IAmNotAFix

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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
Have you ever heard about the term "lawyer"?
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
That's because there are more people who drive cars than people who handle plutonium. A more sensible statistics would be the number of death per hour of usage (which might still be in favor of handling plutonium).
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
Taleb literally did say that you should never board a plane on which the pilot isn't onboard (such as a drone plane). Unless this was intended to never make you board an unethical plane, he does believe in some sort of insurance relate
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
Working with QA analysts has shown me that quality people are totally autonomous in adding disproportionate hurdles to the way of production without needing the help of any external lobbying. It's very simple: the only way to 100% prev
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
Mainstream's reddit experience is clicking on Reddit links from Google. Many of which are dead as of right now.
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
No. https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1657413416523366403?s=20
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by IAmNotAFix 3y ago
"research on language model" lol OpenAI is where the research happens. It's like saying SpaceX not giving away rockets hinders research on rockets. Anybody is free to develop their own AI model.
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
TL;DR: "There’s no shortage of men who want to date you"
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
TL;DR: "well-cared for" Copying from one digital medium to another is a very easy operation (to the contrary of copying from paper to paper). At equal "care" I don't see why digital backups should be worse than pape
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
So it might actually still be the best choice.
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
If you follow PG on Twitter, he elevates it beyond just a blog.
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
What is the money efficiency of that?
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
As someone who started playing without having any idea about the platform landscape, and therefore chose the first Google result, which seemed to have a legit UI and domain name, and then met people who also happen to be on this platform, I
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
This raises the question: How does having your password manager breached compares to losing access to your password manager?
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
> careless enough to eg log into their personal email on their work computer. Can you explain why that is an issue?
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
You need to have a significant following for this to have any relevance. If you have a significant following, you have a strong incentive not to post the most grotesque things.
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
There are situations where N disobeys N+1 but N+2 knows the value of N, which makes N+1 unable to fire N.
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by IAmNotAFix 4y ago
> That is a surefire way to burn out. Any source on that? I agree with the assessment about engineers (althought it's a generalization), but I always thought it was because their "focused work" is what they actually like d
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
The low-order bits can have huge impact. This is what Nicholas Nassim Taleb calls "fat-tailed processes": processes which rarely yield occurrences outside nominal range ("tail"), but such occurrences have the highest imp
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
Contrarily to carbon byproduct, we know how to confine fission byproduct, at least short term (which is still better than neither short term nor long term).
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
They're designed to sustain an airliner crashing into it so I guess bomb or missile is okay, although that's another story if that would happen from inside the reactor.
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
Their users growth has been lowering towards 0 for a few years and it's expected that users will eventually shrink. It's just symbolic when you pass the tipping point (although this might be local and not be the definitive tipping
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
> all network requests go through one socket thread Looks like the crucial issue to me. The SPOF which enables something as absurd as "Firefox Outage".
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
Because when people try to over-engineer something as simple at writing notes, they can loop on it forever.
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
He has had Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox, for what it's worth.
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
The ryhtm should accelerate each N clicks so that the game eventually ends. Otherwise no matter how many points you get by clicking fast it's possible to accumulate the same amount by playing it safe.
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
That's the first interview. They usually test your ability to design systems and stuff in a second interview.
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by IAmNotAFix 5y ago
Labor is not productivity. Labor is labor, and if badly aimed, might as well be completely useless. Upper management has the power and responsability to make decisions which can have colossal implications on the overall productivty of the c

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