mechanical_bear

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by mechanical_bear 8mo ago
A thousand digital monkeys and a thousand terminals..
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by mechanical_bear 2y ago
You need legal insurance.
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by mechanical_bear 2y ago
Cutting yourself off from civilization is not the hallmark of a society that is growing in a positive direction.
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by mechanical_bear 2y ago
Where does this lack ethics? It seems that they are providing a useful service, that they created with their hard work. People are allowed to make money with their work.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
It absolutely is. I know of independent researchers doing some side project work on various social media platforms utilizing chatGPT for responses and measuring engagement.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
If you give a mouse a cookie…
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
This has definitely not been my experience, nor my colleagues’ experiences.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
nm.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
As to your very last point, it isn’t my “job”. It’s yet another task that I take on for no recognition, nor additional pay - as is much of academic life.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
“Just a phone” is incredibly reductive, and not an argument made in good faith.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
Religions “take” 10% of your income??
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
Definitely end the H1-B program.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
It’s bad for everyone in tech because it drives wages down artificially.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
What “we” did? Speak for yourself sir.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
Easy to predict the future when you write about it after the fact.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
That’s literally what it is though.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
How is it that a domain is an abstract entity, when something like an API is concrete? They are both something that is interacted with in the system? Or is it purely contextual based on the perspective of the person/team preparing the
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
Rgr. Thanks again for the balanced moderation.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
Agreed, I was merely pointing out what their initial comment was saying.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
I understand what you are saying. My only comment on that matter would be that one need not reside in any particular location to work for the CCP, they have workers all over the world, from many different backgrounds. I wasn’t implying that
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
That was not their reaction. They just wanted to know how it qualifies as “cyber punk”.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
It lets others understand perspective a bit better.
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by mechanical_bear 3y ago
How long have you worked for the CCP?
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
Why all the quotes? It makes your response seem either sarcastic or disbelieving, either way a bit disrespectful.
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
PHP/Symfony
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
And yet nearly all of them have an iPhone of the same cost.
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
“enough friction and a timesink” Have you taught students before? Many will spend inordinate amounts of time to not learn the material. Often times it seems there is no friction too great if it allows one to not think too hard.
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
“Oral exams also don't scale and raise obvious equity issues.” Not to be intentionally obtuse, but what are the obvious equity issues?
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
So much “butts in seats” and not as much concern for Productivity.
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by mechanical_bear 4y ago
Bing. I guess.

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