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Honestly, this is a nice feature of macOS (or at least iTerm 2; I don’t use the official terminal). I know CTRL-C is used to kill processes and we all have that muscle memory but I usually try to change that on my personal Linux installs because I’ve hit it by mistake before.

I used to use CTRL+INSERT for copy and SHIFT+INSERT for paste but there’s usually no insert key on laptops or even small keyboards. It’s probably time to just adapt.

https://youtu.be/cAvXnBgJMdM

What the fuck are we spying on? You could probably just have a nice lunch with every person in Greenland for less money than it’ll cost to replace that jet that fell off the air craft carrier the other day. And that was the second jet.

Plus, we have a whole Alaska. We’re not going to lack access to the Northwest Passage. (NB: this is assuming there’s any logic at all. I have no idea why Trump is obsessed with Greenland. It’s probably because the Mercator projection makes it look bigger than it is and his assistants show him maps in the daily briefing or whatever.)

I’m not defending Gadaffi’s sanity or competence — his was one of misrule and clown behavior — but come the fuck on.

If every other recent console is any guide, we’re not going to be able to actually buy it for like 7 months unless you sleep in a parking lot or spend every second refreshing some random “is it in stock” web site. Honestly, it doesn’t matter that much to me what the launch stuff is. The “real” launch will be later.

Why are you borrowing like $3,000 a credit hour to use ChatGPT? Take some fucking humanities courses so you don’t grow up to be like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk challenging each other to an MMA match. This might be your last chance in life to be surrounded by experts and hot people having discussions.

Being able to use software everyone uses isn’t a marketable skill. Learn some shit. You’re an adult now.

When I was still hiring, I barely even read the education section except out of curiosity or to come up with interview questions. The only thing disqualifying would have been if the school was fake (like a Trump University MBA or whatever). It matters for “prestigious” white shoe law firms, major investment banks, grad school, etc. but not really anyone else.

Don’t half-ass your cover letter and interviews, though. For people without experience, especially, I, personally, was always trying to make sure we had a good match. I read every cover letter in part to make sure (a) people were literate, (b) knew what the job entailed, and (c) could be put in a position to succeed. You don’t want to hire someone who doesn’t match. A person applying to a non-profit working with schools and a person applying at a rocket launch start-up aren’t equally qualified regardless of skills and that’s fine.

I know needing a job sucks but there are always qualified people who just aren’t a good fit. So, don’t take it personally if you get rejected. I’ve been to third interviews because I got along with someone and then not chosen for jobs that, in retrospect, I really shouldn’t have been hired to do. I would have been miserable and left. Maybe it was a culture mismatch or maybe I’d didn’t care about the product but thought, “I could live in that city and get another job in a year.” There’s always “finalists” and sometimes, it comes down to a coin flip.

Always a good idea to piss off people who can survive in the woods and know how to manage bears.

Pretty sure Palantir got the “Keep Americans Divided” contract and not the non-profit radio stations that do Tiny Desk concerts and have to do fundraisers all the time to keep the lights on.

One of the great moments of old Twitter was when 5G first came out and famous crazy person Naomi Wolf went to Northern Ireland and said life without 5G felt calm and peaceful like 1970’s Belfast.

I had better than 20x20 vision when they gave us eye-tests in high school and I’ve often gotten, “Holy shit, you can read that from here?” I always chose screen space over font-size even on small laptops but I recently had to dial it back a notch for the first time. The optometrists come for us all, eventually.

My vision still seems fine but it takes longer to adjust and focus. Like I have a digital clock I used to glance at to check the time and now I have to squint for a few seconds and wait. It’s sort of like a phone camera auto-focus where it sorts things out but it used to be immediate.

“Orange man bad” is certainly not the left. That’s the moderates. The left is more “unions good” and “Medicare for All” and “tax billionaires” and “Green New Deal.” Stuff like that. It’s a pretty popular agenda with everyone but the donor class.

And Biden’s enacted policies were not the Green New Deal despite the branding around it. Some aspects were included in the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act but, obviously, getting Manchin and Sinema to support anything required fewer progressive priorities and more fundraisers/bribes.

It’s actually pretty reliable. It’s left wing, to be sure, but during the BLM protests, for instance, they had actual reporters on the ground and were live-streaming everything. They’re transparent.

I don’t know where to place it on the “reliable” spectrum. From what I’ve seen, their articles are sourced and edited but live streaming from a chaotic situation is sort of like being a “war correspondent” where it can be impossible to know what’s happening. So, it’s probably important to get more context later as more comes to light. But I’ve never seen them lie deliberately or anything.

I don’t know the term for it but maybe “guerrilla journalism” or something like that. They’ll send a dude on a skateboard to the middle of a riot while other reporters are in the “press zone” and covering police press conferences or whatever.

“Source: News reports” is the funniest part. It’s like submitting a scientific paper and saying your source is “microscopes and shit.”

Wouldn’t it be caiman-infested in Bolivia and not alligator-infested? It’s South America.

Thank you for clarifying and adding detail. I’m basically just a tourist who had friends living/working/studying in China. But Sinophobia annoys me in a dozen ways.

It’s one of those situations where you have first-hand experience and other people have imaginary concepts based on propaganda. Assume everywhere is similar and be delighted when you find cultural differences or new food or whatever. Regular, sane people all want the same things, regardless of borders.

I didn’t think they should use A.I. yet at all. I don’t think the shitty version of machine learning of today is ready for engineering giant explosive things. As someone else pointed out, document management for regulatory filings and stuff is (hopefully) the use case. I don’t care if it’s used in that way.

Basically, I think today’s “A.I.” should be treated as alpha software. It has a ton of potential but there is a lot left to do, especially on things involving human or even critter life like rocket science, self-driving cars, or military applications where “edge cases” are life or death situations. (I don’t think it should be used for military applications until it’s really fucking mature tech but it’s already apparently being used for that so the cat’s out the bag there.)

The article says “starting with mid-level staff” and they clearly don’t know how to do things. If they mean White House literally, low-level staff are probably the only people who do know how to do things right now. I doubt the kitchen workers, cleaning staff, tour guides, etc. are even people to Trump. Even the chef/kitchen staff just probably has to handle state dinners and other events but most days, just make a McDonald’s run or burn a steak.

That makes sense. Like you, I’ve generally found that LLMs are incredibly useful for certain, highly specific things but people (CEOs especially) need to understand their limitations.

When it first came out, I purposely used ChatGPT on a trip to evaluate it. I was in a historic city on a business trip where I stayed an extra few days so I was traveling alone. It was good at being a tour guide. Obviously, I could have researched everything and read guidebooks but I was focused on my work stuff. Being able to ask follow-up questions and have a conversation was a real improvement over traditional search.

That’s obviously a limited use case where I was asking questions that could have been answered in traditional ways but I found that to be a good consumer use case. It knew details that wouldn’t necessarily be in a Wikipedia article or Guidebook that would take me 15 Google searches to answer. Just my own little curiosity questions about an old building or whatever. I cross-checked things later and it didn’t hallucinate. Obviously, a very limited use case but it was good at it.