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2 days agoI don’t know. Same for the infrared light thing. Neither sounds like a guarantee.
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8·3 days agoWe prefer “opportunistic omnivore” but yes
14·3 days agoIt takes at least one generation for ground truth deprivation to render subjects effectively unmoored from reality
241·7 days agoI don’t think that’s giving American Jews enough credit.
Israel as a bug-out plan for anyone with Jewish heritage is a distinctly Zionist idea, which is far more polarizing these days.
But even if some Jews may be given to such a demonstrably facile us-them disposition — i.e., security-at-all-costs with no sense of irony whatsoever — my impression is that many find it impossible to ignore the apparent gollum of this increasingly explicit mechanized hegemonic genocidal fascist apartheid state somehow laying claim to their worldwide identity.
If I were an American Jew, I would be asking myself “is this what being Jewish means to me?” And I suspect my answer would be outrage to the tune of “no, fuck Zionism” or “no, fuck Israel.” Either way it would consume me utterly.
In short, I just find it hard to believe the average Jew is especially ignorant, heartless, or selfish. That to me sounds like actual antisemitism.
ETA: I can’t speak for American Jews but most of the Jews I know are either older and just anti-bibi or younger and openly anti-Zionist. This is in New York for context.
Can’t we all just… get along?
Those who have no sense of history have neither eyes nor ears. -Someone
2·10 days agoRespect that. They’re lucky to have you.
I should have also mentioned:
- At these shops are also plenty of over-qualified people for whom compensation was secondary to flexibility, work-life balance, autonomy, or what have you.
- More importantly, they’re popular foot-ins for people new to the field or stepping-stones for those in career transition. (Especially during hiring droughts like this, I suspect.) Consequently, these places are where I had the privilege of meeting many brilliant, diamond-in-the-rough types on their way up.
Best of luck ✊
It’s an extremely common small business pattern across North America. The “CEO” is usually the owner, evidenced here by absorption of non-fiduciary (unnecessary) liability of roles elevation. Only a handful of hires are traditionally qualified for their roles by education or experience. These few are usually found in client-facing roles and usually at least partially compensated by stake. Most employees are budget hires working well outside the usual expectations of their title.
Employer abusiveness in these shops goes mostly unchecked. Wanting someone who can “grow with the company” with clearly no intent to grow them (i.e., no mentor, no reporting senior to justify the title “junior”) is code for a lot of things including this. Part of why these companies
onlyprefer to hire younger or underqualified people is because they don’t want anyone who knows what they’re worth, how things are done better elsewhere, who might expose management incompetence, or who are simply less likely to accept abuse (because even if management hasn’t rationalized it totally, they do not intend to change).On the other hand, the subtle upside to lack of training and oversight is the opportunity for self-directed (and thus potentially much higher value) up-skilling and continued job-hunting, for those inclined.
So companies like these are viable, but crucibles, and for most should only be considered a last resort.
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(Not my field. The following is armchair speculation.)
Why is [fusion] more economical than [solar/wind]
TLDR — It’s not. For distributed/residential, bulk power generation, and light-duty transportation, solar has already won so decisively that fusion is not likely to catch up this century. But those aren’t usually the target applications.
TMK, Fusion offers most of the known advantages of fission (smaller footprint, superior energy density + capacity, output that’s weather-independent and geography-agnostic, etc.) but with significantly better safety and waste profiles.
Its versatility as a thermal source enables many industrial applications requiring temperatures difficult or impossible to achieve via electrification alone.
The reaction itself is directly applicable to neutron production.
There’s some even more far flung applications like outer planetary and deepspace space travel.
And others. All to say, it’s for niche and future applications PV can’t touch.
I’m keeping my own shit list, because I anticipate a lot of hand wringing and ghost-written sob stories from leaders and elites describing their inner turmoil and why they had no choice but to kiss the ring in this era of open fascism in the US.
And I’ve already committed to hear them out and be even-handed. Some of our most inspirational stories are of covert resistance and sabotage by elites in fascist regimes risking it all. But I suspect most are simply cowards at best and collaborative ghouls at worst.
Either way, taking their public actions at face value is the correct choice for the time being.
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While I maintain that repurposing OPFS as a measure of SSD usage by this method is unrealistic even under optimal conditions, I gotta admit I’m surprised by the lack of throttling and resource quotas.
That is, assuming the API is enabled by default
Typically niche-use-case and high-performance APIs that aren’t hidden behind experimental flags require user permission by default (a practice solidified by mitigations of other exploits like mining, fingerprinting, etc) so to find one open and apparently unregulated by default does seem unusual, if true.
But if it’s gated by a flag or user permission, I don’t know why the fuck they’d bother to publish this.
ETA: Either way, I suspect any user vulnerable to this exploit is likely already exposed to much worse from attacks that are similarly inelegant but far more reliable. Those users are already heavily profiled in many datasets. I mean, no one here… hopefully.
Yeah this is a key realization that I suspect most investors aren’t privy to. With proven viable local, accessible, scalable, and energy-efficient 2TB infiniband clusters and routed multi-agentic stacks of open source models constantly nipping at their heals, achieving longterm market dominance for any of these AI developers is simply a tenuous prospect.
The only legitimate option is to maintain a meaningful lead at the cutting edge of performance and/or offer a superior efficiency/value proposition via SLA guarantees. Beyond that, the brute force options are limited to things like short-term market manipulation (such as outbidding everyone else for existing talent pool, chip manufacturing capacity, etc) or suppression of competition via regulatory capture.
In every case, above or below board, there is no permanent longterm global breakaway strategy, only treading water as long as investors are willing to inject enough funds to temporarily outrun market efficiency.
Once that reality sinks in… pop.