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by lisasays 4y ago
The issue isn't whether the technology should be crippled or not. Rather - as to whether the legal system holds those accountable (be it the creators of the technology, or those who "misuse" it) liable for the consequences of
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by lisasays 4y ago
Hmm, why is this news? Gosh I don't know -- the clear and present danger of people having their lives utterly ruined by what is arguably the most surprising technical revolution any of has seen (while its creators collect their accol
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by lisasays 4y ago
The second part of this allegedly overheard exchange is even more telling: He also added that the statement about "boundless friendship" between Moscow and Beijing is nothing more than a rhetorical device
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by lisasays 4y ago
That's precisely the problem - far too many people have lousy bullshit detectors. And on top of that - they either genuinely believe that "AI is finally here", and systems like ChatGPT are true oracles. If it walks like a du
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by lisasays 4y ago
The beauty of CSV is that you don't -need- a library to access the data. It's just there, right in front of you. Hand rolled CSV implentations are generally wrong and ruin your data. Yeah sure - asymptotically. Once you've
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Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media,’ in Change to Policy(nytimes.com)
11 points by lisasays 4y ago|2 comments
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How slavery made Manchester the world's first industrial city(theguardian.com)
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by lisasays 4y ago
This is normal stuff that happens with companies when economy is in down swing. Right, and they're normally called "layoffs", and have regulatory and other strings attached. Which this company seems to be trying to do is ac
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by lisasays 4y ago
They don't "give" them those jobs. They make them execute a stressful performative action (i.e. the whole groveling process of applying for a job, all over again) which they might very well fail.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Exactly.
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by lisasays 4y ago
The main point is that their jobs as they knew them are effectively being taken out from under them.
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by lisasays 4y ago
So why not just call it "Our lovely 5 week vacation policy?" Do you actually prefer the gratuitous cognitive dissonance of calling it "unlimited" when everyone knows it isn't (and everyone knows that everyone knows,
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by lisasays 4y ago
Give me unlimited PTO. You realize there is no such thing, right?
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by lisasays 4y ago
So, prompting Xi is blocked. That’s all there is to it. What's with the dreamer hippie dork façade, then? Other than as a foil, of course.
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‘Referred to as inmates by managers’: DHL workers push to unionize US hub(theguardian.com)
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by lisasays 4y ago
Perfect application for this AI tool imo. Yup - credential whoring and research fraud. It's the new frontier.
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by lisasays 4y ago
There is so much joy from getting on the train every morning and hearing the chatter. Hey, if you've got the time to spare, and like getting up significantly earlier than you would otherwise have to. And you are into ... chatter. T
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by lisasays 4y ago
Right, they use slightly imperfect syntax - because they're a non-native speaker. Is that what you discount them for?
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by lisasays 4y ago
Your exact words were, "I'm all for prosecuting Trump and Clinton." Don't try to take it back now.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Uh, TFA refers to what exactly? Lost here.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Which felony-class (or other criminal) violations, specifically, do you maintain that Clinton should have been indicted for?
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by lisasays 4y ago
Anyone know the tool used to create the XKCD-style architecture diagrams? Nice.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Long ago we had product builds that took hours and tests that often ran overnight, and sometimes over days. And I miss those days as well. I think the author's point was not a wholesale dismissal of the value of extensive testing, a
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by lisasays 4y ago
Trump is too much of a danger to the war-machine establishment. Trump is the war-machine establishment, bro. Recall he wanted (and according to some stories yesterday, still wants) to invade Mexico.
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by lisasays 4y ago
But to only prosecute Trump The article referred to in the parent asserts that Clinton was also prosecuted (albeit for a different, and lesser charge). As many others have been. So the argument you're making here seems rather weak.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Wow FUD really has no limit. It's not FUD, but ironically your hot take (in attempting to dismiss it as FUD) is. Lithium is fairly widely "available", but its extraction and processing both have serious externalities attach
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The Gullah Geechee fight for a legacy after slavery(theguardian.com)
4 points by lisasays 4y ago|0 comments
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by lisasays 4y ago
Here's another paraphrase from the same book, adapted to the current situation: Nanny state bad. Nanny state with watered-down regulations, but which still bails out us when we screw up royally - better!
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by lisasays 4y ago
"Hey man did you just deploy xyz? I noticed there's some weird error prints, wanted to make sure you saw" That sounds totally great of course. What I'm concerned about is when people think they need to get all long-wi
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by lisasays 4y ago
Some people prefer to actually understand the code they deploy.

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