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by scruple 10mo ago
Studios store a lot of builds for a lot of different reasons. And generally speaking, in AAA I see PlayStation being the biggest pig so I would wager their PS builds are at least the same size if not larger. People knew and probably raised
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by scruple 10mo ago
I played around with it and I have to agree. It treats the user like they're dumb, regardless of what personal context you provide it. I found myself backtracking constantly to invalidate it's assumptions, to the point that I gave
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by scruple 10mo ago
Idk, I assume it's about the heavy feedstock in the Orinoco Belt that our industrial base is addicted to and our own Gulf Coast refinery system. If the MIC gets to test out some new toys in the field along the way they just consider th
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by scruple 10mo ago
It seems like an easy move to make to me. If you say it's WMDs, you have to eventually turn out the WMDs. If you say it's cocaine, well there's plenty of coke in Venezuela. It's dead simple to tie it to Maduro and label
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by scruple 11mo ago
Yes. The ship has sailed and in fact it sailed away many, many years ago. Modernity now has to reckon with Brandolini's law at the scale of these AI systems, which, depending on the system you're inside of, can vary from "thi
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by scruple 11mo ago
Probably so, assuming that what it spits out is actually real and not some hallucination, but that's not at all a given. And I also assume that the people most inclined to regurgitating what an LLM spits out are also heavily overlapped
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by scruple 11mo ago
Further, what's to stop anyone from pumping text into an LLM and then re-writing it's output to match their own style, etc.?
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Password to Louvre video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee(abcnews.go.com)
18 points by scruple 11mo ago|5 comments
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by scruple 11mo ago
I've only been put under once and it was when I was very, very young (3 for hernia surgery, I'm in my mid-40s now) and I had a similar experience, except I came to ~half way through and picked up my head, wondering what the fuck w
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by scruple 11mo ago
Fair enough, but I've always interpreted it differently. I don't view it as "punting" so much as acknowledging what the hard part is. But I agree that "you can't control others, you can only control your resp
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by scruple 11mo ago
The Serenity Prayer has been around for about 100 years now. I find myself repeating it fairly often, especially now that I've got young children.
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by scruple 1y ago
Second button from the top on the right shuts most of those things up in my experience. If not hit every button, usually one of them will work.
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by scruple 1y ago
Depends. I see the teams around me slowly being corralled like cattle, no longer doing the corralling. My own team is still chiefly cowboys but the writing is on the wall and as we grow younger we lose more and more footing in this battle.
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by scruple 1y ago
I gave it a PDF recently and asked it to help me generate some tables based on the information there in. I thought I'd be saving myself time. I spent easily twice as long as I would have if it I had done it myself. It kept making trivi
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by scruple 1y ago
We travel out of a single roller bag for a family of 5. Plus we each have a backpack with miscellaneous stuff. We generally leave a little space in the luggage fo whatever we might pick up during our stay. Our kids are 6, 6, and 4 and we&#x
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by scruple 1y ago
> What the airlines want is to have people pay more to sit together. And charging parents paying extra so families can sit together is just an easy target.
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by scruple 1y ago
No one does, so what's your point?
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by scruple 1y ago
In America, you actually don't fail when you're wealthy.
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by scruple 1y ago
It's probably best (for your mental health) to not ask these questions in earnest.
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by scruple 1y ago
Same. I'm sitting at a AAA studio where I'm hearing some people aren't even getting a COLA this year and wondering why I'm wasting my time.
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by scruple 1y ago
> 3. Have backup of backup of backup. > 4. keep checking if backups restore correctly. (can have a very rude awakening if it does not work someday ) Your backups are only as good as your ability to restore them (under pressure).
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by scruple 1y ago
Dealing with this at work right now. A newly promoted lead is struggling to delegate and all of the work coming out of his team right now is instructions on how to do what they believe they want. Very frustrating!
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by scruple 1y ago
It was at my BigTechCo except then they had to backfill and the people they got to replace them are frankly assholes compared to the people they laid off.
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The "cracked coder" fetish: Epistemic arrogance in Silicon Valley(maxread.substack.com)
38 points by scruple 1y ago|8 comments
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by scruple 1y ago
> “modernization” Glad to hear this isn't just something I'm encountering in isolation. My role at a BigTechCo (and I'm barrelling right through my mid-40s) could be summed with exactly that same word. > No one can tell
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by scruple 1y ago
> but something about strangers standing over my shoulder judging me I don't like it when people I do know do it all that much, either, to be completely honest.
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by scruple 1y ago
They are now but they weren't always. I don't know much about hardware these days, I gleefully walked away from embedded development over a decade ago, but what I believe is that you don't really want to forecast to hard on a
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by scruple 1y ago
Sounds like a good way to make China and Russia angry...
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We Are All Victor Frankenstein: Our Romantic Dream of Artificial Intelligence(voegelinview.com)
3 points by scruple 1y ago|0 comments
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by scruple 1y ago
I agree. It isn't a superpower, even if it does help us get beyond the bad times. I mentioned in another comment that my wedding day and the birth of my children are basically like any other day in my life to me. I know they're sp

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