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Comment · 2 years ago
It’s common for someone in a flare of an IBD to be unable to eat vegetables without irritation. You should seek to understand the root cause of an individual’s experience instead of invalidating their experience due to your own.

If they become healthier then they should be able to increase vegetable intake which will further increase their health.

Comment · 2 years ago
You can argue on the basis of principles that tourism is bad. The fact remains that tourism cannot be stopped cold-turkey without massive job loss as seen during covid. If you wish to stop tourism and preserve the well being of the people that depend on its income, then you need a plan for what replaces tourism and how to re-skill your workforce. There’s clearly no such plan in place.
Comment · 2 years ago
What’s your github username? I’d be interested in using that when it’s released.
Comment · 2 years ago
The only time I go to see how ancient cultures lived without electricity and weaved their own clothes in in museums and tourist attractions. They’re also typically incredibly boring.
Comment · 3 years ago
Neovim already can’t keep up by itself. The future of vim won’t be as a standalone application, but as a plugin into other IDEs. The support for Neovim and VSCodeVim within VSCode greatly reduces the utility of a standalone app for anything other than edits to very small projects.
Comment · 3 years ago
It does appear to only support Bloom, which makes it currently useless since there are much better models with fewer parameters that you can run on a single machine.

However, the project has a lot of appeal. Not sure how different architectures will get impacted by network latency but presumably you could turn this into a HuggingFace type library where different models are plug-n-play. The wording of their webpage hints that they’re planning on adding support for other models soon.

Comment · 5 years ago
If an engineer with 20 years of experience is intimidated by a new grad then that’s not ageism, and not what this thread is about. If a new grad performs better then there is literally no point in hiring that engineer. They don’t bring anything to the table and there is no room for growth. If you’re in your 50’s then ideally you’d be at least a principal engineer at a big tech company by then.
Comment · 6 years ago
You’re going to be bitter and resentful for a long time if you believe that the fact that you haven’t received a single consulting contract is due to big corporations working against you.

It sounds like you’ve built a useful piece of software. However, you don’t get handouts because you’ve built something. Those who are successful actively promote themselves and their products. There’s a reason companies aren’t comprised of just software engineers.

Comment · 6 years ago
The truth is that if they are without a job, then they aren’t highly qualified. A degree does not make someone highly qualified. Tech companies have always had trouble finding enough talent. If they can’t find the talent in the US, then they will be forced to hire outside the US.
Comment · 6 years ago
Good code quality doesn’t guarantee success. However, those two data points indicate it may be necessary if not sufficient. There are only 4-5 tech companies operating at that scale with proven business models. Google and Microsoft being the primary others.
Comment · 6 years ago
No, that’s what Siri says when it disables your alarm lol.
Comment · 6 years ago
I hope you don’t believe you can’t infect people after 2 weeks. If so, you’re contributing to the pandemic and the spread of the virus through disinformation. If a patient ever develops symptoms it could be 2 weeks or longer. If they don’t develop symptoms after the incubation period then they are still infectious.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is a clear nefarious usage used to spread false information. It’s interesting to see the only one supporting this view be downvoted. It’s not clear if the downvotes are due to not fully understanding the implications or if the downvotes are for another less savory purpose.

To have the candidate speak the language of a voting group holds significant political power in India. This is not the same as a dub. With a dub it is still relatively clear that the language is not spoken by the speaker. This is using tech to spread the false fact that a person can speak a language, when they in fact cannot.

Comment · 6 years ago
You still haven’t provided a reason why this is a bad thing. Ok, so there are unsuspecting users taking photos of the local YMCA facilities. What you’re talking about is similar to the social graph but on a much smaller scale. The only reasonable use is for advertising. The world’s not going to end.

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