theneverfox

There were angles involved - imagine throwing a Frisbee forward and running fast enough to bump into it. Now imagine you throw it up, and you run until it hits you in the back of the head

No matter how fast you're going forward, it's still coming at you from an angle you're not moving

But the entire department is a loss for them... Can you tell me the last time you called customer support to give them more money?

It's two sides of the same coin... It's as simple as you say, but not as innocent

Romantic love is absolutely not the only form of love.

Love between a teacher and student has a specific word in many languages, and based on my conversations with teachers (as an adult) it's probably reciprocated. Embrace it. Treat them like a family member and you'll be fine.

You're allowed to reach out to them. They're not going to forget you anytime soon. Do it - they want to see you grow. Ask them for guidance. They haven't died or forgotten you - they're right there, and they want to teach you, personally

They can't reach out to you though, they can only follow your progress from a distance. So reach out - tell them how they affected you and they'll melt

Good work life balance? Low stress? Well paid? Not soul crushing?

Nah fam. Pick one, hope to get your second pick, and if you're lucky, skilled, and play your cards right you can get three. You might get none of them.

No one gets all four... Despite what it sounds like, it's an inherently creative job where you rarely get to pick your project and are regularly put on an impossible timeline.

Wage suppression is well documented, and for some reason no one gives raises... Despite the fact even the best devs need half a year, bare minimum, to be fully up to speed with a mature system. If you're lucky, when you jump after 18 months (the optimal time at a place to keep your salary growing, especially in the first decade) you'll inherit a system in good condition with people who can explain it. If you're very lucky.

That being said, it's one of the only middle class industries left. I recommend it to everyone who has the aptitude - it's one of the most useful skills to have, even if you rarely use it.

This is a much better take.

Intonation is huge, and something general models tend to have trouble with - especially with something like an audiobook, which is narration - it's very contextual in a way not found in almost any other form of communication. It even encapsulates every other form of context through dialogue.

And not only that - a lot of audiobooks have versions by multiple voice actors. And they might change a word here or there, but it's highly structured data - it's truly a treasure trove

I'd go a step further and say they really want access to the dataset - not just for audiobooks, but because this is a fantastic dataset to train very context aware (and silky smooth) text to voice.

Spotify probably doesn't have the chops to do this, but they might be trying to leverage the dataset - I'm not sure if they could sell it wholesale or not, but if nothing else they could "partner" with Microsoft or Google to train VTT capabilities into multi-modal LLMs (a pitch with all the buzzwords to make investors need to change their underwear)

I really don't think you understand what facism really is...I think you're looking at Republicans flirting with openly enacting facism, and thinking "well, if it's just to that degree it'll be ok"

Facism is like this - you have an authoritarian group, and they promise a perfect world if only everyone believed their ideology.

But their ideology is garbage, and so we're going to have problems. And so they're going to look around and say "it's LGBT people, they're ruining everything!". Then they're going to directly or indirectly outlaw their existence, and use that to imprison them.

They'll milk it for as long as they can... But as this goes on, you get more and more "true believers" who escalate and speed up the process

But that's not going to fix anything, obviously. So they'll look around again for people they can declare different... Maybe it's black people, or Mexicans, or alleged spies from China. Maybe it's stem workers, or college grads. Maybe it's just anyone who doesn't play along hard enough, and we go the ideological purity route

But again, that's only going to make things worse, so they'll have to find someone else to target. They require an enemy to blame for everything that goes wrong. And a lot is going to go wrong...

You can say this is all hyperbolic, but it's really not. The Nazis started just like this, with book bans, control over education, and going after trans people. Then they went after political opposition, then things really got into swing.

I've literally written expressions of existential horror in commit messages. No one reads past the preview, so just make sure the first couple lines are on topic

Will no one think of the shareholders???

I'm still getting weekly emails (and who knows how many linked in messages) trying to recruit me over a profile I haven't updated in a decade...aka 2 years after I entered the industry

One of these days, I'm going to set up my AI assistant to respond. Who knows, with an even playing field maybe some of them will be worthwhile

You forgot to order by perceived_wealth and attractiveness desc

That's just an engineering problem... Not a particularly hard one either

Wtf would you keep re-encoding it? If you don't, it's just binary. You can run error checks on it, save it on raid config with high redundancy, and it's more stable than any physical media

Load it into memory and you can copy it all you want, do error checking at the destination and you're golden.

The exception is if you keep uploading it to and ripping it from hosting sites which keep re-encoding/compressing it... But replication itself is easy

Sure, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a Corp that frames fair use as a subset of fair use, making allowances only when it's beneficial to them for marketing

For the most cut and dry example, they allow blog posts praising them... What about a blog post offering a nuanced criticism? What about a satiric post about them?

Those are both undeniably fair use, but by framing it as outside fair use, they're being shit heels