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Oh, the invisible hand is definitely there. Though, it's just slipping into your back pocket and lifting your wallet.

For anyone interested: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

Corporations that pay employees below subsistence levels are indirectly bailed out by food stamps programs. I wouldn't depend on them for moral anything.

From an organizational standpoint its better because it lets a sysadmin/security person sandbox anything and everything instead of having to become proficient with the tooling for every different language (which may not even exist).

I think the key to being happy as an introvert is not depending on the approval and adoration of others for your accomplishments. If you do, you're going to be bitter and toxic over not getting it when you feel you should.

Perhaps it's the combination of AI being so overhyped in the general public plus media that's already inundated with CGI, that it just doesn't blow them away?

Best one I've encountered is: "Customers whose accounts are up for renewal, are the ones most at risk of churning"

They're basically following this process to build their products: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

If you need big data, the thing you are looking for is small and the effect size of what you are optimizing will also be small.

Just reading certain code is enough to taint a human programmer though. Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects because they have their own clean room implementation they want to protect.

Just need to reword it a bit, "This Disney character doesn't exist" can also be "This is not a Disney character (because it doesn't exist)". Sums up the assertion being made well too. Not a Disney character. Except their lawyers may disagree.

An interesting exercise would be recreating an entire program/tool that is GPL using copilot and releasing under a less restrictive license. Could one could argue that the effort put into cobbling together a knock-off is enough to constitute an original work?

Running a copyrighted movie through a neural network compression algorithm and uploading it on bittorrent isn't going to stop you from being sued. Even if the output is produced by an AI.

I used it a long time ago in a program that read large structured text files. What was 100s of MB of text in memory became a fraction in size after interning the tokens.

We have evidence suggesting that cannabis use, primarily THC in cannabis, in genetically predisposed or at-risk populations, leads to earlier diagnosis of psychosis/schizophrenia. This tells us that THC in cannabis has a small causative effect on schizophrenia.

A small effect on people who were already at risk. The sky is hardly falling with legalization.

This is it. Even with keeping photos and music on a micro SD card, the internal storage for the OS and apps is often woefully undersized.

Customers don't even want to download more apps, let alone pay money for them.

I'm at the point where each OS update means another app gets purged from my phone.

The best datascience projects are ones that started collecting good data 3 months ago. The hardest thing I've had to do is convince engineers to involve DS people in the design phase of their work. Initially they just don't see us, or see us as an annoying extra stakeholder. But it's more annoying to go back to already deployed code and add data collection to it and then waiting, so they learn fast. Anyways, like the OP's link says, there's no magic modelling work that can bring back those missing features and data.

All the confluence hate speaks to my soul. It's where ideas go to die. If you want to start a successful internal project and someone tells you to start documenting your ideas there, you might as well just move on to something else. Whatever you were going to do is already dead. It's just so ignorable. Nobody gives a shit about a confluence doc. Write up your thoughts and send it as an email to your boss, your peers, whoever. That demands a response and you'll get one, for good or ill! Getting outright rejected is still better than the sad withering away that is putting it into confluence. Anyways, what's the most common signal that people hate confluence? When they use it as a link repository to docs stored elsewhere.

People have elderly parents too.

Everything turning into an edit action when I just want to click a link or copy a bit of text is super annoying! Also is thinking you're in a text field, typing out something and realizing you've done a whole bunch of random actions because of all the hotkeys.

I find it really interesting that one of the consequences is increased obesity in offspring. It's basically evolution passing on the message from one generation to the next: "Pack on those extra calories when you can kid, you're gonna need them!" Then when those environmental stressors are gone the signal is turned off for next generation. Sort of a short-term but cross-generational mechanism for optimizing metabolism. Wild.

DNA methylation! I first read about it from this study in 2014: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/dna-signature-found-in-ice-storm-...

Is the ice-cream barge a recent revelation or am I just attuned to seeing references to it? I only learned about it recently and since then it's popped up multiple times.

Given the amount of modern day graffiti carved into benches and tables in parks and scratched onto bus windows, probably not that angry?

Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff.

Seriously though, by mass, aren't plants by mostly carbon that was separated from CO2?

You're only going to see the salty and bullish takes, the truly neutral have nothing to say about it.

How well did that go with how anti-adult industry the banking industry is?

Came here to say this. I feel like text autosummarization has been commoditized by now.

Methinks you are replying to the wrong comment? But for the fun of it, the large three letter mainframe company made an effort to rewrite their COBOL compiler's backend to use the same JIT compiler they have for Java (check slides 5 and 8): https://www.slideshare.net/MarkStoodley/under-the-hood-of-th...

Such a change would be transparent to the end user.. Except for gotchas like not all users have the source code for all of their dependencies. What happens if you want to update your program and you have a dependency on a binary from some vendor who went defunct 35 years ago? You're stuck compiling against whatever artifacts you have so does transpiling to C still work?

Can it also apply to the time until an event which hasn't yet happened? Ie. a system you have never observed crashing before, has been running for T hours. So being on average half way through its lifespan, will probably run another T hours without incident.