I don’t think that’s a fair assessment, everything people have built up to now relies on a significantly greater amount of complexity. There is a lot which works well and is held together by hardworking, unsung normal everyday folks, but you don’t make the national news for getting shit done or keeping stuff functional.

That said, yeah the bean counters have fucking ruined engineering firms, and it’s a story which repeats itself over and over. There’s also the issue of nepo babies or “I know this person” incest in a lot of places where qualified people are passed over for someone “you know”. The nepotism and cronyism phenomenon is a huge problem for many institutions, not just engineering firms. Nepotism and cronyism is not just an American issue, it’s something you see everywhere.

Regarding unqualified people, I do think maybe standards should be raised for entry into some college programs. But the only way raising standards would make sense if we significantly invest in public education. In short, a lot of “breaking” of America is the direct result of short sighted Republican policies.

Their comment is based on this criteria:

Countries are classified as democracies if they meet the following conditions:

Executive: The executive is directly or indirectly elected in popular elections and is responsible either directly to voters or to a legislature.

Legislature: The legislature (or the executive if elected directly) is chosen in free and fair elections.

Voting: A majority of adult men has the right to vote.

Source https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/countries-are-the-worlds-oldest-democracies/

For anyone interested: the prehistoric origin of democracy, ie before the Greeks, is also interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy

Lmao what a legend. How would DMCA even apply in this case though? Parodies are free speech

It’s not just the big tech, some startups are the same because they’re vying for VC cash and that’s the best way to do it

Amazing, now we just need charger infra to be more ubiquitous

There’s nothing inherently wrong with doing quality assurance work, but I think the workers are being fooled into thinking it’s less valuable work than their old job. In fact, based on QA in other industries, I’d say these workers should be getting paid more. This is why unions are important, otherwise people just get fooled or bullied into accepting bad deals

I think a regimen of heavy drinking and exercising to stay relatively fit can take that kind of a toll on a person

I was thinking maybe there could be different SoCs or machine learning oriented hardware, and if there are multiple designs then they could be put together somewhere else. Some research labs are specializing in different types of semiconductor devices, which I think might be interesting to explore on a microcontroller

Sometimes you have to develop defensive or offensive capabilities, and how they’re used are the responsibility of politicians. You’ll have to accept that some citizens support the actions of the politicians to use defensive or offensive capabilities.

If the non-war side has convincing arguments other than shaming based on assumed moral superiority, then they should suggest alternatives for dealing with aggressive sociopaths (Putin attacking Ukraine, for example) or any number of examples of violent extremism in history from [insert your ideological enemy].

Humans are still operating on a primitive model to kill opponents instead of alternative ways to deal with them, and blaming one scientist for that ill of society doesn’t make sense. Her contributions to science are separate from the sociopolitical issues under which they came about.

Yeah, and there are some analytical apps for smartphone cameras and sensors, like measuring physio with accel or gyro. But I guess that’s okay to include as a part of a course and not really needed for rest of the school day

Might be good, maybe we’ll get an OS competitor then. It’s harder for hardware, but not impossible. An open source, fabless microcontroller built by a nonprofit, perhaps? A lot of universities have labs with the budget to allocate for this as part of a consortium

At one point they didn’t suck so much, but everything has been infected with enshittification

Me, personally? I have no horse in this race. I was just saying it’s inaccurate to imply that only under 25s are not conservative

Who’d want to date anyone who uses this app anyways?

Nope

Small problem though: researchers have already found ways to circumvent LLM off-limit queries. I am not sure how you can prevent someone from asking the “wrong” question. It makes more sense for security practices to be hardened and made more robust

I am not sure what method DDG is using for their model updates, I think it’s only fair if journalists follow up with them for clarification. Local LLMs, ones you can download to your machine for use, would circumvent privacy concerns if you’re not updating the weights in some way

Edit to clarify I meant updating the weights using online learning, but it’s still possible to update weights using pre trained weights you can download

You can train models of all kinds without disclosing anything personal about a user. Also see differential privacy

If it’s using different AI models and allowing anonymity, I am not sure what’s the issue? Do you also object to using a calculator?

He just moved on to shrooms 😭 (pic related)