Yeah, the CIA weren’t openly involved (Cameron, the one who did the experiments claimed to be unaware of CIA involvement but who knows), McGill claimed to be unaware but they went on for 9 years, so even if that’s true, it could be considered negligence. And the Canadian government funded it.

And when it came out, there was an investigation that concluded they didn’t act irresponsibly.

If he had passed the test, he wouldn’t need to dodge bullets.

I wonder if they had anyone who knew actual details stay the fuck away from those tests just in case they got a mind reader in there.

Also frustrating that it isn’t even the same people because the ones that did that shit already retired and/or died before it was declassified. There isn’t really much to do about it, even if the government is willing. Any apology isn’t from those who actually did it. Any reparations are paid for with taxes. Any promise to do better could be a lie and probably won’t be known for sure until the ones making it are dead and their documents are declassified.

Hey replying here in case you didn’t see the rest of the chain on the other reply, but no, that wasn’t the CIA (see the other reply chain for more details).

When they leave the foundry in Taiwan, they aren’t ready to be just used. I’m not sure if TSMC even cuts the dies out of the wafers, then they need to be packaged and binned (not necessarily in that order… Being packaged makes binning easier but it’s a waste to package a junk chip). Packaging might happen in Malaysia, Singapore, or China (or elsewhere, I just know those countries have packaging facilities).

Packaging is when they put the chip(s) on the little PCB that has the pins or pads (for CPUs), though GPUs generally go on a board of some sort, though I can only guess how this one was packaged. Imagining Jensen Huang on an assembly line, licking the backs of GPUs and sticking them on missiles as they pass by and causually get dumped in a steel bin at the end of the conveyor, but that’s probably not what’s happening with them.

Another guess just based on the terms is it could be a method that throws your json object into a black hole and returns the version of the object that is stretched out to infinity.

Though that’s just an optical illusion, in reality the object would be ripped apart by the gravity or extreme radiation, depending on whether it was a small or large black hole.

Your guesses are more useful, but I can’t fathom what goes on in the mind of JavaScript devs.

Maybe the client’s interpreter’s autocorrect will fix it at run time.

Sounds like someone bullshitted their way through school to get a technical degree, not realizing that their bullshitting depended on the person they were bullshitting not being good or confident with technology, which gets rarer when you go into a technical career.

Haha I have also done an interview where the person had a friend in the room feeding them answers, though this one must have assumed his mic was worse than it was and didn’t mute at all, so we could hear the mumbling of answers. To make it even funnier, though, their friend wouldn’t have gotten hired either because none of their answers were good.

I kinda wanted to tell them they should find a smarter friend to help them cheat at interviews but instead just thanked them for their time and ended the interview.

Though tbh, I wasn’t really impressed by any of the new grads from the schools we were looking at. Some of them made me wonder if they learned anything at all about software development during their time at school.

Also acceptable: JavaScript? Ok shoot me.

MK Ultra on its own could count for several.

Was the experiment where they released some “harmless pathogen” (assuming your immune system is all good!) in major cities to see how they spread, resulting in some deaths/complications part of MK Ultra? Can’t remember if it was under that project or part of a different one leading up to it.

The Iran/contras were CIA.

Oh also the Iranian revolution, or at least the instability that led to it.

Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden both started as CIA assets that got tired of being used.

A lot of attempts on Fidel Castro’s life.

That’s off the top of my head. There’s also a bunch of fuckery in central and south America, though if I had to guess, I would guess that there has been fuckery in every single country on this planet, including countries some would have called allies. Iirc they targeted some Canadian cities for that “release the pathogen” experiment, too.

I think they are asking if the CIA was the one that did them rather than just suggesting that for the list. I don’t think that was the CIA but another government agency (or maybe even just doctor(s), though even then, the study was approved and funded).

Do you know the reverse grip trick that lets you use rightie scissors with your left hand anyways?

It’s mostly useful for small cuts because it’s also awkward, but it will cut instead of bend.

It works because your thumb and fingers apply sideways force that pushes the cutting blades together if the scissors match the hand or apart if they don’t, but reversing the grip (as in having the blades on your palm side instead of pointing away from you) reverses the forces they apply.

Ironically, LLMs are pretty good for helping optimize non-LLM workflows. Brainstorming a list of things that already exist is something they do well. And even if they hallucinate some entries, just move on to the next one. And having them help with one time setup or debugging specific issues is way more efficient than having a workflow that involves them regularly.

Unless the next frame is her intently trying to use the scissors while the paper just bends parallel to the blades instead of cutting.

Yeah, I gotta say that while shit is looking pretty bad on the corporate producer side of things, this society/system has bred a ton of entitled consumers that think their desires are important to anyone that can make or do things.

Even if you’re paying someone for something, that doesn’t mean you can dictate what they do or how they do it. Or even that they need to offer you what they willingly offer others. There’s some people where no amount of money would make dealing with them worthwhile, let alone what they are willing to pay for special treatment.

But with FOSS, there isn’t even the incentive of money greasing the interaction. It’s just pure entitlement. No one owes you anything just because you’re interested in their project or skills.

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not but IMO the whole concept of “support the visibility of opinions you don’t like” was doomed from the start because you can’t force people to play along with an alternate vote meaning (and the version this is an alternate to also wasn’t the intention behind the voting system, so there already was a drive to use votes as support of the idea rather than the discussion).

Also, if posts make it to all, then there will be voters who don’t even realize the community wants votes to work differently, even if they care about what the community wants.

I mean if you want to make obnoxious messages that invoke images of Facebook Karens that think clapping to emphasize words helps their point (to the point they add clapping emojis to text… Holy fuck I can’t emphasize enough how 👏 utterly 👏 braindead 👏 that clapping looks to me), this tree emoji looks kinda like a bush, at least on my device: 🌳

Now show me Alien if it had been released in 1999 instead.

Aborts after 5 seconds, realizing the entertainment value will be pretty much entirely laughing at the ridiculous things it got wrong which is already old

And electrically, if they are able to drive speakers, that same signal can drive headphones. It just needs the port.