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thrwaway55··on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
Why would you write in cursive? If you care about WPM key board toasts it.

If you care about handwritten your receiver cares they got your letter at all not that it's cursive or not.

Cursive is an outdated skill for when it was the fastest way to get words written to paper.

thrwaway55··on How good engineers write bad code at big companies
This hints at the authors misunderstanding. Customers don't care about good code. As an expert you are paid to cut corners intelligently. Customers want cheap and good enough.
thrwaway55··on X begins rolling out 'About this account' location feature to users' profiles
All it does is open second order businesses faking the authenticity
thrwaway55··on Gordon Bell finalist team pushes scale of rocket simulation on El Capitan
Anyone else get confused on this thinking it was a legacy OSX version. The title should include super computer to clarify.As one interpretation implies some code golf.
thrwaway55··on Dark Pattern Games
That doesn't come across in the sites scoring at all however and I wish it did.

Using Arknights an an example it has a power creep as 5/10 despite being possible to clear current endgame with only 4* operators, which are essentially guaranteed as a free to play.And the bulk of them being added at the games release.

thrwaway55··on Dark Pattern Games
I agree that is what it would take to get a high score on their site but I think it's an unrealistic expectation to suggest that the developer should be on the hook indefinitely for content. Each card game set is functionally a new game with some costs amortized thanks to it's previous sets.

We have seen the forever sticker price in mega hit indies ala Stardew Valley or Terraria but I don't think that is really healthy to expect for gaming as a whole and is more that small teams hit a home run.

thrwaway55··on Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears
Burry was underwater on that trade though and likely did it to avoid some paperwork revealing positions. He folded because he can't time it, if he was confident he was right he wouldn't have folded and we'd have another movie about him.
thrwaway55··on Dark Pattern Games
This site feels like this it's made by people that misunderstand games and genres and can't stand the concept of live service games which surprise takes money to run.

Saw one where powercreep is considered unhealthy ...if you played a competitive card game without power creep you'd quit because the first meta would be the only meta. Controlled power creep is healthy for game longevity.

thrwaway55··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
Uhhhhhhhh who do you think builds those tools to enforce the things legal stamps.

Delete all docs we aren't legally required to retain on topic Y before we get formally subpoena'd. We expect it to be on XXX based on our contact.

thrwaway55··on Technical experts have zero customers
I can sadly imagine a business model where you call no one and just move onto the next grift with the speed.
thrwaway55··on DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
How long does a single thread take to do an attempt? How long do two threads take? I don't want to assume people reading this forum are children.
thrwaway55··on DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
I feel the main difference is cars can't compress time in the way an array of computers can. I could win this competition with an infinitely parallel array of random characters typed by infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters instantly since one of them would be perfectly right given infinite submissions. When I make my tweet I would pick a single monkey cus I need infinite money to feed my infinite workforce and that's more impressive clearly.

Now obviously it's more impressive as they don't have infinite compute and had finite time but the car only has one entry in each race unless we start getting into some anime ass shit with divergent timelines and one of the cars (and some lesser amount of horses) finishing instantly.

To your last point we don't know that this was cheaper since they don't disclose the cost. I would blindly guess a mechanical turk for the same cost would outperform at least today.

thrwaway55··on When the job search becomes impossible
I missed this part in the Bible.

I'll admit it's tactless, but as a presumably European in your other comment what have I sacrileged against God? You asked an economical question it's hard to make economical decisions with repeated 90 day deadlines.

thrwaway55··on Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
Replace employee with exec. An employee may need a job and can be coerced for reasons they don't control.
thrwaway55··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Try to participate in any government...went to a town hall in a US city and both the company I worked for and unions were having people hold spots in line for FIFO comments body swapping for 'natural' opinion people. Media didn't report on it...ruined any trust I had in them.
thrwaway55··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
I just want to confirm this, you believe that when OpenAI and their agents post copyright material that they did not pay for verbatim it is breaking the law?
thrwaway55··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
Ok so if I publish under a license saying I don't allow for it to be used for AI do you believe they respect it? What word would you use to describe this violation? Go ahead throw up a robots.txt, throw up a license. You will be able to coax the "fair use" stochastic parrots to render it verbatim.

Sam Altman and his ilk are exploiting the incredibly slow moving legal system to enrich themselves.

thrwaway55··on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
Can you provide counter examples? I've legitimately never had a refund refused within the terms they outlined.
thrwaway55··on Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts
This is honestly tighter then you might think accounting for inflation. A 2000 1$ is 1.87$ today. 2005 seems like they should be doing a lot better since it's 1.65$ but it's not nearly as gangbusters as this comes across.
thrwaway55··on Daily Notes Considered Harmful
So what happens if I feed an LLM my worthless notes? Author seems like he's living in the past with his conclusion.
thrwaway55··on I convinced my K8s team to go AWS serverless. Spoiler, they didn't
This is an issue of comp no? I'd delete my team if it made sense given the chance because we are all share holders as well.
thrwaway55··on OpenAI Researcher Jason Wei: It's obvious that it will not be a "fast takeoff"
Are we even at that in large problem space games like go? Alpha go lost to amateurs making a really big wall that took too many steps to calculate until it was hand patched by humans.

Perfect Plagiarism is a hell of a handicap

thrwaway55··on Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
Do you hypothese that they see more wrong examples then right? Why is there concern about model collapse if they are reasoning and can sort it out, why does the data even need to be scrubbed before training?

How many r's really are in Strawberry?

thrwaway55··on First thoughts on o3 pro
Agents that can receive and make phone calls end to end and perform real world actions (I use Simple AI to not have to talk to airlines or make food orders etc, it works well most of the time

Isn't this more a problem created by them doing garbage automations over anything really solved. Wow Disney could solve fast pass feeling. It's not a problem it's a feature.

thrwaway55··on Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers
Isn't this already the case but you can replace traditional news with personal investigation? What is another layer of indirection?

I recall going to a townhall vote on some legislation a company I was employed with at the time wanted vs what the Teamster Union wanted and both sides doing body double line rigging to get their viewpoint in during "open comments" but I couldn't find a single news article about the obvious tactic by both sides.

Do you think traditional news can really replace all the value personally verifiable data brings?

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