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chasd00
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chasd00
3mo ago
> you forgot the $800 billion for the military! I agree but i wouldn't be that upset if that money was spent on soldier's pay and buying things or R/D from US companies built in the United States while employing US citizen
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3mo ago
> millennial weeb millenial? The participation trophy generation? i was there when the old magic was written, I think you mean gen-x ;)
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3mo ago
it goes to show that, despite what we want to think, developers just aren't that important. The code is maybe 10% of what it takes to make a business, even a software tech business, a success. So whether it's human generated or LL
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3mo ago
iirc Starship or Falcon 9 control is Labview.
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3mo ago
> LLMs are like search engines on steroids i like the analogy of a lossy compression algorithm. The LLM compresses all of the data it was trained on to answer the question it was asked.
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3mo ago
One more thing worth thinking about, not everything is fully captured.
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> Trades work is hard. most of my extended family was hardcore blue collar (ranchers, welders, oil hands, etc). When they got older their bodies were pretty broken, most couldn't walk from one end of their house to the other after a
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3mo ago
> put them up in a hotel the hotel rates in Abilene TX are comically high and all the RV parks are filled up too. I have friends/roots there so make the drive from Dallas every so often. The stargate datacenter is certainly a popula
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3mo ago
For places like Fuel City in Dallas you may want to add an icon for "don't go alone after dark" ;)
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3mo ago
At the bottom of the lists, after you've scrolled through and clicked on some restaurants, you should have a "I'll do it myself" button that uses some llm to create a $10 meal recipe using the restaurants you clicked as
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3mo ago
Also, an electrician just doesn't pop into existence. You have to go through years of apprenticeship and union dues payments.
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3mo ago
You indeed shouldn’t bring your humanity to work. You should bring what’s required to do the job. That’s the deal, you do the job and the employer pays you for it. Stopping making where you work the same as where you live.
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I think that’s the key, if it was prescribed to him by a doctor then probably not an issue. If it was just one of those don’t ask don’t tell therapy retreats then they may have a problem.
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3mo ago
If HR policy says no drugs then that’s a wrap. Allowing an employee to violate HR policy probably puts the company in all sorts of legal risks.
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3mo ago
The credit card and the money is what was stolen.
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3mo ago
> Like? Vanguard’s total market fund (VTSAX). Just setup a monthly purchase and forget about it. Turn wealth building into a time problem instead of a skill/luck/cash problem. (Assuming time is on your side)
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3mo ago
Maybe you’re right but, man, there’s easier money to be made than betting against those two companies.
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3mo ago
> I think what I actually enjoyed wasn't programming itself, but the act of creating something. i think this is the real difference between the pro-ai and anti-ai crowds.
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> I think perhaps the assumption that engineering managers should have any employees may be outdated. to me, the latest models and harnesses turn all devs into an engineering manager with one direct report. Some devs naturally take up th
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FTFA: American labs need to release frontier-grade open-weight models under licenses that startups can actually build on. oh now i see, the Chinese government is funding the training and release of their best models to pressure OpenAI, Anth
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> They actually said they’ve been trying different techniques to not have it explode like rolling. interesting, i had no idea. I was going off the info i remembered about when those unexploded parts floated into Mexican waters. It's
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You can write mods for Minecraft too but that doesn’t make Minecraft open source.
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3mo ago
I work in a large corp, I thought it was odd to be encouraged to spend as much money as possible regardless of outcome. Like folks down the ladder a few rungs actually had AI use as part of their KPIs. Didn’t matter what they used AI for th
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yeah it's suppose to tip over, explode and sink. Not sure what they're going to do with it now. If some other country comes in and salvages intact Raptor3, flight computers, and all the other ITAR regulated tech SpaceX may have a
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from what i understand it kind of is a failure. It's suppose to tip over, explode, and sink. That way you don't have all this ITAR regulated tech floating around in international waters.
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3mo ago
people have been complaining about software going downhill ever since hand crafted assembler was replaced with C and a compiler. it's the classic "old man yells at clouds".
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3mo ago
and software devs think their direct deposit every 2 weeks will always just magically appear. /i'm an old developer but most have no clue their paycheck comes from actually selling things and not just from typing on the keyboard.
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on April 1 next year don't be surprised when lots of repositories come out with "surprise! i was AI all along". How are they ever going to know? Seems like a prompt like "remove all traces from this code that it was gene
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these things always end with community disintegration. Eventually, some high profile user will cross the undefined line or leaders change and want to rewrite the rule then half the community will side with them and half will not.
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3mo ago
that's the biggest indication of this just being a marketing move to me. I would expect a third party breaking in to huggingface would at the very very least be banned forever.
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