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we built extremely powerful plausible bullshit machines targeted toward and trained on an electorate and population that has historically bad education and reading levels, built on…

> But Brian Baker, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, told Forbes that the couple were not on board his yacht, named Launchpad. The yacht crew had been ope…

> an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month …

depression is not the same as clinical mental illness. one is a symptom, one is a disease. your delusion seems to be that it can be reasoned and talked through which I interpreted …

I’m sorry if I am being uncharitable, but are you saying the solution to depression is that people’s friends groups (which the depressed person may not have access to to begin with…

I've been around now long enough I'm becoming more convinced that the tech industry in a nutshell is just relearning the same things on a 10-15 year cadence

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> The instinct during an availability incident is to add headroom: raise CPU limits, increase the worker pool, add replicas. That can help with genuine capacity problems. Here, it …

It's in the context of health, which is what most relevant discussions regarding a disability would arise here. It's worth noting that the original comment "just do" also probably …

The casual ableism is not unique to tech but I do notice its prevalence, both here and in my career. I am slightly disabled physically, I've made comments here a time or two where …

What is your evidence they think like humans do? thanks for the downvote, but please state your point clearly and what you’re trying to say in this thread because this comes across…

These aren't thoughts how humans literally think them. I can write a program to produce a string that looks like human thinking, is it human thinking? Of course it isn't. It's such…

They aren’t human, don’t think like humans, aren’t remotely comparable to the way humans think and act, so why would you make this as a 1:1 comparison? This kind of framing is real…

This is so weird. It's working reliably for me, usually random nonsensical math statements followed by a gibberish sentence. But other people on same account can't reproduce with O…

The first 10 seconds of the video literally contradict this. I'm not sure what planet I'm on anymore.

He was asked to leave, and refused and said drag him out. That's what he was arrested for. That's the disorderly conduct There really isn't any room for any other interpretation he…

It’s nothing like that. 99% of users have no idea these logs exist or have any use for them. Even the original complaint went months without realizing it - of all the things to com…

30 days is just a default, so your session data doesn’t fill your hard drive. It’s a configurable setting. You can make the retention as long as you want.

> Meta alone has amassed around $420 billion in off-balance-sheet debt, according to Nikkei, Isn't this an existential type of bet?

We rejected cable tv, which bundled in different content provider packages and plans into one interface, in favor of streaming services, and now are in the process of reinventing c…

> That story almost certainly wouldn’t happen today in America, for the simple reason that the youth-soccer culture here is mainly built on a profit-driven “pay to play” system. Pa…

it’s a meaningless term that can define dozens of roles

> For ongoing projects, an effective trick that I believe I picked up from Secrets of Consulting is the anonymous poll, where you can ask individuals to rate their opinion of an AI…

and devs almost universally end up not wanting to do that

The attention to detail spent here was what sparked my original interest in computers which inevitably led to my career. as a young man, watching this movie I was amazed that one m…