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691.
by imgabe 4y ago
> UK and Commonwealth professor was reserved for the most senior rung of academics, with associate professor for those part-way there. This is the same in the US. Tenure-track starts with assistant professor. Associate professor is when
692.
by imgabe 4y ago
"Lecturer" is a non-tenure-track position that means you get paid a few thousand dollars to teach a class. This person doesn't even have a PhD.
693.
by imgabe 4y ago
Solitaire on Windows 3.1 started almost instantly and did exactly what you wanted. Solitaire on Windows 10 is a laggy behemoth that won't even work if you aren't connected to the Internet. Nobody asked for solitaire to be connecte
694.
by imgabe 4y ago
And if you have a document that requires charts and graphics it should probably be a separate document and not an email. That’s not what email is for.
695.
by imgabe 4y ago
This reads like it was written by ChatGPT
696.
by imgabe 4y ago
You can do all that with plain text, except for the bold.
697.
by imgabe 4y ago
The topic was email. Email does not need to be art.
698.
by imgabe 4y ago
Prior to computers most business correspondence would be typewritten in essentially the same font with little or no graphics, maybe a logo on the letterhead if you’re really fancy. That seemed to work fine.
699.
by imgabe 4y ago
The government heavily regulates air travel. What do you think the FAA is doing?
700.
by imgabe 4y ago
Bluebeam is some PDF editing software (mostly used for architectural drawings) that calls its PDF combining feature the "stapler".
701.
by imgabe 4y ago
Just use your digital stapler to combine files together until there's fewer than 5 million.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Real PTO is a liability that shows up on the company's balance sheet. I'm sure they care if their manager tells them, "hey we need to reduce the amount of outstanding PTO and your department is dragging us down, fix it&quo
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Nuclear power is too safe(jackdevanney.substack.com)
101 points by imgabe 4y ago|195 comments
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by imgabe 4y ago
Poor people are not flying airplanes. They are operated by large corporations and wealthy individuals. This criticism of fines is not relevant here. It’s not like “oh the average Joe making 50k a year won’t be able to fly his supersonic jet
705.
by imgabe 4y ago
The constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to regulate foreign trade. Foreign companies do not have a first amendment right to operate in the US. This has nothing to do with the first amendment.
706.
by imgabe 4y ago
Theoretically, export control laws could (not sure if they do). We regulate selling all kinds of things to foreign governments.
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Can GPT pass my programming courses?(lemire.me)
2 points by imgabe 4y ago|0 comments
708.
by imgabe 4y ago
Don't pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel and all that.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Most people in the US only work 5 days a week and get ~8 days per month off that are not part of annual leave. The "one day off a month" means literally, one day of not working per month, not one day of vacation time per month.
710.
The kids are not okay(thezvi.wordpress.com)
85 points by imgabe 4y ago|82 comments
711.
by imgabe 4y ago
Who is drowning? You don't have to subscribe to Panera if you don't want to. Is it that hard to just ignore things you're not interested in? There are millions of products and services being offered that I don't want to
712.
by imgabe 4y ago
Finally! Now we won’t have to attach them with staples anymore. https://youtu.be/H70ybZlB19Y
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by imgabe 4y ago
The crisis was created by the Federal Reserve in the first place printing trillions of dollars and then jacking up interest rate. That wouldn't happen in a libertarian system.[1] It's not hypocritical to call on the people in char
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by imgabe 4y ago
Humans have to act on the knowledge they generate and live (or not) with the consequences of it. If AI never has to test any of the knowledge, they get no feedback on what's good or bad. If you read online that you can eat a Tide Pod,
715.
by imgabe 4y ago
Just make sure you compensate them if any of their content is used to train your wetware neural network and becomes part of any future text it generates.
716.
by imgabe 4y ago
If GPT could do the same research - reading a bunch of primary sources and condensing and summarizing the information - why wouldn't we want to have GPT do that rather than having a human do it? We don't employ roomfuls of people
717.
by imgabe 4y ago
> Nobody is going to "generate training data" if they get precisely nothing out of it. How much did you get paid to write this comment?
718.
by imgabe 4y ago
Your eyes don’t lie. If you’re paying attention like you’re supposed to, you have plenty of time to see any obstacles and take manual control if the car doesn’t slow down like it’s supposed to. People are so desperate to blame literally any
719.
by imgabe 4y ago
It doesn’t matter what gadgets or gizmos are advertised on the car. You’re still responsible for driving the car. Sitting there waiting for the car to do something while it drives full speed into a stationary object is not the car’s fault.
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by imgabe 4y ago
It’s still a nonstandard modification to the original vehicle. It’s not that the car wore out or didn’t last. It was never designed to have FSD in the first place. The categorization of this as a reliability problem is not accurate.

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