loosetypes

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by loosetypes 3mo ago
Or: filming location for the next Bond movie
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by loosetypes 1y ago
Is this Human Resource Machine for GPUs rather than single core CPU assembly?
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by loosetypes 1y ago
Ownership without corresponding property rights.
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by loosetypes 1y ago
Mind linking any examples (or categories) of problems that are definitively not in pre training data but can still be solved by LLMs? Preferably something factual rather than creative, genuinely curious. Dumb question but anything like thi
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by loosetypes 1y ago
He also released an internal memo on atoz today with a grammatical mistake in the first sentence.
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More than 8 in 10 recruiters say they post 'ghost jobs'(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by loosetypes 2y ago|0 comments
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by loosetypes 3y ago
Any recommendation for copilot integration with Emacs?
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by loosetypes 5y ago
> to democratize coding Does that mean we collectively vote as to whether the next addition is a for loop? While a company may mean to make more widely accessible but used charged language, I think we should fight the urge to parrot.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Same boat - I get really frustrated by the “someone tried to access your account” emails from Facebook. Oh, you mean the account that you confirmed as deleted 8+ years ago??
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Related but not totally on topic: How much would it cost to buy the rights to an essentially now semi-zombie game, that may have been been popular a decade+ ago? Say a wealthy benefactor wanted to do so strictly to open source and preserve
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by loosetypes 5y ago
I read the article but didn’t see any mention of inspecting network activity outside of, say, a company laptop but on the same WiFi network while WFH. Do you, or anyone else, know if this happens or is commonplace? For software folks?
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by loosetypes 5y ago
> Most of the time spent is preparing and harvesting. In between you watch things grow and maintain. When nothing is growing...at least, my in-laws in China...drink, gamble (mahjong, card games) and hang out with other villagers. So repl
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Similar but unrelated, the audacity to post-facto denote something a Netflix Original.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Does sublime support editing remote projects over ssh?
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Magit-Section(magit.vc)
2 points by loosetypes 5y ago|0 comments
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Is there any reason not to assume they don’t for software engineers as well? Honest question, I assume this isn’t covered by two-party consent of recording. Are there any legal frameworks covering employee monitoring in the US or on the st
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Because what niche they’ve carved out isn’t driven by utility for end users but by cost reduction for the company in reduced headcount. They add value, just not to anyone who has to actually deal with them.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
I’m increasingly convinced the endgame here is advertisers hiding content within the ads themselves via steganography.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Interesting. I guess my off the cuff, unexamined criteria for democratizing is whether it’s a gating/enabling function for the occurrence of one party’s objectives as directly decided by the wider community. So something like GoFundMe
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Does anyone else take fault with the increasingly commonplace usage of the word democratize as applied to technology? For every valid case, I see others that make my head hurt. Is it just a buzzword for telling a story with emotional appea
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Honest question - can a list really be curated if it’s basically just algorithmically generated?
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Van Ness Avenue: What Lies Beneath [pdf](civilgrandjury.sfgov.org)
3 points by loosetypes 5y ago|1 comments
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Totally. And I didn’t mean to call you or your company out specifically. Actually sounds interesting. Maps Street View of 1428 Bush St, San Francisco is more of what I have in mind. But maybe I’ve just passed that building one too many t
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by loosetypes 5y ago
> and the work literally saves and prolongs lives I have literally yet to see a medical-adjacent company not default to assuming they’re on the moral high ground. When I see companies say “we save lives” my initial reaction is no differe
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Org mode next, please.
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by loosetypes 5y ago
> the concept of a "salaried worker" doesn't really exist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaryman
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by loosetypes 5y ago
In Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond, the author shows not only that there is money to be made renting housing to the American lower class, but also that it is in fact more profitable than renting to their
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by loosetypes 5y ago
I’ve read here that in prison, if inmates are learning to code without internet access that they’re given offline dumps of stack overflow. Or maybe offline Wikipedia in the library is a better example. I’d really like to be able to buy prel
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Any current/ former Amazon employees have advice for future (Amazon) employees a little jarred by this and uncertain about their standing coming in? I’d imagine for the less senior folks it also might be hard to initially get a read of
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by loosetypes 5y ago
Very cool! Architecturally, is there a standard way to prevent exponential blowup when comparing all profiles to all profiles? I’d imagine some heuristics like only comparing profiles within some geobounds. Potentially gender as well. Maybe

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