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Most politicians seem like grifters and change positions to whatever is popular with their base or donors though. So, it does seem like this is a part of some grand-plan. I don't think many Republican politicians actually care about women's sports or who uses which restroom, yet they manufacture outrage and campaign on it. This kind of stuff was on no "normal" person's mind before media started focusing on it.

Yeah, I didn't know all these details, but arrived at this conclusion also. I just figured he was a CIA asset used to acquire kompromat.

Restaurants often do get first-pick, but it's probably just because the producers or distributors can make more money selling to them rather than the grocery store. I.e. just another feature of capitalism. This happens with a lot of things, such as home builders and furniture makers getting first-pick on lumber. Now that I think back to when I used to work in fabrication, steel as well.

Humans used to live in socialist-like societies before agriculture. I.e. "primitive communism." I'd argue socialism is more aligned with basic human nature than capitalism.

Yann LeCun would probably be a better source. He does actual research (unlike Altman), and I've never seen him over-hype or fear monger (unlike Altman).

Is it? Could you please enlighten me? I admit, I'm a bit ignorant of the politics over there.

To me, it seems like it's a clear violation of a nation's sovereignty. As a US citizen, I can't imagine Mexico bombing us for private actors for distributing guns to the cartels, for example. Even if the government itself was responsible for distrubuting arms to the cartels (which actually may very well be the case), I still don't see the justification for bombing US apartment complexes.

Definitely not a lie. Could possibly be a case of "parental incompetence," as my parents and grandparents were educated in, what I guess, similarly biased schools (or most likely, even more biased). I don't have a good relationship with my parents, and, perhaps surprisingly, my grandparents are more left-leaning than my parents. I grew up in rural NW Ohio, to be more specific; which used to be a swing state. Most of my peers were racist AF, and most of my past friends are now dead from drug overdoses. I'm, in no means, well traveled, but I'm guessing my life experiences aren't some rare anomaly.

I remember my 4th grade teacher having us read one page about the Daughters of the Confederacy, the teacher briefly discussing the struggles of former slave-owners, and skipping the rest of the chapter on slavery due to "not having enough time." IIRC, even the textbook painted the Daughters of the Confederacy in a positive, or at least neutral light.

I remember my 7th grade health teacher showing us a Christian anti-masturbation video for our sex-ed requirement. This was a rural public school in a northern state. Only other option was a private Catholic school, but my family wasn't Catholic, and my family wouldn't have been able to afford to send me there if they wanted to.

I don't think I even knew about the trail of tears until the middle of high school; and definitely didn't learn about the motivation for hunting Buffalo to extinction.

Lebanon is urging the international community to recognize it as an invasion: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/01/nx-s1-5134606/lebanon-israel-invasion-hezbollah-international-support

Forgot all about Sub-Terrania. Loved that game as a kid.

Code should be self-documenting. That way it is never outdated. Here's an example of this similar to what you can expect to see in practice:

    
def nabla_descent(X, y, theta, alpha, delta, nabla):
    m = len(y)
    for _ in range(delta):
        h = X.dot(theta)
        nabla = (1/m) * X.T.dot(h - y)
        theta = theta - alpha * nabla
    return theta

  

I (probably unreasonably) despise using web front-ends for desktop applications.

GTK is OK. QT is very feature rich, but that adds complexity. Both can be cross-compiled to most systems and shipped with all the required libraries pretty easily.

I haven't used it in a long while, but I remember liking Java Swing for some reason. Java should be "write once, run anywhere." But, cross-compiling isn't usually too hard, so not sure how much that matters. There's more modern frameworks for JVM-based languages now, but I haven't tried them.

I've noticed Gradio is popular in the ML community (web-tech based, and mostly used for quick demos/prototypes).

Edit: For web applications, I prefer Angular's more traditional architecture over React's hook architecture.

Don't know why society tolerates these dumbass parasites.

Not sure I agree that there will be less human labor "need." Ideally, we should strive for progress, and not just survive. I think there is infinite use for human labor.

I agree with your second point.

I tried this with a faucet, but used agricultural 30% vinegar. It stripped the finish off, lol.

Edit: you can usually just unscrew the faucet cap, and replace the little aerator or soak the old one in vinegar. In my case, I was replacing the sink, so already had the faucet out, and there was lime build-up on the faucet itself.

IDK. Rocket Mortgage seems to be experts on being responsible with money, as evidenced by this company meeting: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1alzgv3/work_meeting_at_rocket_mortgage_time_for_puts_yet/

Haven't tried Gemini; may work. But, in my experience with other LLMs, even if text doesn't exceed the token limit, LLMs start making more mistakes and sometimes behave strangely more often as the size of context grows.

No problem. Glad you appreciated it. Namaste.

They indicated that they were wondering how pro-AI people would feel:

I really sat there wondering how do pro AI people feel when they get an email/SMS like that.

This is more complicated than some corporate infrastructures I've worked on, lol.