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by sowbug 8mo ago
I found corroborating articles but am still looking for a primary source. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-offers-exit-packages-... https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/google-is-handing...
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Google Tells Employees: Brace for AI or Leave(gulte.com)
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This entire thread should be annihilated, but since you mentioned being pedantic... You're correct that a pure encryption algorithm doesn't use hashing. But real-world encryption systems will include an HMAC to detect whether me
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by sowbug 8mo ago
> What? > Hashing is not encrypting. > You can learn more about the topic here, https://www.okta.com/identity-101/hashing-vs-encryption/ Thank you for that link. Your original comment implied that S
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I remember reading somewhere that they estimated he had 10-50 billion neurons, compared to the average of 86 billion, and they were squished into less than 15% of the normal volume.
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They do have stronger schemes, which are called hash functions.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
"controlled" is key. Seattle decriminalized drug use. That's a tiny part of a larger solution rooted in harm reduction.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Those are the adulterants, not the drugs being adulterated such as heroin, meth, and MDMA. For the most part, no customer wants fentanyl. The dealers like it because it's a cheap booster for cutting the drugs that their customers actua
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by sowbug 8mo ago
If the US wanted to end the fentanyl and xylazine and nitazene epidemic, it would legalize the controlled manufacture, sale, and usage of the drugs being adulterated. This won't happen, because the 50-year-old War on Drugs is a load-b
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by sowbug 8mo ago
In Silicon Valley we pay PG&E close to 50 cents per kWh. An RTX 6000 PC uses about 1 kW at full load, and renting such a machine from vast.ai costs 60 cents/hour as of this morning. It's very hard for heavy-load local AI to ma
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by sowbug 8mo ago
> and their costs are also lower How so? Netflix has to license or produce all their content.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Did hardware engineers back in the 1970s-80s* think that software took the joy out of their craft? What do those engineers now think in retrospect? *I'm picking that era because it seems to be when most electronic machines' busine
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by sowbug 8mo ago
A lot of us resist the pressure to move to management or technical leadership for just these reasons. Programming people isn't the same as programming computers. But the LLMs outnumber us. No matter how good an engineer I might be, I&#
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I didn't read the comment as such a direct analogy. It was more recalling a lesson of history that maybe doesn't repeat but probably will rhyme. The App Store reshuffled the deck. Some people recognized that and took advantage of
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Not with that attitude.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Yes, the relevant test isn't whether it's a bot. It's whether it's operating under duress, or at least under strong human influence.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I'm not sure if this is the same technology, but regardless it's also cool: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1897
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by sowbug 8mo ago
You have two choices: either assume everyone is asleep at 2 am and won't notice when it happens, or else advance 11 hours. My LaCrosse clock does the latter.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
We've been shopping for a simple bathroom clock to replace our final Amazon Echo and leave that increasingly dystopian ecosystem. There are some models that use Bluetooth on your phone to sync the time. I could imagine BLE being a goo
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by sowbug 8mo ago
If you like this but don't want to get your hands as dirty, have a look at the Crazy Clock: https://www.tindie.com/products/nsayer/crazy-clock/ I got one for my daughter. The erratic ticking eventually b
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by sowbug 8mo ago
The poor can pay for the drug development quite well. It takes a rich country to pay for all the regulatory capture.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
People with high blood pressure could just try harder to relax, too.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
There's someone out there who built the scalable version of Heroku at another garage startup. But we never heard of them because Heroku beat them to market.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
You don't need to use Google day-to-day. Create a single-purpose Gmail account and set up Inactive Account Manager to provide Google Drive access to your trusted contacts at the designated time. Put a single document in the drive that
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by sowbug 8mo ago
That is what's hard about transitioning from coder to lead. A good coder makes full use of a single thread of execution. A good lead effectively handles the coordination of multiple threads. Different skills. An LLM coding assistant to
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I had to edit the code and change scale from 90 to 300 to see it easily in full screen landscape on my phone. I have presbyopia and often need reading glasses to see small things.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
This is good advice for robust design, but I swear, 9 times out of 10, you will be the one who keys it the wrong way during CAD layout.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Are there any instances where a fork of a project has altered the license language for the purpose of reducing this kind of ambiguity? Either the original license grant is expansive, so the clarification is welcome and the fork will become
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Another approach is Waymo acquires Tesla's auto technology. Tesla sloughs off its dinosaur car business to focus on its new robot mission, and Waymo detoxifies the Tesla auto brand. Aside from destroying about $1.25 trillion of market
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by sowbug 8mo ago
That sounds right. Unless Waymo considers car manufacturers to be its competition and therefore something to commoditize, it wouldn't make sense for them to get involved in ground-up manufacturing. And by this point, it seems like an e

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