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by soerxpso 10mo ago
You don't really need to win an argument with luddites. Completely rejecting extremely useful technology and then picking a fight with people who don't is a way to speedrun losing, whether you have "compelling arguments"
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by soerxpso 10mo ago
> Ok, if that's really your thinking then you need to lay out: here's an impossible-to-ignore thing we can do with this, and this is how, and this is why this wouldn't be possible without this thing. There was a period of
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by soerxpso 10mo ago
You also have this quadchotomy in a department store, or in a number of other valuable businesses.
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by soerxpso 10mo ago
I believe you're misunderstanding what the OP means about "long-term" memory. From what I can tell, it's not actively modifying the weights of the underlying model, it just "remembers" things from a high number
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by soerxpso 10mo ago
Signing something doesn't verify that it's real, it just verifies that you claimed that it was real, which everyone was already aware of. You can either hack a camera, or use an unhacked camera to take a picture of a fake picture.
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by soerxpso 10mo ago
Suppose that I care about trustworthy and reliably accurate news sources and am willing to pay. How can I distinguish which ones are trustworthy and reliable? No offense to the folks at 404 Media, but I've never met a single one of the
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by soerxpso 10mo ago
Would calling and saying, "Hey, the bridge is destroyed!" without an image not have also triggered a delay? I question the safety standards of the railway if they would just ignore such a call after an earthquake. Generative AI do
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
Any attempt to fix this would immediately used for outright immigration fraud, and any attempt to ban immigration fraud will always be used as a cudgel for bureaucrats to keep out normal, tax-paying Europeans, until low-level bureaucrats ha
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
When someone is a danger to innocent people walking by who didn't choose to do any fentanyl, their recovery chances are secondary to the safety of the innocent passers by. The people who advocate for leaving them on the street never wa
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
Roads are cheaper than busses.
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
Luxembourg has insane tax revenue per capita because of its status as an international tax haven. A program that might be hardly noticeable on Luxembourg's budget could put a big dent into the budget of an American city.
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
Good luck getting Congress to do anything at all, ever. Best we can offer you is one big partisan pork bill every two years, no matter who's in charge and no matter what voters actually want. Maybe if one senator (foolishly) decided to
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
That license also doesn't give the ffmpeg devs the right to dictate which bugs you're allowed to find, disclose privately, or disclose publicly. The software is provided as-is, without warranty, and I can do what I want with it,
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by soerxpso 11mo ago
> 2 I see people say this literally every time someone complaining about lack of interviews posts their resume. We shouldn't have a system where every job seeker is supposed to be more of a resume formatting expert than the average
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by soerxpso 1y ago
> Maybe a site like this should try to root-out the "root source" of information - official press releases or press conferences, eye-witness accounts. I'd personally pay for that. It feels like 90% of the "news"
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by soerxpso 1y ago
> hallucinate whole APIs for D3 on multiple occasions, which should be really well represented in the training sets With many existing systems, you can pull documentation into context pretty quickly to prevent the hallucination of APIs.
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by soerxpso 1y ago
> In 1930 Keynes projected that by 2000 their grandchildren could work 15 hours per week This projection came true. You can live with a 1930s living standard while working 15 hours per week at a median wage. However, nobody wants to live
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by soerxpso 1y ago
> you can give immigrants temporary term VISAs and make it clear their stay is going to be strictly temporary In practice that rarely goes as intended. The first political party to say, "We changed our minds, you can all have citize
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by soerxpso 1y ago
Create a low-subjectivity rubric before looking at any resumes and blindly apply the rubric. YoE, # of direct reports, titles that match the position, degree, certifications, etc are all objective metrics. If you're using any other cri
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by soerxpso 1y ago
How is this any worse than the current system where your resume is just keyword-filtered? It seems like a straight upgrade for my resume to be discussed by agents that know the difference between Java and JavaScript and aren't going to
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by soerxpso 1y ago
> I should hope that the purpose of a class writing exercise is not to create an artifact of text but force the student to think I'm there for the degree. If I wanted to learn and engage with material, I could save $60,000 and do th
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by soerxpso 2y ago
> The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing I am willing to move anywhere in the US to do any manufacturing job if it means that I will be paid enough to afford a house with two bedrooms and basic living expenses
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by soerxpso 2y ago
The issue is the artist in this particular case didn't really provide their impression. When I hear that something is an "artist's impression" I expect it to mean that a reasonable thinking person read about the thing in
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by soerxpso 2y ago
Despite the poem, Ellis Island has always turned away individuals with known criminal records (although a 'known' record was much rarer at the time) and anyone they thought was likely to become a public charge. Our immigration pol
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by soerxpso 2y ago
In the case mentioned above where someone just spins around in their chair and takes a random photo on their phone (which they would then own the rights to), did that person really do any 'creative input'? All they did was press a
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by soerxpso 2y ago
I think the name concerns are legitimate just on the basis that it sounds awkward, regardless of whether it's offensive or not. An image editor named Gnome or Goblin, or even Midget (widely regarded to also be offensive), would be fine
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by soerxpso 2y ago
The job of the person drinking the milk presumably has nothing to do with moving cards to people's desks. The job of the office manager is literally to keep the milk stocked. When keeping the milk stocked becomes a sidequest for every
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by soerxpso 2y ago
That's kind of a chicken and egg issue, isn't it? Why is it that employees can get more money/promotions from a company they have no relationship with, than from a company where they've already been working for multiple
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by soerxpso 2y ago
Why would Google pour resources into Chromium if they don't profit off of it anymore?
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by soerxpso 2y ago
I believe the claim was that it's coming default on prebuilt PCs. If you're installing Windows, that's not the situation where Chrome would be the default.

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