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If the outcome of all of this is that Altman ends up at Microsoft and hiring the vast majority of the team from OpenAI, it's probably wise to assume that this was the intended outc…

"should probably be reconsidered" isn't exactly outrage is it? We can have sensible discussions about appropriate naming without being extreme one way or the other, as much as the …

I think brainf*k is a great example of a potentially offensive name that actually conveys meaning and doesn't harm adoption by its intended audience.

Let's just put it this way, I'm not advertising in anything associated with my professional credibility that I use "lunatic", for the very obvious reason that it's possibly offensi…

definition of "lunatic" - "a person who is mentally ill (not in technical use)." I didn't say it was offensive. If it was called "autistic", the word is not offensive but... why? I…

I mean, I had to think about it. Whether it's hugely offensive or not isn't necessarily the right question here. With the whole English language to pick from there are probably bet…

I wish they had called it something else. I hate to be that guy but you know, it's not that hard to be maybe just a little bit more thoughtful. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17…

If people in science really do understand that correlation is not causation, why are they publishing papers in journals that show meaningless correlations without doing the actual …

It's good for climate change because it will gross enough of us out to stop eating meat all together.

You can compute an autocorrelation with FFT's by applying the convolution theorem which IIRC the audio api can do the FFTs for you. I also found the the YIN estimator is a lot bett…

I am surprised to find in these comments that using the debugger routinely and by default isn't a popular idea. I couldn't do my job as well as I do without having the reflex to us…

The reason debuggers are often hard to use in these environments is because people who don't routinely use debuggers to do their job do not see the value of them, and so organizati…

It's easier that the US blocks it for diplomatic reasons than the UK. The UK will almost certainly block it if the US doesn't. It could be interpreted as a snub if the UK interfere…

I refuse to ever work for facebook or have a facebook account. I regret having a whatsapp account, created before it was acquired. Still migrating friends+family onto signal. I get…

Is there a list of companies that fall into category 3 that offer fully remote positions? I worked at a tier 3 company in the bay area and have since settled into what's probably a…

> Providing customer value is a business model, and it's rather independent of the license underneath. Yes, my argument and tl;dr is that flooding the market with free software has…

Yes they have been successful and continue to be. I still think they have made a mistake, I don't see why success would invalidate that. If amazon are eating into their profits the…

> Like it doesn't make sense to code a complete OS from scratch every five years No but it does make sense for us to pay for using an OS given that it's fundamental to what we do. …

Elastic made the mistake of building a whole business on open source software by relying on the poor experience and artificial overhead to launching that software independently and…

1. The culture around equity should be changed. There are too many companies where employees are only offered equity if they ask for it, and people don't understand it. We can educ…

Moved to signal today, plenty of people in my contacts are following suit (was way easier than I thought). I've never had a facebook account, had WhatsApp before facebook bought th…

Pretty sure the UK reduced cooperation with the US after it refused to extradite Anne Sacoolas to face fair trial in the UK after accidentally killing Harry Dunn.

"Take the 3% otherwise you'll own 40% of nothing" I would call the bluff. It doesn't look like you have many options to exit with a cash settlement unless you're allowed to sell yo…

I understand what you're saying. What I was trying to illustrate was that by virtue of knowing the ins and outs of the codebase, it's easy for them to make changes (hence the quote…