kaashif

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by kaashif 1y ago
I don't think millions of years is long enough for anything interesting to happen life-wise, is it?
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by kaashif 1y ago
$2.8m revenue with 130 employees is about $21,000 per employee. The numbers here don't look good.
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by kaashif 1y ago
And today, COVID has infected 5000 quadrillion people!
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by kaashif 1y ago
I think singing is fun. I've never worked 76 hour weeks though.
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by kaashif 1y ago
This is something the Chinese government is actively trying to do, it's not theory. I'm interested to see what the results are, because they are absolutely not competing for the same talent pool as ASML, they're attempting to
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by kaashif 1y ago
But if we could drink a bottle of oil and become 10x smarter for 1 hour, it would be really cool. There just wasn't any use for that in the savannah, or indeed many bottles of oil.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Well considering it has been possible to produce similar doctored images for decades at this point, I think we can conclude legislation has not been fast enough. That article is nothing to do with AI, really.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Since you're always going to die, the problem is solved - the implication is true by the right side always being true, and the left side doesn't matter.
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by kaashif 1y ago
> any assumed meaning of our existence only matters while we're alive. What do you mean by this? It is obviously possible to have an impact that lasts after you die and that people view as meaningful long after you die. If the meani
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by kaashif 1y ago
It doesn't matter how entitled we think we are, pirating won't give us access to e.g. online play or Steam Workshop, which are critical to many games.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Using anything Chinese is political while using anything American or European is obviously totally apolitical? Of course!
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by kaashif 1y ago
The story is wildly different based on what job the person has. Are they supposed to be a senior-ish employee who is supposed to know what to do without being told? (Pardon my ignorance) Do people at agencies usually get assigned tasks by a
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by kaashif 1y ago
Suppose a town forms around a coal or gold mine. Then the mines dry up, or demand for what they're mining dries up. There are no jobs and no reason for people to live there any more. If this community ceases to exist, is it a societal
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by kaashif 1y ago
It is still useful to ask the question just so we know the answer. I admit the person asking in this case probably didn't mean it this way... :) On speed limits, when it comes to road deaths, you get people saying "one death is to
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by kaashif 1y ago
Agreed - LLMs are great at reading and synthesising docs. At various points I've gotten pushback when I ask people to document because no-one will look at the docs, but now we have LLMs to read and link to docs for us. And traditional
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by kaashif 1y ago
Yeah, as a primarily backend engineer dealing with either weird technical problems Claude can't get quite right or esoteric business domain problems Claude has no idea about (and indeed, it may be only a few people in one company could
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by kaashif 1y ago
Apologies if it wasn't clear, I am a different person to the one you replied to, and am not suspicious - I was commenting on the other person's suspicion and indeed said that it wasn't normal.
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by kaashif 1y ago
If someone was ill, then they're back, asking them if they're feeling better is totally normal conversation. The suspicion etc may not be, but the question is obviously fine.
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by kaashif 1y ago
> "In decline" is the sort of state that's can only be articulated in abstract terms. It absolutely is not. It's very concrete and is a real problem. In the UK, for example, there's a well documented trend of pub
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by kaashif 1y ago
I have also never seen a Threads link. For all the hatred of X, people do actually use it.
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by kaashif 1y ago
Yeah, TODOs should start with a verb which tells you to, you know, DO something.
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by kaashif 1y ago
To be clear - German nationals can be extradited to other EU countries under German law, but not third countries like the UK. If the UK had remained in the EU, then extradition might be possible (depending on whether courts approve it) but
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by kaashif 1y ago
I don't know, it might be the case that my switch to USB-C phones somehow coincided with an increase in pocket lint but I've had two USB-C phones where the charging ports literally stopped working due to lint, and no micro USB one
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by kaashif 1y ago
The USB-C charging ports on my phones have always collected lint to the point they totally stop working and have to be cleaned out vigorously. I don't know how this problem is so much worse with USB-C or the physics behind it, but it&#
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by kaashif 1y ago
Working a job like that would literally ruin my life. There's no way I could have time to be a good husband and father under those conditions, some things should not be sacrificed.
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by kaashif 1y ago
> I also don't believe AGI is a thing Why not? I don't think we're anywhere close, but there are no physical limitations I can see that prevent AGI. It's not impossible in the same way our current understanding indica
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by kaashif 1y ago
Okay, well, if you read my comment saying that sometimes meeting with people outside the team is useful, then you start writing about how I'm wasting the time of people _inside_ my team, then I must have miscommunicated something. You&
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by kaashif 1y ago
You can get the New York Times and other newspapers in airports still. I do still buy a newspaper before a flight sometimes, but I actually shouldn't because flights have WiFi now. Irrational and nostalgic.
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by kaashif 1y ago
It appears you didn't read my comment, here's the relevant part: > But some people just don't do that, especially people from other teams Hope this helps.
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by kaashif 1y ago
It's not. That's not what I meant or said. I said not all projects allow for getting status ahead of time. This is a nice way of saying that some people just won't tell you what they're up to async, you have to wring inf

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