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by gopher_space 2mo ago
You're tied up in centuries of empire-building consequences and think "no brown people please" is a legitimate point of view?
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
I don't know, the degree feels like more of a BA in the first place. How about Comp Lit?
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
A sound mind in a sound body. Everything you do is improved if you're physically active. I think sports are just easy to categorize when you're trying to figure out what some kid's been up to. Admissions gets to check a box
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
One of the biggest problems in software development is that our graph of authoritative personal data is cyclical. You might have heard about how difficult it was for someone erroneously declared dead to change the record, and I'm sure
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
> I think the whole “empire collapsing” is a bit of a dramatized phrasing Ragnarok is an existential issue mainly for the ruling class. Collapse is a change in the social order more than everything just suddenly being on fire. E.g. We d
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
Quite clear that people don't understand the basics of forensics. Watching people ruin their professional reputation over something they desperately want to believe in was quite the education.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
> I am not a fan of flock, nor police surveillance state, but what could they have done better here? We'd need to take a look at what they have access to and how they're ingesting that info. I'd start with caring greatly
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
> Crazy how much of this really just boils down to identity politics for a small segment of coal miners. The coal and oil industries have a proven track record of paying their bribes on time that stretches back a hundred years or more, a
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
> I want to discourage voting blindingly by party affiliation This seemed wise thirty years ago. I'm in a blue state that never had much of a problem electing republican officials up to and including the governor, and that worked w
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
> I don't mean to imply there are no developers that simultaneously care deeply about the craft of software development and really empathize with the customer. I do believe they might want to see a professional about a split persona
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
I mean first you need to figure out the cost of a large municipality getting stuxnetted, and then you need to figure out where to hide when your constituents find out you made that kind of call.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
Lots of hidden variables in this equation, like the number of ex-parents living only for retribution.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
And being good-looking? Are you criticizing them for being fit and handsome?
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
After watching a mid-tier offering chain together tools like it was a gorilla escaping the zoo I just gave the model its own box. I don’t have time to deal with that kind of nonsense.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
It seems like the path is streamlined once they know who you are. This sort of feels like a generational thing but I would have flown over.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
Keep an eye on the game modding communities. From my perspective the breadth and depth of individual effort has exploded over the past year or so, lots of big projects for older games too.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
This is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary profession. Developing a framework for absorbing new domains and viewpoints is critical. Paying attention to your common core 100-200 levels gives you a huge head start on this.
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by gopher_space 2mo ago
> In the "real world" of course, I have five senses to rely upon. Critically, I have the ability to collect additional context "out of band" of the conversation and interact with unrelated entities to either confirm o
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
they're not useful to users looking for the latest features. They're useful to mod developers who'd like to see how internal changes might affect their work. For example.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
> You just need lots of water They're more like pets in this sense. Really fun plants to have inside though.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
Amazing how frequently people die after they’re turned over right when the family is all together. Amazing and appreciated.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
Reminds me of diatom pictures. The soft edges in nature comfort me.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
> accuracy has nothing to do with political spectrum and it's not appropriate I think to conflate. When you go to college there will be plenty of coursework on identifying and correcting for your OWN biases since they affect accur
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
I don't really have a use for a model that thinks "how many people are in this photo?" is a political question.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
Start thinking about where your numbers come from. Do some qualitative to quantitative conversions for a system with a feedback loop.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
Imagine being asked to publish 'beautiful' code for an audience comfortable with doing so themselves. On top of all the theory and practice needed to produce a complete system you're expected to develop a point of view you
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
The difficulty scale starts with o chem and then goes through all of the arts before it hits another STEM discipline.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
Another point of view is that your people are so good that their division turns a profit under mismanagement. It costs MS negative hundred mil to keep the whole thing spun up on a bad day.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
I mean the assumption here is that administration needs to be automated. Cheating is an intermittent problem at worst on moderated servers.
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by gopher_space 3mo ago
It’s weird how every conservative family ends up sending their kids to Wesleyan.

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