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LiterallyShaking brit/bong TER, drop the F  7mo ago (x.com) 913 thread views #272883

Am I the only one who didn't know that the entire internet is literally wired physically with undersea cables?

https://x.com/jennyzhangzt/status/1794099226281943496

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17170620394448433.webp

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PhD candidate doing AI research doesn't know about basic internet infrastructure

Reinforcement learning and network infrastructure have nothing to do with each other

:#soyjakferaltalking:

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I don't need to know basic info because I am SO many levels above that :marseysmugretard:

People like this are worse than DEI hires for the competency crisis. It's like an architect not knowing the difference between concrete and cement

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>nooo! You can't just use light to see at night, you have to read about LEDs and sperg out about wavelengths. Do U even understand what a diode is?!?

:#chudtantrum:

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:#marseyspecialtalking:

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you really dont need to know everything to be good at your job, and there's plenty of time to learn the fundamental layers as you get older

blackbox abstraction is the basis of programming and most tech

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JS ruins lives

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I think a better comparison would be an architect not understanding the underlying physical principles on an atomic level behind the chemical reaction that happens when you pour cement.

And said architect probably doesn't need it either.

It's like when ASM-spergs rant about how everything should be written in a low-level language, because your average react dev doesn't know how it's all translated into machine code.

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Thanks for the bloat, webdevs

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Same same same same same.swme se dmsnrngjrjfcneucje with same same

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Computer nerds are all about "m-m-muh layers of abstraction" until god forbid someone doesn't understand some pointless detail of the particular layer that some other nerd really cares about. If I have to think for even a second about memory allocation, it means you wrote a shitty garbage collector.

The whole fricking point of TCP/IP is packets go wherever and nobody has to care what the underlying transport mechanism is.

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If I have to think for even a second about memory allocation, it means you wrote a shitty garbage collector.

Garbage collectors aren't magic lmao you still shouldn't unnecessarily thrash them, unless you're writing something so simple that performance is irrelevant. Not to mention that you can still have "memory leaks" in garbage collected languages (okay not technically "leaks" but you can unnecessarily keep large objects around until your heap fills up, like adding shit to a list and never removing it).

I do wonder what she thought we used if not undersea cables. Maybe she thought we used satellites, and before satellites there simply wasn't any instantaneous communication between America and Europe?

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>wasting your life and your employer's money on premature optimization :marseyneko:

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If only it was premature :marseydepressed:

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All the bottlenecks in my pipelines are FTP servers run by third party utility data providers. :marseytwirl:

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>FTP

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1717092634912899.webp

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In big, regulated industries they party like it's 1999. FTP my CSVs, baby.

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is there at least lots of coke?

I remember working my first tech job in 2013 and getting told not to use the ftp servers being they were legacy and being phased out

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Even in burger land I remember learning about transatlantic telegraph cables being a game changer and that was 170 years ago

Putting the :e: in spookie turkey merry new year

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>and that was 170 years ago

How long have you been alive?! :!donkeykongwtf: :!marseydracula:

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unless you're writing something so simple that performance is irrelevant

@JimieWhales is a woman if you weren't already aware

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Believe me, I'm familiar with moids' self-sabotaging performance anxiety.

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EE grads really try to overthink the theory of RF communications from their schooling.

Ive been doing this longer than you've been alive, doing X just works, don't worry about why because it doesn't matter.

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Just admit you're too dumb to understand the OSI model.

:marseybooba:

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:marseysmug2: Get a load of this washed up old fossil who doesn't understand that in currentyear+9 you just run everything on top of HTTPS.

Application layer (layer 1)

----------------------------

HTTPS    (layer 0)

If your protocol isn't giant blobs of JSON in HTTPS then you should just :marseykys2: because your packets are never getting through a corporate firewall anyway.

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>muh HTTPS

what a retar—oh it's the “foid” nvm :marseyjerkoffsmile:

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>If I have to think for even a second about memory allocation, it means you wrote a shitty garbage collector.

t. Luser who has never written for the Dreamcast :!sonic: :!chrischad:

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Jimie I love you but plz understand I would never write a garbage collector or support anyone who did

LearnToManageMemory

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:marseydisagree:

I won't manage my money, I won't manage my drug habit, and I sure as shit will not manage my memory. I just need another bump, see?

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you don't need to know how the internet works on a physical level for doing ML research. but what kind of "open-endedness" is she studying?

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From 30 seconds on her xitter, she seems to be studying AI/robotics in open ended problem spaces where there isn't one narrowly defined reward function for it to optimize on.

Imagine a robot where its job is "help out in the kitchen" instead of "put the maximum number of things in boxes in the minimum time"

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imagine a robot where its job is "help out in the kitchen"

We already have those they're called women :marseyembrace:

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it's like if a company labeled their product "poison free" to make it sound like their competitors' products might contain poison.

open ended problem spaces where there isn't one narrowly defined reward function for it to optimize on.

But no applied problem ever comes with a "narrowly defined reward function." *

The first step towards solving it is figuring out how to translate it into something that can be solved with the cowtools available to us.

(* if it seems like one does, it's only because 100 (or 2000) years ago someone already figured out that first step)

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I don't care about your nerdshit. Go whine to /h/AIslop

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:soyc#ry:

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