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digitalsushi
2y ago
I support NASA going to Mars and pay taxes for them to try. I'm a Mars explorer. My tool is NASA. Yeah, I think I agree. Your boss gets credit for the things you invent. This is a reasonable position.
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Our concern for cost so eclipses our concern for quality that the horrible truth is we'll defer to infinite and ok to finite but great. I am not an artist and 1000 free wedding photos from my friends sounds much better than 30 wedding
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Humanity is going to have such a delightful crisis when live performance and physical presence become the only finite resource left we have to value. It can't scale, and like a big crunch at the end of heat death, a new universe will s
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2y ago
hollywood makes a 100 million dollar movie. a company sends a robot to watch it. 7 dollars for a single ticket. the world spends their ticket money on hanging out with the robot to hear about the movie. i can't make heads or tails of
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2y ago
I'd give up the rest of all of those holidays to be a human that lives any part of their lives in any part of space
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2y ago
Fascinating. Can I have a response to that article that the article cannot be used to ironically counterpoint
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2y ago
There are many people who would love to live an active lifestyle but their bodies do not allow them to express what their minds desire.
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2y ago
isn't that it's supposed to work? we just need >0 people to blow a whistle if a whistle needs blowing. we don't need to rely on the people fearing for their jobs so long as >0 people are willing to sacrifice their caree
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2y ago
can i do a boogeyman argument? i'm worried some kid is going to fall in love with a gen ai chatbot that tells them to hurt themselves, they do, and we spend the next 20 years trying to figure out who to blame: the kid? the parents, for
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weakest link, if they dont release this, someone else will release one. every time someone noble invents another gen ai toy/weapon, they lock it down with post filters so it cant be used for evil, and then a second person forks it, pop
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2y ago
how did you hire interns then? what a terrible scale! if i was wet behind the ears and giving myself an 8 cause of what i dont know i dont know, it's your job to hire me and teach me how wrong i am!
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it's certainly their privilege to destroy the free hosting people don't want to pay money for. if they are really genuinely deleting that data and not deleting it just for the account holder, then i would guess slack is not intere
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UNH CS 720, OS programming ... it was basically posix programming in C. All my cohorts told me not to take it cause I wasn't going to pass it. I busted my butt and I clawed a B-. I basically worked a 40 hour week on that single class,
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At the UNH-IOL in 2004 the departments all had their own /24 subnets. We were warring with one of them over their winning where we got lunch, and so we put a line of javascript in the webmail html client that would open the print page
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2y ago
we can treat them like we used to treat humans, at least until they become sentient. if this makes you uncomfortable i'm with you
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how could the hype be in control? we have a lot of people with a lot of investments that benefit greatly from hyping the products, an investment gold rush we simultaneously have an industry of people leveraging better jobs, job functions, j
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2y ago
if i had the ability to vastly influence what people read about me everyone would think i was pretty amazing too
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this year i watched a company buy a hypervisor company and jack the renewal rates 5 times knowing that it will take 4 years for their biggest accounts to ditch them. and that the twenty years of renewals they get in 4 years is worth destroy
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2y ago
when i watch media from 60 years ago i am overwhelmed by how much community there was inside workplaces. people communicated. they had community. ideas were communicative. so was effort. it almost feels like a violation in the modern sense
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i know it's not quite what we're talking about, but people with wells can get an add-on mechanical pump that can retrieve water during power grid outages. 60 to 90 seconds of vigorous pumping can get 5 gallons from a 400 foot well
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map makers put fake streets on their maps to catch people stealing their data. often a cul de sac because people won't use that as a throughway.
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why would you want browser tabs?
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I saw a demo of some software that can scan at 24 frame per second all of the workers behind a cafe counter, and classify them by which products they are working, their throughput, and special states such as using their phone, talking to a
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This will only be a problem until we can't tell anymore. Then we'll have a new problem.
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I'd fail 90% of tech interviews on the spot if I had to fire up your IDE, instead of firing up a white board and an expo2
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When the adversary is AI, gamesmanship is a subset of sportsmanship rather than a a disjoint set.
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If I could visually persist 3 lines of a terminal in my vision, and then otherwise use the functionality of a cell phone with ear buds with microphones, I think I could do 60% of my job while walking around in the forest behind my house. Mo
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oh man my cognitive dissonance is crazy cause i am easily in the top 50% percentile for being able to use popular LLMs but that reading list is outside my comprehension abilities. I cannot synthesize a thing I use
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i find that opinion somewhat gatekeepy and i disagree with it
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The pianos, guitars, cameras were at one point the labors of love from fellow engineers, and then adopted as the extended arms, fingers, eyes of the the artists those engineers trusted their labors with. And yeah I'm not oblivious. We
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