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by Swizec 3mo ago
> We can't prove a program will always halt, but we can check it halts in a specific execution. The computer scientist says “The halting problem cannot be solved, I have proven it” and the software engineer goes “30 second timeout,
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by Swizec 3mo ago
I didn't say it was intentional, it's the result of millions of little decisions that all make total sense in isolation.
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> how some group would go about preserving a problem like homelessness, even unintentionally Simplistic version: San Francisco spends roughly $100,000/year on each homeless person. In services, salaries for people working on it, ren
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> Is "medium growth" for the next 4 years really the worst people can think of? At this point anything less than "medium growth" will crash the economy. We'll have bigger problems if that happens (think 2000 or 2
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> where a preselected tip is selected. Default should be no. A lot of this push to higher and higher and preselected tip options comes from POS software providers (Square et al) and credit card companies. They make money on transaction v
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The Age of Reading Is Over(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Swizec 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> You really shouldn’t make speeding up to make the light a habit I agree! In this particular case we were dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic, a light that takes many minutes, and very few cars making every green light. It took us 20
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> Then there's the collision detection thing. It's basically guaranteed to beep at me whenever I enter my parents' narrow street with cars parked on both sides. Some of my worst driving experiences have been with collision
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Theory of constraints, AI, and code review(swizec.com)
2 points by Swizec 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> Just this week I had a package that was supposed to be delivered by Monday that lost tracking and didn't show up until Wednesday. This is the sort of problem you solve with more funding not privatization. Here’s how these privatiz
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by Swizec 3mo ago
Mid 30s
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> More and more studies have been indicating that even just a few minutes of intense exercise can outperform long/slow LISS type cardios. For best results run fast and far. During my personal best marathon (3h 15min) my heart rate a
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> This must have had an effect, beyond health. Surely? Watch old music videos and TV or movies, everyone looks so old! You’ll have 30 year olds running around looking 50. Then you look at modern media and think “Wow look at that 30 year
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> And if they want to keep their jobs they have to comply. Worse still, many mariners are effectively prisoners and can become trapped if corporate decides to cut them loose without also providing passage off the vessel Stranded sailor a
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> the point from GP was that both cars brake/ decelerate at the same rate Point is that’s not always true. If they are the same type of car, and the car happens to be the kind with downforce, then their rate of deceleration greatly
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> the precision inherent to communicating scientific concept /./ abandoned when it comes to prose. Honestly that was a typo and I noticed too late to edit. Thanks for catching
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by Swizec 3mo ago
> The blue car, using ½mv², shed (~70²=) 4900 units of energy (we'll hand wave away the constants). So the red car, which had (100²=) 10000 units of kinetic energy to start, also shed 4900 units, which means it had 5100 units of ene
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> While vehicle sizes are indeed trending upward in Australia and Europe, giant SUV and especially giant truck penetration in both countries is still far behind US levels Many big SUVs are flat out illegal in Europe, you’d need a small t
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> big companies need to self police and if a child can reach their service they have to pay the child like lets say GBP 10k per instance? HIPAA has been super effective this way. As we all know, American companies don’t give two shits ab
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> (we’re celebrating 250 years - some folks in Europe live in houses older than that!) We used to smoke weed on the roman wall behind my friend’s high school. Very popular hangout spot. Lots of people using it for rock climbing practice
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> I lean very heavily towards outcome based prompting. Say exactly what do you want achieved and then maybe give some constraints, ie. what definitely not to do. I do this when writing stories/projects/issues/epics for hum
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Yet! It is the next frontier While researching my book I read papers from the 80’s saying this. If you get a good enough spec and define the contracts and architecture, you then just hand off implementation to juniors/offshore&#x2
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> We’re still missing a good way to express and measure architectural quality Architectural complexity[1]! There’s several really good papers on this. Unfortunately it never caught on and we don’t have great automated tools to spit out a
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by Swizec 4mo ago
I feel like that wasn’t there when I started writing my comment. I also have a bad habit of quickly posting and then adding over a few minutes. Glad we agree :)
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> As far as I could tell, nothing was substantially different from the Ellsworth translation and the Fable translation. Crucially the full translation was part of ChatGPT’s training set. Recall is a pretty solved problem in machine lear
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Until that time, such countries would just not have access to systems before they were bulletproof. Correct, most jurisdictions do not allow businesses which cannot be held liable for their actions. This is pretty core to a modern soci
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> at the scale that google is at, it doesn't make an ounce of sense to hold a company liable for a potential mistruth If a Google employee (like a support agent) says a mistruth, the company is liable and you can sue. They can’t jus
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by Swizec 4mo ago
Good. The true mark of AGI is when a company accepts liability and doesn’t bury “for entertainment purposes only” deep in their TOS. Same as it works with employees. Same for self-driving. Your car is not self-driving until it accepts liabi
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Did they think, as they worked to transfer final say from users to corporations, by technical means, that politicians couldn't transfer that control to themselves by political means? Makes me think of the most sobering line I ever
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> But then why didn't they cut it into 10 pieces - https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/40600/40610/pie_01-10a_40610.htm ? Ever tried cutting a cake? It’s a lot easier to visually judge half of a circle segmen

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