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by teiferer 4mo ago
> Pretty sure it's all tax funded. That's too simple of a statement. Sure, govt grants are involved in subsidies for installation and the loan interest. But that thing is then generating electricity, which is what saves them th
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> eg: if my booking is wrong, they will cover the cost and compensate me That would be nice, but it's the wrong angle. The reason people like real secretaries is not because somebody is compensated when things go wrong. It's be
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> mass migrations > pretty full ones C'mon, why parrot this nonsense? There are no "mass migrations" and neither the European countries nor the US are "full". Yes the Europeans screwed up real integration acro
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> interesting The word I'd choose instead is "concerning" if not "scary".
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> miserably bad at soft-skills interviews Is that because of an actual lack of soft skills or is it because the interviews are bad? > I just haven't felt like re-writing my resume to game them. Not defending the AI interview assi
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by teiferer 4mo ago
And a good manager understands the difference between obedience out of fear and internal motivation out of interest.
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> It’s virtually impossible to make every subject interesting for every student. It its full generality that's probably true, but we probably don't fully appreciate how the classical school system kills interest. I've met
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> teach someone who really isn't interested in learning. This is key. If you are interested in a subject, the learning will come more or less automatically. Different ways of teaching still have substantial impact on how efficiently
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> You can represent any finite series of real numbers with a series of computations performed on some other finite series of real numbers. That statement caught my eye. It's either trivially true or quite clearly wrong, depending on
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> The point of the original short story is that the computational substrate doesn't matter when you have Turing completeness. That is your takeaway from the 1991 story?
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by teiferer 4mo ago
I have never thought of such a distinction between "bits" into "data bits" and "switching bits". From a circuit perspective that makes kinda sense, but from the abstract "bit" perspective, the "s
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> falsely supposing that “can be argued” is the relevant test. Hm? It's what counts in court, so it is the only relevant test. > Even legitimate cases of misbehaviour on aircraft rarely lead to prosecution (in the US). People h
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> drafting a will Such a document may not make a difference to the person that eventually will have died, but it can make or break the life of generations to come in countries that are so heavily optimized for dynasty building like the U
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by teiferer 4mo ago
Question is: if a legal question is answered incorrectly by an LLM, who is going to be held responsible?
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> It reads a lot like an LLM And that my friend was the joke. Achievement unlocked, congrats!
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by teiferer 4mo ago
Did anybody consider that this was sarcastically hand-crafted with some obvious LLM-isms mixed in for the lulz? It goes both ways...
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by teiferer 4mo ago
You make it sound like it's a black-or-white situation, but it surely is not. What consitutes a danger to the safe operation of a flight is quite broadly up for interpretation. The word "bomb"? A strongly worded hateful messa
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by teiferer 5mo ago
> The PIC might not like a shirt you’re wearing, he can’t make you take it off. That's likely a false statement, even if unintentionally so. If the t-shirts print is offensive enough then I'm sure a strong enough argument can b
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by teiferer 5mo ago
> Being on the plane doesn't remove your right to free speech While I agree with you that this was obviously a ridiculous overreaction, an air plane is not a public space. It's more akin to being in someones living room in that
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by teiferer 5mo ago
I understand the technical appeal of this effort, but wouldn't it be easier to try to obtain the original source code? Or has that been lost and all that's left is a blob? Fundamentally, decompilation is not solving a technical pr
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by teiferer 5mo ago
And a lot of the "funding" is through mutual deals with MSFT, Nvidia, etc. The Europeans have none of that and would need to pay in actual cash.
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by teiferer 5mo ago
> I am wondering what is keeping them back, though: Money? Compute? Skills? Training data? Not ruthless enough and no backing by a corrupt govt administration that has no morals but focuses on self-enrichment instead. Might sound drastic
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by teiferer 5mo ago
> Magical thinking. I guess if your phone is going to have 128gb of dddr5 then sure. Why would it not? The typical new phone today has 16gb of RAM. 20 years ago that was somewhere around 32mb. Factor 512. It's not hard to see that w
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by teiferer 5mo ago
Where exactly do you want to draw the line?
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by teiferer 5mo ago
The future I'm seeing is AI coprocessors running inference locally in most devices that today have a CPU. Just look at how powerful your mobile phone has become compared to your desktop computer 15 years ago and compared to a main fram
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by teiferer 5mo ago
It's easy to be nice in the beginning or when the other side is nice. Point is to be nice even if the other side is rude or wants conflict. In a sense you are giving in to their game if you are rude back. What really hits them is if th
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by teiferer 5mo ago
> Wasting applicants time should have consequences. The consequence is that they don't get to enjoy your competence as an employee nor that of others who don't feel treated well, with implications for their future strength in t
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by teiferer 5mo ago
Sarcastic or for real? Because I find that an obvious choice, a little depending on context though.
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by teiferer 5mo ago
I like such interviews. They tell me it's not a place I want to work at without wasting much time finding out.
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by teiferer 5mo ago
Hard to claim the moral high ground if you do eye for an eye. Always be nicer than the other side. Even for practical reasons. If they think you are a prick, the blast radius can be substantially wider than this specific interview. And for

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