dingosity

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by dingosity 2y ago
meh. or you could use mixins.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Having worked in government, I can assure you (most) democratically elected leaders can do math. And often hire people who are much better at math than they are. What you may be observing is the assumption the electorate isn't paying
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by dingosity 2y ago
Alas. Ayn Rand has passed and we have no one to save us from the communists in government.
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by dingosity 2y ago
I don't know if I agree with you, disagree with you or just plain hate the world for inventing situations that are hard to put my brainstem around. The other day I was thinking... "We should do every thing we can to ensure SoundTr
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by dingosity 2y ago
Just imagine how horrible this would be if climate change were real.
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by dingosity 2y ago
I'm not sure people are hand-wringing about science fiction novels coming true. I think they're worried that moneyed interests will hammer at regulators and law-makers until they relent and let chatbots drive cars. I mean... it&
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by dingosity 2y ago
It's not uncommon to ascribe responsibility for something the administration does to the chief executive, even though the work was done by subordinates. We use the phrase "Reaganomics" to describe Arthur Laffer's maxima
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by dingosity 2y ago
The safety issue is that people believe that a chatbot can drive a car.
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by dingosity 2y ago
it's tough living in a world with regulation, eh?
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by dingosity 2y ago
The danger isn't that the AI will gain sapience and decide to kill everyone, it's that people will assume that because an LLM could generate a reasonable overview of a large corpus of texts it can also drive a car, manage the powe
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by dingosity 2y ago
"The previously unreported incident sheds light on the changing culture at OpenAI, where company leaders including CEO Sam Altman have been accused of prioritizing commercial interests over public safety..." I don't know how
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by dingosity 2y ago
lack of proof is not proof of lack.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Alas. It appears borked on debian (axrt depends on an old version of libjpeg.) I'll loop back around in a year and see if it's been changed to depend on modern dependencies.
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by dingosity 2y ago
But the good news is that when they fire you in one of these states, they don't have to pay you much severance.
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by dingosity 2y ago
So sure... it was translated by ChatGPT. But do we know what language it was translated into? It seems to have a passing relation to english, but I'm not sure what many of those sentences mean.
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by dingosity 2y ago
I think you might be the only one in this conversation setting up the strawman that copyright law is not natural law.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Derivative works are not automatically fair use. Otherwise I could release an album with a Prince song and a Taylor Swift song, claim it's a derivative work and covered under fair use. Again. Try to do this on YouTube (even though Y
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by dingosity 2y ago
Sure. But there's a fair amount of US Copyright law that says this has never been the case. To test this hypothesis, upload a video to YouTube with music by Prince playing in the background.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Microsoft is head-quartered in Seattle, which is part of the United States, so it's not unreasonable for harmed parties to bring action under US Copyright law. US Copyright law is explicit about this. Copyright exists upon creation o
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by dingosity 2y ago
Sure. But this is not what US copyright law says.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Before we get too upset... can we verify this is MSFT's official position? I suspect this may be hyperbole. It could be Sulyman was constructing a hypothetical point that didn't survive translation into click-bait. That bei
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by dingosity 2y ago
Not sending people to TicTok is a laudible goal, but sending it to a page that's mining bitcoin via WebGPU isn't that much of an improvement.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Holy carp, Batman! What IS that web page that pegs 8 cores of CPU and reloads itself four times before I can hit the back button. Maybe just link to the original video and not a cruft-laden-seo-dump. https://www.tiktok.com&#x
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by dingosity 2y ago
I think a better title for this article isn't "Diversity Was Supposed to Make Us Rich," but "Once Again McKinzey is Peddling Bullshit." I agree with many of the assertions... Diversity is the right thing to do. An
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by dingosity 2y ago
I think you win. I'm not anti-Scrum, I'm anti-people-doing-stupid-crap-and-saying-it's-Scrum. Sounds like you have a decent environment with people who sort of know what they're doing. Are you hiring?
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by dingosity 2y ago
Funny you mention that. I was going to say "oh no. you can do Kanban with Jira," but then I remembered that every place I've seen that "does Kanban" is really doing some local spiral-waterfall-esque process, but us
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by dingosity 2y ago
I was also at Amazon. We used a slightly modified version of scrum in that at least my team wasn't afraid to push back on ceremonies we didn't think we needed. Sprint planning? virtually always. Sometimes without the planning
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by dingosity 2y ago
oy vey
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by dingosity 2y ago
https://archive.is/1Psj6 I was worried the author of this piece, Gregory Korte, was horrifically biased. But I have to give him props for gingerly stepping around verbiage which is hard to write without sounding like a hac
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by dingosity 2y ago
oh man. i came here to forget about politics tonight. still... thanks for just commenting about reddit rather than making a political jeremiad.

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