davidgay
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I could've sworn that malpractice insurance cost is viewed as one of the driver's of high health care costs, and that it's expensive precisely because medical lawsuit payouts are large...
Comment · 1 month ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... has the US at 7th highest out of 22 countries (for which this data is available) for the most accidents per km driven.
So it's clearly not that hard to be safer than the mean human driver in the USA. 3 of the 22 countries manage to have less than half the US rate.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'll very happily (as a significant benefactor) take this century's medicine over the last. And the one or two centuries before that aren't even worth starting to think about. So something must be working wioth mainstream medicinal research.
Comment · 2 months ago
Editing is fine as long as you keep the signed original for validation purposes.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Children are part of hobbies.
That is a weird (modern?) delusion. Without children, our species disappears in <100 years. And the last of those years would be painful for those still alive.
Those who are having and raising children are the ones doing the most for the next generation.
Comment · 2 months ago
Not killing someone when one can (in a not them or me situation) is not “good will”, it’s one of the most basic ethical principles. I’m surprised you need to ask this question.
Comment · 2 months ago
I guess you view what would be the worst crime against humanity ever to be committed (and yes, I really do mean to include all the previous ones in that statement) to be an acceptable answer to “oh, we have no more smart bombs, let’s just kill everyone in this country”?
Not committing a crime against humanity is not “good will”.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Like, of course you can prevent all memory safety errors by using a garbage collector. That has been known since the 90s.
No, it's been known since GC was invented.
> In fact, there was a good two decades after Java released where all the research on memory safety just stopped, because the standard answer became "use a GC".
Having done all of my research on memory safety after Java was released, I find this statement a little exaggerated... (e.g., https://barnowl.org/research/pubs/98-pldi-regions.pdf, https://barnowl.org/research/pubs/07-hotos-linux.pdf)
Comment · 4 months ago
For homework: if you make homework results not count towards the final grade, then there's no reason to use an LLM - the point then just becomes to have practice problems and feedback on how well you are doing.
This is what my university (EPFL) was doing ~40 years ago. And yes, some students didn't bother with the homework, and mostly paid the price at the final exam...
Comment · 4 months ago
The open source policy described above was in place 16 years ago (I went through it to continue working on some existing projects), and I doubt it was very new then.
Comment · 5 months ago
You can proportionally reduce the time in the role;) Though the most senior people wouldn't be there long...
Comment · 5 months ago
There's about 500k kids in California each year. The 100th smartest is undoubtedly smarter than you or me.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is an extremely simplistic view. For instance, the US moves more of its freight (by percentage) than all western European countries except Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...
Comment · 7 months ago
Not to mention India without the spicy peppers...
I strongly suspect this definition strongly correlates with what most people call inflation (my fuel bill went up! and strangely, not heading to work wasn't really an option).