malcolmgreaves

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Comment · 1 month ago
The biggest improvement to readability is to capitalize the beginning of sentences. There’s no need for a toggle. Don’t default to making your writing unreadable, please.
Comment · 3 months ago
> “I think Minnesota is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on Friday in response to a reporter’s question about Iran’s possible involvement,

What a coward and a traitor to the American people.

Comment · 3 months ago
A refactor and then a feature implemented on that refactor is tightly coupled by definition. It would not make sense to implement the feature and refactor independently, because you’d be wasting time implementing a feature that you would have to refactor again.
Comment · 3 months ago
The robotic CEOs think we would notice if they were replaced by machines?
Comment · 3 months ago
But with that design, you’re quite limited in what you can usefully do once you catch that exception.
Comment · 3 months ago
“A retreat may feel more relaxed than the office, but it is still a workplace, and the power dynamics don’t disappear,”

Ah, so sad :( Another story of a person who believed other people in the workplace too much.

These kinds of exercises are unfortunately a waste of time. If you’re honest, you’re walking into a minefield. But if you’re not being open, then no one is really getting to know anyone else in any meaningful way. In the end, a bunch of money and time is spent with zero value gained.

And given that this was about someone sharing their experience with a medical procedure to help them process the death of a parent, the company will probably lose the lawsuit, wasting even more money.

What a tragic waste of resources. Also, my heart goes out to this person. Loosing a parent is terrible.

Comment · 3 months ago
I’m quite unfamiliar with this notion. What law says it’s illegal to lie when you’re not under oath during a court proceeding?
Comment · 3 months ago
You’re not making valuable conversation.
Comment · 3 months ago
From the webpage:

> Image classification without the server seeing the image.

The value is in being able to get the prediction from the model without ever giving unencrypted data to somebody you don’t trust.

You could have an LLM generate code for you without ever giving the operator your proprietary source code.

Comment · 3 months ago
What do you think happens in war? Clean fighting from side to side?

You really think the massive amounts of death and destruction aren’t top ten? What do you think happens to the local population when an invading force arrives? You should go and read about the rape of Nanking. And just read about what happened in wars before the modern era.

Comment · 3 months ago
Iran is not David in this case. They’ve shown that their drone warfare is just a little bit under what the US military can provide. Remember that they destroyed a quarter of a trillion dollars radar installation. And the US has spent billions on munitions. The US can’t actually keep going in this war.
Comment · 4 months ago
This story is so unbelievably sad!

> That leaves the question of automatic emergency braking: why didn’t the truck slow or stop itself before hitting stationary vehicles at a lit intersection? AEB is designed for exactly this scenario — it detects vehicles or obstacles in the truck’s path and applies the brakes when a collision is imminent, regardless of driver input. Most modern Class 8 trucks are already equipped with collision-mitigation systems from suppliers like Bendix and Detroit Assurance

So Tesla made a decision to make their semi less safe than the average for the vehicle class.

They could have had basic safety equipment, but they wanted to save a buck. Now two people are dead and another is almost dead. This is gross negligence on the Tesla semi truck’s engineering team and the executive leadership.

Comment · 4 months ago
Even in his hypothetical, the founder is still not even earning a billion dollars. The actual people working to earn that collective billion are the employees.

> that you don't have to cheat to become a billionaire

I think he’s feeling some sort of way about this. He’s probably coming to terms with the fact that you do have to cheat to become a billionaire. Uber et al. showed you can just keep breaking the law and bribing officials to get to a billion quick. He and his buddies are currently having fun bribing Republican Party officials to make billions.

Comment · 4 months ago
J6 was organized as a violent insurrection from the beginning.
Comment · 4 months ago
Trump helped organize and encourage the January 6th insurrection. He was president during the insurrection. So yes, there was a lot of federal Republican help during that one.

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