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by hibikir 2y ago
As a society we might talk about virtue, but the reason we put it as a goal in stories is that in the real world, we don't reward it. It's not just that corruption wins sometimes, but we directly punish those that fight it. The mo
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If this wasn't a political problem, but me and my teammates dealing with the aftermath of an incident that cost the company serious money, that's how we'd approach it. But we are technicians trying to prevent a problem, with
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This all comes down to what the hardware improvements can mean in practice. It's not as if hardware isn't moving up, but that the new kinds of things double the hardware unlocks are much smaller than they used to be. This is best
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by hibikir 2y ago
Didn't you see the section where joycons appear to slide over a table? If anything, the video confirms the rumor
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I am sure that some people will question some of the historiography there, but Cadillac Desert is a book all about the history of water management of the great plains, from Kansas onwards. TLDR: America has spent a whole lot of money trying
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by hibikir 2y ago
I already have teammates in Mexico, Argentina and Chile. Every day I chat with people in the London office. If I was at an office, I'd be spending hours on zoom anyway.
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Moderation systems, even with humans at the helm, are adversarial systems where people can, and will, push on what is allowed. An AI moderator that is as good as a human on a per message basis is still going to be played like a fiddle by an
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by hibikir 2y ago
Kaiji and Squid Games could be happening last week, in some warehouse complex, or a missile silo, and we'd never know. The contestants choose to be there, even if the choice isn't exactly free. Meanwhile the point of Battle Royale
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by hibikir 2y ago
Note that this isn't limited to universities: Larger headcount's make promotions easier everywhere. A modern trick is to hire remote workers from abroad: I might not need 5 people, but 5 remote devs from Mexico are much more affor
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If the VRAM wasn't small, the cards would all get routed to non gaming uses. Remember the state of the market when the 3000 series was new?
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At one point, a company makes changes to just get users, and that makes it have to do things people want. Eventually the growth opportunity by utility gets very small, so all the efforts come from increasing profitability per user. That wil
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by hibikir 2y ago
This lines up well with the success rates I have seen from expert phishers. When I worked at a certain well known company with strong security, a demon called Karla would succeed at spearphishing a bit over 50% of the security team. AI now
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by hibikir 2y ago
This happens in videogame matchmaking too: Someone that loses too much quits, so you want to giving people a positive boost of a very easy game every so often if they lose too badly. Filling lobbies with bad bots does this effectively
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by hibikir 2y ago
It comes down to two key forces that separate many American pharmacies from many other countries: Car-centric development and slow prescription filling. In American suburbia, having the smallest store possible isn't an advantage at all
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And that's not even enough: A few weeks ago I had to interview someone who had what appeared to be a realistic profile. Everything that came out of their mouth was from chatGPT It was suspicious, but the ruse became clear when they sha
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by hibikir 2y ago
The data needs refreshing: The time from my hometown in Spain to Madrid is almost 2 hours shorter than it claims, as a new line has opened. Ti might also be missing how new companies have recently caused speedups in other routes by skipping
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by hibikir 2y ago
It gets worse: A manager in those kinds of organizations that is truly scared also doesn't want people under them to make decisions either, so eventually everyone learns inaction. At sope point the organization comes up with a code fre
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by hibikir 2y ago
In said circles you can use the bigger plural, "all y'all". And yes, this is a real expression that is used in parts of the US, not pure comedy.
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I must have read a different version of Macbeth and Hamlet, because I don't remember things going all that well for Macbeth or Hamlet. One could go as far as to say that maybe killing kings is a bad idea, whether a ghost, your wife or
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by hibikir 2y ago
You can test this in boardgames about auctioning: See Modern Art, a game about profiting from art, where you have multiple forma of bidding. Part of the game is to figure out when each auction will provide the most money. Blind bidding does
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by hibikir 2y ago
He is right if you look at cars, vs vehicles, but that's due to sales moving to larger vehicles that don't count as cars. But when it comes to self driving or electrification, the difference between car and truck isn't signif
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by hibikir 2y ago
The availability of cheap sick is what makes the lack of privacy naturally different. There was a time where a police department could identify a suspect, talk to a judge, and then had that person followed for a while, dedicating multiple p
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's not that great, no, but look at how much people can save in other countries: The idea of saving a million dollars outside of your home in Spain is basically fantasy. Much higher taxes, much lower salaries, and no savings vehicles
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by hibikir 2y ago
Oh, it's pretty tough to be in your 20s in the US compared to other times. But we are comparing with other countries, and most have the very same pressures as the US, but with lower salaries. I look at my home country, Spain, where sal
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by hibikir 2y ago
That's also why I dislike it: The mind that will go apeshit over trivial style nonsense will still provide unhelpful feedback on other topics... but it will become far less obvious that their comments should be downgraded. Formatters a
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by hibikir 2y ago
The general is that income, like wealth, is correlated with age, not ransom. Most workers under 18 will be making near minimum wage. Workers in their 20s are probably still starting their careers. People fall off again when they are older,
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by hibikir 2y ago
The org has to be small for the firing to be immediate, but I have seen a "top of stack rank to unpassable PIP" be caused by a single conversation... and that's even in companies most of this forum would consider top performi
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by hibikir 2y ago
The small SUVs tend to have smaller side blind spots, but for killing pedestrians, the important one is the front blind spot, and that is about hood height, which just keeps going up because it looks "manlier" Deaths are also abou
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by hibikir 2y ago
That take would only make sense if Gabe Newell was running Valve like Bobby Kotick ran Activision, cancelling project left and right if they weren't lucractive. That's not how Valve appears to work: They do quite a few moonshots t
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by hibikir 2y ago
Cost is a reason, but also there's social concerns. In the standardized system, all classmates share the same material, at the same speed. This shared experience disappears when every student is going at their own place, looking at a c

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