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by jleyank 1y ago
Central America, too.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Well, they’ve cut the funding that pays for the next set of physics, chemistry and/or biology ideas that will turn into companies or products. Nothing to commercialize and no training funds. But they make more spending money this qua
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by jleyank 1y ago
To me the golden age of programming was the 60’s and 70’s when gods walked the earth who thought up pretty much all of the stuff we use or do. Networking, operating systems, languages, …. Hackers, for the most part, did it because it scratc
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by jleyank 1y ago
Don’t follow, participate. Don’t forget yourself in the rush, as you’re the only thing left when it’s over. But try to take some folks along with you for the ride. In short, be somebody people want to have around.
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'I knew it would happen for Bruce': David Sancious(theguardian.com)
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by jleyank 1y ago
No grants, no tenure. No tenure, no career. In chemistry, there’s a commercial path in biotech/pharma, but I’m not sure there’s a similar one in biology. Certainly not in physics. If you want to be an academic, and there’s appeal ad
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by jleyank 1y ago
This still looks like immigration theatre to me. They’re pulling people off the streets without a lot of concern as to their specific status. However, I’m unaware of any action against the people and companies who hire and profit from ill
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by jleyank 1y ago
Ya wonder who he’d do something like this, given that nobody would think it relevant after purchase - just another echo chamber. Maybe he just wants to kill it? Or he’s too self-centred to understand how he’s viewed? Or maybe he just like
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by jleyank 1y ago
People, hold on to the things that matter as you never know when they’ll be gone. Somehow, balance the drive to succeed with what is important and keeps you whole.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Nope. Asked to subscribe…
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by jleyank 1y ago
This seems to refer to software innovation, and it’s an open question whether much of the recent developments in software are innovations or “innovations”. Some people prefer privacy and less intrusive options…. European pharma/biotec
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by jleyank 1y ago
If iOS development requires a Mac, then it’s relevant. If that’s not the case, then it’s basically a vanity project that could be discarded if a downturn appears. It’s harder to develop Unix-y software on a Mac, so that’ll not keep it ali
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by jleyank 1y ago
This seems to suggest carrying with a chambered round. Is this prudent without an external threat? They can drop the thing, or some kind of impact can yield a “design problem”. Can’t they just chamber when there’s a need?
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by jleyank 1y ago
Don’t know what workers want from AI but their employers want “fewer workers”. So, maybe workers should want things like “more hallucinations” or even “hallucination caused lawsuits”? Anything to protect their jobs.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Goes along with tariffs I guess. Charge more for your products and automate away workers. They’re certainly not proposing paying people more or reducing profits…
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by jleyank 1y ago
I think at least one astronaut needed to file a request for tax deadline extension due to being “out of the country” at filing time. Didn’t have an entry in the system for “off the planet” I guess…
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by jleyank 1y ago
Although the generation of latchkey kids might have turned out better socialized or better organized than those that followed. Society was different back then, but the people entering adulthood seemed to have it going.
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by jleyank 1y ago
They say nobody wishes they worked more as they're passing...
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by jleyank 1y ago
Unless you have the magic ticket, a career is a 30-40 year journey. Better to take it with others than going it alone, as you’ll need other people when your cachet fades in the second half. Looking back, I recommend working to live over l
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by jleyank 1y ago
Y’know, sometimes people saying you can’t do certain things isn’t them just being an asshole. Physics and biology really doesn’t care what people think…
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by jleyank 1y ago
Larger challenges to the immune system, and perhaps those who could not handle this load died off or left over the generations? Selection pressure should be familiar to those in CS.
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by jleyank 1y ago
That and lunar lander were the first games I encountered on the PDP-8 back in ancient times. Somebody transliterated them into FOCAL… Possibly downscaled due to memory limitations but it let us all start tinkering and encouraged making ou
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by jleyank 1y ago
This might be by design. Many in power have "other uses" for them that don't involve offices.
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by jleyank 1y ago
It's really depressing how the US system seems to have existed "on belief". Once somebody set out to damage or destroy it, away it went. Pretty much without a whimper. As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of go
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by jleyank 1y ago
I hope this isn't coming down to an argument of "AI can't advance if there are rules". Things like copyright, protection of the sources of information, etc.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Few, if any, of those making the AI decisions will be present in 5 years. Many of the companies will not be present, either. A 3, maybe 6 month window is like “forever” for such people. So, given this reality, catch the wave and sell (right
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by jleyank 1y ago
Flippantly, the volcanos keep erupting because Iceland is being ripped in half and spreading apart. Lots of free geothermal power though…
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by jleyank 1y ago
Because software gets slower/larger faster than hardware gets faster. Particularly as the last 10+ years have seen improvements in parallel performance (hard) rather than clock speed/scalar (easy).
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by jleyank 1y ago
Story of Job? Punishing fake Christians? Y’know, the prosperity Xtians who put money and comfort ahead of service…. The people the big guy preached against. Given that the warnings were given, perhaps that’s the sign that the big guy was
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by jleyank 1y ago
In short, if you want to do X you need to get the training required to do the work or to be certified as able to do the work. Tech, to date, has been a field where sheer skill coupled with luck enables people to be quite successful without

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