golergka

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by golergka 2y ago
Depending on who he went golfing with, it could actually be the right call.
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by golergka 2y ago
I love long takehomes. They're like pet projects, but with clearly defined goals and with people that might even give you a review if you're lucky. I always use them to try a new library or a framework, and often continue improvin
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by golergka 2y ago
It is actually a good thing for kids to know that if they abuse somebody, then someone else, who is bigger and stronger will be very angry with them. That's how the adult world works. Or at least supposed to work, when police and other
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by golergka 2y ago
As a general principle, when you do something very complex just for fun, you usually learn a lot of useful stuff along the way.
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by golergka 2y ago
Some delivery apps like Rappi sometimes require delivery man to take a photo of the order upon delivery. Unfortunately, mail doesn't deliver a hot cheeseburger in 10 minutes.
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by golergka 2y ago
Soviet union was in most ways a colonial empire, and a lot of people risked their lives to escape from it.
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by golergka 2y ago
> For instance, why do I need Jenkins and Chef when I can already test, SSH and add scripts and cron jobs no problem. New members of your team will not be familiar with your scripts and cron jobs, but they might know Jenkins and Chef, le
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by golergka 2y ago
But learning programming felt good.
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by golergka 2y ago
> I always thought trains (light rail, high speed, what ever) were so much better than cars. Do you honestly think that standing in a crowd with other people's smell all over you is better than being in your personal space, with mus
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by golergka 2y ago
Kaspersky has been in FSB's pocket since forever. Banning hostile foreign intelligence from providing security services to your country is one of the very rare pieces of regulation even a staunch minarchist would support.
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by golergka 2y ago
You could really fit at VaultTec!
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by golergka 2y ago
> People are under no obligation to be curious about anything in particular. Anthropologists who write books that become culture memes should be under this obligation.
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by golergka 2y ago
Middle management is a perfect example of it, actually. A lot of time and effort is sometimes spent drafting reports and creating other data, but the person who's creating them never aggregates them from different sources and doesn&#x2
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by golergka 2y ago
This. Every time I come across the concept of a "bullshit" job, I remind myself that it's a self-reported metric, and many people who think that their jobs are bullshit are just wrong.
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by golergka 2y ago
How much of other modern research has the same amount of issues, but doesn't have any motivated critics to uncover it?
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by golergka 2y ago
Placebos work even if users know it's a placebo. I don't for a second believe in any of homeopathy claims, but I still buy and use it, because placebo works. Especially so when price and all other medicine-looking rituals around i
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by golergka 2y ago
> Even recent startups like Jam.dev do this. I was just hired at Jam through the HN post a couple of months ago, so it’s definitely not fake.
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by golergka 2y ago
Some of the companies that post on “who's hiring” are not actually hiring too. I think they're using these fake openings to signal something to their competitors or investors.
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by golergka 2y ago
Isn't that how ancient Greek texts (that are attributed to mythical Homer) have been passed down too?
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by golergka 2y ago
It only exists because it's commercially viable to print and sell books. Also, how much capital does a single library and a single frontier llm require?
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by golergka 2y ago
So your plan is to regulate it into complete commercial unviability, where the only source of funding were government bureaucrats? How often does this strategy pay off?
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by golergka 2y ago
I really appreciate that retired teachers and miners have something to live on, yes.
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by golergka 2y ago
> So how about the following compromise: promote innovation by liberalizing the posture around training on roughly “the commons”, but insist that the resulting weights are likewise available to the public. How much would you personally i
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by golergka 2y ago
Tech bad, science bad, industrial revolution bad, western civilization bad. Haven't we had enough of these ramblings already?
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by golergka 2y ago
Bolivians and Peruvians might disagree, violently.
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by golergka 2y ago
That's why Chile is the most successful economy on the continent.
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by golergka 2y ago
> The weihmaher republik was a pretty good democracy back in the day. No it wasn't. It had armed gangs, both right and left-wing, fighting in the streets, completely failed monetary policy and sky-high level of corruption. The repub
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by golergka 2y ago
Killed or targeted? There's a huge difference between ordering a drone strike on said citizens and ordering strike on legitimate military target that said citizens just happen to be in a vicinity of.
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by golergka 2y ago
Are you insane, talking like that to this kind of person? Of course he would. He was killing people since his work in KGB, where he most likely worked with Red Army Faction, he was facilitating cocaine trade through Saint Petersburg port in
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by golergka 2y ago
Exploited? Are you saying that these employees are forced to work for below market rates, and would be better off with other opportunities available to them? If that's the case, it's truly horrible on OpenAI's part.

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