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yosito
2y ago
I'm not sure about other forms of respiratory alkalosis, but I do know that it's quite common for people to claim that breath work leads to altered states of consciousness.
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yosito
2y ago
As a single man with no desire to ever marry (but plenty of great lovers in my life), I feel like we need more context about their lives before we can assume that "never married singles" means much of anything at all.
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yosito
2y ago
> terror of global catastrophe That's considered a delusion?
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2y ago
Can. Autocorrect.
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2y ago
> We need to anticipate a future where China is equal to America I'm a US American living in Asia. I can't tell you with 100% certainty that in terms of technological progress, China is far far ahead of the US.
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2y ago
You're right. But as someone who has been internationally nomadic for 15 years, I don't think most people understand how many tens of thousands of people travel internationally on tourist visas doing work exchanges to be able to a
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2y ago
> believes SCOTUS will never condemn or find illegal a thing he has done Well, so far, that belief seems to be correct.
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2y ago
Well to put it into perspective, run the numbers to see how likely it is per-capita for a Ukrainian civilian to die in the war, compared to how likely it is for a US American to die by being shot.
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2y ago
> Basically all gun violence in America is either confined to very specific economically depressed areas, that are well-known and easy to avoid, or is between two private parties. Like schools?
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2y ago
I'm a US citizen who has been detained at the border in the past because facial recognition systems seemed to think that I didn't look like my passport photo. Agents could have just looked at me and seen that I am in fact the pers
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2y ago
Based on the title, I expected some advice about how to actually eliminate some feeds. Instead, the article is basically some advice to focus less on the feeds. Regardless, I was inspired to check out Instagram's somewhat hidden "
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2y ago
While I don't doubt that AI tools can spot some errors that would be tedious for humans to look for, they are also responsible for far more errors. That's why proper understanding and application of AI is important.
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2y ago
This article is also a perfect example of why coding challenges are terrible way to interview.
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2y ago
In other words, "Study in mice suggests that taking Prozac might make you less vulnerable to sepsis. Further study needed."
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2y ago
So wait, the solution to candidates using LLMs on interviews is arbitrary take home code katas that can be trivially solved by LLMs and other interview techniques aren't testing for the skills you require? I can tell you for certain th
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2y ago
Trump and Musk both openly stated that they manipulated the election and manufactured votes. And even if that weren't the case, voter suppression and gerrymandering were also in full swing. So I wouldn't call it "generally fa
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2y ago
At what point does someone step in to stop Trump from dismantling the US government completely? Or is it already too late?
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2y ago
The real news here is that GNIS has been updated with the name. It doesn't seem that Google made an independent decision to change the name. Resistance to this change would really have to happen at the government level, not the tech le
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yosito
2y ago
Are there any websites that show the results of popular models on different benchmarks, which are explained in plain language? As an end user, I'd love a quick way to compare different models suitability for different tasks.
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2y ago
> Can Dating apps be fixed? > What I meant by "fixed", is an app where: > It is possible for someone to reach out to anyone and get an answer, and discussion can be interesting from the start (at least as much as in real
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2y ago
How much you wanna bet they're using AI to evaluate applicants and they don't even have a human reading 99% of the applications they're asking people to write? As someone who has recently applied to over 300 jobs, just to get
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2y ago
> If their resume seems too AI-generated, I feel less like I can trust that candidate and typically reject the candidate So you just subjectively say "this resume is too perfect, it must be bullshit"? How the fuck is any actual
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2y ago
This article describes everything that's wrong with tech hiring these days. There is zero evidence that success on these arbitrary programming riddles have any correlation with success on the job, and yet we force candidates through a
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2y ago
Can the word "competitor" really be used to describe something that can't compete? It's an alternative, one which the world would be way better off adopting, but far from being a competitor, unfortunately.
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2y ago
I regularly use Perplexity and Cursor which can search the internet and documentation to answer questions that aren't in their training data. It doesn't seem that hard for ChatGPT to search and summarize their own docs when people
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I don't have kids, but if I did, there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'd let a state educate them, with the possible exception of the Nordic countries.
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IIRC, Australia also shares data with the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand.
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2y ago
I'm not the OP, but I've paid many people for feedback, and I actually have a very strong resume when a human being looks at it. I suspect that I'm being filtered out automatically because I don't meet the parameters of
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Personally, I've just been getting generic rejection responses from no-reply email addresses. There's no way to get feedback. My guess is that they're just sending out mass rejections for anyone except a few candidates they&#
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2y ago
I'm 37. Any time I strike up a conversation with someone new who seems like an interesting person, I end the conversation by asking to exchange contacts. In the context I live in, that usually means scanning a WhatsApp QR code, or aski
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