My new Bosch 2020 refrigerator broke down after 3 years of usage. Coolant leakage. Not repairable due to the foam direct injection.
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agsamek commented on ChatGPT: How many letters has the string “djsjcnnrjfkalcr”? · Posted by u/agsamek
This is an artifact of an implementation-specific trick that trades performance at character-level tasks for performance at everything else. It does not reflect anything inherent about this type of model's capabilities: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#bpes
GPT-3 does not see individual characters. It sees "djsjcnnrjfkalcr" chunked as [d, js, jc, nn, r, j, f, k, al, cr]. You can see for yourself here: https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer.
Tokenization doesn't explain this kind of a mistake. If you ask about "djsjc" you would get the proper answer of 5. The claim that this is performance trade-off does not hold.
I cannot edit the question, but would like to say that I'm extremely impressed by ChatGTP and entire question was an honest curiosity about the limitations of it. It is strange that many responses are about blaming my question and example as just wrong and not about the limitations of the ChatGPT model (admirable anyway).
agsamek commented on Ask HN: Laid off employees, did the company ask you to return equipment? · Posted by u/sagarkamat
Our company tracks all the laptops and mobile phones. On onboarding we send them to the programmer and during offboarding we collect them back. Shipping label are always generated by us. At the end of life we sometimes give away devices to their users after resetting them. In case of laptops we mostly have a second life for them as long as they are fully functional - they are used by administration, as a second device for projects as needed, etc. But we do not plan to wind down anytime soon, so this might be a different story with a startup going bankrupt. In particular once the person responsible for administration is no longer with the company ;)
I am also from Poland and I would be willing to sacrifice 20% of my salary for 1 extra day off per week. I would certainly not look for another job. Also in my employment agreement there is a rule stating that I need my current employer approval before I get a side gig.
I even expect that this would have a rather minor impact on my work (like 10% decrease). I think for jobs like writing CRUD screens for entire week the productivity drop may be more significant.
Actually this inspires me to ask my employer this January for such offer.
Disclaimer: Single person, no children or other commitments.
> Also in my employment agreement there is a rule stating that I need my current employer approval before I get a side gig.
I do not think this is lawful. In our agreements we only prohibit doing a work for our competitors or directly competitive work. If you like your employer then do not come up with this with them, but stay informed of your rights.
It's a stereotype across the whole Europe, even Poland takes advantage of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plumber#/media/File:Pol...
Thanks for sharing. This was exactly what I was referring to. Also youtube links from the UK are nice, shame you are out of EU for the time being :)))
Anyway - I just added a valve regulation to our kitchen floor heating this weekend, so it was not only joking :)
My complaint is that plumbers frequently do poor work for the money.
We had some come and install an instant water heater and they cut an ugly hole in the side of the house without much thought.
At one office I worked in they called Roto-Rooter (a non-union franchise that is likely to wreck your pipes and require a call to the union plumbers afterwards) who claimed that we'd flushed a condom down the drain (very hard to believe) and wrecked the pipes so we had to call the union plumber.
Another time the sink wasn't running so we called the union plumbers, they unscrewed the aerator from the faucet, saw some crud come out and the water run and left in triumph, sure of their ability to outthink a group of mere computer nerds.
Us computer nerds were sitting at the faucet immediately after that, running it and talking about it. The now aerator free faucet clogged up again within 2 minutes of the plumbers leaving.
> My complaint is that plumbers frequently do poor work for the money.
Hehe - now you can feel like an IT customer. I think most people feel the same about IT but the domain is just more wide and prone to excuses.
> were willing to put 5-10% of their income in exchange for work from home.
Why? The company is going to use your home as an office and they should be paying that 5-10% extra. Why business paying corporate landlord for office space is okay, but when Joe Public offers his own lowly place then it's a no no? When people don't recognise their value, they are prime for being exploited.
We did the experiment to check if people are serious about WFH. There is a lot of work to make it happen inside a company. In particular to treat remote people as first class citizens. WFH was also a choice after covid and not necessity.
With a pay cut we are sure people are serious about WFH and not only demanding.
This article doesn't touch much about why plumbing is hard. I'm from Poland so I'm not only IT but also a plumber ;)
Plumbing is hard because it is not forgiving. It's as binary as IT except you can learn the outcome with some delay, once you learnt about a damage caused by a leak. Either you do a pressure tests right or repair can be expensive. And bugfixing is always tricky.
Water also goes down whether you like it or not. Think about all possible leaks inside the shower cabin. Or what is even more impressive that under a pressure the water goes everywhere possible.
Plumbing is similar to electrical engineering, except it usually doesn't kill immidiately (though working with gas is tricky anyway) but requires similar strict mental model to do right.
And when you see a plumber it seems like this person is just a physical worker. So work status misconception must be leveled with money...