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931.
by ummonk 4y ago
Masters students often don't receive a stipend.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Senior undergrads and masters degree students, as well as PhDs who are willing to work for the current market rate.
933.
by ummonk 4y ago
They won't go, and if they do senior undergrads and masters students will do the teaching instead.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Exactly. Fundamentally, these grad students want to further enhance a system where undergrads pay tuition for an education, and that tuition gets paid to research-focused academics instead.
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by ummonk 4y ago
More importantly, I'm with the undergrads. Their tuitions shouldn't go up to pay for a bunch of whiny PhDs who could have worked in industry instead.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Now imagine how inconvenient it would be if you needed to create a new account for each subreddit or discord server. That's how Mastodon works because accounts are tied to communities.
937.
by ummonk 4y ago
Why does it need to be done as an extension? Can't you use fat pointers and crash the program if the bounds check fails? Since it's undefined behavior, this should be compatible with the C specification.
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by ummonk 4y ago
6% is hardly what I'd call "rare".
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by ummonk 4y ago
Yeah I don't disagree, which was why I caveated it by saying "since the end of the last glacial period". Before that, all bets are off, and I personally do consider the Toba catastrophe a possible explanation for the ridicu
940.
by ummonk 4y ago
It’s calling a branch of the government and describing a situation involving imminent or ongoing violence which the government is expected (though not legally obligated) to respond to.
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by ummonk 4y ago
If I call the cops because some armed gunman is breaking into my house, I don’t want them to send some unarmed patrolman to politely knock on my door and check whether everything is okay.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Oh, you're right. My objection was based on my own misinterpretation of "pockets" as referring to time periods and/or specific architectural knowledge rather than to particular locations.
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by ummonk 4y ago
You're making it sound like everything advanced and then receded at the same time across the world. This hasn't been the case since the end of the last glacial period. There have been recedings of local civilizations scattered thr
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by ummonk 4y ago
If someone posted about Ancient Aliens or any other pseudoscience show on here and said it's "really interesting" in a discussion about history (rather than, say, fantasy or entertainment), we'd characterize it the same
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by ummonk 4y ago
Apparently even on HN some people fall for History Channel type nonsense.
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by ummonk 4y ago
That doesn't mean Facebook is a substitute for Twitter (it obviously isn't).
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by ummonk 4y ago
He's not free to do what he wants if it violates antitrust law
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by ummonk 4y ago
Exactly. Most people, including Putin, don't engage in the same level of unserious behavior that Elon Musk does.
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by ummonk 4y ago
If there's one thing that merits heavy FTC action it's this. It's clearly anticompetitive, and it's clearly bad for consumers.
950.
by ummonk 4y ago
If the red pixel affected the encoding of nearby pixels in the compressed original, which you've now neglected to redact, then the data very well could persist.
951.
by ummonk 4y ago
> Meta has a large legal department full of lawyers who are paid a lot more than whoever you can afford. Yes, they have very competent lawyers. In fact, the lawyers are so competent they might actually realize "hey this isn't a
952.
by ummonk 4y ago
Doesn’t matter. The point is to get a human to pay attention.
953.
by ummonk 4y ago
I feel like “it didn’t go as anticipated” would have created the same suspense without being a lie.
954.
by ummonk 4y ago
How is hosting the knowledge in a large cloud database any different than hosting the model itself in the cloud? Why the need to run "reasoning" locally?
955.
by ummonk 4y ago
No “bourgeoisie” was meant to refer to capital owners (with “petit-bourgeoisie” referring to small business owners). Middle-class are the “proletariat” by Marx and co. Incidentally, the underclass that many on the modern left focus on were
956.
by ummonk 4y ago
If 10 seconds isn’t enough to orient yourself and take over after the car alerts you to do so, you shouldn’t be driving a car.
957.
by ummonk 4y ago
The difference is that they're explicitly allowing the driver to stop paying attention to driving, which reduces fatigue, wasted time etc. It's actual level 3 self-driving tech rather than mere driver assistance tech. Of course, o
958.
by ummonk 4y ago
Holding the title "director of X" doesn't mean you're necessarily on the board of directors.
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by ummonk 4y ago
No, because bank reserves can go up. And by increasing its interest rates, the Fed reserve is encouraging banks to put more money in reserve accounts.
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by ummonk 4y ago
You can sell your shares back to the company. That's the stock buyback that the linked article hates so much. It's just a more tax efficient alternative to dividends.

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