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Collecting a bunch of covariates is never a substitute for recognizing that you can't force people to be taxi drivers for life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel...

This is like the "half of my marketing spend is wasted" quote. The complexity is finding out which half.

CSV files are widely known to be used by the most frugal companies so of course it is.

That's why anything that goes against the long-established corporate culture aren't likely to stay around for long.

Someone tag Apple in this thread and shut them down please

That's not shame, the LLM did not mope about for days before deciding to pick itself up again and go to work.

The web is going to become China, which is a collection of walled gardens

This is called proof of stake

That’s not true. If you want to have a job at a prestigious institution then the research committees are pretty consistent in their biases.

Driver support eats directly into driver development

It’s not illegal, just stupid because. Because plaintiffs can use this as evidence that they can police their own platforms

Then you’ve never been to China

If there’s no way to tell between a good customer and a bad customer who does the wrong thing then the difference doesn’t matter

Direct action is literally their policy

That directly goes against the earlier post where you said you lived in a particularly nice part of town

TVs tend to incessantly ask for internet access, especially android ones.

Turns out the problem with mobile was windows all along!

Personally it felt quite natural once you start to work on real software projects.

That's the job of a (good) manager.

Main Street sells pizza but VCs sell Ponzi schemes

The biggest assumption is that it assumes only a single path to intelligent life.

I disagree with the characterization of structural corruption. Every rationale actor will seek to capture all the benefits and pass on the risks. The real corruption is when decisi…

If compute power is the deciding factor server vs edge discussion then we’d never have smartphones.

I’m willing to sacrifice your rights if it means that there’s less incentive to steal my phone