v_krishna

Indy 500 has nothing to do with Formula 1. Different cars, different rules, different drivers, etc.

I appreciate your response and in this long form explanation of your view I find i agree (both in theory and in practice) with most of what you wrote.

You’ve worked in ML since 2012 but dont think transformers have had an absolutely insane impact, for example in NLP and machine translation? (I have worked in those fields longer than that and while I dont think AGI or anything like that is coming from transformers and deep neural nets I think you are full of it if you dont admit they have revolutionized a large number of [highly technical] fields).

When google glass came out (2012 or 13) it was absolutely hilarious living in the bay and regularly riding muni (public bus) in the mission. I saw multiple people run into the door/poles/etc and also multiple people get their glasses ripped off their face and stomped on. Bus driver just shrugged, bus patrons applauded. I’m no luddite and all for technology but even more for consent.

Even worse, since he sent the letter to the wrong fucking country that has nothing to do with Greenland except being a NATO member state.

It’s ruined euchre for me

I mean, Salesforce is clearly different than Lockheed Martin, even if they do business with all sorts of companies (many of whom I wouldn’t personally want to be in business with).

I’ve specifically found b2b software at least a bit less creepy and invasive - I’ve done applied ML for many many years and prefer enterprise b2b vs consumer tech because of this.

Won’t necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids’ kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said “I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks” and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.

It’s been working its way through California courts since the 2015 WHO guidelines said processed meats are carcinogenic. Under Prop 65 that should have triggered immediately labeling processed meats as “Known to the State of California to cause cancer” (like we already have on any charred food, parking garages, etc) but because reasons a decade later I think it is still being adjudicated.

I dunno if he turned it down or just blasted people about it but Zach Woods had a great video denouncing this.

West coast would be fine. California grows over 50% of the fruits and nuts, and 30% of the vegetables for the entire US. The “farm belt” states mostly grow cash crops for animal feed, energy production, and overseas export.

Oh god good ol ActiveSupport. I’m having flashbacks of so many ruby projects trying not to bring it in and basically reinventing it but poorly documented.

I still would say it was the language I’ve most enjoyed (professionally used most all higher level languages over 20+ years) but it might be nostalgia for a time early 2010s when rails was just freaking magic compared to the ways we used to build web apps.

That’s not quite right, the language has defined Int#days and 10 is actually Int(10). 10.days calls the instance method days on an instance of an Int (it has been years since I’ve used ruby so not sure if the stdlib class is actually Int)

It’s impossible to delete anything on the internet. You can’t control everybody’s backups.

I moved to the bay area in 2012, absolutely hated Musk back then and thought all of his success was hanging onto other’s coattails and good timing (which fair enough, is a skill + huge privilege in and of itself, but isn’t the same as inventing/engineering) but he was really popular here. He continued to reveal himself to be more and more of a shitheel over the years and I got to slowly see everybody I knew and worked with eventually come around to the same opinion I had held for more than a decade.

What kind of odd take is this. I agree Barbara Lee won’t accomplish much in an interim mayor seat but she’s mostly beyond reproach and definitely speaks for me!

This is such an unbelievably bad take.

First, Musk has always been a tool, a nepo baby, and an asshole. Just because American liberals only recently noticed this doesn’t mean he used to be great.

Second, this isn’t the case of Starlink being State owned and controlled, it’s the case of the State being Starlink owned and controlled. That’s what was happening in Ukraine and what will continue to happen. If you think for a second that Musk is beholden to anything or anybody I’ve got a rusty polygon ridden death trap to sell you.

My poor wife got shingles at 39 last year. Her doc was like “yeah it’s definitely shingles, welcome to firmly middle aged”

The National Rosie the Riveter museum in Richmond California (a stone’s throw from Berkeley, SF, Oakland, etc) removed an LGBT exhibit. They also weren’t told to do it but did so proactively so as not to fall afoul of Trump’s anti DEI order.