Wurdan

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by Wurdan 2mo ago
There's no multi-party conspiracy theory required here. Events can have played out exactly as OpenAI and Hugging Face described, and OpenAI can also have reaped a huge amount of free marketing for the capability of their models from al
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by Wurdan 2mo ago
I mean for one thing - the placebo effect exists. That's why double blind testing of new drugs is the standard
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by Wurdan 2mo ago
The article suggests he eats a vegan diet and exercises daily, so it's not like he's just popping pills on the couch between McDonalds meals. He seems like a complete loon in every respect, but it seems a bit unfair to say he just
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by Wurdan 5mo ago
How are you counting average distances? Simply as the distance between two points in the carrier’s network, or are you looking at the lengths of each individual flight? The source for the point I made is a Wendover video - Why Budget Airlin
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by Wurdan 5mo ago
The business model works fundamentally differently in the US and Europe due to geography. The US is big , meaning that flights are often longer, meaning that fuel is a bigger portion of the operating cost. And fuel is essentially something
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by Wurdan 8mo ago
At a ratio of 10:1, at least in my experience, there's no time for those managers to be hands on with the work and keeping their engineering skills current. I don't personally feel that's a problem, but reading other comments
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by Wurdan 8mo ago
They indicate that engineers want to spend less time on (slow) processes. That isn't necessarily the same thing as that they want less (middle) managers. I can say that at my current and previous companies (both over 30,000 employees)
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by Wurdan 8mo ago
As an engineering manager (and one who's slowly starting a job hunt) these comments don't make for comfortable reading. What we'll never know from a press release like this is whether this is a change that employees wanted, o
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by Wurdan 8mo ago
I've spent about 10 mins seeing if I can replicate my Nova setup with Octopi. My only missing feature so far is more extensive gesture support. As far as I can tell, Octopi supports a max of five actions, and you can't change the
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by Wurdan 8mo ago
I've recently started trying open ear phones for other reasons and I've found the current state of the art pretty good in terms of sound quality. I use Nothing's open ears, but I'm sure there are many others that are equ
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by Wurdan 8mo ago
I think it's what that intolerance leads to which is a big part of the problem. It's natural that we don't like being bored, but these days we have infinite means to keep boredom away that don't involve connecting with o
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by Wurdan 10mo ago
I don't really get why people are calling it a console. It is a PC to me in all the ways that matter, and it's probably going to save me from spending 1500 euros on a mid-range gaming laptop that I don't really need. The on
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by Wurdan 11mo ago
Yeah, that's definitely a worry. Also, the fact that you're dependent on them for adding support for future games, and that (like any cloud service) it might not be available right when you want it.
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by Wurdan 11mo ago
Just the mention of pieces of hardware we don't really need anymore (sound cards, modems, etc) triggers a flood of nostalgia. I used to spend DAYs poring over PC part catalogues dreaming of my ideal rig. And brands like Hercules, Creat
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by Wurdan 1y ago
There's a gigantic difference in the ability of the surveilled person to protect themselves in the scenario you sketch versus the one that I sketch. In your scenario the surveilled person has a chance of noticing the fact that somebody
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by Wurdan 1y ago
If you don't think this tool poses any risk to these people let's try walk through a scenario. Let's say someone sees a parking warden they find physically attractive. They follow them for a bit and when they write up their n
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by Wurdan 1y ago
To my knowledge reneging only applies when it's a voluntary decision. A company that has been sold by its previous owner for generating a 800k loss is not doing much of anything by choice. It's just fighting insolvency.
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by Wurdan 1y ago
The thing is pitching your salary lower doesn’t always make you more attractive as a candidate. If you’re going in lower than market rate then many recruiters start wondering about your past performance, confidence, etc. As a hiring manager
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by Wurdan 1y ago
It sounds like they don't want you taking and sharing photos of them now, which is very fair. But it's not clear from your description if they judge you or your partner for any baby pics you took of them which ended up in the clou
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by Wurdan 1y ago
Did I ever say that he is?
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by Wurdan 1y ago
So what's your suggestion for how YouTube could be doing better here? Especially in the scenario that (as the top level comment in this thread suggests) YouTube didn't actually make any changes and the reason the views dropped is
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by Wurdan 1y ago
As someone with a very opinionated 11 year old nephew (so he grew up in the time of ubiquitous social media and he is getting to the age where he starts to understand its upsides and downsides) - I dare say that most children don't hol
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by Wurdan 1y ago
I don't really know what the original is claiming, thanks to how it was written. I only offered a guess at what the authors were saying. So, you're saying that the study was narrower in scope and that the results are only applicab
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by Wurdan 1y ago
Views might be important to get the attention of a potential advertising partner, but once the relationship has started then keeping it going will likely be dependent on much more relevant metrics for the advertiser. And those metrics will
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by Wurdan 1y ago
For better or worse a gigantic portion of people who make their livelihoods on the internet are fully dependent on closed source platforms. Do you think people who sell things on Shopify or Etsy are any more able to scrutinize the systems t
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by Wurdan 1y ago
"These findings suggest that in young adults, depressive symptoms are associated with difficulty in overriding prepotent responses to actively avoid aversive outcomes in the absence of reward." My word... Could they have phrased t
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by Wurdan 1y ago
Why not both? You mention Kagi, and I find its Assistant to be a very useful mix of LLM and search engine. Something I asked it recently is whether Gothenburg has any sky-bars that overlook Hisingen to the North, and it correctly gave me o
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by Wurdan 1y ago
I went through an acquisition by Microsoft (the Skype one) and I feel that independent leadership isn't all it's cracked up to be in such scenarios. We were indeed left as our own division (other than the fact that Lync got merged
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by Wurdan 1y ago
This is commonly believed, but is not actually true. Not generating revenue via the infringing activity might contribute to an argument of Fair Use, but it's not a magic wand that disappears copyright claims.
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by Wurdan 1y ago
Now we have reached peak reddit leakage

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