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by eutropia 5y ago
Been at doximity for 4+ years full time remote and I’ve been incredibly happy here. Excellent people all around, profitable and growing, non-evil business model, pragmatic tech choices. And I found it almost purely by luck! It’s made me rea
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Somehow, people seem opposed to the idea that simple, brute-force scaling can result in something approximating intelligence. But the difference between goofy inchoate text ramblings and effectively writing a coherent essay was just scale.
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> “Under his online moniker "White" or "Breachbase" the teenager, who has autism, is said to be behind the prolific Lapsus$ hacker crew“ An autistic teenager is the head of Lapsus$? And his parents thought he was just
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As someone who is responsible for CI/CD... welp. I'm thankful that at least I'm not on security investigating the severity of the okta hack.
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CD Projekt Red will create next Witcher Game with Unreal Engine 5(arstechnica.com)
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I don’t know why, I don’t have an opinion on it, it’s just something we have done. My point was only that pushing (any) code to prod on day 1 doesn’t have to be an entitled fantasy.
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we have our new engineers update the “our team” wall of faces with their photo on day 1 in prod. Not sure why that’s unrealistic if your deploy process doesn’t suck?
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If you can find a copy of “Understanding Physics” by Isaac Asimov, that is an excellent place to start.
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A (Formerly $13B)[1] Hedge Fund is shorting tether. I do think that tether is bullshit wrapped in mass psychosis, but will the commercial paper-based bet actually pay off within the year, or will the markets remain irrational? 1: https:&#x
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Yeah I think we agree here. I didn’t mean to assert that chomskian regular grammars or regexes satisfiable by a state machine hadn’t already been useful; I meant to say that because they have existing math implications and properties that n
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I’ll be the guy who postscripts that “hardmode” regexes would have important mathematical and computer science implications when/if they solve certain problems (like identifying primes). So it’s not pure pedantry, and there’s an impor
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this strikes me as the sort of thing that ends up as an engineering enhancement to an RTG that’s like “hybrid radio fusion heat engine” and uses a radioactive source together with this lattice confinement fusion material and end up with som
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Basically: Land Value Tax set to 90%+ of rents. But it would take close to a generation for it to start shaking out in the efficient ways.
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This might be a dumb series of questions but here it goes: Didn't we get into a huge mess because of mortgage-backed securities just 15 years ago? And you're telling me now instead of (i)banks owning them, the federal reserve owns
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You theoretically could, but since water is incompressible, you get arbitrarily high pressure for free in a sufficiently strong pressure vessel assuming zero air content. Doing the same with air would require a lot of energy and an intricat
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People will continue to choose the wildly tax-subsidized option, yes. If people in the suburbs had to pay enough property tax to recoup their share for the cost of roads, water, sewage, electric, telecoms, mail and other ancillary services
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This entire list is wildly wrong. 1) Humans will go to Mars if for literally no other reason that “to do it first” 2) Is there something special about meat computers called brains or your definition of “consciousness” that precludes this? 3
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The auto update “feature” was only ever required so they could get everyone on to a version that they could remotely shut down to force subscription revenue. Makes perfect sense that it was a paid “pro” feature before to not be forced: you
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It's not property, except I want to be able to own it, buy it, and sell it for $CURRENCY...
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from faang to Manga?
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by eutropia 5y ago
Facebook rents out an appearance of legitimacy akin to that of a news organization to whatever content makes it the most money. Should that level of amplification and circulation be handed out with zero human editorial oversight?
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I thought I laid out what I meant by that in the following paragraphs -- it was intended as a finger pointed at the moon, not a prescriptive maxim to be taken literally. A goal to work towards instead of "everyone do whatever is profi
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I clicked on the US and see that it gets loads of secrecy points in all kinds of categories, but 0 points from the category of "Consistent Personal Income Tax". I laughed.
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Appealing to complexity doesn’t make basics like conservation of matter go away. The Climate is extremely complex, and will not be entirely understood in our lifetimes; but I’m not interested in litigating my way to a perfect climate model.
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I searched the internet trying to find a reference to the study regarding the glaciers at GNP and found exclusively news stories and blogspam repeating the "removal of the signs" meme from foxnews, right-wing think tanks, fundamen
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Current carbon capture tech charges about $500/ton (but this number is bound to get lower) of CO2, given the CO2 produced per KWh of Natural gas is 0.41kg/KWh, that adds about $0.20 per KWh to your electricity bill. Where I’m from
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Is it theoretically possible to be the last one holding the tether bag in the event of a crash (i.e, set a ridiculous ask price for BTC like millions of tethers each) -- and end up owning enough of the USDT (say like 50 Billion of them) to
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It's so much easier to value yourself when someone else genuinely shows that they value you too. Make sure the people you love know that you value them. Make it a habit to greet them at the door when they come home, and to always tell
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> Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access to customers' text messages. I think it’s safe to assume that if you’ve been owned for five years the hackers have access to whatever they want. That’s more senior
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My personal calendar as a software engineer at a company of over 700 people includes about 1 hour of meetings per week.

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