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drlemonpepper

22 karma · joined March 22, 2024

(bad) mathematician who's usually down for some lemon pepper chicken wings
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drlemonpepper··on Why American tech companies need to help build AI weaponry
https://archive.is/J0JUe
drlemonpepper··on Handwriting is good for your brain (2022)
it does feel good to write, especially given i spend most of my time in front of a screen (laptop, phone, tv)... i just wish i had more reasons to handwrite things.
drlemonpepper··on Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keypresses to pretend to work
great way to optimize for retaining incompetent busy-bodies.

"let's not focus on retaining efficient, smart workers, but instead focus on people who take 40 hours to do something that should only take 15!" /s

drlemonpepper··on Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours
what's wrong with testing in prod? /s
drlemonpepper··on Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
https://archive.is/Idouw
drlemonpepper··on [dead]
how long before ChatGPT answers are actively pushing malware?
drlemonpepper··on First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars
this is such a commonly-repeated fallacy. just because something is infinite, doesn't mean everything is possible. the sequence 1,3,5,7,9,... is infinite, and yet it contains no even numbers. there are many such cases.
drlemonpepper··on "My boss says we don't need any engineering managers"
>Some of your engineers are already deferring decisions to other engineers

are you saying the ones doing the deferring should be managers, or the ones being deferred to?

drlemonpepper··on Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
yeah. a bit suspicious. that's < 5% of the US population. highly dubious.
drlemonpepper··on Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink
Is Starlink going to suffer the same fate as Tesla and X? Willy-nilly org thrashing and "removing 10% of features"?

Is there a better alternative to "the one to beat" spending unsustainably, only to fail once all competitors are too far behind to stay viable?

drlemonpepper··on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
storj does this
drlemonpepper··on AI Influencers Are Taking over Instagram, Ruining Gen Z Chance of Fame
Accelerating the inevitable conclusion that social media is just advertising by another name.