BrainInAJar

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by BrainInAJar 3mo ago
human extinction is far more likely if we keep reproducing than if we slow down. See: climate change etc
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by BrainInAJar 1y ago
"sometimes" is doing a lot of work there. Sometimes it is, but also sometimes it isn't, and Rust at least gives you a choice (you can use Arc all over the place, or if performance is critical you can be more careful about spe
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
it's both the economic relationship but also because the Conservative government defunded metrication in the 80's about halfway through it's timeline.
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
in terms of things that the government provides to the public, absolutely. The US is incapable of doing anything other than through the military.
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
probably? even if the LLM is trained on flawless C code (which it isn't) it still has no way of reasoning about a complex system, it's just "what token is statistically most likely to come next"
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
did an oil industry write this?
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
other than to ensure a cheap exploitable workforce, who cares? Why is it a bad thing?
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
that's not even a league of "who is the best athlete" it's a league of "who is the best athlete willing to destroy their body"
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
> There's very little voluntary about signing up to rules that you're required to sign up to in order to have a career in your field. The rules are signed well before a career even becomes an option. Everyone who holds a race
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
It's probably better for both companies that he isn't. Better for him to torch a $6b series B and Twitter than mess up spacex & tesla more than he already has
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by BrainInAJar 2y ago
That's an argument about Windows being production ready though, not Postgres...
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
we must imagine Sisyphus happy...
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
I'm bearish only in so far as I feel LLM's are not completely useless, but they'll be as revolutionary as spellcheck was. Which is to say, it'll make a few jobs a bit easier.
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
GraphQL is great if you're a frontend developer. REST is great if you're a backend or infra developer (not because of complexity of developing it, because of complexity of using it) You cannot satisfy both with one tool. Migrating
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
The only reason companies are mandating RTO is because C suite and investors are heavily leveraged in commercial real estate. It doesn't matter that it's worse for the company it's better for their portfolio to force people
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
Try using that argument with a xenophobic highschool dropout immigration official...
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
TN visas are not for software engineers, they are for software analysts, or actual engineers. And they are not dual intent (you can't convert them to a green card).
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
This is the real reason for the RTO push. Lotta VC's leveraged in to commercial real estate
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by BrainInAJar 3y ago
Not in California, no. It’s why the tech industry exists there and not (as much) in eg Texas. California has a bunch of laws related to labor ( section 96, section 2870 ) that have the effect of making it easy to start a company on your off
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by BrainInAJar 4y ago
A person who "disagrees" with a federally protected right can simply not exercise that right (don't get an abortion.)
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by BrainInAJar 4y ago
Yeah, just abandon all your friends and family (and don't worry about them, they're on their own), whatever life you've got set up and just move! it's easy!
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by BrainInAJar 4y ago
The people who are going to be screwed the most are immigrants who now have to find another visa sponsor & fast
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by BrainInAJar 4y ago
Do these qualify for the French tech worker visa? Could someone who wants to move to France decide to just start a co-op ?
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by BrainInAJar 4y ago
No, because concerted activity is protected at work. Being a nazi on twitter isn't.
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by BrainInAJar 6y ago
> Seems like that was by design. It is. Philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich, on the one hand, and are paternalistic on the other. The only things that get funding are things that can attract the attention of our &q
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by BrainInAJar 6y ago
Much like the USA, lots of stuff about the USSR was bad. Lots was good. Including the political decisions the respective countries made.
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by BrainInAJar 6y ago
There is no such thing as "staying out of politics". Everything involving people is a political act, and if you don't notice it it's because you have status quo politics. > I just wonder how long it will take two dif
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by BrainInAJar 6y ago
> If I pressure some friends into committing a crime These aren't elon's friends. They're employees. There is a huge power dynamic
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by BrainInAJar 6y ago
> keep the prices at an affordable level They're a bank. They can afford it.
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by BrainInAJar 6y ago
"Open" in the late 80's / early 90's meant open specifications & open API's. "Open Software Foundation" made a closed-source UNIX OSF/1. The term "open source" didn't come abou

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