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by groby_b 2y ago
It is in no way "extremely polarized ragebait". It has a mild bent to its reporting, and that's about it. The world isn't "ragebait" just because you happen to disagree.
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by groby_b 2y ago
So, might be "inspiration". I suspect "Melissa" did not "find out today" - chlorine trifluoride isn't exactly the stuff you discuss at your average dinner table. You need a whole bunch of expertise to writ
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by groby_b 2y ago
Not surprising. A 7.7 is absolutely massive. (In terms of energy, 10^23.35 erg. Or 5 megatons of TNT, if my math works)
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by groby_b 2y ago
I don't object to jailing people, or sending them back. I do, very much, object to lack of due process or recourse. Which is a fundamental element of, at the very least, autocracies.
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by groby_b 2y ago
Concentration camps in El Salvador, with extrajudicial extradition and no due process? Or, less dramatic, a drive for national autarky. A very much dirigiste economy. (Cf. massive tariffs). A drive towards a one-party state without a rule o
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by groby_b 2y ago
Our entire civilization has always rested on a tacit "it's nice to have civilization, so we play by the rules" by everybody involved. Voluntary restraint is what keeps us from being animals, not nature or laws. As Hobbes wrot
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by groby_b 2y ago
Ancient Internet lore at this point :) Bezos used to (supposedly, didn't work for him) have the habit to forward emails to reports (direct and further down), with just an added comment of "!" or "?" "!" wa
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by groby_b 2y ago
> That's what I'd consider normal. How is ADHD different? ADHD is different in that sustained focus takes a ton more of energy than for non-ADHD folks - if you're high functioning. And is almost impossible if you're n
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by groby_b 2y ago
Yeah, randomly AI-generating a large list of imagined sub tasks is just the thing to manage e.g. ADHD. You want to do this well, lean into pre-defined (and user-defined!) checklists instead. Sure, use AI to help people generate the checkl
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by groby_b 2y ago
Took the same path, just wanted to commiserate on the emails. It'll teach you where Bezos got the idea for his infamous "!"/"?" emails. Somebody burn email and chat to the ground, I want to move back to interof
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by groby_b 2y ago
If the majority of your retention work is escalations and meetings at the time they want to leave, you're really holding this management thing wrong. I've done this 3 times in 20+ years as a manager. It's not exactly super-co
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> the guys I get are pretty good and actually learn. The model doesn't. Core issue. LLMs never ever leave their base level unless you actively modify the prompt. I suppose you _could_ use finetuning to whip it into a useful shape, b
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by groby_b 2y ago
> No way do I want to work with someone who can’t debug or write tests. I thought those were entry stakes to the profession. Those are almost entry stakes at tier-one companies. (There are still people who can't, it's just mu
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by groby_b 2y ago
Just because it's turned off by default doesn't mean it isn't load bearing. If you didn't ever encounter an ASSERT with side effects that were crucial to proper functioning, you just haven't seen enough ASSERT state
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by groby_b 2y ago
I think you underestimate how much the US has severed bridges in the last two months.
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by groby_b 2y ago
ArchiveBox is your friend. (When it doesn't hate you :) It's pretty good at archiving most web pages - it relies on SingleFile and other tools to get the job done. Depends on how you saved the video, but in general it works decent
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"create"? The keyword you're looking for is "data loss prevention", it's a thriving market.
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If you have a reasonably competent sales team, you don't need "spying", you just ask the customers about their experience with the competitor. Any reasonably company both shops around and is happy to throw one provider under
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by groby_b 2y ago
OK, but why is this relevant?
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Yes. I'm not implying only SF produces great engineers. I'm saying that for a specific large set of problems, SF is swimming in great engineers for those problems. For other problems, elsewhere may well be better. Gamedev, I'
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by groby_b 2y ago
But they are worse. Massively so. Also, even if all providers provide equally crappy versions, it's still slightly more secure to prefer a vendor in your own or an allied nation. At least your interests are mildly aligned. But really
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by groby_b 2y ago
Because you meet tons of talented engineers whenever you go for lunch, and they just need to cross the street and walk in to ask for a job. Because you're around a ton of people who are interested in the same thing as you are. Caveat:
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by groby_b 2y ago
I was wondering. "As opposed to the stupid researchers over in the other building, OUR researchers..." ;)
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"Back" as in undermining EV manufacturing? And non-fossil power generation? "Back" as in massively increasing input costs? "Back" as in alienating close allies who are a large part of our customer base? "B
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by groby_b 2y ago
> ate a box or two of those, so many that I had painful bellyaches and worse. Yes. That's what happens with a lot of sweets, and has absolutely nothing to do with "poisons". Many things aren't good when consumed in m
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> It seems the models struggle with creating an accurate internal spatial representation of the game state only using textual tokens That'd be actually interesting research material for the claim that LLMs are able to build internal
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That is a commonly held UX belief - "if the user has made a choice, we have failed". It's also a fundamentally untrue belief. It discards the fact that different tools have different usages, and it fundamentally says that use
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by groby_b 2y ago
That's a great upper-bound estimator ;) But kidding aside - I'm not sure people want this being supported by web standards. We could be a huge step closer to that future had we decided to actually take RDF/Dublin Core&#x2
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by groby_b 2y ago
Perusing the web site, it's depressing how much behind Mistral is on basic "how can I make this a compelling hook for customers" for the page. The notebook link? An ACL'd doc The examples don't even include a small
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by groby_b 2y ago
Not really. When you go 60 mph (or km/h) you don't specify the 1.00 for the hours either. pages/$ is the unit, 1000 is the value.

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