RGS1811

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by RGS1811 2mo ago
Funny enough, I didn't know, but your comment made me look it up, then I tracked down a PDF of the book, read the relevant section, and wrote my reply. So, even if I didn't help you out, you helped me lol.
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by RGS1811 2mo ago
It comes from C. Northcote Parkinson's work, where he calls it "The Law of Triviality". The idea is that people clog up decision-making by introducing a swarm of issues that have little relative impact or importance for the p
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AGI and the Accountability Threshold(elliotmilco.substack.com)
1 points by RGS1811 2mo ago|0 comments
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by RGS1811 2mo ago
The analogy to malaria is pretty on point. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is, you nailed it, prophylactic. It's not as good as a vaccine would be, and it's not as cheap as a one-and-done shot, but we've gotten to the point w
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by RGS1811 2mo ago
While HIV vaccine research is an exciting field, it's worth pointing out that halting HIV transmission is, practically speaking, a solved problem with oral and injectable reverse transcriptase inhibitors. The ongoing loss of life and h
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Claude Code system prompt says not to ask for permission, assumes user is absent(elliotmilco.substack.com)
4 points by RGS1811 2mo ago|0 comments
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by RGS1811 3mo ago
Based on the content of the post, it seems like it would be adequate to find an email platform run by people not vocally calling for the ethnic cleansing of minorities.
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by RGS1811 3mo ago
It is aggressively proactive in ways that make it very hard to use. I had to turn down the effort level to “low” to stop it from going off in random directions every couple of turns.
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by RGS1811 3mo ago
I've been vibecoding a ton for the past 9 months, built a bunch of cool little apps for myself with AI, ran experiments, built an entire SDLC on skills, did the agent orchestration harness thing, etc. In the past few weeks I've hi
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by RGS1811 3mo ago
I’ve been leaning into audiobooks for the past two years and it’s completely revitalized my intellectual life. I feel alive in ways I’d forgotten. And it extends beyond audiobooks too. I started carrying a paperback around with me, reading
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by RGS1811 7y ago
I got a lot of questions about the names of root level linux directories, which while good knowledge doesn't seem to fit under the title description.
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by RGS1811 7y ago
There's a download button at the bottom of the player.
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by RGS1811 7y ago
True, and penalizing misbehavior is a big part of the solution here, but it's also true that there are practical social limits on behavior (including competitive behavior), and these can wax and wane culturally, giving rise to greater
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by RGS1811 8y ago
The standard scored against was mostly good, although his preferred column width was pretty arbitrary, and the best line-height can depend on the context of a piece of text and its use.
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by RGS1811 8y ago
Plato's procedural/dialogical approach to learning is also vastly superior to the Kantian/illuminist 'one and done' understanding of proof and discovery. Kant was a funny sort of progressive, who also believed that
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by RGS1811 8y ago
His Master's Voice is the most philosophically rigorous and profound piece of Sci-Fi I've read. Yes, it's hard to get through. It doesn't really have a plot. But wow, Lem really thought through the difficulties and im
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by RGS1811 9y ago
What made me concerned was the discovery that, on an old iPad mini I rarely use (without touch id / face id), entering the standard four digit unlock code is enough to get access to the full list of logins/passwords stored by iClo
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by RGS1811 9y ago
Keychain doesn't prompt for your user password on iOS. Just your unlock code. That's what bothers me.
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by RGS1811 9y ago
The most disturbing thing about iCloud Keychain is that you can get access to all of your stored passwords just by unlocking a device linked to your Apple ID. Not just the ability to log in with them, the actual plaintext.
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by RGS1811 9y ago
I've often enjoyed smalin's visualizations, which I find a little easier to follow visually than andy filebrown's. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
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by RGS1811 9y ago
It's a 2017 MBP with touchbar (and a Radeon GPU).
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by RGS1811 9y ago
I came for the filesystem bugs, I stayed for the absurd root exploit, but its the little crashes, rendering glitches, and feeling of general instability that made me fall in love with High Sierra...
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by RGS1811 9y ago
APFS. That's the big addition. I've had a few horrific problems with High Sierra, two of them leading me to do full disk wipes. My current problem is this odd occasional screen scrambling bug, that happens for a split second a
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by RGS1811 9y ago
Until this past summer I was doing all of my (design heavy) workload on a 2013 15-inch retina MBP, without any problems. I would still be using it, except that the display died on me and it made more sense to buy a new laptop than replace i
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by RGS1811 9y ago
The bit about error reporting was the best part. > Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
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by RGS1811 9y ago
I agree with this approach. My experience has been that having a primitive mental framework in place really helps with retention (and interest) when you're doing in-depth reading on a topic (which you probably are if you're readi
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by RGS1811 9y ago
I've been in a non-tech work environment (specifically, publishing) where management followed this philosophy. In that case it yielded a disgruntled workforce with terrible leadership who were variously ignored and exploited by the di
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by RGS1811 9y ago
It's really nice. It makes me think she would have been a great person to know and be around.
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by RGS1811 9y ago
Right. While I actually believe society (and students) would benefit by converting a large fraction of our "liberal arts" colleges into more practical trade schools, your point stands—the problem with the "choose your own adv
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by RGS1811 9y ago
Ugh, same here. That killed it for me.

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