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by bonoboTP 28d ago
> I really hate this overly condescending takes Sorry, but this is backwards. Mathematicians are the ones coming to the table asking for money from the taxpayer. This is the context we are speaking in. Mathematicians speaking with the ta
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by bonoboTP 28d ago
This is true. There can still be some funding for recreational aesthetic mathematics, like you can get some funding for various art projects or philisophy, literature, poetry, general humanities and community-building projects or sports fun
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by bonoboTP 28d ago
Exactly. They can continue doing the sport version, just like sprinting is still there at the Olympics and people admire Usain Bolt or whoever is more recent. But we use cars and trains and planes when we want to get somewhere and don'
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by bonoboTP 28d ago
Mathematics is not owned by "the mathematics community" and they can't gatekeep who can do math. End of story.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Society doesn't do anything of the sort. This is just diffuse irrational thinking. People invest their wealth where it will make the most profit for them and if a marginal dollar investment into the regular iPhone brings more profit th
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Very annoying that AI is this new virtue signaling topic. I guess it's a step up from a few years ago when it was about naming branches, but it's annoying. Libreoffice is free software that's the big point of it. You can mod
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Fable is still recent and was a huge improvement. Nothing is flattening.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
For me the cars and people didn't load in gta3, just the shadow of the car is seen, but you can drive it.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Unlikely to be near that polish and feature completeness. If you ask "then what's the point?", for now the answer is the license and the source availability.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Its name starts with Open because it's open-source / free software (GNU GPLv3).
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
It's FLOSS (GPLv3). There are very few free software video editors. Another good one is kdenlive, which a few years back I liked better that OpenShot.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Aside, but IP is a propaganda term. These laws are not property rights, their purposes are varied and usually have the wider public as the beneficiary in their reasoning for existing, it's not like ensuring right to actual property.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Yeah you can call a degree whatever you want. You could also call the excavator operator an excavator engineer. It doesn't change their power lever inside the org.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
You shared a story of a novice incompetent human programmer and this should tell us that AI is bad at coding.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Software engineer is a fancy title but it often covers code monkeys who are more akin to the shovel guys. The guy who added the Booking.com fake flashing warnings that this room is being viewed by N people right now and other stuff (which t
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
There is asshole and user-hostile design that doesn't quite rise to Nuremberg levels where "I was following orders" obviously didn't and doesn't work. But below a certain level it does work.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
Text is not the only input. You can provide 3d block outs with rudimentary animation, annotated images with arrows etc, voice recordings of one person acting out some emotion then mapping that to a different character's voice, other us
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
The top of top frontier AI research talent maybe makes 2M and I'd guess you have at most a few hundred such people globally but maybe just a few dozen. Non "FAANG" (or whatever the new term is) software engineers often make s
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
For ensuring legal compliance, there is a compliance department. Yes you obviously can't drive violating the traffic rules even if your boss asks you to. But regulations that apply to corporations, compliance etc are specialized laws,
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
That's not the grunts either way. At a construction site, the guy digging the hole with the excavator doesn't have to know whether all the permit paperwork is in order or not. The guy implementing some feature doesn't have to
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
In case of conflict of conscience/taste of that sort, resignation is the proper action and finding a job that better aligns with one's values. If you suspect legal violations, you can also file a police report.
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by bonoboTP 1mo ago
> use frontier all the time Agreed. You may think that the task is simple, but a brainfart of a dumb model overlooking something can cost you more in time and effort (if you relied on the output of the wrong code and now have to go back
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
The reason engineers don't cost this much is that lawyers are lawyer brained smooth talking networking types who hold together tightly and have a quid pro quo system and you have to pay protection money to their mafia. Law is based on
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Yes, because it's not real engineering. The field is too variable and fast paced to be like civil engineering etc. Those have well defined codes because it is physics constrained. Each construction must be done separately at high cost.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
That's called lawyer. It's a special skill, not just intuition.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
The role of legal oversight is elsewhere. Engineers are not equipped with the knowledge. Obvious ethical issues are are different, like crimes against humanity level. Other than that, it's none of their business. There are institutions
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Yes. Much better to leave these decisions to the Dear Leader who is infinitely wise and cannot be misled. Or to the People's Central Planning Committee, where they decide all the allocations and strip rich people's wealth if they
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
CEOs are loser nobodies. Real influence is with owners, boards, investors.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Very strange worldview you have there, where engineers are somehow the conscience of the world, holding back greedy managers from breaking the law. Assessing whether a feature is legal isn't something an engineer can or should do.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Outrageous cartel then. For such amounts there would be plenty who would have intellectual chops to do the job, driving the price down. Legal costs are nowhere close to this outside the US.

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