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jahewson
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
This would be a $1000 custom part in a Miele appliance though.
jahewson
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Engineers use their ingenuity. That’s it.

If physical engineers understood everything then standards would not have changed in many decades. Safety factors would be mostly unnecessary. Clearly not the case.
jahewson
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Maybe we could keep the conversation out of the gutter.
jahewson
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
It reads like a sales call where they’re getting customer pushback and responding with something quantitative - not a good opener at all, especially for this audience. The GPT tone pushes it over the edge.

What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance, but you get one chance to make your open source announcement good - don’t blow it like this.
jahewson
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
I very much dislike the way this article blurs religious and doomsday thinking with conspiracy theory thinking. There’s nobody conspiring on the other side of AGI. Other than that it makes many good observations.
jahewson
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Isn’t this a counter factual that can’t be proved? How do you know it won’t deter other companies?
jahewson
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
What would you recommend instead?
jahewson
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Yes I think that’s what it is - only the writing on the map uses a horizontal baseline whereas the real script uses a sloping baseline so it looks weird here.
jahewson
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Being able to give a good speech is merit when the goal is to select a leader.
jahewson
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Where do you guys get this nonsense from? Is there some sort of conspiracy theory factory? Do you have any idea how the rest of the world behaved during this time period? You are aware that the Muslims literally had multiple empires?
jahewson
·в прошлом году·discuss
Those are the best reasons, but companies are also acquired for marketing, hype, to relieve a sense of fear, to curry favour, etc…
jahewson
·2 года назад·discuss
But he was deluded and believed that his sub was safe. Not sure what your point is.
jahewson
·2 года назад·discuss
It’s built to withstand a nuclear blast. There’s buildings like this all over the country (though not in skyscraper format).
jahewson
·3 года назад·discuss
Quick back of the envelope calculation based on FEC data for 2022 says that SBF’s $40m donation accounted for about 0.03% of Democratic-aligned PAC donations. PACs across the political spectrum raised over $7bn and spent over $6bn.
jahewson
·3 года назад·discuss
If we scale-down Madoff’s 150 years for $18bn to SBF’s $8bn, he’s looking at 66 years.
jahewson
·3 года назад·discuss
Ah but that’s not fraud. Though it did pave the way for it.
jahewson
·3 года назад·discuss
Holmes was only found guilty on 4 of 11 charges, totalling around $300m raised from investors. SBF is guilty on all counts of stealing 26 times more than that - $8bn of his customers deposits.
jahewson
·3 года назад·discuss
I suspect your fears are well-placed. Whoever is hiring this team has no idea how to hire for those roles and that suggests that those roles might not be valued within the larger company. Though sometimes the hiring manager has just lucked out and hired a great team so far. Still, will that team be listened to? Will that team be respected?
jahewson
·3 года назад·discuss
I don’t like this approach because it doesn’t provide measurable or repeatable criteria for comparing candidates. It also suffers from a sort of Gell-Mann amnesia where a candidate who spouts good-sounding BS about a topic you’re not familiar with is assumed to be competent across the board.
jahewson
·6 лет назад·discuss
Salesforce ($205bn)