I definitely wouldn't expect people to have heard of Kirk at all. Even within the US he was a bit of a niche asshole. But I would expect that before posting "RIP
<somedude>
he was a good guy" they would do some quick web searches and get an idea of what somedude was about and then only post if they agreed that that's their notion of a good guy.
People always imagine this as "I will pay you $100 to kick the puppy" and of course they would never.
But what actually happens is that you have a long-term donor. You rely on their help (they're paying for you to be able to hire a nice college intern who's really smart and has been fun to have on the project). They never tell you what to do so you see them as more of a friend than anything else. It's perfectly normal to get some lunch with friends and talk. You're stuck on some problems and they have some good connections that help you out. That might even be worth more than $100k, but it's not money at all so it's OK that they're helping you like this. They also talk you up, which is like free advertising except you didn't ask for it so that also doesn't count. Anyway, at some of the lunches they're telling you about what's going on with them and there's some problems they're dealing with that you could help with. They don't ask for help, of course, because they know you're independent. But being independent means it's OK for you to do what you want. Even help a friend out who didn't ask for help so they're not influencing you...
In the novel Snow Crash, the residents of the white-supremacist micro-state franchises visit other places because they have no non-whites to attack at home.
I agree that if there was a magic "fix this shit for good" button but you had to crawl around and call Trump "sir" a lot that would be worth it. But what's actually going to happen is that he'll hear a loud noise and forget who any of these people are and he'll be like, "two million percent tariff on the uk!!"
The theory is that the new hire gets better over time
It always amazes me how few people get this. Have they only ever made terrible hires?
The way that a company makes big profits is by hiring fresh graduates and giving them a cushy life while they grow into good SWEs. By the time you're paying $200k for a senior software engineer, they're generating far more than that in value. And you only had to invest a couple years and some chump change.
But now businesses only think in the short-term and so paying $10k for a month of giving Anthropic access to our code base sounds like a bargain.
Executives are mostly irrelevant as long as they’re not forcing the whole company into the bullshit.
I'm seeing a lot of this, though. Like, I'm not technically required to use AI, but the VP will send me a message noting that I've only used 2k tokens this month and maybe I could get more done if I was using more...?
In my ideal world, StackOverflow would be a public good with a lot of funding and no ads/sponsorship.
Since that's not the case, and everything is hopelessly polluted with ads and SEO, LLMs are momentarily a useful tool for getting results. Their info might be only 3/4 correct, but my search results are also trash. Who knows what people will do in a year when the LLMs have been eating each others slop and are also being stuffed with ads by their owners.
Not really that weird? Basically every organization does this or is immediately unsuccessful. The only exception is companies under a government that's stable enough to carry water for them.
This doesn't mean that the organizations are a net benefit.
I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable
I agree with you that robots building robots is not impossible. I disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable. I strongly disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable in the immediate future.
I think the point of it would be to signal to Trump that Europe is his vassal. Trump says it's sad that this guy is dead, therefore Europe is sad. Doesn't really matter who it is or what's up. You're just following the pledge of fealty.
So, I think it's good that the EU decided they're sovereign for now. This sort of thing is always an ongoing project.
To be fair: it's all the Republicans casting the deciding vote. She doesn't have any special powers that makes her vote count more than the rest. The difference is that she's occasionally not-shitty and so she gets a lot of attention as a maybe.
Like: Rick Scott also cast these deciding votes, but everyone already expected that he'd be a shit so he doesn't get any flak for it.
This is a confusing meme, because in the skit the parrot is dead when bought. It had been nailed to its perch to make it look alive and the seller told a series of funny lies. The bulk of the joke is how unreliable the pet shop clerk is.
In contrast, Twitter was obviously in bad shape (that's why Musk was making a buy offer in the first place), the board was not interested in selling until he made a wildly over-value offer, and Musk immediately tried to back out of the sale and had to be forced to comply with the deal he'd made.
She's bad for supporting him in the first place. But once you're in the concentration camp I feel like it's tougher to expect people to have a spine. Kinda like in 1984. Maybe if she begs Trump to kill her kids, she'll be spared.
Commentary on your writing: I was a bit surprised by the writing style of your article at first. Then I realized: Kazeta is an art-piece and you are writing a "the arts" article on it. I think that this was the correct choice for the topic, but I found it hard to appreciate because coming from a link in the "Linux Gaming" community I was expecting a gaming or tech article instead. That would have had stats like how fast games load from "off" to "playing", some example builds and prices for making an ideal Kazeta, a review of how hard it was to make your own SD, etc.
I think the mental space I'd put this in is like a Rolling Stone interview where you're writing lyrically about Alkazar and his work while weaving in paragraph quotes from him.
Maybe with enough bribes, Apple can get the SC to just invert the whole ruling: now every Fortnite transaction has to give Apple a cut, even when its unrelated to their platform.
I definitely wouldn't expect people to have heard of Kirk at all. Even within the US he was a bit of a niche asshole. But I would expect that before posting "RIP
<somedude>
he was a good guy" they would do some quick web searches and get an idea of what somedude was about and then only post if they agreed that that's their notion of a good guy.