zemo

12 ms·

121.
by zemo 3y ago
that's definitely what I hear from people who leave academia and go into industry, but that's not a representative sample. Are the people you're referring to as academics all people who left academia before you talked to th
122.
by zemo 3y ago
> Altman and his ilk believe they're the new Leonardo Da Vincis, but they're little more than petty kings and rent-seekers trying to steal the world's magic. what’s sad is they don’t even compare themselves to historical p
123.
by zemo 3y ago
> I know we likely disagree on the usefulness of those, but if you are privacy concerned why would shotspotter even be on the same level of concern as cameras that don't need a gunshot to start filming? I think that is also bad. Two
124.
by zemo 3y ago
> It just says a signal if there is a loud noise in public. as a community we really ought to be suspicious of claims like this. There's another word for "acoustic sensor" and it's "microphone". When a corpo
125.
by zemo 3y ago
Apple’s take on the VW Bus would be very on-brand imho
126.
by zemo 3y ago
begging people to recognize that a person who sells a solution is going to view these problems through the lens of being rewarded for applying their solution to your problem, even if it's not appropriate. > Yet, per my own experienc
127.
by zemo 3y ago
the places where I've seen people leverage the folder-level permissions in Perforce (in the games industry) would be like: a contractor that provides art would only have access to the portions of the project that relate to the art they
128.
by zemo 3y ago
some indies use Subversion, but Perforce is the industry standard.
129.
by zemo 3y ago
> what is the motivation for making distributed VCS? it depends on if you're asking about the motivations for distributed version control for linux kernel development in 2005 or the motivations for distributed version control today.
130.
by zemo 3y ago
> Even I have to use git because who uses anything else? It's pretty widely not used in the games industry because its support for media files is poor, it's pretty difficult to train artists to use it, the integration with game
131.
by zemo 3y ago
> Open models feature free access to the model weights, but terms of use, redistribution, and variant ownership vary according to a model’s specific terms of use, which may not be based on an open-source license. does a model being &quot
132.
by zemo 3y ago
or people will stop reading online because of declining signal to noise ratio. Why should I bother to spend the time reading something that a person couldn’t bother to spend the time writing?
133.
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by zemo 3y ago|1 comments
134.
by zemo 3y ago
I think most people consider "history" to mean "things that have actually happened" and not "the aesthetic of the past" as you seem to be suggesting.
135.
by zemo 3y ago
that would never happen because someone owns the robots and rich people can afford more robots than poor people and rich people aren’t rich people if poor people aren’t poor
136.
by zemo 3y ago
yeah I think a tech company showing how their tech can be used to cause damage to a humanities field as one of their leading product demos is bad
137.
by zemo 3y ago
> Prompt: Historical footage of California during the gold rush. this is the opposite of history
138.
by zemo 3y ago
> The founders that work in defense are mission driven That's not really saying anything, since it doesn't say anything about what their mission is. Sure, you have to be mission driven to get things done and lots of good and ne
139.
by zemo 3y ago
I’m not confused about what it is, I just don’t like it. It’s a lot of ceremony for very little gain.
140.
by zemo 3y ago
The options for the thing being constructed are all separate types from the thing being constructed; the options aren’t a facet of the definition of the type they mutate.
141.
by zemo 3y ago
I just use a struct literal, and then I have the type define a `func (t *Thing) ready() error { ... }` method and call the ready method to check that its valid. I prefer this over self-referential options, the builder pattern, supplying a s
142.
by zemo 3y ago
I used that pattern for a while but stopped using it. I first encountered it from this blog post: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-... It's a lot of boilerplate to create something
143.
by zemo 3y ago
> func NewServer(... config *Config ...) http.Handler one of my biggest pet peeves is when people take a Config object, which represents the configuration of an entire system, and pass it around mutably. When you do that, you're cou
144.
by zemo 3y ago
yeah weirdly the Wikipedia page right now says it's 10% and its source is this article, which ... does not say that.
145.
by zemo 3y ago
am I hearing things or at 6:28 does she call her dog "Browser"
146.
by zemo 3y ago
> this is just replacing one silly measure with another > Not to say anything of your research The second statement isn't true just because you want it to be true. The first statement renders it untrue. > I'd rather us st
147.
by zemo 3y ago
check out the paper, not just the summary. They explain their methodology. The output has four data points because it’s a summary. The input is … more data than that.
148.
by zemo 3y ago
> OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI (the new Musk one) all have a funky governance structure because they want to be a public good do they actually want to be a public good or do they want you to think they want to be a public good?
149.
by zemo 3y ago
honestly I bet a big portion of why that works is that they're statically linked binaries, but "ships as one statically linked binary" doesn't have quite the same marketing power. One of the first things I do when I chec
150.
by zemo 3y ago
while they do have pretty deep ties to tencent and are 40% owned by them, they’re not really chinese-owned since Epic is majority-owned by Tim Sweeney, a billionaire programmer on the Forbes 500 who mostly escapes criticism from programmers

More ›