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gniv

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Software Engineer. Worked at FAANG in infrastructure. Currently in France.

Email: garyniv@gmail.com

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maptap.gg 3mo ago

Daily Geography Game

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www.youtube.com 4mo ago

Pet dad turns to AI chatbot to cure sick pup using custom mRNA vaccine [video]

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kasurian.com 6mo ago

Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption

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twitter.com 1y ago

R1: I am what happens when you try to carve God from the wood of your own hunger

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rubiks-cube-2d.glitch.me 1y ago

Rubik's Cube in 2D

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Waymo fixed the honking issue and did a test run at 4:04AM

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ourworldindata.org 1y ago

Cancer Incidence by Country

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decider.com 2y ago

'The Spider-Man of Paris' on Netflix, a Documentary About a $100M Museum Heist

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twitter.com 2y ago

The Gemini image fiasco as performance art

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www.bloomberg.com 2y ago

Paris's New Weapons in Climate Fight Are Metro Turnstiles and the Seine

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www.bopsecrets.org 2y ago

Graffiti from Paris May 1968

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cms.airthings.com 2y ago

The Air Report -- Indoor pollution edition

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thehill.com 2y ago

Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics: study

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2y ago

Survey: Food-Borne Chemical Carcinogens and the Evidence for Human Cancer Risk

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blog.google 2y ago

AI and imagery keep speed limits on Google Maps updated

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decider.com 2y ago

'The Spider-Man of Paris' on Netflix, a Documentary About an Art Museum Heist

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pubs.acs.org 2y ago

Proteomic Analysis of Vlad III the Impaler's Documents

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techcrunch.com 3y ago

Google Lens can now search for skin conditions

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

Google Became Cautious of AI and Gave Microsoft an Opening

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sandymaguire.me 3y ago

Moments of Strength

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www.lrb.co.uk 3y ago

Fraudpocalypse

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cloud.google.com 5y ago

Our heads are in the clouds at the Museum of Borgmon Modern Art

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twitter.com 5y ago

University of Arizona Uses Wastewater Testing to Prevent Outbreak

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Why I quit Google to become TikTok Famous

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github.com 6y ago

Corona Model with a Varying Infection Rate

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mobile.twitter.com 6y ago

Software interfaces undervalue peripheral vision

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intl.m.dk 6y ago

Fully Automated Driverless Metro Line Opened Today in Copenhagen

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Simone Giertz turned a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck

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medium.com 7y ago

Why a Google Walkout Organizer Left Google

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www.tastecooking.com 7y ago

The Life and Death of Tart Frozen Yogurt

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I bought a connected oxymeter (viatom). I wore it overnight on my finger with the phone nearby. The graph on the app shows exact values through the night so you can see how many time oxygen drops and for how long. It's not quite as good as the real thing but should give you an idea, and it's cheap.

Googlebook 2 months ago

I used AI to shop for shops of clothes. But I would probably use it directly if I trusted it to give me good results.

That was me. I complained a lot about meetings, design docs, etc. I did not understand that the process of discovery is messy and what looks inefficient is not really. I expected sharper meetings, shorter docs etc. In retrospect I see my naivety but it took me too long to change my attitude.

Same with household appliances. Most of the familiar names are shadows of their former selves. Unlike in clothes though the quality alternatives are usually really expensive.

It's perfectly fine to run your English text through an LLM if you're not sure about grammar/spelling. That's also how you learn to improve.

Your post is comprehensible but has multiple mistakes and they are a distraction (which is fine in this context, but in other contexts it might hinder communication).

My late-2021 M1 Pro is working fine but I think one of the fans is broken. When loaded it starts beeping every 7 seconds and won't stop until I reboot. It might be just dust but I'm reluctant to open it up. Maybe I should and if I break it I have a better reason to upgrade lol.

Very insightful on how this corruption develops:

"How can a group hold a worldview so at odds with the wider culture and not appear to be greatly conflicted by it? The answer may lie in the distinction between particularism and universalism. An individual develops social identities specific to the social domains, groups and roles – and accompanying subcultures – that he or she occupies (e.g. manager, mother, parishioner, sports fan). [...]

In the case of corruption, this myopia means that an otherwise ethically-minded individual may forsake universalistic or dominant norms about ethical behavior in favor of particularistic behaviors that favor his or her group at the expense of outsiders. [...]

This tendency to always put the ingroup above all others clearly paves the way for collective corruption."

Facebook is cooked 5 months ago

I login for the groups. Some private groups have a ton of useful info that's well organized, plus helpful folks that are eager to answer questions.

A point that the article doesn't touch on directly, but it's part of the bottlenecks mentioned: a lot of jobs already are bullsh*t. They are there because a scapegoat is needed or because the nephew of the CEO needs a job, etc. In theory these jobs could have been removed long ago but they were not, and AI won't change that.