GarnetFloride

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by GarnetFloride 11mo ago
Your first customer is always you. If you don't have a problem to solve that you know something about, you aren't going to make a useful product. A useful product can be a successful product.
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by GarnetFloride 11mo ago
Just like IBM said, a computer can't be held responsible for its decisions. Management's been doing this for a long time to justify layoffs and such. This is just the next step.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Considering the 747-400 carried 1,000,000 pounds (453,592.37 kilos) to cruising altitude, that might be in dispute.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
That's a really good plan. Its not the same but when your business is dead because one of the sysadmins accidentally deleted all the users from the system, its not all that different because many people's lives are on the line but
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
This is a great UX test case, if you can't go into a senior center and get someone using your software, you need to try again. Color-blindness filters are good or a monochrome monitor. Some dark sunglasses and vaseline get the low visi
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
That's a really awesome article. It shows the power of just thinking about the what if scenario comes in very handy, because you begin to note information that might be useful. I have written a few disaster/emergency plans and the
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Right now I am a tech writer and the curse of knowledge is hard to break for many people. I've gotten a lot of docs from devs that are obviously just reminders for themselves of what they already know. I've had to flesh out docs t
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Oh man, that's what I've been smelling with all this. It's the Red Bead Experiment, all over again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckBfbvOXDvU
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
These kinds of discussions remind of those times running a TTRPG and there is a puzzle to solve and 4+ engineering students can't figure out the back-of-the-cereal-box type puzzle. So there is something going on that makes problem solv
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Picks or any of the other required equipment.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
It seems like a lot of people think that the first draft/prototype/whatever has to be perfect. It doesn't. It never is. It can't be. My favorite example of this was the Moon shot. Each step was learning how to do just th
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
I misremembered it’s the Afghanistan slide https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/apr/29/mcchry...
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
If you want a slide to really hurt your brain search for “Iraq war PowerPoint slide” The principles of that slide apply to a lot of other circumstances.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Lamy has left-handed nibs for their pens. So there are options.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
I mean it's not a surprise considering that 54% of Americans are functionally illiterate (<5th grade level). My curiosity is about why aren't the big publishers setting up literacy programs to grow their marketshare? Why aren&#
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
The problem is they never even tried to look before. Just hand waved that it was impossible and they knew better. Like bees can't fly.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Pilot had been reporting things like that for years but nobody would believe them because they weren't "trained observers", until a pilot caught it on film in the 80's. Same with sailors, who've been repairing rogue
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Yeah. Being a tech writer is tough because few people appreciate the work. But the things I really need from devs is what is the feature supposed to do and why did you do it that way? I can read the code to know what it does but often that’
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Not Just Bikes did a YouTube on Seoul South Korea that brought this point up. They’ve got costs down because they’re working on it continuously. As a tech writer people have a lot of experience but they never turn it into institutional know
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
This sounds a lot like Jane from Speaker for the Dead and the rest of the series. The main character had an earring connected to an AI named Jane that helped a lot.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
I moderated a panel of some doctors about chronic pain. One of the big things that came out of that, for me, was how they describes how the relationship with pain changes when it becomes chronic. Most times if you experience pain, you want
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
For math you'll want the Saxon Math books, but they have to be the old ones from before they were bought out and turned into yet another New Math or whatever they call it now.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
There are plenty of laws on the books that make it even harder, you can't have mixed genders of children sleeping in the same room, limits to how many can sleep in the same room, and many more. Less than 1% of houses are accessible and
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
What was so odd was how Apple fumbled the iPhone mini launch by launching the iPhone SE first. At that point there hadn't been a small phone for a few years, There was pent up demand. The SE came out and it was a big success, lots of p
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
Being there is a powerful and supportive thing. Yes, it is incredibly hard to deal with the loss of a child, we lost one, too. Having someone there is a help and a support, we didn't really get from others.
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
You would think we would have to take a statistical approach to AGI. Look how we learned physics. Aristotelian physics was "An object in motion tends to come to a stop." That looked right most of the time a bowling ball on sand, g
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
What is it with so many people saying art should be a hobby? except for the really great. But how are you going to get good if you don't get any practice and feedback? I remember someone lamenting people videoing comedians in small ven
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
We've been encouraged to use LLMs for brainstorming blog posts. The actual posts it generates are usually not good but gives us something to talk about so we can write something better. And doing SEO to posts. It seems to do that prett
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
I was in a car crash and spent a month in the hospital where they gave me heavy-duty pain killers. I could tell I was having cognitive issues because I couldn't remember words that I knew I used before, but I wasn't curious about
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by GarnetFloride 1y ago
That's what they said about electricity when nuclear power plants were proposed. What's your electricity bill like today?

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