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by throwawaygh 4y ago
In the 80s and 90s it was really common to anthropomorphize spaghetti code. Just because something is difficult to analyze doesn't mean it has limitless power.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
This is probably the most under-rated comment in the thread. Speaking as a scientist in industry, polluting executive attention with internal spats over publication clearance is cause enough for termination.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
The AGI safety stuff is weird and silly. AFAICT that community is mostly filled with philosophy types anthropomorphizing ML models that they don't understand. It's a waste of time and money. But then, I feel the same way about lik
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Well, they're removing hardware (due to shortages) for a feature that's still a few "this year, I promise!" lies away anyway Here's why I'm confused: in that case why not just remove both chips? Having
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Right; the whole conversation re: "what is drive by wire anyways?" is a massive red herring. That's really my bad. The operative question is just "what happens if the primary chip fails?" If the answer is "noth
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> allocates slabs of memory up front and then avoids frequent tiny allocations anywhere near hot loops. My observation was intended primarily as a pedagogic critique. The C solutions to these problems don't require any cleverness
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> brute-force solution... Hint: you only need two loops. Well, yes, there are all sorts of tricks, including the use of a solver :) In my earlier post, read "brute-force" as "full enumeration". The comment was abo
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Is that really true? I know that there's a mechanical connection, but the existence of a mechanical connection doesn't necessarily mean that the system is not effective drive by wire (for the purpose of reasoning about system safe
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Based on the CNBC article, here's my understanding. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, because this sounds... really bad with safety implications that are not at all related to self-driving. 1. Tesla vehicles are drive-by-wir
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
The code is identical, modulo minor syntactic sugar. We're talking about 6 ints, 3 for loops, and 3 boolean comparisons between integers.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Slightly tangential, but I wonder if the massive amount of people using Python makes it easier to "sell" OR/SAT/etc. tools to developers. I've been working with some young devs who only learned Python and web stuff
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
There are managers and directors in tech who realize that their job is to hire the best given their budget. This happens, in particular, when hiring technical middle management at "second tier but still amazing" employers. Outsi
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Ascendant nationalist populist movements blaming the world's ills on a "Shadowy Elite" isn't new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Getting rid of those things would at most double the farm payrolls, which is still a tiny minority of Americans. For the most part, monocrops, pesticides, and fungicides have HUGE economic efficiency incentives ($ ROI / acre) even if y
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Organized religion helped to defeat Communism The cold war propaganda was ratcheted down some time after Gen X; to a super-majority of under-30s, even conservative ones, this probably sounds more like a knave's laugh line than a
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Organized religion constrains and directs group dynamics. That's not a defense or indictment of religion; it's just a fact. Getting rid of organized religion does not get rid of the fundamental aspects of human cognition that give
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Zoom School proved what most of us knew all along I'm not sure how things are in the UK, but the sentiment in the US is that Zoom schooling was an unmitigated disaster. I was bullish on remote education prior to COVID, but inter
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Creating market distortions that purposely reduces the value of property and discourages production of the good is not the way to go. Zoning laws already create market distortions. A zoning law that prevents building denser residenti
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Your observations about minimum wage work and globalized JIT supply chains are, I think, pretty valid. > <50% believe in God/higher being, down from 80%+ in early 00s. Source? The only recent poll I could find on this was a 202
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Also why are you optimizing for lower rents... What about the homeowners who benefit from having more things they can do with their property? Because basic shelter is WAY lower on the hierarchy of needs than rental income, and shelte
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Small government is absolutely the pretense. The contracts go to software/it services companies that are connected at the state government level. WWT comes to mind.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> But why? Old people in the USA are EXTREMELY wealthy in terms of healthcare purchasing power. All retired people have medicare. Many retired people have additional healthcare coverage from their former employers (doesn't exist a
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
>> they can 10x their profits by only serving elderly clients. > Soon people stopped coming Ah, yes. Why didn't we think of this before? By increasing the cost of (geriatric) healthcare, we can destroy demand. That's
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
13 seems low, but I had 3 years of full time programming experience by the time I was 17. It's really important to note that I'm not particularly gifted. I was required to work "real jobs" over the summer starting at 15
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Mr Berling - who suffers from anxiety disorders - had asked his manager to not celebrate his birthday at work... Despite Mr Berling's request, the company, which conducts Covid-19 tests, threw him a surprise party in August 2019,
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> There's a cheaper filter called an IQ test, but they are illegal in the US. Tech people have been repeating this bullshit since the days when Slashdot was the HN. Maybe earlier. It's always been 99% false and 0% true, with
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> I will say that in the STEM degrees people were far more curious than in the humanities. That's surprising. I found that the humanities students (sans Communications) were far more intellectually curious. My friends in Philosoph
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> but people are in academia because they want to do their research Which is perfectly fine as long as those people don't go asking the NSF or NIH for money to fund students. I'll never understand why we give egomaniacs fundi
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
It's also possible that the extremes are actually the two global optima. But I agree that personal temperament and perhaps upbringing has a lot to do with it.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Some people are really good at making more money. Some people are really good at pinching every penny. It is a very rare creature to actually be great at both. Almost everyone I know, myself included, I can box into A or B pretty easi

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