Frost1x

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by Frost1x 4y ago
"Default" choices embed knowledge and wisdom in the selection process. The reason defaults tend to exist is to appeal as an easy, reliable, safe choice, probabilistically speaking ignoring any specific contextual circumstance. We
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by Frost1x 4y ago
This is a growing problem in many fields, IMHO. I've been wondering for awhile if it's an inherent flaw in knowledge in that if knowledge can't supplant older knowledge in a high compressed reduced form as things progress, we
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Agreed. So, why pretend it's not purely transactional, other than to be manipulative? All the "were a family", "we care about you", yada yada language just tries to create false social constructs to hide the fact
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Always fun to see real relationship language buried in messages that clearly treat your relationship as entirely transactional. I always wonder if there's anyone left naive enough to justify corporate double speak.
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Well, that's sort of an underlying problem with markets in general though, now isn't it? The mass of consumers create momentum that shift what is and isn't viable. It happens in all sorts of products, phones for example shift
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Fair enough, I skimmed quickly and assumed (as you clearly noticed), so in that context it's not censorship.
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>If Random House declines to publish your book because they don’t think it will sell, is that censorship? Yes. You're being censored in this case by the will of markets or perception of the will of markets (consumers at large), less
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by Frost1x 4y ago
No, it's not. Moderation is a special case/form of censorship. In many cases, it's a desired or willful filter as the article suggests, but it is censorship of information. Censorship doesn't have to be forced, it can be
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>While I believe there is belief that Harvard is accepting C-students over asians A+ students I think the reality is much closer; they are rejecting students with perfect scores and accepting students who scored in the 98th percentile. W
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by Frost1x 4y ago
The core issue we have here, IMHO, is a completely weakened and abused working class of the US in the name of efficiency gains with all sorts of costs externalized on them. It's not everyone, but much of the population has been herded
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>More depressing -number of cores will also level off eventually and where does that leave us then? Short of breakthroughs (e.g. quantum and currently unknowns), the only clear path is less generalized architectures and more specialized
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>I don’t think productivity was ever the goal of this software. I'm not entirely sure about this. During the early digitization era productivity was a big driver. Modern word processors are a godsend if you've ever tried to typ
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I think part of it is to separate information to better know that a user was interested in a product and read the information further and perhaps it was price or purchasing conditions that turned them off. When you advertise traditionally y
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>who won't switch to another employer or cell phone/insurance provider even though the terms they're getting are no longer on par with what the market offers. This strategy largely works too, as I've worked with some.
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by Frost1x 4y ago
No one said scientific research direction and progress didn't have bias. There's a large set of unknowns and it's dictated in part by the things people want to investigate, what people can get funded to investigate, how much
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Or even "approximately" 200, roughly 200, near 200, anything that tells you it's pretty darn close to 200 exactly.
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Eh, redundancy doesn't have to imply a lack of coordination, it can be strategic. I haven't worked at FB/Meta so you may have deeper insight here. If you have something extremely critical you need done and enough resources, e
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Sometimes I don't think it's ignorance, it's willful strategy. I pay you to do X and don't care, so do X. If you burn out in the process I again don't care, I'll just replace you after because the timeliness is
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by Frost1x 4y ago
My work environment has a set of tasks that need to run exclusively in a tightly controlled cloud desktop environment. It's a nightmare.
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>This is bonkers, the entire point of orgo is to cull the pre-med students. But why? Seems silly you use the mechanism of education as a filter and make a course obnoxiously and unnecessarily difficult for that purpose. Why not... filte
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>IMHO giving a prompt to generate image is amazing but isn't a product because you can't actually produce useful stuff(it's great as an exploration tool). I'm not sure who they planned to market this to but I can thin
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Curious as well. About a year ago I was implementing what I thought naively might not be a very difficult verification that a specific string existed (case sensitive or insensitive) within a PDF's text and had many cases where text vi
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Ditto, although I was thinking of a slightly different approach. I didn't think anyone was actively doing anything but I love when I have ideas that seem independent and they magically become 'realized' from my ignorance beca
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>...they'd rather have a low performer than no one at all. Seems contradictory to many modern interview process opinions that low performers introduce a net negative effect.
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I'm not aware of any technology reliable, trustworthy, affordable, and quick enough to accomplish said goal without regularly inconveniencing a significantly larger portion of drivers who may need their vehicles in other emergencies. I
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by Frost1x 4y ago
A lot of business leadership handwave this away and I've seen some claim the only way to remain competitive was to go this insanely aggressive towards the target in some way: low budget, short timeline, "optimistic" feature s
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by Frost1x 4y ago
If "achieving" your estimate included a lot of crunch, your estimate was bad. A lot of poor estimation externalizes it's error to those trying to meet the estimate. Long hours, weekends, etc. over months while pretending the
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>This is what agile actually wants you to do. And almost never does because it's designed in a way that's easy to abuse. Instead you often see dynamic ever-changing scope, dynamic ever tightening deadlines, and no margins for r
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Your point is very valid to the above but I'd like to fix GP's example. The distinction here is that what's being discussed is more about deadlines that are built around systems that are already deemed stable and mature, alre
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Healthcare providers through rural areas (much of the US) do this often. They contract out specialized health professionals because the local economies and regions struggle to attract and retain healthcare professionals and cant produce eno

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