sifting through the pretentious bullshit not worth the effort. Like, no, you should not use AirBnB. But not because it requires you to "id
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by bena 4y ago
Sometimes, discovering these proofs makes the math easier. If we know X is the case for all Ys, and X is easier to compute, you can use X where you would use Y before. Of if you know X is true for all Ys, you can skip the part where you hav
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by bena 4y ago
Bard is "powered by LaMDA". So it's at the bare minimum an interface to LaMDA. I don't know exactly what's being added to make it distinct from LaMDA, but it is being pushed as LaMDA with extra bits.
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by bena 4y ago
All I'm saying is that most people are used to doing one and one is relatively new. We're comparing an ideal version of cloud to practical versions of on-prem. When the ideal version becomes practical, it might be a no-brainer. Bu
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by bena 4y ago
If cloud is only expensive when done poorly and it's not easy to do properly, then that's actually a problem with cloud. If managing cloud is skill-intensive and you need a hire a person/team with specific skills in it, then
930.
by bena 4y ago
Yes and no. But you're putting forth a "Bozo argument" by noting that that people also shit on the iPhone. "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They la

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