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by mjr00 4y ago
> It should be clear that working at a fundamentally harmful company, like Exxon, Marlboro, or Peabody is going to self-select for certain types of people and those people are simply not care about the wellbeing of others as much. I don&
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by mjr00 4y ago
This sounds like what I mean with building it and running it being devops, yeah -- the fact that you have access to make pull requests or code patches, or even know where the code repository exists in the first place, shows that you're
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by mjr00 4y ago
> If the “DevOps” team ships a Postgres RDS instance it will run fine forever, that is until an application starts using it. All of a sudden a cascade of N+1s hit, the CPU spikes, and queries grind to a halt. Who is woken up? And why doe
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by mjr00 4y ago
> This is a solved problem by using surge pricing. It's a widespread practice with contractors today. This solves the problem for situations where you have a large pool of workers with elastic hours for a job which requires effectiv
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by mjr00 4y ago
Whining about it on Twitter = free and easy Suing Github = signing up for a ~decade long incredibly expensive and time-consuming legal battle against one of the richest companies in the world There may be a slight difference in effort betwe
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by mjr00 4y ago
Same issue with Stable Diffusion/NovelAI and certain people's artwork (eg Greg Rutkowski) being obviously used as part of the training set. More noticeable in Copilot since the output needs to be a lot more precise. Lawmakers need
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by mjr00 4y ago
> So none of those people would qualify for ubi. Not coming out for or against UBI, but... isn't that the whole point of universal basic income? That there's no means testing, and everyone qualifies, even grifters?
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by mjr00 4y ago
Many people are under the false impression that Discord, Reddit, Twitter, etc., treat ordinary people the same way they do corporations and celebrities. Which is obviously false, as we see here--on these platforms, corporations win every ti
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by mjr00 4y ago
> My partner works in design and her design teams have jumped all in on using Stable Diffusion in their workflows, something that is effectively in "version 1." For concept art especially it is incredibly useful. I do agree if
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by mjr00 4y ago
Don't get me wrong, Stable Diffusion & co are incredibly impressive. I'm using NovelAI image generation for a project I'm working on, so it's already useful to me as more than just a toy, even. It is absolutely a mas
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by mjr00 4y ago
Dec 2016 - "These 20 companies are racing to build self-driving cars in the next 5 years." [0] Oct 2022 - "Even after $100 billion, self-driving cars are going nowhere." [1] People have been historically notoriously ba
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by mjr00 4y ago
The independent internet that's driven by passion and a desire to build is still out there, it's just getting increasingly hard to find. Search is ultimately the tool that ties the internet together; after all, you can't cons
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by mjr00 4y ago
> to the point many communities set up their own wikis to avoid dealing with it. Which is a good thing honestly. There's such a big difference in usability between the independent internet that exists out of genuine passion/int
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by mjr00 4y ago
Yeah. People don't appreciate how wasteful companies can be; being brutal about it, odds are a lot of those resources are unnecessary. I say this as someone who was an unnecessary resource. In the early 10s I got hired into the &quot
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by mjr00 4y ago
In my experience "hiring freeze" at a large company usually means "hiring freeze, but... " Exceptions can and will be made, but need higher level approvals. The problem at these companies is that managers just want to i
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Honestly, MidJourney, Stable Diffussion, et. al. have closed that 10% gap quite quickly (in months!). Have they? If anything, the past few months has shown that after the initial hype dies down, people find the limitations very quickly
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by mjr00 4y ago
Obviously different safety outcomes, but ultimately it's the same idea: unless you can hit that last 10%, it's essentially useless. You could pump out AI songs that are about as good as the 10,000 songs that get uploaded to Soundc
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by mjr00 4y ago
Not to insult your startup or your work (as this is pretty cool), but this is a good illustration of why that last 10% is so important. While the AI-generated song is 90% similar at a surface level, there's also no way anyone would lis
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by mjr00 4y ago
A long time. Much like self-driving cars, AI can take you 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is the difference between music that sort-of-seems-competent, and music that people will actually listen to and enjoy.
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by mjr00 4y ago
Framing A/B testing as "social experiments" for shock value is disingenuous, but it is interesting to think about the real-world knock-on effects that recommendation engines have. In this instance, recommendation engines he
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by mjr00 4y ago
This isn't a uniquely Canadian problem at all, it's just Canada experiencing the pain of the wider tech sector. Ultimately, it's the same issue as what's happened (and happening) in the US: the VC fun money dried up, and
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by mjr00 4y ago
> People get promoted for all the shiny new things they do, not for the discipline they show in only focusing on what really matters. Depends on the company and its values. I've been in companies where engineers who don't care
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by mjr00 4y ago
Very true. But the crazy thing is, in the opinion of many people, these companies were so overvalued that -80% feels like a "correction" more than a "crash". Like Nikola is down 94%, but it's still worth $3 billion
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by mjr00 4y ago
Nobody can predict the bottom, or how low things will go. But I disagree that valuations are very low. Frankly, many tech companies (Uber, Twitter, etc) are still unprofitable money-losing machines with high valuations because of their pote
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by mjr00 4y ago
For the tech sector it's really been more like the last 22 years. There hasn't been an extended downturn in US tech stock since the original dot-com bubble. The 2008 recession ended up being a 1-2 year blip. The COVID contraction
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by mjr00 4y ago
For something like Discord, I'm eventually going to form human connections with people. I'm not going to post my address and SSN, obviously, but my real name, my occupation, the company I work for? Yeah, that'll probably come
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by mjr00 4y ago
On the modern internet, I don't know that being searchable and indexed is always a benefit. I like the idea of a semi-private space. I don't want people on the internet to be able to drudge up out of context statements I made 10 y
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by mjr00 4y ago
> It's similar to data engineers thinking they will do real ML some day and their data job is just temporary... Hah yeah but this is just the reality of ML. "Engineer who only codes up awesome new ML algorithms" isn't
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I think this is partially true but it’s important to make sure the garbage is on fire before cleaning it up. Yeah. Especially true as the article mentions tech debt as an example. Too many times I've seen overeager developers earl
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I've never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What's the appeal? Great music and tons of remixes, lots of characters with fun personalities (established in both canon and fanon), untold amounts of fanart and fanfiction, and there&

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