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571.
by roughly 1y ago
Yes, but someone got a yacht for reducing waste and controlling labor costs, so who’s to say what’s right.
572.
by roughly 1y ago
> That campaign included a successful effort this year to secure a change in New Hampshire law that will protect Sig Sauer from future liability lawsuits regarding allegations the gun should come equipped with certain safety features. If
573.
by roughly 1y ago
> There seems to be significant opportunity to zig as others zag. Historically Apple has done this - Steve Jobs noted at one point that the absolute last thing they were going to do during a recession was to cut R&D, because that was
574.
by roughly 1y ago
Interesting - I've looked at them before, but have always been hesitant. What kind of battery life are you getting, and how stable is it? What are the primary tradeoffs for you?
575.
by roughly 1y ago
If we’re not going to hold any other sector of the economy personally responsible for responding to incentives, I don’t know why we’d start with scientists. We’ve excused folks working for Palantir around here - is it that the scientists ar
576.
by roughly 1y ago
Genuine question - my impression of the Librem phones is they’re not particularly usable as phones - is a Librem an actually viable smartphone right now? Like, if I want to do all the normal stuff - use maps, message friends (say, text and
577.
by roughly 1y ago
WOW what an interesting result! This posits that either there’s a degree of conceptual interconnectivity within these models that’s far greater than we’d expect or that whatever final mechanism the model is using to actually pick what token
578.
by roughly 1y ago
> the first attempt <…> good enough to criticize. Ooh, I like this phrase.
579.
by roughly 1y ago
Is your external monitor working? How many checks failed, in what order? Across how many different regions or systems? Was it a transient failure? How many times do you retry, and at what cadence? Do you push your success or failure metrics
580.
by roughly 1y ago
> based on no closely relevant experience I don’t want to devolve this to an argument from authority, but - there’s a lot of trade offs to monitoring systems, especially at that scale. Among other things, aggregation takes time at scale,
581.
by roughly 1y ago
I’m generally more a “blame the tools” than “blame the people” - depending on how the system is set up and how the configs are generated, it’s easy for a change like this to slip by - especially if a bunch of the diff is autogenerated. It’s
582.
by roughly 1y ago
Social networks finding profitability via advertising is what created the entire problem space of social media - the algorithmic timelines, the gaming, the dopamine circus, the depression, everything negative that’s come from social media h
583.
by roughly 1y ago
This is evidenced in Oakland, where the recall campaign for Pamela Price began before she took office.
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by roughly 1y ago
> Don't be angry at the people building them for good. I am angry because the same people who've argued for years against the kinds of education systems that teach actual social systemic thinking and who've called me naive
585.
by roughly 1y ago
Yeah, I think both things can be true: one is that it is absolutely utterly unacceptable to be in the year 2025 advocating for new data collection programs in the name of "fighting crime" - it should be absolutely abundantly clear
586.
by roughly 1y ago
Yeah, I certainly didn't mean it to denigrate Gibson - his writing is beautiful, and I think he's one of the most perceptive Sci-fi writers going. The Blue Ant trilogy was one of the best encapsulations of the "new" worl
587.
by roughly 1y ago
Gibson is such a unique sci-fi author because his fundamental interest is fashion (he’s said this himself) - his worlds are beautiful, but completely skin deep, and he’s a master of using one word or phrase to evoke an entire world or backs
588.
by roughly 1y ago
One thing I read a while back noted that the cave paintings were also painted under and for specific lighting - namely, dim, flickering fire - and that under those conditions the paintings took on an even more expressive character. What’s w
589.
by roughly 1y ago
Not so much a dog whistle as a dog symphony orchestra at this point
590.
by roughly 1y ago
> we don't live in a fantasy world with infinite resources that can do X and also do Y. Right, for instance in this world, we have to choose between, say, Jeff Bezos renting Venice for the weekend and school lunches for kids, or Elo
591.
by roughly 1y ago
> A diffusion model comes with a lot of benefits in terms of parallelization and therefore speed; to my mind the architecture is a better fit for coding than strict left to right generation. I had a similar notion and am excited to see t
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by roughly 1y ago
> Likely zero <…> They would have had to grind the ring to dust and then eat the whole damned thing. Never had kids, huh?
593.
by roughly 1y ago
A fun aside here: experiments in which people who’ve taken hallucinogens are placed in brain scanners reveal activation patterns which look an awful lot like what we see when we put small children in brain scanners, and this somewhat accord
594.
by roughly 1y ago
It’s a mistake to consider other people as something other than autonomous agents in their own lives - it’s popular to conceive of other people as somehow not making decisions; frequently this indicates they’re making decisions by different
595.
by roughly 1y ago
One thing I’d say about this is that other people will have perspectives that you do not that can help you be more right if you can hear it from them. You’ve got one life, one set of experiences, one brain, and the same 24 hours in the day
596.
by roughly 1y ago
A conversation I’ve had with several people is: do you want to be right or do you want to get shit done? I dabbled in management for a bit, and spending time figuring out how different people communicated, how to hear and speak to them, an
597.
by roughly 1y ago
Nor should you. OP should’ve said Apple without Jobs - Ive had artistic taste, but not product or human taste.
598.
by roughly 1y ago
Welcome to the future, y’all. It’s gonna be a wild decade.
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by roughly 1y ago
If it came to light that somebody found a way to use this API in a way that is beneficial to society, would you be happy that Google could revoke access? Or unhappy?
600.
by roughly 1y ago
I'm single, rent controlled, and was working at a FAANG-ish company. The fear was real, for sure, but it honestly made a huge, huge difference for both my mental health and my employability afterwards. I also got to spend some time fig

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