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by Verdex 5y ago
I'm getting misty-eyed over here. Seriously, I thought I was the only one. I have heard almost no advice that's anywhere near actionable in our industry. The way I see it is that we have no objective ways to even talk about good
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by Verdex 5y ago
Generally, we get paid by our output (agreed upon deliverables). However, on the other hand, we generally get repeat business by our outcomes (users became much more productive and now they want more). There's enough nuance required h
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by Verdex 5y ago
My first thought is that this sounds like a terrible work environment. My second thought is, "Wait senior person at microsoft? That means he could probably afford multiple macs." What I'm imagining is that after Balmer thro
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by Verdex 5y ago
I'm curious, with a macbook do the right thing if you plug in a USB keyboard? I'm not suggesting you just use a USB keyboard instead (although, now that I say it, that does seem like a solution). What I'm actually wondering i
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by Verdex 5y ago
I hope I can be forgiven for missing the point when this is the first time (as far as I can tell ... perhaps you said something in a different thread) you've mentioned cost. At first it was "this cannot be automated". The
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by Verdex 5y ago
I don't think I understand your argument. You at first appear to say that gathering data and automating things is hard and might not be possible. Then here you're saying that checklists, evidence-based guidelines, and improved int
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by Verdex 5y ago
This is actually kind of what I'm hoping for. The saying is "when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras." But that's boring and it turns the doctor into a bored and checked out professional who just constantly see
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by Verdex 5y ago
Okay ... how do doctors (individually or as a whole) get better at doctoring? Either we're saying they look over the data OR we're saying that they somehow just mystically know better as time goes on. Who cares if it turns out
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by Verdex 5y ago
I don't understand your argument. You're saying that humans are unacceptably bad. Then why is it a problem to replace them with also unacceptably bad AI. Like, either way you're not getting the treatment you need. At least
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by Verdex 5y ago
I have a friend and his wife had some weird stomach problems that the local doctors couldn't figure out. It sounds like the doctors basically ignored that a problem existed because they couldn't think of anything. Eventually they
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by Verdex 5y ago
Interesting idea. Here's my anecdote [or in other words, we should be dubious that there is any meaning here at all beyond coincidence]. Most of the work that I've done was for medical technology where the customer tends to deplo
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by Verdex 5y ago
If it turned out that teachers (and everyone else) also have an ~80% burnout rate, then that only shows a more fundamental problem. Not that anyone is being spoiled. And it's okay if that starts by finding out that developers have a ~
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by Verdex 5y ago
This is the advice of "Never say no, say yes with conditions." Of course if the whole thing gives you a bad taste in your mouth and you basically never want to work for Amazon, I'm going to echo LadyCailin's advice. It
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by Verdex 5y ago
"Okay, so you pass the function a lambda. And the input parameter to that lambda is another function that itself consumes a list of lambdas. And this is so that you don't have to init and fill in a few dictionaries OR because yo
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by Verdex 5y ago
I think Rich Hickey's simplicity talks are an important contribution to our industry. I think they are an eloquent message that can help get developers on a similar page. But ultimately, I feel, it's just poetics. If I asked the
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by Verdex 5y ago
I have to say that I'm liking the technical discussion here. Although I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the meta topic about the word usage of the title. Like did I miss something and is "murder" actually legit jargo
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by Verdex 5y ago
This is actually something that I'm hoping that eventually homomorphic encryption would enable. Right now it's kind of a bad idea to buy leased out computation time from arbitrary sources. "Hey, I have all these AWS credits
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by Verdex 5y ago
IIRC Practical Common Lisp does a pretty good job with it. https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Common-Lisp-Peter-Seibel/dp...
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by Verdex 5y ago
You understood my statement. Also, seriously? This is just a smart sounding way to say that you think I'm dumb and that whatever is in your mind is the real truth. If you're going to put words in my mouth at least be charitable e
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by Verdex 5y ago
It's even worse than that. I went to a evolution vs creationism debate once when I was in college (it was put on for the students there). Everyone in that auditorium was an atheist and everyone was a young earth creationist. The dif
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by Verdex 5y ago
Dude. It's the internet. There's going to be a lot of people saying things that you don't like. What I'm trying to say is that your wish that people saying things you dont like would just "shut up" is probab
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by Verdex 5y ago
For some reason, this comment immediately made me think of an alternate history where ransomware groups hack infrastructure and then improve and monitor their security for them. "Look guys, yeah, it's really easy to hack the power
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by Verdex 5y ago
The score is probably my favorite part of that movie. Weird reverse notes during the temporal pincher scenes is a genius way to mix the theme and ideas in the movie with the score.
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Different things are made different so that people looking for different things can have the thing they want. Yeah, 5000 years ago we only had berries, animals we could catch, and plants we could grow. Today, in the future, we can have so
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by Verdex 5y ago
I find his fiction pretty good. He also wrote Ra and Fine Structure (both available on his qntm.org website and as physical books on amazon). As with most fiction written online, it could probably use an editor. But it's as good as a
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, so an analogy would be to put human feces into food and then see if the waiter is going to actually give it to the dinning customer. And then if they do, just put a checkmark on a piece of paper and then leave without warning someone
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by Verdex 6y ago
> there should have been a damn good reason to pull it even temporarily And the damn good reason was that there's a bunch of people out there who don't want to take the vaccine for political reasons. And there's a smaller
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by Verdex 6y ago
> This is wartime. Wrong. In a war you win by outsmarting other people. Maybe that's through democracy, maybe it's by moving faster, maybe it's by having better technology, maybe it's by having more technology. This
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In addition, I'm very concerned that if we call people afraid of the covid vaccines anti-vaxxers that they will decide to join forces with real anti-vaxxers. I know several people who are not interested in covid vaccines for what as fa
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by Verdex 6y ago
> I've already seen a bunch of anit-vaxers referring to this in new articles this morning. So, take pause and examine the situation. Are these people actually anti-vaxxers, ie they oppose all vaccination due to weird paranoia about

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