mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Our universities are the envy of the world for their academic freedoms. Were. Were the envy of the world.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I agree, but those of us who do not want to outsource our thinking to someone else want nothing more than information.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
As long as they peddle "stories", they are not impartial. As long as they explain what happened, they are not impartial. I want information. I want it to look like this: Reporter X has information from Individual Y in the newsroom
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The next DOOM port
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
90% of companies don't need to think too deeply about compensation, then.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
If it's b2b SaaS sales is probably more important than engineering. If you're designing flight control software it isn't.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
That isn't the point; It's not about the importance It's about specialized knowledge. To the owners of the business, making sure the business doesn't fail to deliver is existentially important. Web developers are fungibl
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Would you say that the atom bomb project was held hostage by a couple of technical physicists? Obviously it can't succeed (in the desired time frame) without those specific people, and pretending like it can is lunacy.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The other departments are arguably more so. Law, sales, finance, marketing.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
You misread. 15 dollars for a liter of my favorite Olive Oil is a trade I would happily make. I didn't say I was happy that the price increased, nor did I say that I am happy about the tariff, nor did I say that I happy relative to how
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
What did I write that gave you the impression that I don't know this?
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I would happily pay 38% extra for high quality Tunisian olive oil, it is already super undervalued because it's reputation is lower than it should be. It's gotten so bad that Tunisian olives are shipped to Italy, pressed into oil,
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
It's a reserve. The coupling of reserve and currency is a historical accident, not a fundamental reality
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
BTC
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
We all know that isn't the kind of activism being targeted.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Towhom it may concern, I prefer the dyslexic pronunciation of towhom.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Most common training of American politicians: Law Most common training of CCP membership: Engineering Face it, we are a litigious nation that values due process (with one exception of course) over making things. An influential idea or book
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
If we get there, and it's not guaranteed that we do, it will be a different kind of machine.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Except this isn't computational biology, it's fluid dynamics with an agent inside running a neural network. You'd think they'd try something like smooth particle hydrodynamics so that it can be done more efficiently on a
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
And I don't think we will get there with digital computers either.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
A dentist sees thousands of patients -a big sample size! Calling it anecdotal evidence is reductive.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I'm just glad I have something that can write logic in any unix shell script for me. It's the right combination of thing I don't have to do often, thing that doesn't fit my mental model, thing that works differently base
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
People who write game engines easily fall in this category. Especially when they start thinking about fluids, fibers, cloth, fire, etc. it's high level math and physics under 60fps constraints
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Fasting the month of Ramadan when it lands in March or September is always the most interesting for this reason. You have to change how you plan your daily routine as the month goes.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
C after an optimizing compiler has chewed through it is faster than C
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The more I learn about Sandberg the more I think she's actually psychotic
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
And it probably would have worked if David Sacks wasn't the AI czar. The Harris administration would probably have caved by now
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The Asimov inspired constitution is troubling. He didn't really understand anything about how robots actually work.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
If you want the compiler to treat your code as literal portable assembly turn off optimizations.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Oh great when i get into old age not only will I forget my password but my DNA will have mutated to the point that it technically isn't my password any longer

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