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by munk-a 11mo ago
I think most people are aligned on AI being in a bubble right now with the disagreement being over which companies (if any) will weather the storm through the burst and come out profitable on the far side. OpenAI, imo, is absolutely going t
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by munk-a 11mo ago
You are correct that caring is important - but it also isn't your responsibility at the end of the day. If you don't care you're doing it wrong - if you let it eat you up inside whenever anything goes wrong you're also
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by munk-a 11mo ago
> Try "I am unable to attend meeting without an agenda. Let me know when one has been posted." in your decline message. If you have a good manager you can often CC them or quote them in your response as well "Sorry, I&#x27
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by munk-a 11mo ago
Yup - they touch on proxy relationships where you have a few trusted reporters to break the crowd into cohorts that you can mentally simplify but whenever you do this you need to accept that it won't be complete. You should expect and
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by munk-a 11mo ago
I wish LinkedIn was that good. In my eyes LinkedIn has become "Facebook but with resumes" - I accept that I should have a profile on there for resume visibility but there are so many features built into that site that just should
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by munk-a 11mo ago
I think it's more just a bizarre platform for us to gawk at. I'm not really certain why LinkedIn even has social features available if it's purporting to be a professional space and especially a professional space that is go
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by munk-a 11mo ago
My UPS is a single device that I have accepted the cost of maintaining and require for my daily use computer - it has to be regularly replaced because the nature of UPSes is a very limited and usually well documented shelf-life.
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by munk-a 11mo ago
This an excellent example of a program that'll print money for fraudsters while also supporting a policy with arbitrary and cruel quotas. Oh how far we've wandered from that old promise of "small government".
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by munk-a 11mo ago
There were several generalizations in that statement that align with my similar fears to the OP. Most firmware should minimize the charge cycling, most batteries should be stable at constant charge... most isn't great for something th
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by munk-a 11mo ago
The better practice is, if it isn't a one-off, being introduced to the tool (perhaps by an LLM) and then just running the tool yourself with structured inputs when it is appropriate. I think the 2015 era novice coding habit of copying
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by munk-a 11mo ago
But we are still reliant on the LLM correctly interpreting the choice to pick the right skill. So "known to work" should be understood in the very limited context of "this sub-function will do what it was designed to do reli
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by munk-a 11mo ago
The really weird thing is that Big Business actually is buying supercomputer clusters to do just that. I can't really talk to the government side but a lot of businesses' early forays into AI was just slapping a chatbot on their
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by munk-a 11mo ago
I will freely admit this - but I have led a localization effort on a mobile game and worked on localization for a desktop application. I am also lucky enough to travel abroad quite a bit and am quite familiar with consumer offerings. So I
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by munk-a 11mo ago
There was a recent Bezos talk about the fact that (much like the dot-com) we've overspending on infrastructure that'll bubble and implode but then we'll have all this amazing infra for companies to build off of... but the pro
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by munk-a 11mo ago
That is of immense social value - but manual translation services for commercial projects (like application localization) is already dirt cheap to do and automatic casual translation services for consumers would be incredibly difficult to m
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by munk-a 11mo ago
As someone working in a field that has used NLP for quite some time - yeah, I generally agree that those investments are worth their weight in gold... which is unfortunate because before ChatGPT came along they were viewed as niche unprofit
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by munk-a 11mo ago
Ignorance is not a defense for breaking a law and I do hold my politicians (and hope other voters also hold their politicians) to a similar standard when it comes to passing a bill. Lawmakers exist because we've all got food to put on
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by munk-a 11mo ago
I'm sure they could talk to Don Jr and set up a new cryptocurrency to help failing farmers - and I'm sure it wouldn't immediately be rug pulled.
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by munk-a 11mo ago
Well at least we can live in the comfort of knowing that everyone who voted on the bill is aware of everything in it and has definitely read beyond the cover page.
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by munk-a 11mo ago
Some good news though - having baked in sales tax being required in advertising actually aligns marketing lobbying with pushing for harmonized sales taxes which I'd generally consider a more just system. IMO adding random regressive t
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by munk-a 11mo ago
It has not - and it's been more than 150 years since the last sub-cent denomination (the half penny) was minted.
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by munk-a 11mo ago
I'd like to clarify that point a bit. They're allowed to get away with it because of a dysfunctional lobbying driven government. Mils don't exist in the common knowledge and if any reasonable person looked at this they'
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by munk-a 11mo ago
America is allergic to baked in taxes - you've got to keep the appearance of a deal even when there isn't one. America also embraces a lot of junk and hidden fees - ticketmaster is a great example of this. I think consumers would
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by munk-a 11mo ago
> UPS is charging customs brokerage fees of dozens or hundreds of dollars on top of the actual tariff payment To reinforce this point... UPS just does this all the time. I had to have a number of personal effects[1] shipped up from the
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by munk-a 11mo ago
A lot of full conversion mods just find community members that want to do some VO for practice or as a resume booster or just for the funsies. I think you'd be surprised how easy it is to get half-decent voice actors if you've go
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by munk-a 11mo ago
> Boomers and older folks are not culturally or mentally equipped to handle it I'm glad you mentioned this because the "Grandma - I was arrested and you need to send bail" scams are already ridiculously effective to run.
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by munk-a 1y ago
Lobbying - and likely a fair amount of network pressure from legal systems in various nations that lean towards using office for internal documents as a default.
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by munk-a 1y ago
MS lives by corporate contracts and there are a lot of very powerful US companies that will roll over if Trump barks - if MS had already fled the US in a legal sense they'd definitely be in a better place but trying to leave during thi
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by munk-a 1y ago
Maybe another solid gold statue to the administration could make that pesky lawsuit go away, though. I'm hoping that shift doesn't come into effect until 2028 to avoid it being mangled or declawed entirely.
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by munk-a 1y ago
I disagree strongly here - though not from a technical perspective. There's absolutely a legal concept of making your work available for viewing without making it available for copying and AI scraping (while we can technically phrase

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