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by moomin 2y ago
The problem’s deeper than that: and financial incentive you design, you provide a financial incentive to abuse it. This is why so few people recommend metric-based compensation.
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by moomin 2y ago
Ironically, the right to privacy was questioned by Alito when he helped nullify Roe v Wade. It will be "interesting" to see what other things we consider private aren't private in the eyes of this court. And even more "i
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by moomin 2y ago
The thing is, what do we do with the bitter lesson once we’re essentially ingesting the entire internet? More computation runs the risk of overfitting and there just isn’t any more data. Is the bitter lesson here telling me that we’ve basic
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by moomin 2y ago
Hey Gabe, who’s your biggest competitor? Mark Rein? Nah, Peter Sunde.
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by moomin 2y ago
I have definitely heard conservatives complain that reality has a left-wing bias. Not in quite those words, but close enough that you wonder if it’s possible to die of cognitive dissonance.
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by moomin 2y ago
We're still trying to figure out the propulsion side of the problem, which frankly is the Asylum Demon of colonising another planet.
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by moomin 2y ago
How are Waymo managing this? None of their competitors appear to be even close.
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by moomin 2y ago
David Stirling, who is currently being lauded in a show on BBC One for creating the SAS, spent his later life running mercenary companies and, in one particularly ignoble episode, organised a coup against the British government.
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by moomin 2y ago
I once sat with my manager and repeatedly asked Copilot to improve some (existing) code. After about three iterations he said “Okay, we need to stop this because it’s looking way too much like your code.” I’m sure there’s enough documented
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by moomin 2y ago
Culture war folderol. I mean, if you wanted proof of this proposition, you just need to look at Vivek Ramaswamy.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, that’s horribly misleading. There’s no guarantee that “zero” is actually an int zero. (Although I’m pretty sure it is on Intel and ARM.)
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by moomin 2y ago
I read an OpSec manual around the time of GamerGate. One truly basic thing: never do anything to link two accounts together. Never mention it, never promote it. I doubt many people know who I am on reddit but I 100% know that anyone suffici
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by moomin 2y ago
It’s possible to accept there are many dev tasks that can only really be achieved on Linux without accepting Windows sucks. The first is pretty much inarguable, the second is emotive and imprecise.
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by moomin 2y ago
The 4x4 with a 90 degree turn is a thing of beauty.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, Greenland is always going to be a weird political exception. It has a population smaller than Vejle, which, unless you live in or near Denmark, you are highly unlikely to be able to point to on a map. Denmark itself has a population
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by moomin 2y ago
Just my grumpy ass pointing out that if what you care about is artists, Spotify might as well be piracy.
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by moomin 2y ago
Best President US has seen in modern times, the campaign that unseated him bordered on treason.
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by moomin 2y ago
I remember in the late 80s there was a bar called “Lennon’s” in Liverpool. The dress code banned jeans. Pretty sure John Lennon would have despised the place.
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by moomin 2y ago
Generalisation is definitely a good approach, but it’s not the only one. Another is “conceptualisation” or reducing repetition: if you find that large numbers of functions are taking the same three parameters, especially if they’re using th
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by moomin 2y ago
I think this comes down to the point of the article: the whole question is an undecided legal minefield.
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by moomin 2y ago
That's my reading of the following: A case before the High Court (roughly analogous to the US Supreme Court) determined that images produced in a video game were the property of the game developer, not the player -- even though the pla
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by moomin 2y ago
It’s mentioned in the article, there’s case law.
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by moomin 2y ago
1) is an utter minefield, though. If you create an artwork using Adobe Photoshop, you have the copyright. If you use Minecraft, apparently Microsoft own it. So where does the prompt engineer lie? No-one knows.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think a more nuanced take would simply be that the long tail of a perpetual bond is unlikely to be worth that much, which is why these days bonds with extremely long maturities aren’t issued.
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by moomin 2y ago
Has the foundation made missteps? I don’t really see the rationale for moving power to the big miners.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, the technical expertise thing is solvable, it’s just no-one wants to solve it because SaaS is extremely lucrative."
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by moomin 2y ago
It doesn’t take a day to do it. It doesn’t even take a day with refactoring. But add in writing the tests, running through QA, code review, getting release approval &c &c and almost anything can take a day.
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by moomin 2y ago
There’s a mosque on North Cross Road but that’s only about 35 years old.
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by moomin 2y ago
Oh, there's a LOT more where that came from. One of my favourite bands. I saw them play live last year and Porcupine Tree have so much great material (and yes, they played Fear of a Blank Planet).
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by moomin 2y ago
For these purposes, I’m not really interested in the whole question of free will. If you want to take a mechanistic approach, you just need to appreciate that the decisions aren’t being made by “natural selection” but agents influenced by “

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