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by urthor 4y ago
The issue isn't the walled garden. The issue is the monopolistic price gouging Apple charges for access to the walled garden. If you took the "policing for developer's short circuiting the 30% cut" out of Apple's ap
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Individual responsibility is tied to economic rationalism. With 100% devolved individual responsibility, you create market failure. Nicotine based addition is a pure example of market failure. To advocate for 100% unhindered individual resp
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I find the root cause is not so much size... and more so younger sibling syndrome. Australia/New Zealand have a... very, very, very deep-seated feeling of inadequacy, comparing themselves to large Anglophile nations. There's a gen
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by urthor 4y ago
There's a margin of error in decision making. By no means do they always get it right. Remember, much of the fourth estate innately will be crassly negative, for commercial reasons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by urthor 4y ago
> do you really want to trust your personal decisions on health, diet, and entertainment to those elected via a popularity contest? Yes. Read the history of Teddy Roosevelt & the Food and Drug Administration. https://www.
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Absolutely. This is the key point. The market is rational. European investors don't target global scale because of language/cultural barriers. And because the US specialises, Europe competes in industries where it has a speciali
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> I guess, what I'm saying, is just be careful not to get stuck in an ADHD local maximum where you're getting a dopamine hit for jumping to the next new thing. Sometimes taking the time to become a real expert in something can
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People keep repeating "1 year of experience 10 times" like it's a bad thing. The problem with the "1 year of experience n times" career trajectory is it pays incredibly well. And it's extraordinarily fulfilling
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While that's true, what's also true is that the money in the industry has quadrupled since that era (stock options lottery aside). Yes, those "old style genuine seniors" in the industry have had their titles inflated up
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If you read the national political news. Hundreds of politicians and government officials are working feverishly to "fix" this. For them, technological progress is the enemy because it disrupts the social hierarchy. We must have m
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It's ingenious, highly effective, and exactly what we should do. Ex-McKinsey executives will kybosh it and hire minimum wage workers to avoid shelling out for the CapEx. It's the American way.
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While I am in total agreement with you for many domains. ...knowing my first employer out of college, they'd be VERY happy with 99%. "The end user will test the software" is very much the adage of the age. Cut priced, low qu
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by urthor 4y ago
It's funny how what you say is correct. ...But it's also familiar even to little ole me the neophyte, essentially the opposite of a class of 1978 greybeard, from good old Cheat Engine save file manipulation. Just funny how times c
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A very, very, very, long list of features. There's actually a humongous list of peripherals, power states, and the speakers which don't work at all, to support.
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The words you are using are not true about modern Thinkpads sadly. Apple's screen, lower power management, chassis, touchpad, are all dramatically superior. The stereo on the Macbook Pro 16 inch is absolutely absurd. It's the ste
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Mathematically, zero human supervision driving is close to impossible. It's simply almost impossible to guarantee, and convince society's institutions, a computer car will perform better than a human. And if a human still has to b
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by urthor 4y ago
Yes, exactly. There's also mathematically excellent reasons why that happened. Self-driving cars are an impossibly complex problem. Statistics are statistics. Predicting the minority class correctly 99% of the time isn't good eno
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It's also not about how good ChatGPT is now. How good will ChatGPT be in 5 years? It's scary to imagine.
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While it's never going to replace the man behind the machine. It still seems highly likely that "stitching libraries together" development workflows in 10-15 years will involve large amounts of copy-editing the output of larg
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Alternative theory. The actual models work fantastically well. The board games are merely a cover to advertise to AI Researchers and portray AI as "innocent" in the public eye. Stratego is Google goofing off. The Ferrari AI mode
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by urthor 4y ago
In my experience, a little more nuanced. LARGE INTERNET DATA COMPANIES. They want the real data science. For them, data science actually allows them to perform a core business function (target their customers) in a profitable way (one way,
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by urthor 4y ago
Thank for your response. That's actually hugely insightful. > We are well aware that most of our students are not majoring in maths and will not go on to teach it. Most of them at my university will go on to be engineers, so we te
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You'd be surprised just how significant that prompting was to your future learning. The most valuable learning you can get from a book is reading the table of contents, then the preface & foreword, then leaving it alone for 5 days.
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Because mathematics, like most tertiary disciplines, has always been taught in a teaching style suitable for the 5% of the audience who aim to go on to be mathematics professionals (who then teach mathematics). > But it hampers understan
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I should definitely say, if I'm talking about the "community," I mean real people not anonymous Twitter accounts.
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I'd say it definitely can, 99% of tasks in programming can be done with a garbage compiler after all. Different conversation though.
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The Rust community is however, an excellent community to be part of. And it's future proof. Everyone knows Rust is the future. I'd say, for most college students, Rust would be the one you'd advise today.
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True true, fair enough.
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It's not a single, difficult feature. It's a system wide tuning of voltage frequency plus idle times for all sorts of micro-controllers, plus who knows what else. In its own way, it's extremely, extremely difficult.
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That's been my experience. It's good for learning new packages in Python. It's quite poor for learning a totally new set of programming language grammar. If you're a Javascript developer of 5+ years of experience, it&#x2

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