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adastra22
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About adastra22
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Comment #49225358
I’m a generation younger but I concur. I hated presenting and my anxiety was crippling. But the solution for that is to practice more, not to avoid it.
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Comment #49219147
We saw this play out in Bitcoin mining years ago.
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Comment #49219080
It’s the OP who posted the link.
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Comment #49216054
I don't remember so many emdashes in the original.
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Comment #49213961
You should avoid LLMs in your communications.
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Comment #49213951
I skimmed so I may have missed it, but nowhere in the README do I actually see a description of what "choreographic programming" is, or an example of it.
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Comment #49192044
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an o…
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Comment #49187924
Is this closed source?
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Comment #49175115
I don’t see how this is the case? The CEO can absolutely tell the board to shove it. The board can’t micromanage the CEO - they don’t have the levers to do that. So their options a…
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Comment #49175074
Eh, the kind of poaching OpenAI is accused of doing here is not normal recruiting. It is being claimed that they are giving specific instructions to exfiltrate Apple’s proprietary …
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Comment #49175063
If Silicon Valley had unions, employee stock options would end. And along with it, most of the incentive structure that drives innovation in the valley.
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Comment #49175049
Yes and they got in huge trouble for it. It was a massive scandal. The only reason Apple wasn’t made an example of was because all the other big companies followed suit and did the…
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Comment #49154491
The “The thinking in bonsai” link 404s. This says it is based on Elm. So it has the same clean immutable state structure?
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Comment #49147514
Just as general feedback, I think your experience matches up with more software developers than the GP. Haskell is really obtuse and unreadable for those who are not accustomed to …
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Comment #49121595
What you are implicitly assuming is that the publication and review system matters for that cancer research. Cancer progress, as I understand, is mostly driven by NIH priorities, w…
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Comment #49121044
Look into the replication crisis. It has seriously impacted some fields very negatively. Psychology and Alzheimer’s research in particular have been set back decades.
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Comment #49108028
Academics are just as quick to steal ideas. It cuts both ways.
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Comment #49091356
Agree with you here. AFAIK we don't really know what cybersecurity task it was given in that sandbox, but it's not a very large leap to assume part of this task involved hacking. T…
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Comment #49082324
The chalenges are in execution, not availability of information.
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Comment #49082311
You can go download the smallpox genome. You don't need AI to do that. The problem of creating bioweapons remains that it requires very, very meticulous lab work under careful cond…
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Comment #49082293
Clinical depression is a mental disability under California law, and thereby a protected medical condition. The bar that Netflix needs to meet is very, very high. Like, operating d…
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Comment #49082259
Bringing a wrongful-termination suit is career-killing, so damages could be as much as his entire expected compensation of his remaining career (including equity grants), x6 for pu…
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Comment #49078035
Yes, IANAL but it seems very much like grounds for an open-and-shut wrongful termination suit, given that they have admitted it up front. They could be taken to the cleaners for th…
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Comment #49077979
Sounds like it was productive!
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Comment #49077912
The threats are BS, but fyi models have repeatedly shown capability to produce novel things that are NOT in their training set.