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Comment · 3 months ago
Imagine how bad you must be to lose to a Stochastic Parrot...
Comment · 3 months ago
Close to impossible. This is a famous enough problem that anyone who understands what they are doing generally would pretty immediately recognise the significance of the counterexample if shown it.
Comment · 4 months ago
If the Chinese models are open weight the after release you don't care about China at all; they could be running on a server in Bulgaria with zero CCP influence for all you care.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, 140k for a software job is extremely high. Comparable roles in Europe done by people who are equally skilled pay half as much.
Comment · 1 year ago
> New Town Blocked

> A 50,000 home new town in Kent is blocked because they found nests full of agitated Chupacabras following the government's 'reintroduction' of the cryptid to British arable land. Your deposit requirement increases by £5000.

This is too real...

Comment · 1 year ago
Terrible as these people may be, even they do not deserve the Brazen Bull (nobody does).
Comment · 1 year ago
On a log scale (you can select this on your graph) we're basically moving on the same trend line as we have been since 1960. Covid caused a big jump but the years of stagnation since then mean we're back to normal.
Comment · 2 years ago
It works under the same principle as pressure washing, as long as the water pressure is high enough the final result is completely clean. Too high pressure can lead to material flying around everywhere but there's a very large range where the pressure is high enough to clean you but not enough to spray things around.

Drying is a personal preference and isn't as important anymore as you're clean down there now. Toilet paper is one option but you don't have to do it (I don't dry for reference) as it'll dry out by itself in a few minutes once you put your underwear on to absorb the water (which is fine because you're completely clean down there so it really is just clean water left).

Comment · 2 years ago
Uptime: Close to 2000 years at this point.
Comment · 2 years ago
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock...
Comment · 2 years ago
Hanania also has similarly scathing things to say about low class and low end white people. He's not partisan at all, or if he is, he's biased against the more "pathetic" parts of humanity, if you wish to put it like that, rather than having a Dem/Rep bias.
Comment · 3 years ago
By being very good. Mostly the Uber-geniuses thing, but I wouldn't call them geniuses. You do have a bit of the harder working but it's quite minor and of course sometime you benefit from being in the right place at the right time (luck). I'd say elite network is probably the least important conditional on you having a decent network that you can get at any top 20 school if you put in the effort (be involved in tech societies etc.)
Comment · 3 years ago
Now remove the affirmative action portion of the non-legacy students and compare numbers again.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not just this story. This is just one more example in the plethora of "inconvenient events".
Comment · 4 years ago
Also what would count as "no issues" by and large depends on the dog breed I'd say. If a rottweiler tried to attack a rabbit that wouldn't be out of the ordinary, but if a border collie did the same it would.

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