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7hr ago
Half remembering a stat from the radio this morning: around 70% of their goals occur after the 75th minute of a game.
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7hr ago
You type in variable names? Like every letter manually? I type in the first letter or two and hit tab. It automatically fills in or a drop down menu shows me the names starting with that.
Same thing with file paths. First few letters, tab, first few letters, tab.
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7hr ago
Juniors should be incapable of operating at the scope and scale of seniors. Their tasks must be small in scope and complexity to have a hope of success. Fortunately seniors can guide them through such work.
Some people are going to learn these lessons the hard way.
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10hr ago
They rattled off some stats on the radio about young people's spending habits. Spending over half their food costs on eating out, etc. Don't have money to save for a mortgage but instead spend profligately in ways gen x and boomers did not.
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3d ago
they would not deem it in their own interests to allow Russia to proceed with building a large GPU farm even if it were a true and certain fact that Russia would retaliate with nuclear weapons to the destruction of that GPU farm
Huh. So it is. I must have misremembered.
Who is the poster child of this AI safetyism, advocating for bombing data centers, seizing the means of compute
That would be Eliezer "melt the GPUs" Yudkowsky. Including bombing Chinese Russian data centers if they won't cooperate. He founded MIRI in order to work on and spread his ideology. He is a crank in my opinion. He has some influence on some people. But clearly not enough to start WW3 with the Chinese Russia or whomever to stop them from training more LLMs.
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4d ago
I know the most hardcore anti-transers will say the only thing that matters is your birth sex.
The median position if I had to vaguely estimate society's views. Certainly not the median position on reddit or other online spaces which are far outside the cultural mainstream.
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6d ago
In the Bladerunner sequel replicants get bonuses at work and spend it on expensive luxury goods. Artificial beings programmed to work and consume.
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6d ago
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7d ago
According to reddit Trump is a rapist. Adjudicated civilly liable for rape or whatever phrasing they use. We're far past that in the minds of his opponents.
Including the particle accelerator I linked above. They sold the idea to congress on a budget. Then blew by that budget repeatedly asking for more and more money. Then were cut off.
More examples: For around $20 billion you can make zero particle accelerators and zero miles of Californian high speed rail*. So for about twice the cost of fuck all they made reusable rockets. I'd say that's a good deal.
*I'm only counting the cost so far. The total cost for zero miles of high speed rail will balloon past 100 or 200 billion longer term depending on which estimates you use and assuming they keep running the money furnace that is the high speed rail project. Someone is getting that money so I predict they'll keep destroying billions this way.
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9d ago
The true ratfucking would be to dump this the day after the filing deadline. This is the Democrats defending themselves from the upcoming Republican oppo research dump.
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9d ago
Craftsman tools were the last set you'd ever have to buy.
Long ago I read website that broke down how Craftsman tools degraded in quality. The example being an old and a new adjustable wrench. By every criteria the old one was great and the new one a minimum viable product. So I'd say yes, but mostly because the brands abandoned us.
ranging from primitive block voting and mass protests to filling important positions with your members who are actually qualified to fill them
Indeed and there's a dark side to this. They can take over local school boards. Busses full of Hasids show up with however many are needed to win the school board election. They then loot the school district for their benefit in opposition to everyone who sends their kids to public schools. Their kids don't attend public school, so ruining public resources like this isn't their problem. I'm shocked some of things they do are even legal. Such as shutting down public schools and then selling the buildings to themselves at ultra low prices in order to make yeshivas for cheap.
Infamous and well documented example at the East Ramapo Central School District in New York. Great radio report about it.
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14d ago
Cell phones undergo rigorous SAR testing demonstrating that they don't significantly heat up your body tissues. I don't think this is a valid concern.
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15d ago
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15d ago
In practice mixed families do a way less strict version of it. Parents when talking only to the kids use their own language, but mostly talk in a common language if both parents are present. There's a non-dumb way to handle this.
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15d ago
In Chinese the word "that" is nei ge (nay guh). But Chinese people tend to not enunciate the "nay" and instead says what sounds like "nih guh". They also use it instead of "uh" or "um" as filler sounds. I once had a coworker say it a few times in a row like "nih guh nih guh nih guh" while talking to another Chinese coworker. She then saw me and laughed and said "I'm not talking about [our black coworker]." This was in the US.
Anyways I always use zhe ge (jih guh) as an alternative.
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15d ago
I know a few mixed race families with hapa kids. I'm in one for one thing. I've never heard of this. There are families in which one parent speaks in another language to children, but all communication involving both parents is in English; such as mine. These people are taking it way to far.
Unrelated but I find it funny that calling someone a halfsie is treated like it is racist, so instead we call half-Asians "hapa" which is Hawaiian for "half". We call them halfsies in another language and that's somehow different.
If they are spending over half their their total food costs, then it could well be valid. Many times per week splurging, yet somehow too poor to save money.
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