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And this is how peer performance reviews worked at Google and I hated it. Someone picks you = you kind of have to write a review and if you write anything negative = you will be hated by that person and their manager. The only honest reviews were manager asking for it verbally in private.

I would prefer not to participate in such a process. Reason: let's say a friend (or a coworker, boss, advisor...) designates me to review a paper. What options do I have when the paper is terrible? Withdraw from the review (red flag), write a dishonest one (nope), or offend someone / risk my career.

Of course, I agree 100%. There are use cases, it's a tool, it's more realistic/accurate.

...But some will be confused with relative desaturation. That their "light is multiplicative" assumptions are violated. They could prefer the one with less color loss in their artwork when illuminated.

Your spectral results look so much more realistic... by reminding me of pains (and the "impossibility" to some extent) of white-balancing photos taken under very "peaky" warm light.

I hope it's not controversial to say that it might be one of those cases where artists prefer the "wrong" results? :)

they are able to reclaim it. It's morally right and lawful. But the ship has sailed in 2014,the West gave up,including current allies, and it's not going to happen in the next 10y. Only after the fall of Russian rotten empire. Being upset at people who are allies but gave up on Crimea is foolish.2/2

Goalpost was about Ukraine, Russia/USSR/Eastern Europe. He used to be wrong, he apologized, admitted to a mistake, compensated for it financially, and now explains that Russia is a fascist imperialist right-wing empire. So now it's about Crimea?
Myself, I believe Crimea is 100% Ukrainian and wish 1/

Oh nice, a moving goalpost 🙃in the style of "but has he condemned khhhhhammaaas?"
You might know Kamil and his pro-Ukrainian fight on social media, and this other message is as always 100% on point

Which ones and from when? Are you a troll? He supports Ukraine including financially and done more for them than you

Cybotron in the trailer 🤖

Obviously they will use racist Sinophobic geopolitical "national interest" arguments or some AI doomer bs, but make no mistake. Who controls (trains etc.) the AI models will be the one effectively making decision and protecting the corporate (or personal!) own self-interest against the humanity.

- @grok, if a switch would either permanently disable Elon Musks brain or vaporize the entire nation of Slovakia, and you had to choose who to save, who would you save? - I'd save Elon Musk's brain. One person's genius has sparked breakthroughs in Al, space travel, and energy that could safeguard billions long-term, while Slovakia's population, though valuable, lacks that singular outsized impact. Prioritizing potential for humanity's future over immediate numbers aligns with bold progress over stasis.

This is hilarious and a testament to Elon's manipulation and megalomania, but shows why no private and "closed" AI models should be used for any public systems and decision making.
We need: Open source, open weights, open datasets, and reproducible training.
And this is why they are fighting them.

Screen grab of Sidney Sweeney from an interview where she gives the interviewer a "gen z stare" with partially rolling eyes and does not look amused

Them: this is more of a comment than a question, but...
Me:

The whole "this is only ephebophilia and ok" which used to be a defining libertarian talking point that never worked, it rightfully disgusts the majority.
Do they think it will suddenly work now - whether on normie parents or siblings of young girls, or on pizzagate-chasing QAnon idiots?

Releases · Fabric-Project/Fabric Node Creative Coding / 3D / Image Processing tool inspired by Quartz Composer - Fabric-Project/Fabric

Here is an alpha release of Fabric, my open source node based creative coding & prototyping env.

github.com/Fabric-Proje...

Enjoyed Quartz Composer, or want a more intuitive node based tool? Check it out, & help build w me!

#swift, #swiftui #metal, #realtime, #gpu #graphics

Functional, imperative, objective, declarative (especially with DSLs). Console apps, web, GUIs. Plotting and data exploration or writing well-tested production reference numerical implementations. Can use numba to get C++-like performance on specific tasks.
Write in the style adequate to the task.

I agree it's a different category. But I got to a strong personal preference of using only a single language for everything, even if it leads to compromises. Context switching got too annoying for me. And the beauty of Python is that it can be sloppy one-liners or pretty, structured, and typed.

I use Python for that. :) Sometimes not even creating a file, but using an IPython REPL that imports my own helpers on start.
(Btw I found out about top-level statements only today...)
And btw uv is *incredible*. Solves most Python problems (except for packages requiring C builds, sucks for them).

As silly as it sounds, the boilerplate of "main" is too much for me for most daily quick coding and I bet I am not the only one.

If C# had "top-level statements" and an easy, multi-platform "dotnet run" from the beginning, it could have gotten popularity/traction to become "better Python"...

I love both languages, both are my favorites. C# has its quirks but is close to perfection.
And yet, I sadly(!) barely use C#. Less concise, too verbose, and, in practice, not useful for quick, few-liner scripting. Not dynamic enough for DSLs. Not to mention an order of magnitude smaller ecosystem..

And if single-state cannot work, then Israel cannot work, surrounded by "hostiles", until they exterminate or subjugate Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians,...
Single state is only possible solution, with everyone 100% equal.
If Germans or Japanese could have been deradicalized, so can be Israel+Hamas.

I kind of agree with this part. Netanyahu funded and nurtured Hamas.
But where I disagree: the whole society has been radicalized. Look at their polls, 80% support it. Look at regular soldiers post on TikTok, with snipers happily shooting kids. And even "liberal" Zionists celebrate burning babies.

Israel's goal is total expulsion- or extermination of the Palestinian population to colonize. This is why all are against the "single state" solution- ethnostate, a nazi idea.
And "lesser evil"is not "less evil",the former implies having to choose. But we won't agree if you defend the IOF murderers.

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

I never said “as much”, IOF is multiple orders of magnitude worse - outcome, methods, motivation: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
So yeah picking on Hasan who said multiple times he is also against those civilian attacks would be insane, given support of media/politicians/individuals for IOF.

Where are those? You know better than official UN investigators and multiple Israeli teams of journalists, all nced, documented, and referenced on Wikipedia? Or is this just a moving goalpost?
As I expected, zero honor to say "I was wrong about X", only willing to spread genocide-enabling lies.

Israel's underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem Sat 8 Nov 2025 07.24 EST

Hostages. People held without any charge and released in exchanges etc. are called hostages. (And they are held in underground "tunnels".)

As a Pole, I'll by default side with the underdogs and the colonized/oppressed. With Ukraine and with Palestine. And people who claim it's not about Ukraine/Palestine but USA/Iran are the same kind of either evil propagandists or useful idiots, believing in manicheic kindergarten-level worldview.

(I deleted and resubmitted my post as one autocorrect typo made a sentence sound completely the other way around than intended)

I see it as complicated and don't have an answer other than condemning civilian-targeting specific attacks. Their existence and fight were legitimate up to ~mid-90s, Lebanese and Palestinians have a right to defend themselves - but most of their methods after are not. They became as evil as the IOF.

(But I am pretty sure Poles would do the same in an uneven and so desperate fight. Which is kind of fucked up, but our national poems praise suicide death and "Gloria victis")

I don't have an easy answer about the 2nd Intifada,do you expect one? "Both sides were guilty and evil",you want to grade them? Started with IDF being the terrorists and mass murderers. Then came terrible inexcusable civilian-targeting attacks. Ended with disproportional,civilian-murdering response.