Aqueous

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by Aqueous 4y ago
Out on a limb prediction: Apple will introduce touchscreens to Macs and then remove them a couple of generations later.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
They really shouldn’t. Notepad doesn’t need to be anything other than what it is.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
It’s not complicated either. It’s just complex.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Is the opposite also maybe true? Allowing someone who has contributed so little to the team to have an equal share in the company may make people feel like their comparative effort isn’t recognized.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
I think you maybe getting ahead of yourself. It’s one thing for AI to produce art that roughly aligns with a prompt, which is as you well know right now what it is capable of. It’s another to fulfill the exact vision of what a person wants.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
If we're going to go for 128- why not just go for 256-? that way we won't have to do this again for a while. or better yet, design a new abstraction for not having to hard-code the limit of the pointer size but instead allow it to
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by Aqueous 4y ago
'In other words, chess engines have redefined creativity in chess, leading to a situation where the game’s top players can no longer get away with simply playing the strongest chess they can, but must also engage in subterfuge, misdire
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by Aqueous 4y ago
I buy them, but don’t read them.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
I think the takeaway is "a year." Businesses typically don't have a year to fix something like this, so saying something will take a year usually means, "It's impossible."
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Indeed, this is precisely what makes getting it right up front so important. As mentioned above, the data model tends to proliferate across anything that interacts with it. The principles of normalization mean that there is usually one natu
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Right, but in the constraints of a business, "more iterations" may (and probably does mean) "impossible." Second, the iterations to fix the problem block all your iterations to add new functionality - because the data mo
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by Aqueous 4y ago
When designing a complex system with multiple business modules and multiple services, correctness becomes a little more binary than that. Your data model tends to proliferate across anything that interacts with it - fixing it may require a
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Perfectionism is a pitfall, but agile development has led a lot of developers to prize velocity over correctness. Many seem to believe that any upfront mistake can be fixed through iteration. The truth is that there are things that you can&
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by Aqueous 4y ago
I've thought about this issue so very many times, and I feel that until someone creates a system capable of understanding the underlying purpose of the code, we will not be able to automate this stuff away. I think the issue is that al
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Interesting that they claim HBO Max tech stack to be buggy. I’ve never had a problem with streaming anything and indeed have encountered more problems with platforms you’d think would have a better handle on the complexity of it - particula
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by Aqueous 4y ago
If they were shown to be false, I would have expected that discussion to surface occasionally. However, all I've heard is silence.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Off-topic but what ever happened to this [1] Google quantum computing breakthrough? Major buzz happened in 2019 but since then, it feels, crickets. Did the NSA swoop in and silence all publication of further development or something? [1] h
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by Aqueous 4y ago
It was, in fact, not me. And the tradeoffs did not make sense. This was a simple case of bad normalization - a missed many to one relationship. It just so happens that it happened to be a relationship at the center of a very large platform,
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Data structures being badly designed is a perfectly valid and common blocker. That is why we try to design things correctly, after all - to avoid blocking future engineers when they try to change the system. Badly designed data structures c
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by Aqueous 4y ago
When I've gotten stuck it's usually because the previous engineer completely screwed up the data structure design and in doing so made it impossible to change. This boxes me in because I can't implement the feature in an arch
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by Aqueous 4y ago
This is part of why I think a ban on humanoid and even animal-like robots should be considered. Our intuitions are leading us astray here and we are going to start extending rights to things that don’t have subjective experience, but may in
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Yes, and that middle ground is the public blockchain. The transactions are visible but the identities of the endpoints are not. That leaves discovery of those identities up to the investigatory bodies following due process, whether through
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by Aqueous 4y ago
I believe this is a direct quote from our former president
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by Aqueous 4y ago
CNN+ is the ill-fated streaming subscription news service of CNN. According to CNN, CNN+ failed because of the merger between WarnerMedia, CNN's parent company, and Discovery, and not because of low viewership. The purported reason for
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by Aqueous 4y ago
Thank you for very clearly demonstrating his point, that the people who point out these tactics are often accused of being heretics themselves.
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by Aqueous 4y ago
On my first day at my current company several years ago I was told to refactor something that was very poorly designed and written by the tech lead who had written it. The code was impossible to work with and it took months to add the featu
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by Aqueous 5y ago
While I agree that many of these items are way easier than before, it still comes at a cost. Making a lot of these things easy has actually caused new problems that are once again, hard, mostly because of emergent complexity. For instance
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by Aqueous 5y ago
For the love of God, critically think about your database schema and object model at a very detailed level, taking into account likely future requirements. I can’t emphasize enough how important having the correct data shape is from the beg
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by Aqueous 5y ago
but on the opposite side of the spectrum, worrying way too little about accommodating likely future requirements down the road in such a way that the giant hairy mess they create is basically impossible to change
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by Aqueous 5y ago
So what's the line?? Is it 10 million? 1% of the human population? If so, why should it be 1% and not 0.1%? Because it seems more significant?

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