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by obscuretone 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember calculators being banned from the classroom because "you won't always have one in your pocket"
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Anecdotal as it may be, an investor in a company I used to work for was from Wuhan. He paid $80k USD to get out of the country in December 2019. They knew it was bad then and anyone who could was fleeing.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
I've written safety-critical firmware. You'd be surprised :D
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by obscuretone 2y ago
If everyone is a little bit responsible then no one is fully responsible. It’s like dieselgate. Or the Pornhub chaos. The VP’s tell the directors to get it done. The directors get it done. There’s a liability force field and those that prot
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by obscuretone 2y ago
The sky is in fact black at the moment. Bit of a green hue towards downtown, regional bank creating the Aurora Desjardins
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by obscuretone 2y ago
A lot of sites are moving to OTP instead of passwords now. Make Auth Gmail’s problem. It’s not a horrible idea in theory.
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Tell me about the last time you broke production(obscuretone.com)
2 points by obscuretone 2y ago|1 comments
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by obscuretone 2y ago
The best interview question I've learned to ask.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
I used to manage the team that built textual scan tools for PornHub. 12 times a second (out of about 5000 uncached requests per second) we caught this shit.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
How slow is this? I need to get around to making a new pihole. My last one did it over tor and wasn’t noticeably slow
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by obscuretone 2y ago
I don't know where you're at but where I live the cops don't investigate petty theft unless there's violence involved.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Godaddy really should be doing this by default.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Alright I'll admit when I'm hilariously out of my league. The point of the post was mostly "people are state machines too" and arguing we don't even know what we are, how will we evaluate AI? Google was giving me ac
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Fair enough. I know guys have that gone there. This was a much smaller amateur track in rural Canada.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
It’s nice when it’s busy. When it’s not the cops spend more time hassling cyclists than people openly using meth because « we asked for more enforcement »
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by obscuretone 2y ago
RIP Russian comms
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Depends on the track I guess.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Burnout almost single-handedly ruined my life. Do not recommend.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
that's $200 that could have paid the internet bill that was cut off for being three months behind.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
very much so. I dealt with tech inspections and people would try to go on the track with worn out brakes and suspension all the time. Which is dumb but. So are people. Even getting to that point means you've gone through the local amat
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by obscuretone 2y ago
As much as I hate carbs, let alone 4 of them, I always felt like I truly owned my '82 Seca
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by obscuretone 2y ago
I used to volunteer at a race track. The amount of bureaucratic shit to even get your car on the track makes it not worth it to most people, myself included. Used to find back corners of industrial parks to have fun. Cops were cool with it.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
With the exception of assholes, people drive for conditions. Period. The flow of traffic is always the safest speed. NHTSA and German authorites have papers on this. It is possible to physically slow cars down with narrower roads, speed bum
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Is it even a distinct field? What unique challenges are there spinning up an LLM vs a DB?
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Just make it illegal to go faster.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
Prototypes. Have 100% used arduino to PoC industrial electronics in a startup setting.
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by obscuretone 2y ago
I do! Location: Montréal, Canada Remote: yes please Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Java, C++, embedded, redis, k8s, etc Resume/CV: Ex Pornhub. API services and industrial / iot background. See
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by obscuretone 2y ago
oh just that last line is beautiful. correlation doesn't imply causation, but it doesn't refute it either. I guess my underlying point is "what if probabilistic neural networks are an oversimplification" To use an analog
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If human consciousness is quantum, strong AI will be too(obscuretone.com)
1 points by obscuretone 2y ago|3 comments
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by obscuretone 2y ago
As someone who used to interview for my team as we grew; a lot of candidates can't back up what's on their resume. Even simple questions they fall apart. I tend to just have a conversation. Tell me what you can do, explain some of

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