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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I think that graduate schools do not filter on passion and ability. They filter on people that can play the game, where such things can be a liability. Edit: “research” in academia now revolves around grant writing and publishing. That is
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Graduate school is not about passion and pushing frontiers. It is about training new researchers. It is it not a place that I would recommend to anyone who has real passion or brilliance in any field.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
This is how we got cars that require visiting the dealership to get serviced, because they have total control over the ecosystem.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Are you familiar with our employment laws? Firing someone can cause the bureaucracy to be involved.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
This. This needs to be a thing.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
The people fudging the metric (developers) may not be the same people that are relying on the metrics (managers). Perverse incentives at play could easily motivate this kind of shenanigan.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
If you believe that, I have some USB storage to sell you. Huge capacity, barely used. I keep my inventory in storage under this bridge, which I also happen to have for sale. Interested? ;)
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Why have rules (or laws) if they don’t enforce them? Or only enforce them selectively when they feel it necessary, such as when not doing so would threaten your stock price (or re-election campaign)? Maybe I just answered my own question?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
What consequences do you imagine if they (rightfully) choose to ignore it?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
It’s interesting and worthy of genuine applaud for being a good starting point for further work. That said, I am more interested in what size model this could manage while producing “just enough” tokens per second to work at a conversationa
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Works for a bit in iOS Orion but buttons now stop the counters. Reload rewinds progress. Saw another comment had the link to the GitHub project, so went to file a bug. Stopped in my tracks when I saw over 200 open issues.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Yup. If every person that got misdirected by an ad went into the offenders business and raised hell, they would probably decide that it wasn’t worth it.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
This kind of fraud has become so pervasive. People cheat the system and then get rewarded. Everyone else sees it and decides to follow suit. The enshittification of society.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I believe this is a missing font issue, whereupon Firefox chooses very poor substitutes. I ran into this recently on one of my machines and solved it by installing the Microsoft fonts package (or possibly another one… I can’t remember now
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Social coding has been dying for a while. I see it as a direct consequence of broadly decreasing levels of trust across society.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Automated transforms like this seem risky at best and dangerous at worst, due to one fundamental truth about computer software: garbage in, garbage out. The transform can be perfectly correct, but any bugs in the input will be translated al
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Siemens has acquired countless smaller businesses over the years, including some large ones (e.g. Mentor Graphics). It is entirely plausible to believe those purchases included IP such as this.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I hope they get crushed like bugs with sanctions. Wasn’t disbarment on the table as consequences for this kind of chicanery? At this point, these lawyers should have known better. Throw the book at them.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Every time I post something that might inflame the government, I now fully expect to have LEO show up armed at my doorstep. Yes I live in the US. Enjoy your “free speech” but be prepared to defend it with your life.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
The same way my neighbors are insulated from consequences when they make an outright false complaint: they claim that they believed the information was true.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I take them constantly. Not even sure how. I think it means I am “of a certain age” these days. Now get off my lawn.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
When I see YAML in a product tech stack, I know that the developers have probably made other similarly poor life decisions and try to steer clear of the entire iceberg.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I cannot imagine a scenario where this does not significantly constrain in the output in ways that degrade the quality of results. It feels a bit like forcing a painter to work from a sketched drawing, rather than letting them work with a
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
The impulse is to out the bad system, not the poor souls stuck in it. Thus the ultimate decision to say nothing, as there is no way to affect one and not the other.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Escalation of cyber warfare tactics can’t possibly lead to a full blown conflagration, right? Right?!?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
And there’s that whole pesky problem of not being able to glide to a safe landing when something goes catastrophically wrong.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
So you are betting on things getting better by… letting things get worse.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Good idea. Law enforcement is always looking for new ways to avoid responsibility for its shortcomings and failures. Now they can blame an AI. Classic case of “of course they knew what could go wrong, and that is exactly why they chose th
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
The courts are not deterministic. There will never be a universally valid defense, because crimes are not fungible. There can always be circumstances that change how the facts are interpreted.

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