mrwh

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by mrwh 23d ago
Because the executive class _is_ a class, with class solidarity. Even failure comes with a golden parachute.
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by mrwh 24d ago
Are we at the stage yet where a super-strong model that needs oodles of safety protections to stop it outright hacking you is strictly worse for day-to-day tasks than a much cheaper model that's simply not competent enough to be danger
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by mrwh 27d ago
Meta is relentlessly obsessed with metrics. Want to launch something? Show the metrics. What to show impact and value? If there's not a metric for it, it doesn't exist. It's a way to say you are being as objective as possible
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by mrwh 28d ago
Curious that technology will send us back to the world of Michelangelo and the Medici and so on. No more professional artists funded broadly, just pets of the rich.
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by mrwh 1mo ago
In my corner of the Faang world it's been 20 years since that sort of brain teaser was asked. We switched to coding problems that require dynamic programming!
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by mrwh 2mo ago
And a husband who works and his wife who doesn't, should she get a vote? The commentators here are responding exactly to the spirit of what was said, there's no confusion on what's really being implied here. Namely, the destr
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by mrwh 2mo ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, gross is exactly the word for it.
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by mrwh 2mo ago
I tend to think the risk is the point. It's an in-group marker, getting very sick every so often for no good reason shows commitment. Which of course makes it doubly pointless as a suggestion to the general public, but the fact that it
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by mrwh 2mo ago
Kinda want to push back on that. It's not like engineers are separate from operations, not really. A lot of operations is just what engineers have been socialised to do.
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by mrwh 2mo ago
I used to read the New York Times on my kindle. It was great: delivered each morning, no waste paper by the afternoon, a simple subscription, etc. I was on my 4th kindle at least, which says more about the use I got out of them than their e
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by mrwh 3mo ago
It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.
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by mrwh 4mo ago
Indeed! China is leaning heavily into AI as state policy, as the solution to its looming demographic crisis. Any advantage the US has is going to be brief. It'll be like comparing the high speed trains in China with the high speed trai
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by mrwh 4mo ago
Worth reading, well written. We just finished watching a 90s Dennis Potter TV series, Lipstick on your Collar. Strange and mannered, and about in part the preparation for Suez at the end of empire, by an elderly leadership that hadn't
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by mrwh 5mo ago
What happens when unemployment hits 25%, and youth unemployment hits 50%, in a democracy? That's the real terror here, not hacking.
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by mrwh 5mo ago
Speaking for myself, an awful lot of what makes me happy are things I am forced into doing. Work makes me happy, but if I didn't have to work I'm sure I wouldn't. If I had complete freedom my life might become quite lonely an
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by mrwh 5mo ago
That's right. In today's carriage to San Francisco my very unscientific observation it's: three reading books, thirty on their phones, ten resting with their thoughts.
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by mrwh 5mo ago
I've found some wonderful books at estate sales. A poet's annotated books of poetry, for example.
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by mrwh 5mo ago
Tangential, and very anecdotal, but I've been seeing more books on the BART. While almost everyone is hunched over their phones of course, it feels like there's a growing number reading a paperback. (Oddly? it's been a while
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by mrwh 5mo ago
Meta wants to be an impartial platform only and exactly when it suits them to be.
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by mrwh 5mo ago
Actually yes, around double the wattage. It's one of the things English people notice when they move to the US (true!).
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by mrwh 6mo ago
That's absolutely it. Cheaters or chumps, neither of whom should be encouraged.
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by mrwh 6mo ago
_Human_ body weight. I grew up measuring everything in kilos apart from people, which has I guess what amounts to its own wholly idiosyncratic scale, the stone, that no one I've since met outside of the UK has heard of.
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by mrwh 6mo ago
Good article! Am I right that chrismarker.org used to host the early, but it's since lapsed?
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by mrwh 6mo ago
It's noblesse oblige, or rather an example of the end of noblesse oblige, that the super rich don't even have to pretend to do things for others any more. Which, I would suggest, is a short-sighted and ultimately hubristicaly stup
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by mrwh 6mo ago
I recently bought the DVD of Trainspotting, after finding no legitimate way to watch it online. The DVD cost less than an online rental would have. A lost world of owning your own things, and we only lost it yesterday.
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Leviathan (1651)(gutenberg.org)
112 points by mrwh 6mo ago|58 comments
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by mrwh 6mo ago
Nature it selfe cannot erre: and as men abound in copiousnesse of language; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary
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by mrwh 6mo ago
That's absolutely what's happening already: write for me for the writer, summarise this for me for the reader. At some point it will become clear how absurdly wasteful we're being (right now, we're being paid to ignore t
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by mrwh 6mo ago
That's rather the point: the UK has been great at educating a very narrow sliver of its population, decided at 18 years old. Pointing to Oxbridge as a success story is very much like pointing to London as a world city. Yes, it's w
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by mrwh 6mo ago
The UK has been chronically bad at providing jobs and training for its young people. I saw that 20 years ago when I was there. That is a key reason, perhaps the primary reason, for its long term productivity malaise. And the response is to

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