mk67

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by mk67 3y ago
Stakes are too low, so people start fighting over the most meaningless things in my experience.
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by mk67 3y ago
I'm seeing a lot of visual snow with bright backgrounds, which is very annoying. Makes it close to impossible to focus.
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by mk67 3y ago
My 2017/18 civic (not sure which one was the production year) already has all these systems, i.e. adaptive cruise control keeping distance, auto braking before impact, automatic lane-keeping > 70 km/h and rumble warnings.
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by mk67 3y ago
> "When you're the second-smartest species on the planet, you might not get to participate in the most important decisions." I'd argue we are already in that state since a long time with the AIs being corporations (an
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by mk67 3y ago
Seems interesting as it runs counter to the "common knowledge" that fine-tuning large LMs needs a lot of data and RLHF for good results. Not that the absolute results are extremely strong, most likely I'd suspect as the base
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by mk67 3y ago
No, definitely one of the major reasons for me as well.
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by mk67 3y ago
Very interesting anecdote. Is there a conclusion to the story?
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by mk67 3y ago
Nobody forces you to live like that. I'm 39 and not one point hits the mark for me. :D While true that it's harder to get social connections it's far from impossible; in the end you just need to go out and meet new people doi
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by mk67 3y ago
That sounds more like "petite bourgeoisie" than actual middle class. I know there was a lot of effort to redefine the term, but imo median income has little to do with it. If you live paycheck to paycheck you aren't even peti
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by mk67 3y ago
Wouldn't really call it middle class if a lower five digit sum is a major inconvenience. Probably the problem is more that there is not much middle class left nowadays and most people are lower class.
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by mk67 3y ago
Yep, with proper enterprise agreements in place. Using this as of now.
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by mk67 3y ago
Really a shame if anyone is fooled by this. It's just monopolistic behavior camouflaged as virtue signaling.
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by mk67 3y ago
Ah, yes. Single-minded tech guys' take on art. Not sure what to comment here, but art has nearly nothing to do with replicating a photograph/"rendering". Photorealistic art doesn't count as art to me at all.
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by mk67 3y ago
No, it needs to be public to some degree (i.e. "disturb the public peace"): § 130 Incitement to hatred (1985, Revised 1992, 2002, 2005, 2015)[38][39] (1) Whosoever, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace:
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by mk67 3y ago
Nothing as long as the funding is transparent. What Wikipedia is doing is borderline fraudulent as most people would assume your donation is largely used for keeping Wikipedia running.
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by mk67 3y ago
Gilbert Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra" made it all click for me. I read it at the beginning of PhD studies and in a few weeks it all made more sense than during all of my Master's studies before. Coincidentall
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by mk67 3y ago
Damn, that sounds insane. Is the UK the only country in the world with this? What is the reason?
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by mk67 3y ago
Funnily, at least in Europe, it's very dynamic the other way. Rarely heard of an employer refusing someone to go to 50-80%.
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by mk67 3y ago
I agree, of course, that tech people are closer to the worker class than the capitalist class and there are many common interests. On the other hand, as long as you manage your finances sanely, even in Europe you can reach a FIRE state (may
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by mk67 3y ago
How can you count yourself as working class? Even outside top US salaries most of us could probably take several years off the job without any huge issues due to savings/investments. I mean of course we are providing labor for money, b
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by mk67 3y ago
e.g. not legal in Germany
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by mk67 3y ago
Sorry, I wasn't aware. Would it maybe be possible to merge the threads?
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake(finance.yahoo.com)
37 points by mk67 3y ago|3 comments
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by mk67 4y ago
Well, I live in Germany and that's less than 1 month income for me. Which is pretty common for a senior+ engineer/data scientist. Not for a single person with a technical degree 7k would be 2-3 months income, lol.