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The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

This! ^^

Tesla produce a lot of for the EU in China. They have a schedule where for each quarter, months 1, 2 and 3, in Month 1, they produce cars. In Month 2 they sail them over from China. And in Month 3, they arrive and are sold.

BMW managed to overtake Tesla in the first month of Q3, barely. When Tesla really had no cars for sale.

I love working remote, but in my current management position, it is really hard to know what people are doing.

We have 4 developers. 2 are just performing. 1 is Ok. 1 does whatever he feels like. And one seems to be focused on something else.

So, its not clearcut if remote is good or bad. It depends on the developer.

We are all trained on copyrighted input. That is not a problem. What is a problem is if you reproduce it and try to claim copyright for that. If someone wants to create their own image of Mario in an AI, so what?

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The ADL also defines racism as something that only white people are capable of. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/us/anti-defamation-league-rac... They changed the definition in 2022 from: "Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another." to "The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people."

This looks remarkably like the dosbox conf format. Im sure you have reinvented something from the 90s?

  [sdl]

  # fullscreen -- Start dosbox directly in fullscreen.
  # fulldouble -- Use double buffering in fullscreen.
  # fullresolution -- What resolution to use for fullscreen: original or fixed size (e.g. 1024x768).
  # windowresolution -- Scale the window to this size IF the output device supports hardware scaling.
  # output -- What to use for output: surface,overlay,opengl,openglnb,ddraw.
  # autolock -- Mouse will automatically lock, if you click on the screen.
  # sensitiviy -- Mouse sensitivity.
  # waitonerror -- Wait before closing the console if dosbox has an error.
  # priority -- Priority levels for dosbox: lowest,lower,normal,higher,highest,pause (when not focussed).
  #             Second entry behind the comma is for when dosbox is not focused/minimized.
  # mapperfile -- File used to load/save the key/event mappings from.
  # usescancodes -- Avoid usage of symkeys, might not work on all operating systems.

  fullscreen=false
  fulldouble=false
  fullresolution=
  windowresolution=2048x1536
  output=ddraw
  autolock=false
  sensitivity=100
  waitonerror=true
  priority=higher,normal
  mapperfile=mapper.txt
  usescancodes=true

Demand for developers is endless. If AI can help more people be developers, and or help developers be more productive, it just means the supply of developers goes up. I would guess that this will not result in a downward pressure on wages, the demand will simply skyrocket.

Multiplication is bad. Knuth actually also describes a hash function using random numbers and XOR. Its 10x faster than the modulo, and I belive Mikkel Thorup proved it optimal.

The idea is roughly:

Say you have a hashtable of size 1024. You then create x uint arrays of size size 256. These arrays you fill up with random numbers 0-1023.

To get your hash value, you take your input and for i=0..x-1 determine byte k=input[i] you lookup the value in array[i][k]. These lookup values are then XORed giving a final random value between 0-1023 ready for inserting into the hash array.

No modulos. No multiplications. You only have to redo the random tables when the size changes from say 1024 to 2048. Easy peacy. Superfast.