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by pnt12 4y ago
I must admit I don't know much about economics. I do get tired of people dismissing arguments with free market 101s - the world seems much more complex than that, and the big capitalists have become specialists at exploiting the market
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This ignores the whole human part of a job. Many people are wage slaves: if they're job is gone, they have a big trouble. That's why they're scared of AI, that's why so many news count the potential jobs cuts: more fear
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I think that's a good approach, and I've also taken it. I was skeptic but now I'm evaluating its strengths and weaknesses. But also keep in mind there's lots of hype and lots of productivity gurus praising it as the gre
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There's an even older Italian song about it: https://youtu.be/BqlJwMFtMCs I guess driven by significant emigration from Italy to USA. Here in Portugal, we also have some... Issues... With France emigrants who return t
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Unlike other VPNs, Mullvad states what they protect against and what they don't. This browser seems to bridge the gap about what they previously couldn't. Considering there's no vendor lock-in and the browser is open source,
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Well, many libertarians will state the rules of the free market as if they were physics law, but they are not. I think they're just post-fact invented laws to justify the ideology, but that's besides the point. The law that "
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by pnt12 4y ago
Well, only Italy is complaining for now, but it applies to the whole EU. At least some of the big companies take this seriously, because I've worked in consultants and seen it. It would be completely reasonable for OpenAI to be more pr
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It's fast to read stuff when you have the domain knowledge. The weights won't be a 5kb Scala file: they'd probably be a big binary file, which is easy to search it github/locally after cloning. Otherwise, if they are pro
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To counter these anecdotes, I used python for building web apis and only needed poetry to manage 1 virtual env, and containerizing with docker was straight forward.
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I think there's some delusion, but there's also some sense to it. Facebook is slowly dying - pushing for a new concept could be a way to regain relevance. They already have a platform for games, so this can be seen as ambitious ne
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That's very relevant: some people here are discussing the viability of VR and/or online games - these already exist, and are not commonly thought of as the meta verse. You don't need the meta verse to create a game! The metav
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Lack of github activity may also be an indicator for having a life outside programming. Or using private repos.
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What if bars answered: "That was devastating, I concede you're the best LLM of us." Would this make Bard, or GPT4 the best LLM? I'm prepared to call this The Turing Paradox.
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I think it's very short sighted: tech stacks come and go, you can't find people who know all the ones you picked. People who know their foundations and have applied them to practice (no matter the tech stack) will be better prepar
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That's a very one sided opinion: more complexity is necessarily bad, no matter anything else. I'm not particularly pr-union but I'd argue for another dimension: to the company, you're an employee, but to the union you&#x
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Westerns needed a new word to disassociate them from migrants.
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Not sure if the best analogy... At least in my country you can get a fine if you don't wear a seat belt in a car. So it's not really up to you.
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Well one can argue those are cherry picked examples. But even if they aren't, it's still a problem that those people decide who they contribute to, instead of the billion dollar businesses paying their fair share to the democratic
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There's the argument that the definition of equality has been twisted in order for equity to make sense. 10 years ago, if someone said kids should have the right to education equally, that always meant taking especially care of the poo
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What an awful take. Python is 30 years old and back then system packages were more common, that's it. It's been a bumpy ride and I'd prefer if there was a standard manager, but the community has produced some decent ones. The
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When I tried pdm it wasn't stable yet and messed up my paths. My experience with poetry has been great. I only disliked that they had auto-update on when locking files, but they changed the default.
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Very interesting, thanks for referencing it as I had missed it. There have been occurrences of people asking chat gpt to ignore instructions on the initial prompt: have these been solved? It's not clear to me if the first prompt is giv
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I'll don't think it's a fallacy. People are more predictable and can be accountable for their actions, and even admit ignorance, eg answering "I don't know ask someone else". It's worth discussing if we wa
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Contrarian view: I think you need to be critical about which patterns to match. Eg if my inputs are a book on astronomy and one of conspiracy theories, how do I answer "Is the Earth flat?". Now contrarian to the contrarian view: m
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This reminds me of that dumb meme: "you criticize society, and yet you participate in it... Interesting". In a capitalistic system, money is power, and messing with it has serious consequences. I'd rather be punched in the fa
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I'd put it in another way: losing weight is simple, but it's not easy! As I understand, you just need to consume fewer calories, less sugar and do more exercise. But there's cravings. It's harder to get healthy food at r
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Wow, "creeps" turning into keepers... Yikes. Would have been actually great without the "love of my life", and if the "creeps" were just "friends" or something.
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Raising the bar in the public sector is a complex topic: there are jokes about lazy public workers all over the (western?) world. There's no competition and the goals aren't as clear as profit VS loss. But if you refuse to have co
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What kind of democracy is that? "thanks for your vote, for your taxes, for your contributions to the community, now fuck off"
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Oh I see: the distinction is to stop people frome shipping lousy code and saying "it's technical debt, we'll handle it later". Ive been at the other end, when we're looking back at code and talking about technical d

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