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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Yeah, neither article nor the video itself talks about "accuracy" AFAIK, which seems like a kind of important thing in this whole concept, otherwise it's just a "horizontal rocket launcher" which is cool I gues
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> At midnight UTC, the entire current month is refetched from the source as a single authoritative Parquet file, and today's individual 5-minute blocks are removed from the today/ directory. Wouldn't that lose deleted&#x2F
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I see it as a largely neutral descriptor that can skew slightly positive or negative based on context. Particularly "corporate drone" to me refers to an office worker with a long term stable job at a megacorporation. Such a c
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Your assuming the local government employed webmaster won't favor his friends restaurants. Oh my! Mic drop! You got me! Corporate owned sites would have to be unbiased, right? It's not like a business would ever do somethin
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by palmotea 8mo ago
News article comments are funny. I think some people are just angry about politics and feel the need to vent it all the time . I actually read the NYT comments occasionally, and it's the liberal version what you posted. Some people ha
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Do you have any justification in mind for the “free service” being funded by tax payers? Why should it be free for the people who need it, and why should tax payers fund it? Because the government should provide useful services. It sho
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> More software = more control by everyone else except you. Manufacturers. Governments. Also more unreliability, because software engineers often aren't real engineers. > The other issue is support. So many models stop getting up
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I'm well aware that birth rates are falling in the rich world. It's a universal problem across all wealthy countries regardless of immigration or social policy. It's not just the "rich world". China is deeply b
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Labeling does not necessarily imply contempt. But certain labels do. Labels like "drone," for instance. > Not everyone is going to enjoy socializing with their coworkers. There's nothing wrong with that. There isn&#x2
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> And then you need to stop the Poseidon nuclear delivery system, and the suitcase bombs, and the bio weapons.. do you see where this is going? Yes, it sounds like you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good: don't buil
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> So? I wouldn't say it to their face. Who cares if I (a random person online) say something bad about no one in particular to a bunch of random people on the internet? You're just revealing your true colors, that's all. &
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Drones absolutely make Golden Dome obsolete if they can deliver a nuclear warhead and the purpose of Golden Dome is to win a nuclear war / be impervious to one. No they don't, because you can still deliver a warhead with an I
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> golden dome seems less useful by the day now that drones are the new unstoppable weapon of choice Your thinking is too black-and-white. The emergence of a new technology (drones) does not necessarily make previous technologies (ballist
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I wouldn't call "work" social interaction but I get ya. IMHO, social interaction is anything where you interact with other people. > It's my biggest pet peeve of this industry: it has a whole lot of people who ju
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> And then, of course, the government got the videos taken down. Because these alpha disruptors who thought they were saving America by nuking grants for Holocaust documentaries and Black civil rights research turned out to be too fragil
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Pronatalists are outwardly concerned with birth rates while simultaneously railing against immigration while simultaneously begging for more H1-Bs. The implication is really "we need more white babies"... No, and I think that
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Well as the person you are replying to said, it's hard to have an opinion when you haven't actually tried it. I don't find it like that at all. I don't need to try pair programming because I know how that level of c
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> * having to make idle boring chit chat with corporate drones who want to socialize, This point makes you look like a jerk.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The friends I know working big tech hybrid jobs work maybe 25 hours in a good week, whereas the friends I know in office 4/5 days a week are easily at double that. Hours "worked" != productivity.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> You are exactly correct. As to why it’s unpopular, I believe it’s just that no one has given it a fair try. Once you have done it for at least 20 hours a week for a few weeks you will understand that typing is not and has never been th
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Correct, the term "pronatalists" is in scare-quotes, suggesting that their belief/concern is fake. Or it's genuine, but almost completely trumped by other concerns, which I think is the more psychologically plausibl
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Return-to-office is functionally anti-natalist policy beloved by “pronatalists”. > ... > The loudest “pronatalists” (Musk, Andreessen) spent two years killing workplace flexibility while funding nearly a billion in elite fertilit
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I'm sure I'm supposed to sympathize with the plight of the poor Amazon coder, but since everyone in the valley are encouraged to systematically shit on everyone they believe is beneath them.... I can't. That's one o
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Genuine question: what's the evidence that the architect → developer → reviewer pipeline actually produces better results than just... talking to one strong model in one session? Using multiple agents in different roles seems like
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Laser print quality today is on par with printing plates/offset printing, especially for just text. Why do you claim that so confidently, when many people say otherwise? Are you just going off some metric like DPI? You're pro
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> But why do print on demand books have to be low quality? Because they're not fabricating any printing plates or using an actual printing press, or any technology that gets you a high quality result. A print on demand book is basic
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> My desire is to be able to use those products without paying for them. You can't actually do that. None of those companies are charities. You pay one way or another.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I mean women recognize that they've worked for thousands of years and wanted to start getting paid for it. Another case of capitalist thinking infecting everything. Why must the market swallow everything? It's fucking totalit
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> When did Iran attack Afghanistan? I've never heard of this and googling does not return anything. I don't know, but the GGGP comment mentioned it, and the comment I responded too left it completely unaddressed, referring to c
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It is also a bit funny that these considerations did not seem very common when the beneficiaries were fellow human collaborators, but are now being portrayed as very important once LLMs are involved. I'd argue that fellow humans a

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