eloisius

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by eloisius 4d ago
Some projects have fantastic documentation. Qt comes to mind. The experience of writing Qt is a pleasure because I can always jump to the doc for whatever class I'm dealing with and find what I'm looking for immediately. Also ever
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by eloisius 4d ago
Earnest question: does anyone ever get fined for spam?
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by eloisius 5d ago
For the last few months I’ve gotten a handful of emails like this every time I post in the monthly who’s hiring thread. It’s always these dumb formulaic “15 years of experience doing $thing, not bad! But your resume doesn’t show that. I can
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by eloisius 8d ago
Buying it from CapitalOne like everyone else?
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by eloisius 14d ago
Not really. Taipei is basically a geriatric colony. You can tell because every year they shut down or limit the hours of nightlife districts, slow the MRT escalators down (more), spend public money on geezer karaoke social hours, etc. But n
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by eloisius 14d ago
In Georgia they passed a law making it illegal to hand out bottles of water to people in line to vote while simultaneously reducing polling stations in certain areas to ensure long lines.
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by eloisius 14d ago
This makes is sound like everything except a narrow slice of “creative forms” should be subject to a giant efficiency optimization. I’ve never noticed instruction manuals to be hard to understand because of colorful language, so I don’t bel
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by eloisius 15d ago
Location: Taiwan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Python, Torch/PyTorch, COLMAP, OpenCV, C++, Qt Résumé/CV: https://zacstewart.com/resume.pdf Email: hnwh202609 at zacstewart dot co
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by eloisius 17d ago
What is the morally correct approach to dealing with murderers?
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by eloisius 17d ago
How do you reliably detect the bots? Instead of slowban, I would feed it something abhorrent like an archive of 4chan posts.
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by eloisius 19d ago
There’s also Ecuador who officially uses the USD as their currency.
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by eloisius 22d ago
Like I said, you're reading a lot more into what I wrote, than what I actually wrote. No one is more or less responsible for their actions on account of being Indonesian. And I've already agreed that in this case it appears not to
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by eloisius 22d ago
I think you read a lot into my comment that’s not there. I replied to someone who wrote “ Desperation is no excuse.” Developed countries are rich after centuries of extracting natural resources, to the point that Europe is nearly deforested
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by eloisius 23d ago
Easy to say when it’s not your child facing starvation. The long term doesn’t matter if your family isn’t going to make it another month.
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by eloisius 24d ago
If that turns out to be true I hope that there are metaphorical Japanese out there still willing to pay 30,000 yen for quality shirts while the rest of the world SHEINs out.
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by eloisius 24d ago
A project I was working on for a couple years until this spring started to turn like this when another contractor started committing AI work. There was a test literally called “test_imports.py” that, you know, tested that you could import e
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by eloisius 25d ago
Have you seen how many people form one-sided bonds with stars that don’t know they exist? Lonely people suspend disbelief to find some comfort. It’s not proof that the chatbot is indistinguishable from a human companion.
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by eloisius 25d ago
> But the consistent trend of the last couple decades (arguably since Turing's time) seems to be that any time a computer reaches our definition of intelligence we decide that that was a flawed definition I think the mistake here is
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by eloisius 27d ago
The LLM fetishists really do themselves a disservice with these wild, over-the-top statements about AI capabilities. I’d be willing to bet money that giving Claude a screenshot of part of this blog post would not producing “something useful
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by eloisius 27d ago
If the job is now being a promoter, how can you not see that it’s a low skill, low pay job anyway? There are a billion capable promoters in LCOL countries that can prompt as good as someone in the Bay. Might not be worth stressing so hard t
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by eloisius 27d ago
Some tools like code rabbit (PR review bot) encourage you to do this. I couldn’t believe I found myself replying to code review comments to explain to an AI why we would rather let an exception crash the app than to catch and hide it severa
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by eloisius 1mo ago
I have seen that current AI models are capable of doing a sloppy job at many tasks when directed to do so, but I have never seen an example of a machine having its own volition.
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by eloisius 1mo ago
If they had AGI, why would they need consumers anymore? Just use your drone army to secure all natural resources and produce whatever you need for yourself. Other humans are just pets.
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by eloisius 1mo ago
I don’t know about the $10 temu drills, but Shein fast fashion is produced on the backs of a transient and insecure underclass. https://youtu.be/BeIkPqpVmE8?si=yWwKbmmcsHHHA0CY
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by eloisius 1mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with that Wikipedia page. > Reduplication is sometimes employed in verbs and adjectives to enhance the effect of them. > 胖胖的 pàng pàng de ('quite fat') from 胖 pàng ('fat&#x27
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by eloisius 1mo ago
I would defer to a native speaker, but Chinese is extremely contextual, and even native speakers often can’t tell you the formal rules of usage for something like this. There’s a lot more listening to register and intuiting intent required
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by eloisius 1mo ago
The effect of reduplicating is to make it diminutive. It like adding -ito to the end of a Spanish noun.
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by eloisius 1mo ago
So if it’s just a shit-test to see if the applicant has enough grit to grind through an arbitrary filter, and not to measure their aptitude, why not use Minecraft or something? Come into our office and show us how long it takes you to kill
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by eloisius 1mo ago
I don't recall them ever taking away lethal weapons after gaining new, less-lethal ones. This is just another tool in the arsenal that demands absolute compliance. Submit now, and let the courts figure out who's right later (hint:
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by eloisius 1mo ago
The inundation of AI applications is shitty, but I think this side of the coin—AI interviewer—is even worse. This is degrading for a human applicant, and after the very immediate term it’s probably not going to be very useful. Instead of gr

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