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3y ago
No math, no code, no data, nothing resembling a formal description of the supposed "AGI" as far as I can tell.
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3y ago
The market is saturated with cheap (typically loss-leader) printers because the vast majority of people do not give any serious consideration to the printer(s) they buy; they go to a store or to Amazon and buy something that's cheap, l
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3y ago
> In Eastern Europe we were calling this tunneling of a company - create a tunnel with help from inside to get riches out and leave the shell to its own demise. Elon prefers to call it “boring.”
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3y ago
Presumably the idea would be to test them on intake, assign them to GED prep classes accordingly, and begin basic once they've finished their education?
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3y ago
In my experience having worked on some popular OSS projects, the scene actually ends with the Ferrari owner flipping off the mechanic before peeling out and splattering him with mud.
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3y ago
If these legacy systems are important, perhaps older generations should consider offering better pay to people willing to learn and maintain them rather than whining endlessly about "kids these days."
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clipsy
3y ago
Have they? I suspect in reality it's more of a correction to the early 2020's hiring frenzy, which made a lot of people overestimate what sort of compensation they can command.
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3y ago
> Because dressing so as to expose your genitalia already prohibited by criminal indecent exposure laws in pretty much every country on the planet, duh. Assault is also prohibited by laws in pretty much every country on the planet, and y
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3y ago
When I open a note-taking app in my dreams, usually the interface is incomprehensible and whatever I try to type or write in a note ends up bizarrely distorted. All UI interactions behave erratically and sometimes the phone will just myster
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3y ago
How so? If they're underperforming at their jobs they can (and should) be let go; on the other hand, if they're meeting expectations then where is the theft? Both/all employers are getting what they paid for.
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3y ago
How is Walmart obtaining data on when individual people start taking Ozempic? That seems like quite a HIPAA violation.
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3y ago
If a child is on facebook for 5 years (the max possible without violating age requirements and assuming the age of majority is 18) and if harassment events are independently distributed, the chance of this particular child suffering sexual
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3y ago
Per day.
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clipsy
3y ago
They have "Messenger Kids" targeted at the under-13 market with safeguards ostensibly in place, and as far as I know children 13 and over can create FB/IG accounts.
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3y ago
Something like 4-5 days in a row of temperatures ranging from around -15C to -30C.
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clipsy
3y ago
And 4 in 5 business leaders are adept at faking empathy.
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clipsy
3y ago
The people protesting know that just as well as we do, amusingly -- otherwise they wouldn't feel any need to protest.
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clipsy
3y ago
It’s a fairly common interpretation of Paradise Lost, though probably not the interpretation Milton intended.
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clipsy
3y ago
It would more accurately be called unfree roaming.
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3y ago
Parents weren't GPS tracking their children in the 1990s.
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clipsy
3y ago
Because leaving a perfectly fine piece of software alone doesn't pay anyone's salary.
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3y ago
> Assuming you're sitting 10" away from your TV (common benchmark) Do you meant 10' (feet) here? Because 10" (inches) certainly doesn't seem like a common benchmark to me.
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3y ago
> they care about their customers > It took me multiple calls with customer representative to cancel my account because Carta did not want to automatically add an option for people to cancel their plan. This is not how most people wou
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3y ago
> It's the number of people on government unemployment assistance / welfare. No, it is not. BLS provides official definitions of their terms here: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2021&#x
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3y ago
The BLS revises monthly employment figures when it receives data late; in 2023, every month (except December which I think has not been revised yet) has been revised downward -- meaning fewer new jobs were added than initially reported. I&#
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3y ago
Here is the data: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm In particular, Table A shows that even with the downward revisions, the unemployment rate has been below 4.0% every month of the year (up through Novemb
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3y ago
How much can I get for one less year of life?
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3y ago
This sounds like a class that was sorely missing in my CS education; looking back at what I was taught versus what skills have been useful in the industry, my university courses always seemed to treat debugging, profiling, etc as irrelevant
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3y ago
Oh, I agree you shouldn't publish if you aren't sure your code should be public! On the flip side, a package manager could easily address this by requiring code to be published under a limited selection of licenses that actually e
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3y ago
Weird downvotes! From the source: "Your Content belongs to you. You decide whether and how to license it. But at a minimum, you license npm to provide Your Content to users of npm Services when you share Your Content. That special lice
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