salawat

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by salawat 7mo ago
I didn't say all, and I knew someone would chime up, good job. If you want a healthier view of companies with their QA groups, Food Safety, and medical devices are two where I've at least seen signs the culture is still active and
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by salawat 7mo ago
This is unique only to the Software field. Manufacturing of physical goods learned long ago there is no cheating physics, as much as the executive's and finance people wish that were the case.
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by salawat 7mo ago
I tend to heed that wonderful wisdom of Groucho Marx; namely, refusing to be a member of anything that would accept me as a member. The call on the surface resonates. Unfortunately though, I'm a bit turned off to the tune of "and
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by salawat 7mo ago
> Algorithm implementations are programmatic manifestations of mathematical models and, as such, are not what they model by definition. Rofl. Someone hasn't discovered Functionalism or the identity of indiscernables. Must be hard la
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by salawat 7mo ago
In Texas, at least, the lack of income tax is made up for in property taxes. Just owning that plot with nothing on it is still going to be a sizable liability.
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by salawat 7mo ago
>They're just not making the basic connection between supply and demand. They don't like my beds. There's something wrong with them! I can't be the problem! -Procrustes Yes. It's the people's fault for not u
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by salawat 7mo ago
Ain't gonna happen. Just like I said people would start ignoring licenses was inevitable, do is misusing any AI model. The only way to prevent it, is not to put it out there. You fools built it. Now ya get to live with monster you&#x27
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by salawat 7mo ago
The hell makes you think the AI wouldn't be guided by the optimization function set by sociopaths?
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by salawat 7mo ago
Well... Yes. The middle class haven't been rendered sufficiently replaceable yet. Make no mistake, once you're deskilled, you'll be treated exactly like the poor. Have you not been keeping up? What do you think the whole AI c
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by salawat 7mo ago
I never complained about the Current Population Survey. Census Bureau does a great job. I complain about BLS. And yes, I'm the odd fellow who does, in fact, talk about weird niche 'work' minutiae with people because I'm
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by salawat 7mo ago
This is a restatement of the old wisdom that to safely use a tool you must be 10% smarter than it is." Or stated differently, you must be "ahead" of the tool (capable of accurately modeling and predicting the outcome), not &q
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by salawat 7mo ago
ADA seems like bullshit until something happens that costs you sight, hearing, manual dexterity, etc. Then it is significantly less funny overall, I assure you.
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by salawat 7mo ago
This framework isn't going to shoot my dog, right?
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by salawat 7mo ago
The quote refers to a Faustian bargain offered by the Penn's. They'd bankroll securing a township, as long as the township gave up the ability to tax them. The quote points out that by giving up the liberty to tax, for short term
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by salawat 7mo ago
See, Census letters are one thing. BLS is another. I've actually received Census letters. BLS ones, not so much, and given they claim to be collecting data through surveys all the damn time, I'd expect to have been able to find so
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by salawat 7mo ago
It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. This makes it a very, very dirty
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by salawat 7mo ago
>HN was such an interesting place in 2024, they’ve all disappeared, sadly. Likely because once you've seen your opponent mask off there is no longer a point trying to maintain a facade of politeness. You are in full adversarial wate
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by salawat 7mo ago
Alright. Gave this a read, and the gist of what the author is going for is as follows: All computation requires a mapmaker/conscious being to organize. (In other words, the significance of computation is dependent on the conscious obse
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by salawat 7mo ago
I've never met a single person willing to attest to filling out a BLS survey. Not once. If their methodology is built on that + unemployment data from State Unemployment agencies + data from payroll processors, anyone not collecting
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by salawat 7mo ago
>"There's no free lunch" - this is representative of the level of argument in software circles entirely. But WTF does that mean? You cannot have a thing without doing the work to build it. You don't get the better abs
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by salawat 7mo ago
Carmack is the same person comfortable with delaying talks of ethical treatment of a digital being, or what even constitutes one until in his eyes "they demonstrate the capabilities of a two year old" by which point, with the scal
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by salawat 7mo ago
This. People don't recognize that a tech company with an algorithmic feed is indistinguishable from a public awareness filter. It allows a couple hundred to 1000's of people to set the Overton window of millions/billions. Whe
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by salawat 7mo ago
Alas, I am not. T'were the case, assuming that's where you are, I'd invite you over. The pond you'd have to cross however, probably renders such a thing inviable. I hesitated to even broach the subject on a public forum.
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by salawat 8mo ago
But you can't do that. That would implicitly out where the knowledge came from, and we all know that the AI industry has an existential incapability to actually cope with that little turd. Might work great for data you actually own, go
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by salawat 8mo ago
Yes, because speculation has NEVER bitten us in the ass before, right? Coughs in Spectre Speculative decoding is just running more hardware to get a faster prediction. Essentially, setting more money on fire if you're being billed pe
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by salawat 8mo ago
Ya know, I can't say the same thought didn't occur to me.
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by salawat 8mo ago
>There is literally no fraud/abuse that has been discovered let alone prosecuted and they redefined "waste" to "programs I don't like" to save few hundred millions, maybe a billion... from and original targe
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by salawat 8mo ago
...I mean, we've spent the last decade building products with the explicit intention of hiding or otherwise papering over the File abstraction. The hell did anyone expect to happen as a result? People coming in or aging out lose the kn
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by salawat 8mo ago
Passive voice. It's not the situation, it's the executive's charted course of action in response to it. They are trying so hard to avoid any hint of culpability for the decision they are making. Laughable.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Anyone who thinks that's anything but an accounting trick/tech version of a drug dealer's loss lead is completely off their rocker. Money, or GTFO. One nets you dependence on the employer. The other nets you the server racks

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