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by adriand 3y ago
We're from different places, clearly - where I live (in a mid-sized Canadian city), there are no HOAs. In fact, I'm not sure they're a thing in Canada more generally. Here, property standards are part of municipal bylaws. Man
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by adriand 3y ago
I think having property standards is an important part of ensuring that people keep up their properties and by extension, maintain (and ideally beautify) their neighbourhoods. I can see how someone who puts the time and effort into creating
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by adriand 3y ago
We do take the devices at bedtime, in fact, I have a reminder on my phone that goes off at 9:30 pm every night (which I started after discovering the problem). But it’s not just about the late night usage, which is mostly curtailed but not
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by adriand 3y ago
This relates to something that has been bugging me lately, which is as a parent I have zero parental control over the devices that our school board issues to my children. My kids have iPhones and iPads, which are part of my Apple family acc
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by adriand 4y ago
I think "healthy carbs" might be a bit too vague. There are simple and complex carbohydrates, and the latter can be further broken down between starchy carbohydrates like grains and fibrous carbohydrates like vegetables. There is
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by adriand 4y ago
But it’s true, it is a form of social collaboration. It’s based on a vast training dataset consisting entirely of things humans have written. It’s tuned via reinforcement learning via hiring thousands of people, many of whom are paid povert
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by adriand 4y ago
I’m Canadian and I think this is insane. Free trade between the provinces seems like a no-brainer. I also think we should be taking a harder look at our protectionism against American companies. I understand the value of having healthy dome
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by adriand 4y ago
I think the biggest societal impact may be not “utility” at all but rather on the social side of things. The chatbots are nerfed right now because the big companies don’t want them “acting weird” and doing things like the infamous jealous g
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by adriand 4y ago
> This is ignoring the instinct built over generations that humans don't want to "experience a new world", they want to explore it with other humans. I think humans want to explore it with intelligent beings, not necessari
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by adriand 4y ago
It’s abundantly clear that we are going to expect near-perfect reliability from autonomous vehicles. This isn’t necessarily illogical; they operate in a different context than humans do. We expect humans to make mistakes and we have various
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by adriand 4y ago
This is bang-on. You absolutely have to review everything it produces. Unfortunately I think a lot of junior and intermediate developers are going to let Copilot-generated errors into their codebases. I was dealing with timezone stuff yeste
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by adriand 4y ago
This is just based on my own experience, but I wonder if the preference for working from home is really more a preference to not have to be in a company office. I worked from home for months and then ended up getting my own office space, a
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by adriand 4y ago
Oh god, I will never forget that ride. I was at a carnival when I was around 13 or 14 and rode that ride, and midway through it had a malfunction. They stopped it to address the issue, and then decided to give us an extra long ride to compe
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by adriand 4y ago
I was also surprised not to see the Niagara River on the list, which is the largest river near me and, when seen up close, clearly transports a staggering amount of water. Reviewing the Wikipedia article about the Niagara [1], it appears th
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by adriand 4y ago
Awesome! This video is also amazing: https://esawebb.org/videos/potm2303b/
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by adriand 4y ago
I wonder if a key element is direct connections with fans. My 13-yo daughter is obsessed with classical music and her favourite performers seem to have strong YouTube presences. Outside the classical world, if you look at a site like Bandca
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Solar Image Gallery – Analemma(perseus.gr)
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by adriand 4y ago
The goalposts absolutely have moved: consider the Turing Test as a prime example. If machines cannot pass that test now (and right now it would take a skilled interviewer with substantial domain knowledge to cause a failure), they seem like
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by adriand 4y ago
Wow, TIL. That’s kind of nuts, I just looked at latitude lines because I was sure you had to be wrong but it looks like where I live (which is actually Hamilton) is the same latitude as northern Italy. In fact, it’s almost exactly the same
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by adriand 4y ago
It’s brutal, I live near Toronto and not only is the winter sun quite weak but sunny days are quite uncommon. Almost every day is grey and overcast. Combine that with short daylight periods and winter becomes quite the gruelling challenge i
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Stedi's X12 HIPAA Guides(stedi.com)
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by adriand 4y ago
I did misunderstand you - I’m sorry. Thank you for clarifying.
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by adriand 4y ago
No, it is not continuously debated. Racist white supremacists peddle conspiracy theories about it (and slavery and the civil war for that matter too) but reasonable, rational people (ie people who aren’t Nazis!) are not debating the existen
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by adriand 4y ago
Questions like what, and addressed to whom? I think it’s important to recognize that no one is responsible for educating you. You are responsible for educating yourself. If you have chosen to be ignorant about the facts of the holocaust, an
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by adriand 4y ago
I think the person you are responding to used the wrong word when they wrote “irrelevant”, although I think their comment comes from the right place. Even a difference of just a single person is “relevant”. But when we try to comprehend the
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by adriand 4y ago
I too went from management back to coding (freelance) since the start of the pandemic and I also love it. Today I happened to notice that Google Calendar was reporting an anomalous week in terms of meetings: I had 2.5 hours of meetings in m
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by adriand 4y ago
But do you want managers who are people who want to be managers? It seems to me that many people who want to be managers are motivated by wanting to boss people around, i.e. they want power, not necessarily money. And some don’t want to do
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by adriand 4y ago
Totally agree. These articles are so hyperbolic and ridiculous. One of the quotes from a worker near the beginning of it is: > “This just drives home that work is not your life, and employers—especially big, faceless ones like Google—see
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by adriand 4y ago
Artists shouldn’t have to compete against themselves . If these AI companies didn’t use the work of artists, the output would suck! I’m sure many artists would be happy to compete against the artistic talents of software developers. But th
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by adriand 4y ago
This is the best music that incorporates AI that I have heard by a long shot - process is here: https://ooo.ghostbows.ooo/about/ Music is on all the usual streaming platforms, the album is called Shadow Planet, band is

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