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by yifanl 1y ago
Are you asking because of the perceived poor reception to your recent blogpost? Because I'd say a lot of your questions are answered directly in this latest piece.
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by yifanl 1y ago
You mean, besides how this one is targeted at journalists and that one is targeted at the tech industry? The difference, besides everything else is expectations: He expects the tech industry to overhype things because they're salespeop
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by yifanl 1y ago
You can put effort in making workers not want to quit.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Sure. If you don't trust Signal to not do that, then you likely aren't using Signal.
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by yifanl 1y ago
What if in 6 months earthquakes sinks the entire lower 48?
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by yifanl 1y ago
Because at thats what you need to do to get a 943x coder black belt
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by yifanl 1y ago
It's not just a political derail to bring up a highly-visible example of the described behaviour. People don't care if they aren't forced to care, and in a world driven by deadlines, we're only motivated to care a certai
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by yifanl 1y ago
Yes. This was the obvious path to monetization I predicted a year ago [1] I didn't predict that it'd be injecting ideology instead of brand names because that seemed way too lame, but that's my blindspot I guess. [1]: https:
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by yifanl 1y ago
> That's because TOTK is designed to run on it, with careful compromises and a lot of manual tuning. Should I draw from this conclusion that modern software is not designed to run on modern hardware?
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by yifanl 1y ago
The Nintendo Switch on a chipset that was outdated a decade ago can run Tears of the Kingdom. It's not sensible that modern hardware is anything less than instant.
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by yifanl 1y ago
I do just that by switching colour schemes. Light mode at work, dark mode at home. It takes a little bit, but the brain is easily tricked by flashy lights.
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by yifanl 2y ago
If they really wanted to verify a non-reporter as a reporter, they could give someone a salary of $1/year and then they would actually be a "reporter".
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by yifanl 2y ago
The fact that they deserve to be bankrupt doesn't mean the person responsible for their state of bankruptcy is innocent.
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by yifanl 2y ago
Surely the null hypothesis isn't "The USA would have a domestic industry for every crop known to man if not for external factors"
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by yifanl 2y ago
web3 means different things to different people, much like how AI-powered means different things to different people. All that matters is that the moneyed class is able to choose a slightly related definition of it that generates speculativ
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by yifanl 2y ago
You'd have better results if you had prompted it with the actual answer and asked how the first person came to the conclusion. Giving a number in the training set is very easy. i.e. You observe three people in a magical room. The first
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by yifanl 2y ago
That's multiplying the work the server has to do by a large number so it can show a nicer progress bar. Seems very counter to the purpose.
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by yifanl 2y ago
The inexactness of law is what makes it possible to extend it to novel situations like this. We don't live at the end of history.
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by yifanl 2y ago
The point is to raise a generation on them, and then they'll look at us weird for not wanting to send data back to the Amazon mothership so we can write down milk on the grocery list, a task that would be impossible without phoning Ama
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by yifanl 2y ago
7 is the worst part about trying to review my coworker's code that I'm 99% confident is copilot output - and to be clear, I don't really care how someone chooses to write their code, I'll still review it as evenly as I c
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by yifanl 2y ago
Right now we're trained computer masseuses, not yet computer babysitters. And to torture the analogy further since Im already in this rabbit hole, masseuses and babysitters probably have to put in the same amount of effort in their wor
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by yifanl 2y ago
The proliferation of Hanlon's Razor has been one of the most damaging things to society. People as a whole are not incompetent, every individual (and every grouping of individuals) have goals and will take appropriate actions to achiev
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by yifanl 2y ago
I guarentee that the first thought in any good CTO's mind in that world is "How much payroll do computer babysitters deserve?"
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by yifanl 2y ago
Right, which is substantially less than the stated $20k/month. edit: I see we're actually in agreement, sorry, I read the indentation level wrong.
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by yifanl 2y ago
I can very confidently state /biz/ does not have its moments.
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by yifanl 2y ago
Based on what criteria? A set of meta-axioms?
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by yifanl 2y ago
Pokemon is extremely hard to completely brick a run short of actively releasing your entire box which is very appealing for an MVP run, and is also literally the biggest media franchise in the world, which is a very appealing for people see
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by yifanl 2y ago
Extreme category error, try again.
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by yifanl 2y ago
The premise of being a segmented run uploaded by an amateur a decade ago provides a _lot_ of leeway.
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by yifanl 2y ago
Presumably the font will represent letters to look like a different letter, making it not useful to LLMs scraping the site but useful for visual readers. This would have detrimental effects to people who use screen readers or have their own

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