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> Or were they just aware of the fact that LGTBQ people buy shit. But it's not like they started needing more stuff and now they figured they'll buy less stuff again. The demand was already there and the customers were already
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> Companies will only fight back on things that impact their short-term bottom line. The speed with which they all dropped DEI programs was shocking. Especially after years of saying how it's critical, it makes them more vibrant, st
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1y ago
Very cute. If you squint, it's almost APL written in a circles.
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> This is the question I was answering and I gave you an example then you proceeded to say there is no overhead Erlangs process model, which now you admit exists But that's not what NodeRed-Erlang does. The author is confirming it o
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1y ago
> Kids are social creatures, I don't think the interaction from AIs is going to be so overwhelming The problem is Alexa is a very basic and kids get bored with it. Chat based AI mimics human conversation a lot better and people will
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1y ago
The point here was that he cheated. He made things up and as soon as he was asked about methodology he pretended not to hear the question, slowed down, started to sprinkle “likes” everywhere, etc. The question is more about how good of a ch
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1y ago
A scarier thought is that people will "talk" so much with these AIs that they'll start talking like ChatGPT. So we may still end up with some AI enshittification fixed point in the future but, one of the feedback paths will b
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1y ago
> Your hypothetical 8 year old has one chance to get a cookie and had better be pretty articulate about it. This MIT-branded academic has a million other things going for them and can afford to slack off a bit on the presentation skills.
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1y ago
> Erlang is not as performant for heavy computational loads Well, sure don't use it for heavy computational loads if it doesn't work for you. It works great for our use case and I think Node-RED is also not for heavy computatio
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1y ago
> His movies may be "artsy" but he had a big influence on cinema Of course, that's why all the movie directors and actors and people who are into film like him. But take a person off the street and put in front of a Malick
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> Don't confuse a polished TED talk from a practiced speaker with a seminar from any random person in academia. I don’t expect a TED talk but we’re still talking about MIT here. I’ve seen 8 year olds more articulated. I guess where
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1y ago
We’re doomed :-)
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Oh interesting. I haven't talked to any recent graduates but I would expect an MIT PhD student to be more articulate and not say "like" every other word. There was a question at the end that made him a little uncomfortable: [
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> The paper was championed by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu, who won the 2024 economics Nobel, and David Autor. The two said they were approached in January by a computer scientist with experience in materials science who questioned how
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> They were falling over themselves to make a movie with him. Not so much another movie with him. I just happened to watch a video about that this morning I think one of the main points of the movie is there is no "lead actor&qu
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> Lots of little share nothing process are great conceptually but that does create significant overhead. It doesn't, really? I have clusters running 1M+ Erlang processes comfortably per node. > you typically don't need large
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> makes me wish that it was not multi-processing and Erlang, but a more mainstream language with a better library ecosystem and focused on multi-threading instead, Rust comes to mind but there could be a better one. I am not quite follo
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I think I would call it cinematographically beautiful, and parts of it were meant to be really be visually beautiful. But it all had to be contrasted with carnage, death, fear, and all the ugliness of war.
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Like the first line says, he is probably the least known famous director. That is, he is not an activist and not flashy, doesn't make a lot of movies, and the general public simply doesn't know about him. But all the other movie d
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1y ago
“20% and subject to changes” yikes what a way to say “you’re losing territory and you’re not in the news enough for us to bother”. That’s probably one country that needs the help from a place like that.
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> “I am baffled by all the companies doing an about-face on their social initiatives right now. Did you not actually mean it in the first place? Either don’t do it, or do it and stay doing it, but don’t do this ‘DEI is cancelled now’,” h
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Thought so too!
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> Do people who are habitually late view prompt people as rude for being on time? No. Not for meetings. What is perceived as rude is making a big deal about it. You think it's a major social faux-pas, they think it's a "me
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> recruited a group of rogue overseas support agents Why not just say what country the are from and how they hired them to start with. It's presented as those sneaky "overseas" people that somehow got access to our systems
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davydog187, I just wanted to thank you for stepping up and lending Robert a hand. It's nice to see new releases and lots of cleanups happening in Luerl. The project is a real gem and it's nice to see new activity in it!
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Lua can help if you're handing this over to someone else not just devs who know Elixir. Also, as the sibling post mentioned, in this case Lua is completely interpreted in an Erlang process. That allows a good amount of sandboxing, they
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> Maybe the FCOM was actually the design specification, i.e. how they wanted it to work, which however had significant differences from the final product? Agree, that's probably what happened, yeah. It was probably a planned feature
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A git repo with text files (markdown) with names as tags separated by underscores (foo_bar_baz.md). Edit those with emacs. Periodically commit to be able to browse it by date. Search by file tags: ls *tag* Search by contents:
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> It is not surprising that it remained intact for 53 years. I mean we couldn't use for the last 53 years and it didn't fulfill its mission. It's like saying the boulder in my yard has remained intact for 100 years "t
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> According to a footnote in the MAK report, at the time of the accident the flight crew operations manual (FCOM, a Sukhoi product) contained descriptions of Airbus controls laws instead of SSJ control laws. The reasons for this darkly h
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