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by roarcher 7mo ago
I'm confused by this comment. Is it not obvious that everything I've said is my opinion? Not everyone feels the need to hedge everything they say with "to me..." and "it really sounds like...". > It really a
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> It seems that you work a lot with managers who have no clue what they are buying and why. There are certain quirks of this platform's user base that always make me laugh. For example, HNers absolutely love to imply something conde
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> Then if they succeed, I guess you're going to see a different process for the first time in your life. Sure, I guess. Far more likely that they won't succeed, and it will be because of their pointless refusal to cooperate wit
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by roarcher 7mo ago
It doesn't matter if it's a joke. The non-technical manager or VP making this purchase will not understand it and will expect poor treatment from this vendor, an expectation that will be reinforced by numerous other things on this
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by roarcher 7mo ago
That may be, but then it's an inside joke that many of his customers won't get. It just looks like a "fuck you" to anyone buying the cheaper system. This guy desperately needs a marketing intern to look over his copy. Or
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by roarcher 7mo ago
It's also funny that they explicitly list driver quality as "good" for the base option and "great" for the intermediate one. You're really going to deliberately provide worse drivers for the machine I paid you
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by roarcher 7mo ago
Filling out an onboarding form is an example of what he's not willing to do, not the only thing he isn't willing to do. > we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process Every B2B deal of that size that I
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by roarcher 7mo ago
Maybe. Frankly I'd be very surprised if any business ordered a $65k machine that way either.
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> In order to keep prices low and quality high, we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process. If you aren't capable of ordering through the website, I'm sorry but we won't be able to help. Has this
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by roarcher 7mo ago
They MIGHT pay you IF you're a fit. They're bounties, i.e. spec work. They also pay a max of $1000, most of them significantly less. You can see more info at the link in that line: > All bounties paid out at my (geohot) discret
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> But the worm above (nematode) swims and seeks food when dropped into a physics engine. Nematode worms have an oxytocin analogue called nematocin that is known to influence learning and social behaviors like mating. As far as I can find
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> If they freeze the vesicles that deliver transmitters and make them analyzable, you've got all the information you need. How can we possibly know that the non-connectome details of the brain don't influence computation or con
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> They fucked up badly and promises like "you can move your taskbar" or "we'll be less obnoxious with updates" is not going to being me back. Especially considering you could move the taskbar until Windows 11 w
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> There are no randomized controlled trials that parachutes save lives. It's a good thing "randomized controlled trials" aren't the only kind of empirical evidence, then. We know the limits of how fast a human can saf
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> It's like "A study found that parachutes were no more effective than empty backpacks at protecting jumpers from aircraft." Are you under the impression that we don't bother to empirically prove things that seem obvi
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> We just packed the kid along and went traveling anyway. He had eleven stamps in his passport by his first birthday. How do you keep a baby happy and quiet on long international flights? I currently have no kids but I may find myself in
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by roarcher 7mo ago
I'd say that's pretty much the definition of standard, yeah. And it's why you can't make a profit selling a simple ToDo app. If you expect people to pay for what you build, you have to build something that doesn't h
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> you get "credited" story points for finishing tasks? That sounds completely insane. Developers' names are attached to stories, and stories have points on them. Why is that insane, and how does your company track who did
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by roarcher 7mo ago
> LLM use in litigation drafting is thus akin to insurgent/guerilla warfare: it take little time, energy, or thinking to create, yet orders of magnitude more to analyze and refute. The same goes for coding. I have coworkers who use
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by roarcher 7mo ago
And yet they won't split the bill with me. Bunch of freeloaders.
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by roarcher 8mo ago
The AI doesn't know anything about the thing you're documenting except what you tell it, so what value does it add?
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by roarcher 8mo ago
> If losing your job is traumatic, I’d suggest reviewing your relationship with employers and employment in general. Should I also review my relationship with my need to eat and have a roof over my head?
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by roarcher 8mo ago
He was 57, born in 1888. Died of a stroke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Death
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by roarcher 10mo ago
> We jump so quickly to religious significance. The article talks extensively about how these monuments were used for timekeeping. Marking the seasons allowed people to predict animal migrations and plan agricultural activities. It seems
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by roarcher 10mo ago
Call me a cynic, but legislators own stock in these companies. Their true interest in them is also "line go up".
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by roarcher 10mo ago
> It is search if you ask it to produce a list of links. Unfortunately it can hallucinate those too. I've had ChatGPT cite countless nonexistent academic papers, complete with links that go nowhere.
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by roarcher 10mo ago
Ever since LLMS became popular, there's been an epidemic of people pasting ChatGPT output onto forums (or in your case, offering to). These posts are always received similarly to yours, so I'm skeptical that you're genuinely
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by roarcher 10mo ago
...are you under the impression that you have an exclusive relationship with "him"? Everyone else has access to ChatGPT too.
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by roarcher 10mo ago
> EU AI Act to require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content. No thanks. How would you find violators, with AI detectors? Might as well go back to throwing people into lakes to see if they float.
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by roarcher 10mo ago
For the purposes of this thread we are obviously assuming free will exists. If it doesn't then achievements have no meaning and credit belongs to no one, making the whole conversation moot.

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