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Google's latest layoffs are just the beginning(theverge.com)
7 points by raccoonDivider 3y ago|4 comments
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
The things people experimented with 15 years ago are mostly settled now. Maybe you'd like a research engineer job in a lab or startup?
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Do you still expect that to work now that the decade of low interest rates is over? Shouldn't people buy individual bonds instead?
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Do Not Disturb by default is a question of taste and use case, they probably brought to the desktop what people seemed to like on mobile devices. Applications stealing focus is a plague though. Maybe Apple will finally figure out that it&#x
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
I don't understand why they're trying to turn iPads into laptops. Just start from their existing laptops and make them more mobile instead of trying to inflate a phone OS into something that does the job? Is this about control ove
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
The Iraq WMD thing is the one everybody has been falling back on whenever they need to prove their claims that "all western media are propaganda" for a decade or more. It's been 20 years, the NYT recognized the lie and apolog
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Makes me wonder how voice assistants handle people with multiple partners. Maybe "which one" is actually the right answer for some users?
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
That looks great. No real feedback yet, but it's the kind of thing I've always been looking for as a better alternative to Twitter.
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
The few guys in charge of security engineering don't have to share the values of the whole company.
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
I can't say if it's correct or not, but here's an argument [1] that I've heard multiple times: > Pharmaceutical breakthroughs are financed by the high prices paid by American patients (and backed by abundant venture c
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
The UI was one step below Spotify or Apple the last time I tried it though.
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Does any other brand have something similar to Apple's support? I was kinda surprised to see that you could get called back as easily as I did. Or that their stores could quickly fix e.g. a bricked bootloader. The Windows/Android
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Why can't the compiler decrement indices as needed? It makes sense to keep 0-based indexing in the final binary, but the language's design doesn't constrain that.
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
I tried using the latest stable Flux.jl with the latest stable Julia interpreter about a year ago, and most of it didn't work. Some of the simplest model usage examples led to a traceback with dozens of frames, ending in an incomprehen
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Apple probably asked and paid for it. Isn't there potential in accelerating LLMs and transformers on smartphones? Most of what they are good at fits the smartphone use case well.
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Because these countries rely on the US military for protection? All the EU does against Russia. Japan and south-east Asian countries do against China. Look up how underfunded Germany’s Bundeswehr has been these past few years, how France’s
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
> Either way the C++ dependency management situation even makes the Python dependency management situation look good by comparison. Is there a better way than “script the compilation of all dependencies and share the result” for any big
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
> The Fourth Republic was overthrown by a military coup. De Gaulle did manage to restore democracy with his new constitution, largely because the military respected him personally more than they respected the institutions of the Fourth R
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
It's definitely harder to socialize when all your classmates have smartphones and you don't, but you mostly need access to personal messaging apps. TikTok or a Facebook/Twitter feed full of people you don't know IRL are
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
The current French fifth republic started when De Gaulle had a new constitution written, during the fourth republic. A democracy changing its rules by referendum while staying a democracy shouldn't really count as a new regime. Edit: a
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Logically you'd keep as many parts as possible inside, where the temperature is easier to control?
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Do any of them reach even 1% of Binance's size? If crypto stays a bunch of niche projects that only enthusiasts invest in, isn't that the SEC's goal accomplished? I can't imagine they would care about a coin that doesn&#
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
I just realized that the NSA has probably been able to train GPT-4 equivalents on _all the data_ for a while now. We'll probably never learn about it but that's maybe scarier than just the Snowden collection story because LLMs are
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Parking an aircraft carrier 2km from your shores counts I guess?
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
Some humans also never respond "I don't know" even when they don't know. I know people who out-hallucinate LLMs when pressed to think rigorously
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by raccoonDivider 3y ago
It works pretty well in my C++ code. Context: modern C++ with few footguns, inside functions with pretty-self-explanatory names. I don't really get the "low bar for contributions" argument because GH Copilot's contributi