sooyoo

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by sooyoo 4y ago
> Microsoft will likely need to add checks to prevent copilot from offering verbatim copies of code going forward to try to avoid copyright violations here. Or they could integrate a way to find the produced output back in the corpus if
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by sooyoo 4y ago
> You will have a hard time finding people more critical of many of the actions of Google (the company) than Googlers (the employees of said company.) More critical than people who wouldn't even take a job at Google for ethical reas
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by sooyoo 4y ago
It's tracked by Google even if you never visit a page operated by Google. Non-Google websites that include Google tracking are contributing here (which is most of the web). The sentence you cite suggests that it's "just"
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by sooyoo 4y ago
I wouldn't express it in such drastic words, but it should be obvious that there is a selection bias which leaves out people to even start a job at Google for pure ethical reasons, even though they would rock the interview. To make the
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by sooyoo 4y ago
So, many layers are bad, but large span is also. This means you are limiting both width and depth of the management tree, effectively limiting the total size of the workforce to ... a few hundred? That doesn't sound right.
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by sooyoo 4y ago
This part: > I don't feel like I'm a member of many groups. And this part: > I suppose you could say I'm part of the group of Caucasian males by birth or part of the group of software engineers by trade, So, you are bel
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by sooyoo 4y ago
Those with most priviledge are usually the least aware of it. I've come to realize that "white male software engineer" is one of the groups with the highest ratio of priviledge versus priviledge awareness. (Disclosure: I belo
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by sooyoo 4y ago
I generally agree with this particular point, but not with the overall sentiment. Which is that this is the author's problem and he should just suck it up. It's not. It's a problem for all of us. High quality books are an ass
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by sooyoo 4y ago
> It's a simple way of running something quickly and without touching the rest of your system Providing a statically linked binary is even simpler, without all that extra complexity that comes with docker.
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by sooyoo 4y ago
Ironically, that's what I expected the article to be about. Discussing cheating detection. Like it's f**ing title suggests.
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by sooyoo 4y ago
I think you provided an example for the exact opposite of what you wanted to express. An airplane better arrive before running out of fuel. Somewhere, at least. That's a real deadline. You can't negotiate yourself out of that one.
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by sooyoo 4y ago
> "comments go out of date quickly, so there's no point in investing in them" The key difference is where the described thing lives. A comment describing the next few lines of code or some loop that follows, or similar, wo
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by sooyoo 4y ago
The illegal part about them is usually the fraud aspect. You tell your investors one thing but then do something else. One may argue that that's part of the definition of a ponzi scheme, i.e., if you are open about it then it's no
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by sooyoo 4y ago
> You're not describing a "creative" situation where you are building something new. That's true. But the article is not titled "Why deadlines are pointless for creative processes." It's arguing that de
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by sooyoo 4y ago
> You are talking about a schedule not deadlines. A schedule is a set of events happening at certain time, right? They have to happen at that time since there is a contractual agreement on them happening at that time, and if they don&#x2
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by sooyoo 4y ago
Yes, imagine air travel was run without deadlines. You've booked a flight on dec 1 at 3pm. You check in, sit at the gate. At 2:40pm you are informed that, sorry, the plane isn't actually there yet. It's still on route. We&#x2
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by sooyoo 4y ago
That's an interesting statement. Because I actually don't think it's true. (Well obviously it's not and you were joking, but let's say you were not, for the sake of argument.) Humans do this differently from machine