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> Journalism is thrash and journalists are happy to lie about anything if they have the smallest amount of plausible deniability. Funny, if you see the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI, they act like they are still doing serious journalism.
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I don't know about your friends, but as we're on HN, I'm sure others here have friends like mine, who absolutely have conversations about how the low level shit that facilitates our world works.
How do I join yall
1. Start building stuff that is hard to build that requires touching these niche topics. Especially stuff you don't know how to build
2. As you encounter problems, you'll have to scour for solutions (AI doesn't know these things due to lack of training data). In the process you will find people who are also working on these problems. Ask these people well-formed, intelligent questions.
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By 'talk' I suspect he means discord and by friends he means display names. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I catch myself saying 'talk' when I'm talking about something a friend told me over chat.
How does that distinction matter here?
> As do we all.
I think they interpreted “as do we all” as pointing out humorously that this is an unusual friend group. So, speculation that it might have formed online makes sense, because online spaces can sometimes facilitate that sort of thing.
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It’s easier to have very specialized friends of they are geographically far away.
I don't see what distance has to do with it. I had a number of specialized friends in close proximity at university.
probably doesn't help that 'tech journalists' are some of the worst with very little journalism background.
> so, to test, one of us took a heavily PBO'd 9700X and changed /proc/cpuinfo to be a "9700X3D" and ran a Passmark run to see if the software would be fooled... The two articles I saw about this both emphasized that the high clock speed (from the PBO) was inconsistent with the name of the CPU that implied it would be lower performance than the 9800X3D. Most of the sites I check regularly have been pretty good about c…
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Journalism is a crucial part for a free world.
Even the people I like/trust at newspapers I prefer to consume via social media without passing through the editor.