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Or: filming location for the next Bond movie

Is this Human Resource Machine for GPUs rather than single core CPU assembly?

Ownership without corresponding property rights.

Mind linking any examples (or categories) of problems that are definitively not in pre training data but can still be solved by LLMs? Preferably something factual rather than creat…

He also released an internal memo on atoz today with a grammatical mistake in the first sentence.

Any recommendation for copilot integration with Emacs?

> to democratize coding Does that mean we collectively vote as to whether the next addition is a for loop? While a company may mean to make more widely accessible but used charged …

Same boat - I get really frustrated by the “someone tried to access your account” emails from Facebook. Oh, you mean the account that you confirmed as deleted 8+ years ago??

Related but not totally on topic: How much would it cost to buy the rights to an essentially now semi-zombie game, that may have been been popular a decade+ ago? Say a wealthy bene…

I read the article but didn’t see any mention of inspecting network activity outside of, say, a company laptop but on the same WiFi network while WFH. Do you, or anyone else, know …

> Most of the time spent is preparing and harvesting. In between you watch things grow and maintain. When nothing is growing...at least, my in-laws in China...drink, gamble (mahjon…

Similar but unrelated, the audacity to post-facto denote something a Netflix Original.

Does sublime support editing remote projects over ssh?

Is there any reason not to assume they don’t for software engineers as well? Honest question, I assume this isn’t covered by two-party consent of recording. Are there any legal fra…

Because what niche they’ve carved out isn’t driven by utility for end users but by cost reduction for the company in reduced headcount. They add value, just not to anyone who has t…

I’m increasingly convinced the endgame here is advertisers hiding content within the ads themselves via steganography.

Interesting. I guess my off the cuff, unexamined criteria for democratizing is whether it’s a gating/enabling function for the occurrence of one party’s objectives as directly deci…

Does anyone else take fault with the increasingly commonplace usage of the word democratize as applied to technology? For every valid case, I see others that make my head hurt. Is …

Honest question - can a list really be curated if it’s basically just algorithmically generated?

Totally. And I didn’t mean to call you or your company out specifically. Actually sounds interesting. Maps Street View of 1428 Bush St, San Francisco is more of what I have in mind…