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by dahart 1y ago
Our eyes absolutely blow out whites in the sun. Doubly so when looking at the sun or even reflections immediately after being in the dark for a while, and when looking at bright that is very near dark in your visual field. I’m not necessari
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by dahart 1y ago
I truly don’t understand the author’s opinions about contrast here. The RE7 image is the only one here that looks ‘realistic’, and at a glance could be mistaken for a photograph, and he says it’s got way too much contrast. No other image he
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by dahart 1y ago
> am I standing at the gates of hell in a line that includes Tower Records and Blockbuster? Maybe, but there’s a big difference - Netflix doesn’t rely on Blockbuster, and Spotify doesn’t need Tower Records. Google AI results do need your
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by dahart 1y ago
> It tells us something about the hype machine when investors in AI are clueless I’m seeing this a different way. This article is feeding the hype machine, intentionally I assume, by waxing on about how powerful and devious the AI was, t
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by dahart 1y ago
I’d guess neither; this could be an ad by a Replit investor. There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Either way the story is glaringly void of important details, and clearly designed to provoke a reaction.
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by dahart 1y ago
What point are you trying to make now? This has little to do with citizens suing each other, and doesn’t demonstrate that US litigation is either frivolous nor widely abused. The cost of litigation doesn’t prove the US is more litigious, it
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by dahart 1y ago
> Cars are becoming prohibitively expensive This isn’t true. There are dozens of car models near $20k today, and most of the base model inexpensive cars in the US have always cost around today’s $20k-$30k in adjusted dollars. Even the Fo
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by dahart 1y ago
That description has no comparisons and no baseline definition of beer quality. Why do those things make them better than other ales, especially when most of that is subjective? For some people, high alcohol content, sweetness, effervescenc
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by dahart 1y ago
This is an oft-repeated misconception. Germany is almost twice as litigious as the US. Sweden and Austria are also more litigious than the US. > anyone with a bone to pick could sink you in legal fees and proceedings at a whim This is FU
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by dahart 1y ago
> IIRC the Tegra SoC that powered the Switch 1 literally was an automotive chip that they repurposed Tegra was designed for mobile devices like smartphones. The automotive part came later and isn’t particularly relevant. Intel also makes
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by dahart 1y ago
I am intrigued by your comment but a little confused as well, could you elaborate? What do you mean by ‘best manager’? Is that one who’s valuable and good for the org, or one that’s good at getting raises and promotions for himself and nobo
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by dahart 1y ago
Yep you can read in the same article that the word “meritocracy” was originally coined as a perjorative word intended to highlight how “merit” is obviously a function of social class and money. It’s wild that everyone is using “merit” and
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by dahart 1y ago
> 2000Mb / (3600s * 2) = 277.8Mb/s 2000Mb / 7200s = 0.278 Mb/s, or 277.8 K b/s > It is very spiky, but frequently jumped between 150kbps and 200Mbps. […] I think it’d get bogged down with 4 people That’s just
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by dahart 1y ago
I definitely listened to a lot of Tomita as a kid, I used to check out vinyls of his albums from my local library. The one that sticks with me most distinctly is his very unique rendition of Golliwog’s Cakewalk. https://youtube.c
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by dahart 1y ago
Yes, that’s definitely what I’m suggesting. Did I accidentally imply something else? I feel like taking the whether someone can afford college off the table would just immediately end this DEI argument and give Americans a boost. Why isn’
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by dahart 1y ago
I wonder why Andreesen doesn’t suggest public funding of higher education, instead of fighting DEI. If education was free for all Americans, it would achieve what he’s arguing for and it would undermine and make DEI efforts completely moot.
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by dahart 1y ago
Switched on Bach is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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by dahart 1y ago
I guess you’re lucky, TYL. Just checking since most people don’t read their employment contracts carefully - have you actually checked for exclusivity clauses? Are you talking about full time engineering work, or something else? Exclusivity
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by dahart 1y ago
> If a person can fulfill their role profile, isn’t that what the company hired them for? Generally speaking, no. Full time jobs are supposed to be full time, and the expectation, and explicit agreement the employee signed up for, is tha
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by dahart 1y ago
In the US, many companies have exclusivity clauses in the employment contract, meaning it’s breach of contract to do paid work for another company at the same time. The typical agreement being made by an employer is salary in return for the
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by dahart 1y ago
Agreed, I would too. Getting paid is the main difference, and while it would be hard if it happened a lot, it’d at least put food on the table. I just know from time spent contracting and from jobs with periodic and/or seasonal layoffs
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by dahart 1y ago
They complained of license violation, not copyright infringement. There’s a big difference. The original license already granted the rights for anyone to copy the code, so the question of copyright infringement isn’t really on the table.
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by dahart 1y ago
> if you want to eat, you cheat. I can totally understand thinking this way out of desperation, and being lulled into thinking it’s this simple, but it seems short sighted with hidden complexities. First of all, it’s risky. If you get ca
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by dahart 1y ago
I actually like your idea of a probationary hire, but you can see this is just an even longer extended interview, right? If companies were to adopt this model en masse, they would over-hire and then drop most people after the first 2 weeks,
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by dahart 1y ago
I’m confused by this comment, do you want to elaborate? Only the thirteenth author has an association with NASA at all, and that author lists two associations. This paper is primarily from U. Maryland and MIT. Why do you feel like this pape
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by dahart 1y ago
What are better exemplars?
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by dahart 1y ago
Or, sometimes, not; one of the more interesting takeaways was typewritten lowercase ells instead of ones: “When the algorithm read October llth, it was far more correct than we have been giving it credit.”
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by dahart 1y ago
The phrasing is correct and pretty normal, it’s just potentially ambiguous. English is like that sometimes. I’m not a grammarian, but I think “I counted all the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning” would normally be interpreted correct
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by dahart 1y ago
That brings back some memories. My friend and I messed around with S.A.M. on his Atari 800 a lot when we were kids. We would crank call the parents of other kids we knew and have SAM tell them their kids had skipped school and might get sus
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by dahart 1y ago
The Wikipedia article says the Cray-1 has 200k gates. I assume that would mean something slightly north of 2x the number of transistors? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1#Description 200k * 300k Cray-1s would be 60B

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