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asdsadasdasd123··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Ah yes, I'm going to whistle blow and ruin my career over something "illegal" that every university has been doing for the past 50 years. Im perplexed that you find this surprising at all. This stuff happened openly in all hands with pie charts of the existing gender and racial makeup, and the target makeup with struggle session-like questions of why our engineering department doesn't have 50% woman. None of this is inconsistent if the decision makers at the company think that any deviation in demographics is a sign of institutional racism.
asdsadasdasd123··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Every DEI program I've been involved in has had target quotas which put pressure on hiring managers to reach those quotas, but still "hire on merit". And then they hire a viz minority engineer who thinks translating a js file to python means renaming the file extension.
asdsadasdasd123··on June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
this whole thing is like a crypto currency exercise where you input x compute for an expected value of y prestige points over 3 yrs
asdsadasdasd123··on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
Im surprised new cars dont just go off of a gyro decel reading, don't modern cars already have a gyro?
asdsadasdasd123··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
This is just cope. We've rolled out cursor company wide with no noticeable uptick in bugs.
asdsadasdasd123··on Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead
> Four others that raised money but with painful recapitalizations that effectively wiped out early shareholders

I don't get how this kind of stuff happens.

asdsadasdasd123··on Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric
That's because the republicans have long been the party of entitlement receivers. This is changing as under 25s are strongly shifting republican while boomers are moving democrat.
asdsadasdasd123··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
There are tons of alternatives, you just need to accept that its missing 1 or 2 features you like, because if the app supported the 1 or 2 features for everyone, it turns into jira/office
asdsadasdasd123··on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
I guess that makes sense for a government, but for regular people, accumulating coins is super annoying. I wouldnt mind carrying coins if i just had to carry quarters and dollars
asdsadasdasd123··on The cat that wouldn't die
its so funny when you try to create an analogy to prove how something is absurd and the common understanding is that your analogy is how the world works
asdsadasdasd123··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
The last argument is basically the key point, you think google is going to let browsers die? Their entire business model depends on its survival; they just get less control over its destiny now, which is probably fine tbh.
asdsadasdasd123··on Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
I dont understand what this article means. Tesla's aren't imported so why would there be tariffs on them. The source link leads nowhere.
asdsadasdasd123··on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
I think coins need to be banned full stop. At current prices, you can probably just do a paper quarter and create a law to allow cash payments to be rounded down to the nearest quarter. Most business would be ok with this since they can avoid the credit card fees. I think we should also go plastic like canada, the bills are easier to count, harder to get dirty, and harder to get lost or crumpled. I'd also imagine itd also be harder to counterfeit and easier to track.
asdsadasdasd123··on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
For this to work, cash needs to suck less. The convenience factor will overpower any concerns you or i have.
asdsadasdasd123··on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
Disagree because code has to be far more precise than, the location is in the jungles of brazil. This level of coding as never been achievable by traditional ML methods AFAIK
asdsadasdasd123··on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
This is probably one of the less impressive LLM applications imo. Like it already knows what every plant, street sign, etc is. I would imagine a traditional neural net would do really well here as well if you can extract some crude features.
asdsadasdasd123··on It's Not the Incentives (2018)
This idea that we can just setup a good system with good incentives falls flat on its face before we even need to consider its merits because the problem is that there are always snakes involved in the development of these systems. The most important thing for societal survival is moral character AND THEN the system itself.
asdsadasdasd123··on FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
I think you have the wrong case; is Garcia also a domestic abuser?
asdsadasdasd123··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
I like it but minimalism always fails for complex products because everyone wants a different 80% of the features cut. You can already see it in the comments haha.
asdsadasdasd123··on Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018)
this lines up with my experience in America where you can go so far if you just show up sober and put in 8 hours. ive never seen a more socially mobile country
asdsadasdasd123··on I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective
i've learned a ton from ai suggestions, but right now its like 5-10% of suggestions. If that number was any higher i might not have the motivation to open the black box
asdsadasdasd123··on An update to our pricing
How do you run out of premium requests, I've peeked at the stats across my company and never seen this happen.