JsonDemWitOster

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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
> It's totally plausible to me that this kind of nudge will save a lot of lives. Probable especially if it gets drunk drivers off the road but I, for one, would be deeply uncomfortable driving knowing my every twitch is recorded and
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
I have but only to cache data used by cron/bg jobs. We still had Redis for an actual platform system cache. The thing is that Redis cache was created and managed by some framework middleware so it did not seem right to invoke it in cod
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
As I don't want to repeat myself, with emphasis added: > No Silver Bullet, No Free Lunch, and all that. If your problem domain really warrants something outside of relational storage, you're gonna pay that complexity cost one w
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
I can no longer edit my comment above so I'm just leaving this here, picking you arbitrarily out of the handful that addressed my filesystem suggestion: I am being sarcastic to show what a ridiculous idea it is to shoehorn everything i
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
I'll do you one better: do you really need Postgres and all these extensions when you already have a filesystem? > only after pushing Postgres to its limits, documenting why it was insufficient, and accepting the operational cost of
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
This analogy is disingenuous because by comparing the human brain to the machine, it ignores _scale_. Scale is absolutely important in copyright law. As a matter of fact, copyright law is among the various profound impacts of the---wait for
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
IANAL (plus a whole suite of other caveats) but torrent-baiting works in Germany along these lines. ISPs and trigger-happy law firms don't send you a C&D for downloading a torrent, they do so for seeding a torrent. It's just t
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
> What's next is more AI spam-slop. I already noticed this on youtube. I hope not but your observation on YouTube is spot-on. It's really frustrating. I've managed to keep good hygiene for my shorts feed. I practice zero-t
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
My problem with AI is the sheer variance of its stupid-smart spectrum. While it's true that human intelligence is not deterministic or predictable, the inconsistency exists in a much narrower band of variance which makes failure mode
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
Out of curiosity which markets exactly do you see with a positive AI outlook? Also, I think you are downplaying the "anglophone" social media backlash too much for a couple reasons. _Anglophone_ social media is huge, even global.
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
Yeah I think if we are looking at it through that lens, the problem is in the term _intelligence_ in itself. Psychology and biology could not even pinpoint what exactly makes for _intelligence_. There isn't really a precise definition
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
Fair enough. Mobile and social became ubiquitous and are now table stakes. But my problem with VR and blockchain---even allowing for the fact/assumption that they are still relevant---is that they never lived up to their hype. They nev
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
> I guess it is a sign we are re-evaluating what makes humans special. Always has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect Tangentially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
But _AI today_ is heavily subsidized by investor capital in the same way investors subsidized social/mobile/big data/VR/blockchain in the past. It's not unlikely "AI" would get a soft taboo in the same way
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
Who clicked on this thread looking for career advice??? This discussion is not what I was expecting when I clicked on this thread. What's with the sudden obsession about the field having to be lucrative first? Where's the "ha
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
And if yomomma had balls, she'd be yopoppa. Puh-lease. Unity's "hara-kiri" was in 2023 by which time Godot was NINE years old. Hara-kiri or no hara-kiri Godot has shown longevity and relevance. Anything gained from Unity
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
All fair points. I did not consider inventory tracking but yeah it's not likely to be the killer feature that would tide restaurant owners for one form factor or the other. That said, I have a _feeling_ (I cannot emphasize this enough)
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
It's cringey because it's thoughtless contrarian points. Like, really, how do digital menus provide more details? The lack of detail is not a problem of analog vs digital but from whoever decided on what goes in the menu in the fi
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
But if $DAYJOB actually keeps you from your dying kid's bedside, is it still there to "sustain" it? Or is it just leeching into your life?
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
> Once people get used to QR code menus we will see its benefits over traditional menus. Au contraire, mon ami. Once people see the benefits of anything they will keep using it and naturally get used to it. Not the other way around. Real
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
You make some good points but some are, excuse me, cringey-wrong. > physical menus are hard to update How often does a restaurant update a menu? Those that need to update frequently already solved that by having a chalk board. > physi
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
> Wasnt it pretty well documented Romero was fired from ID for playing Doom > Afaik Carmack's forcing everyone into single room was a direct result of frustration over people playing multiplayer Doom instead of working on the nex
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
This gonna blow your mind: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Skeuomorphism
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
Cliché cynic's comment: the end users they are concerned about are the companies they sell ads to. If you're not that, tough luck.
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
I don't think he meant you ate Christians, more that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_t...
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
> Many people I see underestimate what it takes to build a business. It is the classic “I could have built that in a weekend” critique. My dude, no one in your reply thread is making that claim. We bristling at the claim that "Socia
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by JsonDemWitOster 3mo ago
I've recently come to the thought that the reason why I find AI so snake-oily is because it isn't solving the bottlenecks of the use-cases it is being applied to. The problem with customer service was never the frontline support a
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by JsonDemWitOster 4mo ago
I have a fraught relationship with 1:1s. Some days I curse the MBA who came up with this. Some days I'm rather ambivalent. Doesn't help that I'm naturally introverted and 1:1s is just a leech on my limited social battery. It&
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by JsonDemWitOster 4mo ago
I care but I can't move out because it's Orders from Up High which migrated us to Github. We haven't been here a year and it's not worth my neck to mirror our code in some kind of skunkworks forge instance. Woe. Woe is m
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by JsonDemWitOster 4mo ago
The Google SRE book offers the following as one of the reasons to not gun for 100% reliability (emphasis added): > users typically don’t notice the difference between high reliability and extreme reliability in a service, because the us

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