TheBruceHimself
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Lead Software Engineer for an popular OSS project.
Heading an OSS is a bit like being Scotty from Star Trek except every so often you have to beg the vrew for charitable donations needed to keep the life support turning over for another quarter.
so, a tree?
Elon Musk must create a new scandal every day; it’s the source of his power, or something. I mean, this is the only way I can possibly justify this man’s actions. It’s like he wakes up in the morning and thinks, “What…
In South Scotland I found it was almost always just “div” and proceeded by a pointed swear such as “fucking div”. Divvy meant dividend! The thing the co-op used to give you for shopping there and old ladies used to…
You’re getting a lot of scared artistic people right now lashing their jobs disappearing. I genuinely can’t blame them.. I’d probably do the same, and let’s keep in mind, A lot of these people weren’t doing particularly…
amazingly accurate. Hard to believe anyone could’ve gotten so much so right with only small details missing a little, not feasible or existing in some way, though just to humble him a bit please keep in mind he did…
i’m a bit lost. I think I get what it does but what’s it for? I’ve never had the need to convert a tag to a hash and that hash to a tag.
What’s the argument here exactly? Wealthy people’s misfortune isn’t worthy of our attention? Should the US cease reporting on itself as it is a wealth nation and a much better state than many others? Who is this “we”?…
I think it’s just a way to stop the reporting of an event turning the event into an opportunity for people to gain media coverage and propel their careers, or their interests that may not be related to the discussion at…
Well, there is a matter of safety, and not wanting to be harassed for your opinions. Some debates are so heated that an opinion stated either way is going to expose you to potential violence if not, just verbal abuse…
AI-generated porn feed. Photo-realistic, high-quality images. It would change what is generated based on my tastes either through me liking or disliking certain content, my engagement on particular content, contracts,…
Copilot is quite good at inferring functionality from comments in code. At least this is what I found. If you break down your function, or whatever it is you are great at making, into steps or sub-processes with…
The author mocks comparative advantage as an argument for free trade, suggesting it doesn’t work. They specifically point out it was supposed to let the other countries do the low-skilled work while America focused on…
I had no idea this is up for debate. I guess as a European I had a very biased education about this.I I remember it being presented as a sort of joke by the history teacher that Columbus brought back lots of things from…
...these companies are among the most disruptive of the year -- and possibly of a lifetime... ... Tennibot Funding to date: $200k What the startup does: Makes a robot that picks up tennis balls ---- It's truly both…
I believe we could already have replaced many doctors with automated systems,or at least systems operated by considerably lower-paid and lower-skilled people. The issue isn’t that we couldn’t before; it’s that having a…
I feel it must fall at some point (I’m not sure I’m comfortable saying it’s a bubble tbh so I’ll stick with ‘fall’, not ‘pop’) but I’m not going to bet as to when. I thought the market would turn back in 2018 when my…
In addition to that they say the future will require huge investment in capital assets and broad investment strategies won't cut anymore. Hum, so they think the future will be all growth with no losses, need…
I just don't understand why you'd choose Bitcoin over gold. Gold, like Bitcoin, was criticized for just being a stupid store of value, but that wasn't completely true as it undoubtedly had some utility in the economy.…
I'm going to guess there's just a long stagnation. LLMs worked way better than people thought they would. Most of the experts in AI were floored by how well they worked. I think of LLMs as more of a discovery than an…
Just go try on a “medium” sized shirt in America and see how far this has went. You can be obese and still find it roomy. I’m 5’ 11” 175lb and I need to dress in small and occasionally extra-small items of clothing. How…
I think this really cool that this is public. I find it interesting how governments even make politeness and interaction into a systematic rule-based affair. While it can seem quite cold, i like how organized and…
Really depends on the country (I did my PhD in the UK), but I don't know of any PhD student writing grants, and TAing doesn't generally take up more than a day a week (I think I did no more than a couple of hours a…
I'm sorry, but decentralized local, distributed (bla bla, web 3.0, blockchain, bla) internet services are just tried, tested, and shit ideas. These things really offer so little improvement at all to most end-users.…
I went straight from undergraduate into a PhD program and skipped the master's step. I was incredibly fortunate to find a supervisor who thought master's were a waste of time and was happy to state my undergraduate…
Just seems like a pointless intermediate power broken, which, ironically, also needs to be held accountable. If I gift my vote to an interest group and I trust them to use the power I have, in part, given them to hold…