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by hospadar 4y ago
This this this. Split PTO is an accommodation for disabled and chronically ill folks that allows them to have actual vacation and also take care of themselves. Unified PTO penalizes people who need time off work to care for themselves reg
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by hospadar 4y ago
I went to a really interesting talk about biometrics from the guy who ran (runs?) the HUGE biometric ID program that India runs (Aadhaar). A point I remember him reiterating several times is that biometric ID is useful to uniquely identify
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by hospadar 4y ago
Over promise, accidentally buy a huge social media company way over market value because of a prank, never deliver
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by hospadar 4y ago
Gosh we can only hope all the rich people shoot themselves to mars with no return trip though. What a dream that would be for the rest of us.
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by hospadar 4y ago
Great place to apply Betteridge's Law: >The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China. Will it make the world safer? No. Hot take: making stuff that kills
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by hospadar 4y ago
I wonder if the biggest shortcoming of GPT right now is not that it sometimes gets things wrong, or can't cite its sources, or whatever - maybe it needs to learn when to say "I don't know the answer to that question". Th
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by hospadar 4y ago
Related: Map of cool stuff underwater in grand traverse bay: https://www.gtbup.org/interactive-map
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by hospadar 4y ago
I wonder if/when we'll get comfortable with the errors that an AI like this makes. Certainly human analysts still make errors, and may be able to explain them (which I think LLMs would have a hard time doing), but what if the ove
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by hospadar 4y ago
> Would they get it if the other top engineers and I all downed tools or walked out as a group? No. So why is their exit equivalent to several mansions and mine is around about a year’s worth of salary? Unionize baby!
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by hospadar 4y ago
My brilliant plan to create prison reform: Every time the state wants to force a human being into a locked cage, they need to find a volunteer to be locked in a cage for the same amount of time as the person being involuntarily locked away.
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by hospadar 4y ago
Maybe let's not jail anyone? Putting kid's parents in jail is a surefire way to make sure that kids life becomes a stressful, scary, unsupported nightmare. Parents who let their kids use social media (i.e. almost every parent who
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by hospadar 4y ago
Induction maaaan! Switched from gas to induction and love it. I miss my stove every time i have to cook elsewhere. Mine is pretty much the cheapest induction range on the market (and i bought it used). Heats up way faster than gas (WAY F
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by hospadar 4y ago
To carry a single raisin to the top, then he climbed it a million more times to bring more raisins, then he made a jet engine from the raisins. Then he started bringing more raisins so that he could make a raisin plane for the amazing rais
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by hospadar 4y ago
Exactly! I'd think that "send modern probes to every one of the interesting moons of saturn and Jupiter" would be pretty amazing. For all we know one of them could be crawling with life!
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by hospadar 4y ago
Voltage and amperage for me, years after a college electronics course and a childhood of soldering kits I finally started to get it. I was always tripped up with analogies about how it's like water in a pipe or something, which can be
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by hospadar 4y ago
I have a friend who argues that well-implemented UBI and a strong social security net would unlock the full potential of capitalism and i tend to agree. No one would work awful jobs for terrible pay because why? No employers would keep inef
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by hospadar 4y ago
I got a tour when the ship was in Detroit briefly, very cool! Smells strongly of tar. The building techniques were very evident up close. The crew were mostly younger folk who were very stoked to talk about the Atlantic crossing.
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by hospadar 4y ago
Yeah sick burn! (not sarcastic!) I'm put in the mind of the other thread today about wrongly judging something as over-complex. What you can do on your property definitely affects nearby properties and it seems to me that we need a fai
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by hospadar 4y ago
Absolutely, and I'll add that if you don't like the therapist, keep looking. The quality of the relationship between you and the therapist has A LOT (the most?) to do with what you'll ultimately get out of it. I remember it
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by hospadar 4y ago
But buying twitter for billions more than it's worth and driving it into the ground _might_ mean that you aren't smart
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by hospadar 4y ago
Well not really _free_, it did cost $44B (:
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by hospadar 4y ago
I think this is a pretty big logical fallacy. There are TONS of people right now, today, who never need to work another day in their life and could live in a cozy dry home with plenty of food and decent healthcare - even in the US. Not ju
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by hospadar 4y ago
I often have read "I wonder if it _really_ understands or is just regurgitating ${something}" about AIs like this and I wonder what the difference really is? Ability to explain why it's one way and not the other? Extremely
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by hospadar 4y ago
I imagine a personified planet earth loling at this great news "Hey killer asteroid, this is earth" "What's up earth?" "You can hold off, I think the humans are actually going to take care of themselves pretty
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Timetrack Jr: CLI time tracking in rust(github.com)
3 points by hospadar 4y ago|0 comments
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by hospadar 4y ago
Lol yup - I think the differences are "start off rich" and "use capitalism instead of casino"
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by hospadar 4y ago
I mean it _sounds_ good, but how will we cram a million ads down user's throats and measure every twitch of their input devices? It's almost as though the author is suggesting that web site proprietors might be more interested in
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by hospadar 4y ago
I keep a second key as backup for this reason, which honestly is overkill and I only do because I got a second one for free at a conference. Easier solution (which I also use in case I someday need the second one only to discover that the
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by hospadar 4y ago
Agree - I always go for compliments about a choice someone made rather than some quality I perceive them to have. This suggests admiration for something they intended to do or worked on. "I love that sweater" [that you chose] is
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by hospadar 4y ago
I don't think the author is discouraging anyone to do the "hard work", but rather encouraging them to do the easy work to further protect all that hard work at low added cost.

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