fcantournet

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by fcantournet 1mo ago
> Always important to remember that the equity-left is only about 20% of Americans, and the US is the global stronghold for such ideals What ? The U.S main ideological exports of the last 50 years are neoliberalism, alt-right and techno-
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by fcantournet 3mo ago
Exactly, and the prupose of these legislation was supposed to be exactly that : force companies to integrate privacy in the core of their products, not to create a list of items to tick.
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by fcantournet 5mo ago
didn't they ? There is 4x more advertising for 4x less content and the recommendations are pretty crappy.
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by fcantournet 5mo ago
Don't mean to make Americans sad but "the US" doesn't win AI, a few oligarchs win AI (if US companies end up winning). The question is not US v China, it's Peter Thiel and Elon Musk vs literally anything else (that
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by fcantournet 5mo ago
Successfully ? Maybe the OG survivor bias here..
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by fcantournet 7mo ago
Do you think your organisation as a whole is doing more ? Is the more being done actually useful ? i.e: is the outcome better ?
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by fcantournet 7mo ago
This looks like a fairly typical engineer's solution to a complex social problem: it doesn't really solve the problem, introduces other issues / is gameable, yet unlikely to create problems for the creator. Of course creator
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by fcantournet 7mo ago
But humans react to this extremely differently than a self driving car. Humans take responsability, and the self-driving disengages and say : WELP. Oh sorry were you "enjoying your travel time to do something useful" as we very ex
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by fcantournet 8mo ago
4 thousand :)
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by fcantournet 8mo ago
ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point. I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with the rest of it but this is nonsense. The ECB policy IS Ge
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by fcantournet 8mo ago
M1&2 yes with slight caveats, m3-5 not really (at least yet)
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by fcantournet 8mo ago
landlords need people to pay the rent. Or to spell it out more precisely : the construction/housing industry off of which land lords extract value needs external value creation to still exist AND give revenue to spend to a large popula
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by fcantournet 8mo ago
It's particularly well suited for backups
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by fcantournet 9mo ago
Historically news outlet run as public service (with sufficient guardrails for autonomy) such as the BBC, PBS, France Television, Arte (naming only those I know well) have produce much better news coverage than the privately owned ones. OTO
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by fcantournet 9mo ago
There is very little hardware that would actually be ipv6 incompatible. We're talking network equipment from 15+ years ago, which is also obsolete because it's 1Gbps at 10x the power usage of a 10gbps switch.
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by fcantournet 9mo ago
Yes they did, at least twice in the 19th century. It was the largest financial crisis before 1929
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by fcantournet 9mo ago
Unless you are a personal assistant, your job probably is not to "make the life of your hiring manager easier". You have responsibilities, which ideally should be stipulated in some form in a contract, and if you are vaguely senio
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by fcantournet 9mo ago
It has more words put together in seemingly correct sentences, so it's long enough his boss won't actually read it to proof it.
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by fcantournet 9mo ago
It is literally the ONE thing that every AI critic has been talking about for years. Several things can be true at the same time : it's possible for the wild claims of great efficiency gains and transformative (for good) power of AI to
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by fcantournet 1y ago
It solves a problem for Stripe : potentially evading some incoming regulations in payments in the UK/EU (and U.S probably). Regulations in payments tend to be very technical, and inserting some crypto/distributed plausible deniabi
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by fcantournet 1y ago
The why becoming stale is a feature, that's when you know there is a VALID reason you thought this looked weird and convoluted, instead of you completely missing the inherent complexity of the problem.
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by fcantournet 1y ago
> If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall. That's a common fallacy of safety by the way :) It could very well "save your ass" just once (whatever that means) while costing you more in time,
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by fcantournet 1y ago
Every year someone figures out that encoding complex logic in type systems leads to complex type systems. YES. Types will not simplify your logic, they mean to represent it, in all its glorious complexity, in a way that is checkable automat
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by fcantournet 1y ago
7 days a week ? lmao.
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by fcantournet 1y ago
Ah yes, operating system kernels, famously super mainstream programs that almost everyone works on.
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by fcantournet 1y ago
I use search engines because I want a source for the info I get that I can assess the trustworthiness of. Sadly search is massively enshitified by AI generated SEO'd crap...
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by fcantournet 1y ago
"Participants had 5 minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational partner they thought was human. When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 w
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by fcantournet 1y ago
Bro... you're vibing.
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by fcantournet 1y ago
Any are you Debug ? Are you DebugAny ?
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by fcantournet 2y ago
I sounds insane to me number wise too. Even growth stocks have about 5x the price to revenue.

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