throwawayoldie

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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
If I were Jensen Huang, the first thing I'd do...well, the _first_ thing I'd do is ditch the silly leather jacket and dress like an adult. But the first thing I'd do with Nvidia is make sure the company's product line is
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
An interesting point, I'll see if I can think up any counterexamples.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Given that Bangkok is the biggest city in the country, I'd expect costs and wages to both be higher than the national average--though probably, to be fair, not _this_ much higher.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
To paraphrase The Princess Bride, "Won't work, I know too many tech people."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
...note to self, move to Bangkok.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I always heard it as "The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time, the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time." But yeah.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
My theory is that this world is actually some other world's hell.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Unfortunately for all of us, it turns out that cyberpunk dystopias are a lot more fun to read about than to live in.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
In that case, it'll only take 8 years.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"One of the most important patterns of conservative message-making is projection. Projection is a psychological notion; it roughly means attacking someone by falsely claiming that they are attacking you. Conservative strategists engage
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> It's a bubble if the tech or audience wasn't there and capabilities weren't improving weekly. But...is it and are they? Gen AI boosters tend to make assertions like this as if they're unassailable facts, but never s
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Funny how that happens.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
In theory.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And yet have produced nothing of value for society.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And the last episode came out almost 20 years ago, based on things David Simon had heard about in the years before that.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Well, if a fictional drama said so...
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Except even more egregious, because if your GM car had a master key under the floor mat, you could just remove it yourself and throw it down a handy storm sewer.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Seems fake because it is.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It is if you want to get funding.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Not only is this so-called article slop, it breaks the back button. One more site to blacklist.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I'm gonna guess the answer is, because the Leader said so.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Nah, it's always "swordfish".
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
...shit, maybe this is the Great Filter. In which case, fellow humans, it's been nice knowing some of you, and best of luck to the rats or raccoons or cockroaches or whoever ends up taking our ecological niche.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And after all a company has never done anything foolish.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Spoken like a guy who didn't read the article and is just repeating the platitudes he's heard that make him feel good.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Still much less effective than spray paint liberally applied.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I imagine he was probably still pretty salty about the whole Gollancz/Homage to Catalonia thing.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
As a longtime IF fan, I can basically guarantee there are.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"You're absolutely right, that's not a sentence you recognize..."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
My takeaway is: LLMs are not great at text adventures, even when those text adventures are decades old and have multiple walkthroughs available on the Internet. Slow clap.

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