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by gitremote 1y ago
State media in fascist dictatorships don't reflect the diversity of their people. It is untrue that humans of any nationality have free speech and a free press as a check against their government's actions. It is untrue that any c
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by gitremote 1y ago
Most solutions to business problems are proprietary, not open source. Tax rules depend on an interaction between national and local laws that can change from year to year based on the ruling government. You can't just take tax rules fr
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On top of that, they lack the streets smarts that people living in high population density areas (that is, cities) develop for seeing through scammers and conmen. City people can tell that other city people are untrustworthy when they are h
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by gitremote 1y ago
That's the "urban" part.
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In your first example, you appear to assume that for calculations where "each mistake could cost $millions or lives", engineers who calculated by hand typically didn't double-check by redoing the calculation, so a second chec
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by gitremote 1y ago
> This is not a problem in my unreliable calculator use-cases; are you disputing that or dropping the analogy? If you use an unreliable calculator to sum a list of numbers, you then need to use a reliable method to sum the numbers to val
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by gitremote 1y ago
The consequences of incorrect code can be severe outside of front-end web development. For front-end web development, if the code is wrong, you see from your browser that your local web app is broken and try to fix it, or ship it anyway if
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by gitremote 1y ago
Absolutely not. We'd just do the calculations by hand, which is better than running the 95%-correct calculator and then doing the calculations by hand anyway to verify its output.
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by gitremote 1y ago
You are assuming that generative AI has self-awareness.
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by gitremote 1y ago
Tax cuts for the rich. Defunding the IRS, cutting social services, and pushing tariffs to tax the working class are all consistent with needing to keep the government running without taxing the billionaires.
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This is likely why Elon Musk--who in 1989 emigrated from Apartheid South Africa at the cusp of Apartheid ending in 1991--is convinced there is widespread fraud in social security benefits. He never culturally integrated with a post-Aparthei
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by gitremote 1y ago
A lot of the times, the BA gives you wrong business requirements, and an experienced software engineer can see it's wrong by reading it, and refuse to start it until the requirements are fixed. By "wrong", I meant there is a
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RLHF Is Cr*P, It's a Paint Job on a Rusty Car: Geoffrey Hinton(officechai.com)
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by gitremote 2y ago
I already addressed the editorializing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138957 Might not reply to this anymore, because a lot of these comments are people criticizing the video content they imagine in their heads bas
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by gitremote 2y ago
> Honestly, my problem with the video in question is that its tone unjustly attempts to denigrate Feynman (starting with the clickbaity title itself, a sham legacy? really?) by trying to frame the narrative that his supposed works were n
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by gitremote 2y ago
As the video points out, Feynman was telling tall tales to impress a much younger man, Ralph Leighton. Ralph Leighton decided to publish stories that told a specific narrative, that being an asshole was cool, and he omitted more wholesome s
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by gitremote 2y ago
It's misogynistic, because the ghost writer of Surely You're Joking Mr. Feyman! , Ralph Leighton, ultimately put into print narratives that encouraged men to see "ordinary" women as "worthless bitches". In the
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by gitremote 2y ago
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is not about how to do physics, and the book was ghostwritten, by a non-physicist.
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by gitremote 2y ago
You should watch the video. People who are not Ralph Leighton published books about Feynman posthumously without his knowledge and made money off of it.
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Without the 20th century restriction, she rants against the list "Einstein. Newton. Feynman." She says, "The list should be: Newton, Maxwell, Einstein. The answer is Maxwell, if you're making this list, right? James Cler
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by gitremote 2y ago
"the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" is about Feynman being famous because of this book rather than because of his physics. The YouTuber, an obsessed physicist who had spent months reading all Feynman books, provides a critical an
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by gitremote 2y ago
The Nazis, who were white supremacists, persecuted Einstein and dismissed his theory of relativity as "Jewish science". Einstein fled to the US, which was a much less racist environment compared to Nazi Germany, and Einstein'
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by gitremote 2y ago
People remember famous scientists like Einstein, Feynman, or even Bill Nye the Science Guy, and believe it's obvious that white men are more qualified in STEM, and anyone denying it is in denial. They ignore that before the Equal Emplo
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by gitremote 2y ago
The English speaking world outside of the US is left of Democrats and generally hates Trump, and not everyone on Reddit is USAmerican. Reddit is going to be left of the US and also not representative of the US.
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by gitremote 2y ago
It's not a net positive for underrepresented groups, because it assumes their time wouldn't be better spent applying for real job opportunities. They don't have infinite time, because they are real people. Would you prefer to
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by gitremote 2y ago
I worked in a large company that had a lot of pro-LGBTQ corporate PR and "Bring your whole self to work", while most of my coworkers were openly homophobic (out of earshot from management) and LGBTQ people would not be safe to com
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by gitremote 2y ago
I'm not convinced it would be caused by AI. More people are laid off, so more unemployed people can grind leetcode all day, and more people are competing for fewer jobs.
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So now there are job applicants not only pretending to know DSA by using ChatGPT, but also claim they have "experience in the LLM department". It's not part of the job now, unless you're too inexperienced to estimate how
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> I say all this because people who are in job search processes should frame the process accurately in their mind. It hopefully will help with not taking the process so personally or not getting so infuriated with it. For people who cons
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by gitremote 2y ago
The discovery of not being able to afford groceries is organic and real. The attribution of it to Biden is organic but mistaken. Regular people confuse correlation with causation. You are projecting your data-driven decision making to regu

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