Completely agree - although the shine has rather worn off the ‘move fast and break things’ approach.
SpaceX is doing fine woth that approach?
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Kinda like photoshop 2 decades or so ago.
> This statistic seems to be used by some people to avoid the vaccine
The FDA itself restricted access to the vaccine on the basis of age. Given that virions aren't even involved in the production process, its safety should have been deemed good enough for the entire population early on.
The reason it's not recommended for all ages is money. Not safety concerns.
Same reason you can't get Shingrix under a certain age.
bboygravity commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba
The "good" rules are like "don't write off the end of an array", and the bad ones are like "no early returns" or "variable names must not be longer than 6 characters". 95% of the "good" rules are basically just longer ways of saying "don't invoke undefined behavior".
Why is "no early returns" not a good rule?
I do early returns in code I write, but ONLY because everybody seems to do it. I prefer stuff to be in predictable places: variables at the top, return at the end. Simpler? Delphi/Pascal style.
> The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations
The Maya are still around! I spent a few months in the Guatemalan highlands last year and all the kids in the village spoke Kaqchikel, one of the Mayan languages, at home.
(Young people speaking the language is key to language health.)
I've been in towns in Mexico where the kids ONLY speak a Mayan language. No Spanish or English.
I asked for directions and just got blank stares until someone who spoke Spanish in the village explained, lol.
bboygravity commented on Free software hasn't won dorotac.eu/posts/fosswon/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
I shall quote:
“ The right of workers to manage the state, the military, various enterprises, and cultural and educational affairs is, in fact, the greatest and most fundamental right of workers under the socialist system. Without this right, other rights of workers—such as the right to work, the right to rest, and the right to education—cannot be guaranteed. … We must not understand the issue of the people's rights as meaning that the state is managed only by a small group of people, while the rest of the people merely enjoy rights such as labor, education, and social security under their management.”
Meaningless. You can replace socialist by capitalist and it would be equally meaningless.
The correct word is democracy. The people (or "workers") having a say or not has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism IMO.
bboygravity commented on Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG paddedinputs.substack.com... · Posted by u/skadamat
It's kinda funny, Meta has long had some of the best in the field, but left them untapped. I really think if they just took a step back and stop being so metric focused and let their people freely explore then they'd be winning the AI race. But with this new team, I feel like meta mostly hired the people who are really good at gaming the system. The people that care more about the money than the research.
A bit of this is true at every major lab. There's tons of untapped potential. But these organizations are very risk adverse. I mean why not continue with the strategy that got us to the point we're at in the first place. Labs used to hire researchers and give them a lot of free reign. But those times ended and AI progress also slowed down. Maybe if you want to get ahead you gotta stop thinking like everyone else
Well meta... you can "hold me hostage" for a lot cheaper than those guys. I'm sure this is true for hundreds of passionate ML researchers. I'd take a huge pay cut to have autonomy and resources. I know for a fact there's many working at Mets right now that would do the same. Do maybe if you're going to throw money at the problem, diversify a bit and look back at what made SV what it is today and what made AI take leaps forward
AI progress has slowed down?! By what metric?
Quite the statement for anybody who follows developments (without excluding xAI).
That is very exceptional. I've written fuel estimation software for airliners (cargo, fortunately), and the number of rules regarding go-arounds, alternates and holding time resulted in there usually being quite a bit of fuel in the tanks on landing, by design. I've never heard of '6 minutes left' in practice where it wasn't a massive issue and the investigation into how this could have happened will make for interesting reading. A couple of notes: the wind and the time spent on the three go-arounds + what was necessary to get to the alternate may not be the whole story here, that's actually factored in before you even take off.
I'd be very wary to get ahead of the investigation and make speculative statements on how this could have happened, the one thing that I know for sure is that it shouldn't have happened, no matter what.
"make speculative statements"
isn't this 99 percent of modern infotainment "journalism" though? making speculative statements, omitting and lying..
bboygravity commented on Telegram's founder Pavel Durov sends alarmist message to all Telegram users · Posted by u/skerit
What are the chances that Telegram is an op by the FSB?
What are the chances that Signal is an op ran by the NSA?
I frankly don't understand the point of such monitors. If they are placed reasonably near, they don't fit human FOV well, and the periphery is seen distorted. If they are far enough away, the pixel pitch goes well past the angular resolution of the eye.
Same with monitors.
Either you stack huge piles of papers and work through the piles (with everything in the way all the time) or you spread them out in front of you.