Tarq0n

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3 дня назадdiscuss

That's a very mercenary attitude. If less than 2% of your (potential) users had a particular disability, would you implement accessibility features for them without being forced to? I'd argue that it's the right thing to do. Some restrictions like using an old browser may be more or less a choice, but it's still a much better look to be inclusive.

4 дня назадdiscuss

Or it's self-dealing from these funding parties, and the hiring is business continuing as usual.

My understanding is that one of the advantages of being VC funded is that sales among sister companies become easier, sometimes going as far as the VC influencing purchasing on your behalf.

5 дней назадdiscuss

That's positively incoherent. You can't even interpret an instruction without relying on prior knowledge. Not to mention LLM's are in essence made of knowledge.

6 дней назадdiscuss

Relaxation isn't really a goal of meditation. When you do it you cultivate a kind of meta-cognition, an awareness of - and control over - the kind of invasive thinking that usually dominates our awareness.

As a fellow ADHD person I didn't get out the first few times I tried, but now find it quite helpful.

9 дней назадdiscuss

Exactly, this is called a marginal effect and it's very relevant for our bodies which basically need their homeostasis disrupted to be prompted to adapt.

10 дней назадdiscuss

That's what swap is for.

10 дней назадdiscuss

In the past with harmful refrigerants and lack of renewable energy AC simply was not justifiable in most of Europe. Progress on both fronts plus global warming is changing that only recently.

11 дней назадdiscuss

There is a more nuanced argument against deportation as a policy. First of all it causes migrants to destroy their documentation and to be less coöperative with the immigration process. Second, some migrant countries refuse repatriation, which is currently an unsolved problem. Finally there's something to be said for immigrants to be registered regardless of status, rather than incentivising them to avoid authorities.

Now some of these problems could be solved, but there's a legitimate argument that the policy causes more problems than it solves.

13 дней назадdiscuss

Rising demand induces inflation because more money is chasing the same goods.

13 дней назадdiscuss

It's not just minimum wages. If productive sector employees' demand for goods causes inflation, prices will rise. If you want to keep your nurses/doormen/teachers you'll have to increase their wages regardless of what the minimum wage is.

15 дней назадdiscuss

I've been to staffless hotels (numa) that were good and noticeably more affordable than their neighbors. I don't know if the housekeeping was outsourced though, I imagine that, without at least some local management staff, conditions would deteriorate rapidly.

15 дней назадdiscuss

Labour was cheaper back then. Even valuable jobs can stop making sense if the costs outweigh them. That's the difficulty with automation making other sectors more efficient, wages get driven up while your productivity stays the same.

17 дней назадdiscuss

Data.table is a masterclass in bad API design. Its lack of success despite its technical merits is entirely of their own doing.

25 дней назадdiscuss

Sounds like socializing the harms instead of requiring these companies to bear the burden themselves. Could still be a valid approach but I'm afraid it will make them take less responsibility, not more.

30 дней назадdiscuss

Recently finished the Starfish quadrilogy and adored it as well. One thing I particularly like is how this theme of evolutionary pressure applies to everyone alike; characters, software, ideologies, neural nets.

Also Watts manages to conjure this feeling of future shock I've only previously felt with Charles Stross' work.

в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

REAMDE's description of MMO economics is farcically bad. It undermines the whole book.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

The conclusions seem overly broad. Just because these languages are Turing complete doesn't mean they aren't massively hampered by expressiveness and amount of batteries included. To attribute all of this to training data memorization is premature.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Of course they do, error messages get tokenized and put into the context window just like anything else. This isn't a Markov chain.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

The aggregate effect of the chemical gradients in the antheap controls the ants. It's similar in these giant companies where the combination of all the incentives makes for a gradient towards certain outcomes. I can see little intentionality or individual agency in what the likes of Google have produced in the last two decades.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Language is intersubjective (its meaning is in the minds of the participants). Referring to the history or composition of a word is interesting but entirely insufficient to justify its use.