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2y ago
Since they use VoIP SMS and "first name" it's pretty hard to resort to the old fashioned doxxing despite living in the golden age of data leaks. I would suggest simply wasting their time as much as possible (I've lead on
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2y ago
To say the network guru should automatically know the cause of a packet drop is like to say the postal worker automatically knows why the letter never arrived, or a doctor automatically knows the cause of that cough.
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2y ago
If you look for a torrent on google of course you are safe because good guy big brother google filters out all wrongthink so we can have rightthink like google knows best If you look for a dinky little search engine called presearch, which
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2y ago
YC filters for companies for gorillion dollar missions / solve gorillion dollar problems. A mission that is, "I have an AI, input is business plan, output is entire IT infrastructure" is what YC sees here. i.e. programming as
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2y ago
Huh? All the files are local and models are gonna be made to have a lot of or ultimately all of them in the "context window". You can't really have an AI for your local documents on the cloud because the cloud doesn't
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2y ago
You should take their deal or lawyer up, those are your choices really. I like the idea of the internet swooping in at the injustice of it. I've been in the same boat for things much worse. But save for a few inspiration examples th
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2y ago
To be fair, with certain types of wonderful music even WIRED earbudes may eggsplode in your ear or eye. I specifically am referring to the famous metal band -- DISASTER AREA --
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2y ago
I take an approach a lot like this - brief straightforward lowercase names e.g. books/ periodicals/ films/ television/ That's the root directory. Now for subfolders I keep a numerical scheme e.g. films/000_act
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2y ago
Like spider man they hope a random office blob from sector 7G will get a papercut from the radioactive office supply, only for the radiation to transform him into... .. RED TAPE MAN! He swings from office building to office building shooti
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2y ago
The idea that it's an abstraction is 100% accurate. That physics is a discrete set of fields with field rules and interaction rules, and what we observe is a scaffold on top of that. It's like okay, let's say the math is ri
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2y ago
Of course a person can write a book on all the unfairness of this system many ways. The long and short of all of this is we are giving person A an advantage over person B because person C did something bad to person D, and it just so happen
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2y ago
For me a great example is Reed college. Smartest person I ever met, went there. Had a 4.0 GPA. This is an onery school with regards to the bell curve, C average, so a 4.0+ GPA at Reed is a huge deal. Anyway, Reed simply tells US News to
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2y ago
So the snak character build is +5 for narrow entries but is nerfed when the exit is a hole in the ceiling of a larger cavern, an area where the ballon is +8. Ultimately what we need is a hybrid build between ballon and snak, an inflatable
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2y ago
idk what the ground truth is but what we are talking about here is called "fruit from the poisoned tree" in the field of ethics. This means you get a fruit "good thing" but it was pick from the poison tree "bad thi
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2y ago
Never worked at a FAGMAN company but from what I've heard this is all true, no disagreement. I personally avoid such companies for the reasons you've described. That being said, given the not so great, let us say, cutthroat cultur
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2y ago
Well that's the thing, there is a tiny market for your art historian or english Phd or whatever humanities specialty. And to get english professors you need english Phds and english students, who need an english professor. there is a n
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2y ago
The "aging design" arguments holds water like a sieve. Electricity and engines are 1800s vintage designs The wheel is a prehistorical aging design american government is an aging design The quality of an idea is independent of th
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2y ago
It's not about the small time military money it's about the big ticket government bailout. If they have some hooks into the military then they have, what's the term, a "moral hazard" card to freely take risk, milit
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2y ago
Exactly. I have had dinner with "The Zuck" personally and he's quite charismatic and pleasant. This whole Howard Hughes tier eccentricities and spreading of rumors that he's some sort of lizard or robot (see: https:&#
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It's a brilliant idea, but LLMs are predicated upon the massive data of the internet. That being said, you could take a pre-2018 dataset and test it for discoveries/insights circa 2019 or 2020 and see how well it performs.
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arcade games worked on the same idea (mechanical) and had some pretty next level setups in the arcade- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedSuvlFElo
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As an ex-military man, one would think DRS or HFRO (using standard aggressive HN style acronymiziation, or AHNAN) would be his seminal role. But, no, his best role (BR) is as GENERAL JAMES SOLOMON in the best video series ever, command and
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2y ago
As an American who hungers for punishment, it's in fact a hunger driven by not punishing people (see SF, Chicago), allowing crime to persist, slaps on the wrist. I've had my vehicle stolen, come time with the PROSECUTOR called me
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It's completely insane. "We have been blessed by the Lord above to have the superhuman ability to predict what will cause harm, please take our blessings onto you, we shall altruistically protect you from harm". The whole pr
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It's by choice. They're flowering up (pun intended) something quite mundane. Marketers by another name these people. It's the same game as youtubers. The first thing they say in a 30 minute video is "wait until the en
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Welp it was a peak, the Apollo program. Actually we'd want it to not be a peak, but a stepping stone to something greater. Alas.
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they's already sscraped bro they's on the archive dot org that site has everything but their search is shite so to find scraped things that they scraped, you need to scrape their site and build a non-broken search engine for yours
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Just to serve as a translator for this guy who aren't acronym enthusiasts throwing around high-falutin' words such as "bipartite graph" ICE = "Internal Combustion Engine" RF = "radiofrequency" Dude
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It's an ugly business and there's little to do to make it not ugly, at best all you can be is as human and compassionate as possible. In an ideal world us peons would like to think the C-suite saw it all coming and didn't hi
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2y ago
(1) chatGTP is not a calculator. A calculator resolutely computes the exact numerical answer (modulo finite bits and rational numbers etc). ChatGTP is more stochastic. sometimes it's right, maybe a lot of the time, but no promises!
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