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by nikcub 3y ago
Three other people have left the board this year: Reid Hoffman, Will Hurd and the person from Neuralink.
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by nikcub 3y ago
further edit: found this comment on reddit [0][1] which also seems to line up: > I feel compelled as someone close to the situation to share additional context about Sam and company. > Engineers raised concerns about rushing tech to m
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by nikcub 3y ago
That is Microsoft's PR statement to the press in response to a leaked story. They're major investors in OpenAI - it's in their interest to downplay and respond this way.
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by nikcub 3y ago
Exactly. Which is why they trust her in the interim CEO role.
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by nikcub 3y ago
Theory: possibly because Mira disagreed with Sam on launching so much so quickly (she reports to him), he overrode, it went wrong, and then she took it to the board. Hence, they trust her to take on the interim role. Again, all speculative.
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by nikcub 3y ago
Put the pieces together: Nov 6 - OpenAI devday, with new features of build-your-own ChatGPT and more Nov 9 - Microsoft cuts employees off from ChatGPT due to "security concerns" [0] Nov 9 - OpenAI experiences severe downtime the c
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by nikcub 3y ago
reset is in this useful list of reserved usernames: https://github.com/shouldbee/reserved-usernames
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by nikcub 3y ago
The rustification of Python libraries and tooling continues and it has been brilliant. In the past 6 months I have personally switched projected to ruff[0], polars and now - as of this morning[1] - pydantic 2 and FastAPI 0.100 [0] has repla
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by nikcub 3y ago
it's impossible to build any type of business in Russia without being tied to the state.
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by nikcub 3y ago
You're describing the current status quo of the the e2e debate - allow e2e, but accept that the best exploits aren't going to be reported and patched, but reserved for intel agencies to use against high-value targets.
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by nikcub 3y ago
This is effectively what happens but not for that reason. Take the CIA and NSA, and then the FSB and GRU - within each you have different operational groups with different practices and techniques each uniquely developed. Some are more adva
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by nikcub 3y ago
Or give Forbes money by advertising, attending their events, sponsoring events etc.
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by nikcub 4y ago
Charlie Javice of Frank was indicted last week https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/5/23671000/jpmorgan-frank-fr...
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by nikcub 4y ago
You can answer these questions on OpenNEM: https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=1y&interval=1M SA imports about ~10% of its power and exports about ~5% at the moment (YTD) and price is cheaper than NSW and
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by nikcub 4y ago
We need this for ChatGPT to train on
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by nikcub 4y ago
Australia has a real problem with getting the last ~2% of residents connected. SkyMuster cost $2B and has 100k connections - so $20k per connection.
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by nikcub 4y ago
I just diffed the fingerprint[0] of 6 Mullvad browser sessions across 2 different devices and it was a unique fingerprint in every case[1] It mixes a lot - fonts returned, media devices, the canvas ID - it's pretty good and similar to
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by nikcub 4y ago
Withdraw issues being reported on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/BinanceUS/new/
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by nikcub 4y ago
Switched myself and every project I’m involved with to Cloudflare registrar a while ago because of their front-running. Namecheap completely burnt all the goodwill and positive word-of-mouth they had built up. It would be nice to have an in
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by nikcub 4y ago
They’re here to stay - but they need a cultural shake up Sundar might end up being looked back on as the Ballmer of Google - the leader who wouldn’t take risks in order to protect the golden goose (geese in the case of MSFT)
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by nikcub 4y ago
I've been to numerous shows recently with no-phone policies (TOOL, Louis CK, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle). I _love_ the policy, it frees people to enjoy the show, doesn't block views with people holding phones up and doesn'
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by nikcub 4y ago
now add a ?q= url param to chat.openai.com that fills and submits the prompt and I'm changing it to my default browser search provider instantly
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by nikcub 4y ago
The Bill Gates "A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it's a platform.” line seems apt - i'm sure they'll figure it out
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by nikcub 4y ago
I'm going to ask what might seem like a naive question - but how do you get a sidewinder to lock onto the balloon part of the balloon and not hit the payload?
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by nikcub 4y ago
I was also wondering if those jets now have stencil paintings of balloons on them with big X's marked across them as kill markers
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by nikcub 4y ago
it isn't precisely a light nanosecond either, it's about 5mm off. today the standard foot as used in the USA is ironically just defined as 0.3048 meters
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by nikcub 4y ago
Can confirm this and that it happen in both Bosnia and the Serbia campaigns. I had family members who were involved [0]. The deception methods that were applied were truly remarkable, they used decoy tanks and sent people out to imprint fak
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by nikcub 4y ago
Rackspace hosted Techcrunch after we we loved to death on the old host and every single person there that we interacted with what not just competent, but went out of their way to make sure we were live and thriving. During one weekend the s
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by nikcub 4y ago
> PHP 5 was kind of slow I remember it being slower than PHP4 for a while
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by nikcub 4y ago
I was speaking to a high school teacher who said students come through her computer classes now having no idea how to type or use desktop operating systems because they're the first generation who have largely, and almost exclusively,

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