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New comment by l33t233372 in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"

l33t233372 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:47:48 +0000

Freely readable and mutable weights doesn’t have the same ring to it.

New comment by l33t233372 in "“1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”"

l33t233372 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:04:41 +0000

How many judges are able to make deep technical adjudications about which use of DNS is sufficient to be a title I or title II carrier?

New comment by l33t233372 in "Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless"

l33t233372 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:26:45 +0000

I think the notion that these jobs are useless is wrong. Most of the categories in bullshit jobs are just straight up not bullshit. Most jobs are useful.

Things like lawyers, secretaries, corporate compliance officers generally provide value.

Things like middle management are more dubious, but I think they generally do provide value.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:03:51 +0000

And 14 year olds would never work in mines.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:47:47 +0000

Do you think companies care enough about some nebulous notion of control that they’re willing to spend massive amounts of money?

New comment by l33t233372 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:46:34 +0000

I’m confused what point you’re making here. Is it that some (non office) jobs require you to be there?

New comment by l33t233372 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:42:16 +0000

I don’t understand why you separate groups A and B. The comment said that it’s the same orgs and agencies doing both things.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:38:02 +0000

> socializing the costs of office space

Aren’t we talking about private businesses here?

New comment by l33t233372 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:33:48 +0000

If you would rather commute than work, sure. I don’t like driving that much though.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:24:37 +0000

> the point of the job ends up being to keep people employed and pay taxes

I don’t think this thesis holds any water. Companies don’t care about keeping people employed and paying taxes on such a micro scale that they’re willing to bite the bullet and hire people because they know it’s for some greater good of societal stability.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless"

l33t233372 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:18:09 +0000

> finance is 98% bullshit in this world.

I think this has been famously phrased as “money is the root of all evil”

New comment by l33t233372 in "Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)"

l33t233372 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 15:43:44 +0000

I think point particles are different because there are infinitely many of them. They are more continuous than cards. This means shaking isn’t necessarily discontinuous even if two particles that were “right next to each other” wind up far apart, there should be more particles in between that ended up closer.

New comment by l33t233372 in "How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?"

l33t233372 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 04:37:17 +0000

I’m wondering how differentiate:

> “ start reading their resume to me […] or just start saying nonsense”

From:

> “ trickle out the things they're most proud of. They'll ramble for a bit”

Generally rambling and nonsense are similar, and resumes contain trickles of things that people are most proud of.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

l33t233372 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:45:26 +0000

I used to order Chinese take out to watch every new episode of Burn Notice. I’m not concerned about companies knowing this and using it “against me” in targeted advertising.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)"

l33t233372 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:58:23 +0000

I don’t think that analogy works because an idealized fluid is point particles, but an idealized deck of cards isn’t.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)"

l33t233372 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:35:22 +0000

It’s difficult to discuss this physical example because particles are discrete.

In an ideal system with points instead of particles, shaking would be continuous.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)"

l33t233372 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:40:52 +0000

Shaking a container is a good example I think, assuming the glass is convex.

Shaking has to be continuous, the particles move quickly and erratically, but they trace continuous paths.

New comment by l33t233372 in "California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education"

l33t233372 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:51:07 +0000

850 in 2016 dollars is almost 1100 in 2023 dollars.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?"

l33t233372 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:36:04 +0000

That’s implementation details, in my opinion. I reach into my pocket and talk to AI.

New comment by l33t233372 in "Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?"

l33t233372 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:29:38 +0000

That’s really interesting. It seems like this technology could be huge