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by Verdex 1y ago
I have a relative who likes to lookup Wikipedia articles that he finds interesting and then read them to rooms full of people. It's like, I can read Wikipedia myself. Somehow I don't think anyone is going to be impressed by someon
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by Verdex 1y ago
Sure. Although all of the hard things that I need to do I have a history of doing fast and to high standards. Unless we're talking about hard things that I have up til now not been able to do. But do LLMs help with that in general? T
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by Verdex 1y ago
I'm willing to accept this as a possibility but the case analysis still doesn't make much sense to me. If LLM usage is easy then I can't be left behind because it's easy. I'll pick it up in a weekend. If LLM usage
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by Verdex 1y ago
The "left behind" mantra that I've been hearing for a while now is the strange one to me. Like, I need to start smashing my face into a keyboard for 10000 hours or else I won't be able to use LLM tools effectively. If LL
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by Verdex 1y ago
My thought was that you handle meetings wasting everyone's time by releasing huntsman spiders (of clock spider meme fame) into the room periodically. If things are running over because of something important like the financial future o
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by Verdex 1y ago
Also recommending Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie. The book feels like it was written in the 2010s but the original publish date was mid 80s.
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by Verdex 1y ago
Speak for yourself. I've worked in a medical space writing software so that people can automate away the job that their bodies used to do before they broke.
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by Verdex 1y ago
The inner call to make your work matter is, I think, a good one and something that if we had more of then the world would be in a better place. That being said, I think Ecclesiastes has an important message that has at least saved me quite
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by Verdex 2y ago
I don't know. Once I know the who the legal entity is who I assert is a bad actor, I'm not sure there is really an recourse to be had. Your honor, these people are visiting my website in a way that makes me sad? I feel that we w
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by Verdex 2y ago
As a kids show bluey is adequate. However, I suspect its secret is that it's really a show for parents with young children that just happens to hold the attention of kids. My daughters like bluey (ages 3-8). But they also enjoy many
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by Verdex 2y ago
I don't know. I wouldn't trust a brain surgeon who has up til now only been messing around on LLMs. Edit: and for that matter I also would not trust a brain surgeon who had only read about brain surgery in medical texts.
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by Verdex 2y ago
I'm not sure about that. At least in my experience there are two types of creationists. The ones who have integrated a non-belief of evolution into a core component of their religious beliefs. This type isn't going to listen to
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by Verdex 2y ago
The more experience that I get the more I think that serious endeavors should include a magician. In this type of scenario where we're investigating an interesting one time event, it's important to try and decide how something may
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by Verdex 2y ago
I've got a similar outlook w.r.t. Tims Vermeer. In my mind, art has always been a technological endeavor. Language, writing, and grammar are all tools. Brushes, stroke technique, and paint composition are all tools. I heard a story
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by Verdex 2y ago
| Anarachism, like every other political philosophy, is not an antidote to stupidity. Not necessarily picking on your comment in particular, but it does remind me of several (what I considered at the time) broken software development method
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by Verdex 2y ago
Careful there. Isaiah 55:11 "so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: It shall not return unto Me void" There's a real chance that God is a functional forth programmer.
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by Verdex 2y ago
This is what happened to me, I suspect. The one time I got attacked, one of the top three popular guys in the class went berserk on my attacker. This happened in grade school and the next aborted attempt at bullying wasn't until the e
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by Verdex 2y ago
IIRC John Cleese has a talk from years ago where he makes a very interesting point that seriousness and solemnity are two very different things. In his opinion, killing humor is the same as killing creativity and killing creativity is the s
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by Verdex 2y ago
I had HGttG first read to me when I was 10. I'm 40 now. When I first saw the cheater story yesterday, I had the most awaited "ooohhh" reaction of my life. Originally, I figured that conkers were some sort of candy bar.
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by Verdex 2y ago
For a low dimensional space, I think their diagrams make sense. Like, when working with large industrial machines factors that effect safety are probably how close you are to the machine and how fast everything is going and with what urgen
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by Verdex 2y ago
I feel like the whole issue with c++ is that in order to create a language able to do everything you more or less have to include a feature set that is 'unharmonious' to say the least. To me it kind of feels like swift's pl
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by Verdex 2y ago
Great another case of simple thing everyone knows is simple but turns out to be horrifyingly complicated and heavily system dependent, but only on occasion so you can get 80% of the way through your career before encountering the gaps in yo
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by Verdex 2y ago
Law of unintended consequences. Better to be safe than have to make sure your tool can't be inadvertently used as a blackmail generator. Consider the example given. A person in a bikini at the beach is a normal image that few find ob
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by Verdex 2y ago
My hypothesis of civilization is that even the smallest child with a blade may with sufficient luck grievously wound the mightiest warrior. So there is a natural mechanism that tends people towards some level of civility when they're i
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by Verdex 2y ago
Because it doesn't necessarily result in a safer population. This is software engineering par for the course. Just because you want some software to have some feature doesn't mean that the other requirements and/or reality
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by Verdex 2y ago
> "It only takes a match to burn down a forest" This one is cool to me because (as I understand it) a healthy forest experiences multiple natural minor burn events that clear out underbrush. The resulting ash help regrowth by
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by Verdex 2y ago
I disagree. Being rude is about being offensive; this is different from someone being offended. For example, I was mugged at gunpoint once. The person very politely asked for my walled (it turns out when you have a gun pointed at someone
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by Verdex 2y ago
I'm going to assert that a key component in being rude is being offensive. And I think that being offensive needs to be separated from someone being offended. Here's what I mean. I've got some distant relatives who think I&
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by Verdex 2y ago
Clojure has immutability built into the language and the core data structures are all persistent so that you can get sufficiently efficient partial updates while still preserving a pure FP style. Furthermore, the data structures in clojure
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by Verdex 2y ago
My jokey conspiracy theory is that humanity has had full self driving cars since the late 80s. "They" just let you think that you're really driving your car, but every move is actually made by the AI. It only diverges from

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