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Regarding sup-optimality...

Currently our programming is optimized for keyboard input. If sub-vocal instruction becomes "a thing", I suspect we would spend some collective effort to create a programming language optimized for that mode of input.

I think the only reason we don't have real languages using touch input is because of the lack of bandwidth for that signal.

The "a total mystery that we will never understand" was intended to be fairly obvious sarcasm. My mistake.

I think that oral control will only really take off once we can record it sub vocally, in the style of "speaker for the dead" ("ender's game" sequel).

I like the flexibility, but I really really don't like people to hear what I'm saying. Imagine three people in a room trying to do this. It'd be total nonsense. Subvocal commands would be really nice, if that's a thing that is actually possible.

Or maybe constant chattering from everyone around you becomes the new normal. I can totally imagine old me (38 now) being completely overwhelmed by this technology and all my grandkids wondering why I'm having such a hard time, and rolling their eyes when I say I just want a mouse and keyboard, dammit! Everything was simpler back then! I didn't have to listen to all this yabbering all the time and I could just tell the dang computer what I want it to dang darn do!

One of my managers gave me some guidelines here. If it's more than 100 words, cap it at 100 and schedule a meeting. It clearly is information-dense to the degree where a quick question/answer session will be helpful.

From my own experience, I make sure to never ask more than one question in an email. If you ask more, people will answer the first and ignore the rest.

you could also let them sit in a box for a few days.

Then it was truly unavoidable for the us to keep getting worse and worse, for some reason more in states full of people who think masks are mind control (a total mystery that we will never understand), while other countries are seeing things get better.

> Damn, such systemic bias against non-gay person is astonishing. People downvote and don't even understand why.

lol

When I saw the title I read it as BC aka BCE aka some really ancient mining artifacts. Still cool, but let down.

Really it's just "inspired" by borg. Using both, they're really not very similar.

> feeding the lazy

To avoid that group, I suppose you have to cook all your food yourself?

As a society, we take on different specializations and, as a result, increase overall efficiency. No reason to call this specialization out as something that only serves the "lazy".

Autopilot is the name of the vertical scaling system inside Google used for borg. It's been there as long as I have, which is 2012.

I imagine the team that named it didn't need to read a research paper from MSFT to understand the benefits of dynamically scaling machine resources to match load.

No one got laid off. Mobility within the company is very good, they just need to find a new role.

That's not always trivial, and I'm sure some will leave the company, but none have to if they don't want to.

Elsewhere within the company.

Man I love technical advice that has the word "just" in it. It's so simple!

The data flow is quite well-contained. I obviously can't offer you proof that you'd be likely to accept, but I do work on GCP and have experience with how data is partitioned.

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GCR is the container registry and does nothing but store your artifacts.

Seems unrelated to capping instance counts, which I assume would go into effect very quickly.

(I work on GCP but not this product)

The vast majority is not brought in from outside and was written in-house.

Bias and inaccuracy are two different ways to get things wrong.

Briefly, bias is the wrong mean, and inaccuracy is high variance.

A bit off-topic, but you citing 17k as the population of Princeton "proper" is quite wrong. While it is true that Princeton Township and Princeton Borough were once different municipalities, they shared most resources and, importantly, a cultural identity and school system.

The distinction between Princeton "proper" and otherwise is not between the Township and Borough (which were legally joined for good several years ago), but between Princeton and Princeton Junction, West Windsor, Kingston, etc.

The population of Princeton is 25k+.

Anyway the moral of my story is that calling the township Princeton "proper" attempts to create a divide that the residents don't care for, and dismisses many of them as not being from the "real" Princeton.

Source: native of Princeton (specifically township, but I actually have no idea which of the borough or township my friends lived in) with a slight stick up his butt.

It's not a mirror, it's just another place to put your images. If you're eu based then it's definitely better to use eu.gcr.io for everything from the start.

You say what image to use. There is no default.

That... is not publishable, in my opinion.

You might be shocked to find out what the job is like for most professors. Grants, grants, and grants.

Even in business, empathy goes a long way.

> and a space elevator from the moon does nothing to reduce this cost.

How do you figure? My extensive Kerbal Space Program experience tells me that freeing oneself from the moon's gravity well is far cheaper than doing the same from the earth, and then you're approximately MGH of the way to freeing yourself from Earth's well.

The OP wasn't whatabouting, just pointing out that it's business as usual.

Whataboutism as an accusation only take makes sense when it's whatabouting something from the accuser's camp, which doesn't seem to apply here.

You have ground truth on the result: one agent won the game.

With voice recognition, that's a lot more vague and human supervision is helpful.

Honestly I don't get the slant from the article. "Loyal customers" of an insurance company and "insurance fraud" don't mix.

Maybe I should read the article instead of just comments here...