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Let's be frank, Lumen is a corporate cult. I mean they have a department dedicated to raising sheep for literal sacrifice in a religious ceremony to guide souls to the company founder.

Really feels like that department could've used a few dozen of those marching band employees.

Honestly might be worth talking to a professional, but my gut wonders if this is really about the new kid, or about his current relationship with you?

Jealousy is a normal emotion, but it often rages when we feel self conscious, neglected, or unloved.

His traitor comment (especially when his mom has never been in the picture), really makes it seem like he feels like you're not fathering him in a way that he expects or he feels like something is missing and now your attention will be even more focused elsewhere.

No, they haven't. Old Xbox and PlayStation controllers often end up with stick drift being what kills them.

On top of that, newer games that have deadzone settings actually let you see how much games have to compensate for stick drift.

A normal 'working' controller, is likely unable to use the first 10% of it's motion range because it has to filter that out for stick drift. That makes the controls feel way less responsive compared to a hall effect stick where you can eliminate or minimize the deadzone.

The Mark Gemma thing raises even more questions. If Mark and Gemma's relationship is key to whatever this is working, then why aren't the other MDR employees loved ones involved?

And conversely if loved ones aren't key to the project, then why can't it scale to more MDR employees?

At first with the marching band scene I was thinking, oh maybe they brought in all the MDR employees from across the country to celebrate this momentous occasion. Then they said the marching band had a dedicated department that was apparently 4x the size of MDR, Christopher Walken's department, and the goat department combined.

:/

We can tell. Severance completely jumped the shark in the last episode.

Oh what, Lumon has 4 employees dedicated to macro data refinement, the most important project in the company's history, but they have

You could really tell the last episode was almost entirely cheap fan service filler. I honestly avoided severance and then finally watched it because everyone raved, and it actually convinced me that it knew what it was doing, right up until that last episode when it showed that it was just another directionless mystery box train, laying down tracks in front of it as it goes.

Lmao, this is hysterical nonsense.

Hey everyone on Windows, is your machine filled with thousands of shady app stores because you have the ability to install Steam? No? What a shocker! Who could have predicted!

I do wonder if Russia was planning on responding with these, and this is why they issued a 'we'll respond when we feel like it' follow up.

Sort order for comments isn't consistent across instances or apps or users or time.

It's an example of a feedback system.

If people actually want to understand how most systems in life work, they should take sociology and various humanities and science courses, but everyone should take a course on mathematical Systems Analysis including feedback loops and transfer functions.

Virtually every system we encounter in day to day life, from biological ones, to sociological ones, are feedback loops, and understanding the nuances and complexities of how they work, how to analyze them when cause and effect is circular, and how their output changes and can stabilize, destabilize, oscillate, etc. makes a lot of things less confusing.

Feedback circuits can be used to make amplifiers that amplify or deamplify a signal a certain amount, they can be used to make amplifiers that amplify rapidly to catastrophic of explosive failure, or dampeners that will try and reduce any signal to nothing, they can be used to make oscillators that pulse rhythmically at a certain frequency and are the heart of all clock circuits, or they can be used to always hold a steady output regardless of disturbances to their inputs like in gyroscopes and control systems and governors that always try and stay on target... And these are just simple feedback systems created out of a few components by humans, nature's feedback systems that have evolved over billions of years are wildly more complex.

Circular systems like this can't be examined through traditional cause and effect logic chains, but they can be analyzed as a system as a whole.

The developer I report to was in charge of that side of the code base and doing all the code reviews for it .... I thought he had a handle on it :/

We have linting set up in our codebase, I had to switch and focus on one half of our project, and I nearly lost my mind when I came back to the other side and realized that every time someone said they were 'addressing linting issues', that actually meant they were putting eslint-disable everywhere until the pipeline stopped complaining.

It's Canadian but I use EasyDNS which has operated here forever. It's privately owned by a Mark Jeftovic who's fairly well known as an internet advocate / policy expert and ran as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada, so is privacy focused.

That kind of boneheadedness is annoying, but it's at least just annoying and wastes a bit of time. Tailgating and driving impatiently actually gets people killed every single day.

But seriously people, you're supposed to leave enough space to be able to come to a full stop if the person in front of you were to suddenly come to a full stop.

Can you bring a 60mph car to a stop in 10 bible lengths? No? Then backup further.

That works for pattern matching, but you don't want to do that for doing accurate calculations. There is no reason to average the AI run calculation of 12345 x 54321 because that can be done with a tiny calculator with a solar cell the size of a pencil eraser. Doing calculations like that multiple times adds up fast and will always be less reliable than just doing it right in the first place.

I agree.

Same with reporting historical facts.

I disagree. Those are not remotely the same problem. Both in how they're technically executed, and in what the user expects out of them.

But the AI that is being forced down our throats is worse than wikipedia because it averages content from ALL of reddit, facebook, and other massive sites where crackpots are given the same weight as informed individuals and there are no guardrails.

No, it's just different. Is it wrong sometime? Yes. But it can also get you the right answer to a normal human question orders of magnitude faster than a series of traditional searches and documentation readings.

Does that information still need to be vetted afterwards? Yeah, but it's a lot easier to say "copilot, I'm looking at a crossover circuit and I've got one giant wire coil, three white rectangles and a capacitor, what is each of them doing and how kind of meter will I need to test them", then it is to individually search for each component and search for what type of meter you need to test them. Do you still need to verify that info after? Yeah, but it's a lot easier to verify once you know what to actually search for.

Basically any time one human query needs to synthesize information from multiple different sources, an AI search is going to be significantly faster.

I'm not saying I agree with AI being shoehorned into everything, i'm seeing it being pushed into places it shouldn't first hand, but strictly speaking, things don't have to be more reliable if they're fast enough.

Quantum computers are inherently unreliable, but you can perform the same calculation multiple times and average the result / discard the outliers and it will still be faster than a classical computer.

Same thing like back when I was in grade school and teachers would say to not trust internet sources and make sure to look everything up in an physical book / encyclopedia because a book is more reliable. Like, yes, it is, but it also takes me 100x as long to look it up, so ultimately starting at Wikipedia is going to get me to the right answer faster, the vast majority of the time, even if it's not 100% accurate or reliable (this was nearer Wikipedia's original launch).

This is a really good interview, and does a good job highlighting Javascript's biggest strength: it's flexibility.

“It was also an incredible rush job, so there were mistakes in it. Something that I think is important about it is that I knew there would be mistakes, and there would be gaps, so I made it very malleable as a language.”

He cites the “discovery” of asm.js inside of JavaScript, calling it “another thing I’m particularly proud of in the last 10 years.” It uses the bitwise operators that were included in the original JavaScript which are now the basis for a statically-typed language with machine types for high-speed performance. “If it hadn’t been in there from 1995, it would’ve been hard to add later. And the fact that it was there all along meant we could do incredibly fast JavaScript.”

He tells InfoWorld it’s “this very potent seed that was in the original JavaScript from the 10 days of May in 1995.” JavaScript’s 32-bit math operators (known as bitwise operators) trace their lineage all the way back to the C programming language — and to Java. This eventually led to WebAssembly — a way to convert instructions into a quickly-executable binary format for virtual machines — and the realization that with a JavaScript engine, “you can have two languages — the old language I did with the curly braces and the functions and the shift operators, and this new language which is a binary language, not meant for reading by humans or writing. But it can be generated by compilers and tools, and can be read by tools…”