A vote for Ken Paxton is a vote for Elon Musk.

Wow, have you ever felt less alone but also less assured

Maybe. I think a sizable group of people would rather put fast fashion back in the bag.

I always found that particular angle to be hilarious. Like, if you didn’t know the towers were sorta built like a bundle of wires on end and that deforming even the tip of the bundle with heat could cause the roof to fall in and split the whole thing open, then the argument from the conspiracy theorist that it was a controlled demolition sounds plausible. How could that tiny plane hitting so high on the tower knock it down, twice?

Suddenly the WTC-7 guy appears. He’s wearing a literal tinfoil hat and he hasn’t showered in a week. He hijacks the entire conversation to explain how a building that was slapped by the (burning) tallest building in the world couldn’t have possibly collapsed after 7 hours of uncontrolled fire.

By now you’re probably realizing you have somewhere else to be, and that’s fine, because the two crazies are now shouting over each other about why the Pentagon didn’t collapse, how the entire attack was cover for UA 93 to flee for South America, or whether it was the CIA or aliens who orchestrated the whole thing.

That’s weird, I feel like his reputation is actually being tarnished by his own actions.

Our lad just starched the richest man in the world in his own office.

No, this trial is trying to answer one very specific question, which is whether the killings were done with a criminal mind. Pretty much everything else is already known or outside the scope of a criminal case.

Amid the pandemic, Kennedy and like-minded allies similarly assailed reports of deaths from COVID-19, arguing that they were deaths “with” the deadly virus and not “from” it.

Oh boy, it’s this bullshit again! You’d think after getting totally pantsed by excess death studies they would know that argument isn’t gonna cut it.

I fondly remember the time I hired a QT expert onto an embedded app team and on his first project he imported a sort algorithm from std. He found the system got weird and glitchy, and often crashed.

Yeahhh turns out the algorithm he chose needed to make a copy in memory and the thread he was working in only had 2048 bytes of stack, so larger inputs would corrupt the stack allocated to the next thread. I had to explain to him that we had a full second to complete the math before we had to give back our semaphore, so saving a couple milliseconds on the sort was not a priority. Fun times.

Hey thanks! Feels like home, unfortunately!

I mean, people like you insist on this, but I can’t evaluate the truthfulness of that claim since I haven’t used a Meta product since Facebook in like 2009 lol.

But sure man, glad the mega company is really working out for you!

20 years ago I was at a university that was studying mRNA bombing as a way to deliver “impossible” vaccines. We were young millennials, still dreaming of a better future. We really thought that 80% of cancers would have effective vaccines by the time we were 50.

Instead, most of us are repeating that MMR is safe, moving up our first colonoscopies, and exhaustedly reminding our parents not to believe anything they see on the Internet. If this isn’t the worst timeline it’s an honorable fuckin’ mention.

There’s an important lesson you have to learn at a certain point in your career: how and when to say no.

In your early years, it makes sense to be the guy who scoops up the side quests. It’s basically the best way to learn new skills and figure out what interests you.

When you reach a certain level of seniority, you’ll need to be much more selective about what you take on. You should be focusing on the highest value work that your skills allow.

So what do you do when these requests come up? Ideally you delegate them to a junior team member, but you can also just say no. Obviously you should be professional about this, but it’s perfectly reasonable to say that what you’re doing is higher priority and you can’t be distracted from it. If it’s important, they’ll ask someone else, and if it turns out you really are the only person who can do it, then you can pick it up when you, the expert, think it’s appropriate.

I absolutely love some of Lynch’s work but will openly confess that I have no idea what he was trying to tell me.

The project would help OpenAI move toward owning AI infrastructure, although ⁠its ability to fund large-scale commitments remains under scrutiny because the company is unprofitable despite a valuation of $852 billion.

Fantasy league valuation, you fucking muppet. Go public, open the ledger and we’ll see what it’s actually worth.

I’m not an expert in law by any means, but isn’t this literally the case for summary judgement? The plaintiff is refusing to show up, so they can explain themselves in sentencing.

As someone with previous defense connections, I’d been wondering when we’d see this.

ITAR has severely restricted access to nav system tech export, but there was always this open question about reckoning position by visual cues rather than GPS + dead reckoning. We all knew it was technically feasible, but we assumed that having “visual” cues was further out because AI at the time wasn’t up to the task.

The answer is the same, though. Nvidia, willing or not, is now a defendant in an unjust war, and must be subpoena’d by the ICC. At a minimum, they should be immediately sanctioned by foundry specialists (like ASML) until they are prepared to account for how, exactly, this tech ended up in a Russian missile.

This is the guy who famously cashed a 13 cent check. Of course he isn’t throwing out the salary lol.

We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.

I think you’re making a strawman argument here. He isn’t arguing that it’s a binary switch that has failed to throw, he’s arguing that we don’t have compelling evidence that the ends justify the means:

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they’re working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.

And this is completely true! Supposedly “data informed” organizations are trying to find a yardstick that shows actual, meaningful improvement in business outcomes from AI. In my own organization we have people touting LOC yet again because “big number”, but anyone who’s ever worked in software can tell you it’s an asinine metric to use as a KPI.

It’s inherently unscientific to start with the answer and work backwards to a satisfactory question. His point that this push is coming from the least knowledgeable of real processes- and more closely resembles religious fervor than business acumen- seems to at least warrant consideration.