BrenBarn

29 ms·

631.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
That doesn't mean that technology has to be shoveled out to the public by the truckload. A country can have a productive pharmaceutical industry without being full of drug addicts. Also, there can be technological advances without ha
632.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Okay, but what I'm asking about is this part of your previous comment: > It seems that Altman has a lot of detractors here, and I'm not sure why Why are you confused/surprised that Altman has detractors?
633.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Are you saying that because you're cynical you thought Altman would always go for the biggest money grab possible, and so you won't criticize him on that basis? I'm cynical enough to think a lot of people will always go for
634.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think I'm taking a more broad reading of causality than you. A lubricant can cause something to move, if the thing was previously stuck. Causality is not just "the" force, it is the totality of contributing factors to t
635.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I basically agree, but I would say that that "lubricating" effect is still causal. I mean if something is stuck and lubricant is added and then it starts to move, well, the lubricant was at least one of the causes of its moving.
636.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yes, but at the least it's a bit more than that, because the ear is more sensitive to certain frequency ranges than others, and speech sounds seem to be more clustered in those ranges.
637.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yes, and (at least in the US) we're seeing this in other contexts too. Tons and tons of rehashes of laws restricting abortion, voting rights, or just executive actions that are slightly different from ones previously ruled invalid. T
638.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yeah, it's sort of like saying the ear doesn't do "a" Fourier transform, it does a bunch of Fourier transforms on samples of data, with a varying tradeoff between temporal and frequency resolution. But most people would
639.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> If you didn't know, there's a formal name for this: Lemon Markets[0]. Which yes, I agree. I think it is an accurate description of tech. Well, but I'm saying it's not just tech, it's becoming everything. (Unle
640.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yeah, it's this experiment-first workflow that's not so well supported.
641.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Usually, I would mess around in IPython / Jupyter for a couple days until I have something I'm happy with. Then I'll "productionize" the project. Right, it's this. I get the feeling a lot of people here d
642.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Sure, that's fine. I'm saying I just won't get to that stage until later.
643.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Browsers are some of the worst offenders in terms of pushing pointless feature upgrades. It's ironic because the web is supposed to be this backwards-compatible thing but browsers themselves will add and remove features and change the
644.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm not talking about the global environment. I want to be able to have whatever environments I want. But my point is that the environments are not in a 1-1 relationship with "projects".
645.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's not like they're entirely separate and unrelated things. Anaconda is a company that created a program called Conda which can connect to various "channels" to get packages, and initially the main one was the Anacond
646.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Conda is open source. Not sure what you mean about an EULA. There are some license agreements if you use Anaconda , but if you just use conda-forge you don't have any entanglements with Anaconda the company. (I agree the nomenclatu
647.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
But I don't want the sandbox linked in any way to a directory. I just want to be able to use it from anywhere. (This is what I can do with conda.)
648.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm not talking about wanting single-file scripts, but about having a "sandbox" environment in which various things can be messed with before abstracting anything out into a project.
649.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's not about single-file scripts, it's about having a "sandbox" environment in which various things can be messed with before abstracting anything out into a project.
650.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
If so, it's certainly not obvious. I mean look at the docs: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/features/ I don't see anything resembling "environments" in the list of features or i
651.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
More and more I think the mistake is seeing it as a tradeoff between "property rights" and "government authoritarianism". First, because authoritarianism is not much better when it happens to be non-government authorita
652.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I wouldn't think the Roman empire was a good thing if we had it today. We can "respect" those older cultures in their context while still recognizing that they were in many ways horrifying by modern standards.
653.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
The sticking point for me is the way tools like uv and poetry build everything around the idea of a "project". I don't want a separate environment for every project, and I don't want to start by creating a project. I w
654.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is interesting although I'm a bit weirded out by how it conflates what I see as two (or maybe more) very different kinds of "deviance". One is doing something that is new, different, or somehow an expression of individu
655.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I won't deny that all software is going to have bugs. But I think there has been a real shift in mindset over time. When it was harder to patch and, there was greater incentive to make each release a well-tested, coherent product tha
656.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Remember, back then, developers and users often had no after-sale communications at all. They often had no pre-sale communications either, indeed no communication of any kind. It was just like buying a spatula or a pair of shoes. You
657.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Maybe in the quarter, but not long term. It's a sustainable strategy if you've monopolized the market though... It's also a sustainable strategy if the market has become so distorted that it's difficult for consumer
658.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Right, so that's what needs to change.
659.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Housing cost itself is one more nightmarish facet of modern life largely attributable to wealth inequality.
660.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
The thing about command lines is off base, but overall the article is right that the ickiness of this thing is exceeded only by its evil.

More ›