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by malwrar 4y ago
I’ll state an extreme belief: post-scarcity is likely within our grasp. LLMs are startlingly effective as virtual librarians that you can converse with as though they were an expert. I started using them to try tripping them up with hard an
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by malwrar 4y ago
It’s an automatic feature, I’m pretty sure on mine I have to menu dive to turn them off. The svelte minimalist asthetic of the 3 is cool and all until you start needing to do things beyond turn the wheel until point B. Between things like t
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by malwrar 4y ago
I personally expect that regulation or collusion among big tech players (e.g. the suppression of parlor) will prevent the average person or company from having the legal or practical ability to amass the compute power and dataset necessary
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by malwrar 4y ago
Mastodon looks like “master-dom” or “masto(urba…) dom” or similar. I also have experience with people giving a weird eye when I mention the name, it’s not pen island or anything but it’s close enough to have caused nonzero issues.
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by malwrar 4y ago
> You mean like copyright holders? Patent holders? Somebody with a trade secret? These are legal fictions that exist because the state’s monopoly on violence. Like I said, I understand the motivation to enable e.g. book writers to seek p
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by malwrar 4y ago
> because I look at these AI folks scouring training data without so much as asking the original creator for consent Consent for… what exactly? Why is anyone entitled to some notion of ownership & power over who may and may not make
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by malwrar 4y ago
>> Will the 4-year gap and my choppy CV be a major hindrance to my hirability? >Yes. Ultimately, your 4 years of not working turns into a maybe 4 minute story you’ll need to tell a few times when people ask about your gap during in
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by malwrar 4y ago
I’ll give it a read then! Good to hear it’s more generic than I thought.
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by malwrar 4y ago
I’m someone who hasn’t jumped onboard this space—isn’t this “prompt engineering” concept just for OpenAI’s ChatGPT or is there some broader reason to expect prompt engineering to be relevant? I’m extremely hesitant to rely on ChatGPT or its
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by malwrar 4y ago
Thanks for the info, and for the fun! Was definitely one of the nice parts of the day. Hope things work out for the museum.
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by malwrar 4y ago
I loved this place, I spent a whole day here once just whimsically coding on all of the boxes that would let me. It felt like all of the stories I had read about the older days of computing truly came to life in front of me. Hell, I forgot
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by malwrar 4y ago
I see no mention of security—If you’re exposing raw serial busses via ethernet, one would expect some manner of security controls, no?
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by malwrar 4y ago
I feel like newsrooms mislead, but more of in a Manufacturing Consent/Hate Inc sense. It feels obvious after reading articles about stuff I know about, and has lead me over time to generally not trust the media as an institution. Organ
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by malwrar 4y ago
Is it impossible for government to directly fund research into needed medicines? It’s hard to see a value in this arbitrary middle layer between public interest and research. The amount of money people spend on drugs is staggering.
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by malwrar 4y ago
I agree with your take despite the downvotes. Ultimately this person went on to be successful and was formidable and honest. They deserved the chance they were given, just as most of the other candidates so far have made it my way (imo) did
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by malwrar 4y ago
Once during a hiring panel at a previous role, the hiring manager asked us to be sure we reviewed the candidate as a junior. After we gave feedback, they mentioned they were being pressured to hire a woman and that this was why we were aske
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by malwrar 4y ago
It’s a trade-off. I don’t get to implement the cool ideas I feel might greatly help my current employer, but their expectations of me are generally low and I get paid enough that I can retire a little over 40. Works for me, its not like I’d
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by malwrar 4y ago
I’ve encountered a few… obsessive people like what OP describes. College costs too much to maximize your time in it, but between taking a bare minimum number of courses and staying below the retake limit there were some really strange peopl
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by malwrar 4y ago
> I recommend listening to him say in his own words how he wants people that do drag shows to have their doors kicked down and thrown in prison: Fair enough, this guy seems pretty out of touch with reality listening to this clip. I’ll li
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by malwrar 4y ago
> These people have the advantage of having abandoned civility, but they still get to weaponize civility to make sure their voice is heard without interruption, without immediate critique or debate, without consequence. This sounds simil
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by malwrar 4y ago
I wouldn't draw too strong of conclusions from this map. It does show relative proximity to things like oceans but doesn't show lakes, rivers, mountains (as you note), jungles, and other natural features that, from a geopolitical
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by malwrar 4y ago
No, the community here is skeptical of science reporting that seems too good to be true and progress in fusion energy production fits the mould. I’m not an expert on fusion or the physics, so the best I can do is agree with this sentiment
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by malwrar 4y ago
The problem isn't that people are hogging all the CPU, the problem is that it's hard to get computers to people around the world, connect them to infrastructure (power, internet), and train people to use them. Plenty of smart peop
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by malwrar 4y ago
tl;dr it looks like Discord is working to introduce paid servers, channels, etc intended for content creators to monetize fan interaction. The vibe their docs give off makes it feel similar to how Patreon allows you to get exclusive content
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by malwrar 4y ago
“Our 500k developers would not pay to use it. Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.” I don’t like depending on something I could lose in a month or tethers me to the internet. I consider that more a service than
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by malwrar 4y ago
Personally, I’m planning to wait on an option from a different company. If I could just buy the hardware device and have the option to run my own software at some point I’d go for it, but we all know this thing is zuck’s big bet to keep his
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by malwrar 4y ago
Where else do you think he’ll be safe from US vengeance?
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by malwrar 4y ago
I buy physical tech books because I enjoy writing notes in them to keep track of concepts while reading. For example I have a copy of the excellent Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman filled with little sketch
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by malwrar 4y ago
My depressing reaction to this was “wow look at all these people who actually have the option to not eat alone” But seriously, it’s the best. No rush or delay in leaving, I can play a few chess games, and skim the occasional article or pa
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by malwrar 4y ago
Sorry, link is here: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/adafruit-industri... A lot of the bigger outdoor or more distant indoor signs I’ve seen in my neck of the woods appear to basically just be a ma

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