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by pphysch 3y ago
I recommend Al Jazeera's "The Lobby" because it contains primary evidence from undercover journalists, notwithstanding any spin put on it by the Qatari government. > somehow country #28 in world GDP with 0.5% of global GDP
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by pphysch 3y ago
opensecrets.org has some of it, which is used by other groups like the @trackAIPAC Twitter/X account.
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by pphysch 3y ago
For people who are actually interested in this topic instead of bad-faith race-baiting, there is a ton of investigative journalism and academic analysis of the methods of the actually-existing Israel lobby. Stephen Walt & John Mearsheim
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by pphysch 3y ago
Foreign influence from Qatar is another serious case, but still small fries compared to malign foreign influence from Israel.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Successful flagging doesn't (just) disable comments, it disables discovery/access. For a high quality piece of tech-related investigative journalism like this, flagging is simply censorship.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Everyone makes mistakes but I think you would agree that Apple is known for product excellence overall. Then people project that approach onto other co's like Google, that have a more experimental bent, and get upset when experiments h
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by pphysch 3y ago
I agree, I think "game engine" is a misnomer for what are better termed "game (dev) studio", like Unity. They include a sophisticated game engine but also a lot of supporting tools and GUIs.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Contrast with Apple's significantly less experimental, more refined approach to product releases. Apple's approach has been a disaster recently with the glorified (and polished) beta test kit "Vision Pro" and the cancell
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by pphysch 3y ago
How do you "just" accurately evaluate the error state space of an LLM relative to a real business process? Sounds approximately impossible to me. If you already have the business process robustly defined as code, then the utility
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by pphysch 3y ago
Arkady Rotenberg and others have claimed current or prior ownership of the property. It really is just a conspiracy theory produced by rabidly anti-Putin media operatives like Navalny -- the exact same playbook as Dinesh D'Souza or &qu
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by pphysch 3y ago
Given the sophistication of this attack it would indeed be downright negligent to presume that it's the attackers' legal name and that they have zero OPSEC.
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by pphysch 3y ago
If you have a "super-agent" AI that is capable of recovering a business process from an error state, why not just use that agent in the first place?
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by pphysch 3y ago
Respectfully, this is like me asking about Obama and you replying with a Dinesh D'Souza hitjob. That video has been thoroughly debunked as a baseless conspiracy theory.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Yeah, definitely. Thanks for clearing that up!
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by pphysch 3y ago
> While I'm not comfortable with the wealth concentration in the US, at least people aren't getting rounded up and "disappeared" when they talk about it. All that reveals is that "talking about it" doesn&#x2
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by pphysch 3y ago
Is there any actual evidence that Putin is actively corrupt on the level of say Jared Kushner or Hunter Biden (and their father figures), or is it just kinda an a priori thing so we can pat ourselves on the back?
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by pphysch 3y ago
It's not even that "meta": they would just be dogfooding. I would be surprised if this wasn't the case.
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by pphysch 3y ago
What sort of prompts do you use for this process? "Please rewrite this: <ctrl-v>"?
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by pphysch 3y ago
This is exactly right. AI is a multiplier for the services and data moats that Google already has; the absolute value of generative AI has been greatly overstated. The gold rush (OpenAI) will end and the shovel-sellers (NVIDIA) will hurt to
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by pphysch 3y ago
There is no evidence that the West has ever suffered anything as serious and sophisticated as STUXNET.
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by pphysch 3y ago
> I would encourage you to read up on details of McHardy’s practices. They were clearly not done in good faith and there was no attempt to encourage compliance. The only goal was to extract as much money as possible even if the violation
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by pphysch 3y ago
In practice, software development methodologies that rely heavily on a complete spec (formal verification, 100% test coverage, pure programming, etc) do not perform well when the spec changes underneath them. It's doable but requires e
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by pphysch 3y ago
Backend engineer with sysadmin/OS knowledge is a powerful if not necessary combo. A great backend engineer will have a working knowledge of k8s/systemd/etc and their OS kernels. They won't be afraid to look at some lower
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by pphysch 3y ago
> Only a small group of software engineers are interested in this principled approach. Only a small fraction of software applications can be specified up-front. Most software is enterprise software, entertainment software, etc.; software
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by pphysch 3y ago
Yes and no. Many UNIX philosophy proponents are abhorred by powerful binaries like jq and awk.
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by pphysch 3y ago
1. This is factually incorrect and ahistorical. Russia obviously had no intention of "overwhelming" a massive country with half a million NATO-trained soldiers in 2022 with only 200K Russian soldiers. Even if the AFU wasn't a
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by pphysch 3y ago
> passes tests Okay, so you are just kicking the can down the road to the test engineers. Now your org needs to spend more resources on test engineering to really make sure the AI code doesn't fuzz your system to death. If you squin
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by pphysch 3y ago
Washington can't even military contain the Houthis, or Iranians, or Russians.
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by pphysch 3y ago
By its proponents? It's already apparent to many. The current trade war started already over half a decade ago under Trump.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Does anyone actually prefer eating mushrooms raw & unflavored? It's like eating raw eggplant to me...

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