MarceliusK

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by MarceliusK 3mo ago
Fond memories and a slightly terrifying electrical inheritance
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by MarceliusK 3mo ago
The image of him in the home shop with the radio playing and people still bringing him supposedly unfixable things is wonderful
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by MarceliusK 3mo ago
There is something pleasantly backwards about a school teaching people to repair objects that were designed to last, while so much of the rest of the economy is optimized around replacement
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
If people follow your direction, it is usually because the argument made sense, the trust was already there or you did the unglamorous work of aligning everyone beforehand
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
In a way management should be treated more like a role change than a one-way promotion
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
A lot of "rapid adoption" in software is really the result of unusually cheap distribution and feedback loops
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
I think part of the difference is that in software we can often try the new thing immediately and see whether it helps. In biology, "this is real" and "this is important" are much harder to establish because the system i
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
So I'd say diffusion models make the philosophy less mystical but not necessarily solved
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
What I like about this story is how physical the problem is
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
Describing that loop from outside is not the same as paying the cost of running it from inside
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
Science is incredibly good at producing descriptions that are shareable between observers, but subjective experience is not obviously shareable in that same way
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
The point isn't that a human could literally sample bat experience. It's that if bat experience exists, it is tied to a form of embodiment and perception that we can describe externally but not fully inhabit subjectively
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
A bat might not have a "personal point of view" in the human sense, but that doesn't mean there is no point of view at all
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
Soo an outside description of a system, no matter how complete, does not obviously give us the inside of the experience...
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
But for actual use, especially screens and reading, the tradeoff can be pretty bad
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
The camera analogy is a really good one
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
What struck me here is how much "good UI" changes with age
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
For that use case I'd probably optimize less for "best keyboard" and more for "least annoying thing to pack and set up"
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
I think the remaining friction is mostly ergonomics and integration
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
Most folding keyboards I've tried felt like travel compromises first and keyboards second
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
I want this too, though I suspect the hard part is less compute and more the boring peripheral/ecosystem stuff
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by MarceliusK 4mo ago
I've noticed the same thing with writing on smaller screens too: shorter paragraphs, less overthinking, and a lower psychological barrier to starting
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
1947 is still old in any practical sense
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
Bi Sheng had movable type much earlier, but that doesn't necessarily imply a Gutenberg-style screw press as a surviving physical object
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
There's something fascinating about that middle stage of technology: vastly faster than manuscript copying, but still completely dependent on human rhythm, muscle, maintenance
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
In a way, the modern problem is almost the opposite of the old one: not scarcity of educational material, but too many plausible-looking teachers
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
Even if the target author is an LLM, the accountability still lands on humans eventually
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
"Names cause errors" doesn't automatically imply "removing names makes the program easier to generate or reason about"
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by MarceliusK 5mo ago
The strongest idea here, IMO, is not the syntax but the feedback loop
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by MarceliusK 6mo ago
Pre-App Store iPhone stuff was its own kind of wild west

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