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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
plenty of words and phrases originate from fiction quixotic, scrooge, shangri-la, Uncle Tom, gargantuan, kafkaesque, blurb, milquetoast and words like cyberspace were first used in fiction once real people use them, they stop being fictiona
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
This is getting downvoted, but it's actually true. DOGE repeatedly used naive keyword searches to kill funding for projects that often had nothing to do with DEI. > Among them was a $349,000 grant to replace an aging HVAC system at
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
Altman, Amodei, Musk and other tech industry leaders (not to mention technologists like Hinton) are constantly making public statements that predict everything from massive job loss, to restructuring of society to the possibility of an end
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
And I'm sure the 50 year-old guy with the nice job at the stables just loved hearing Henry Ford talk about how nobody was going to own horses anymore. This is an article about consumer sentiment. Consumers care much more about their ow
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
I had someone submit a PR that was 3000 lines of shell scripts. Totally useless crap. I tried repeatedly asking him why he made particular choices and it was so painfully obvious that he had absolutely no idea and was just inventing bullshi
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
A better way to put it is that these things do have value to the customer, the customer just doesn't have a way to understand how the work you're doing provides value because it's the part of the product you don't see. I
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
I worked for a lean startup that built a very expensive hardware product. The company kept the team as small as possible and took a ship fast and iterate approach. They shipped hardware that had numerous design and manufacturing defects and
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
That's true now. But in the world of this article, it's also the senior engineers that get nailed. In the world of this article, all code is like what machine code or bytecode is now - it's designed to be used by the machine,
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
This is the case now - I can explain to the AI that I want to re-factor a component to support different implementations using a strategy pattern, and I can get a similar outcome to what I would have written, just implemented a bit faster.
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
I wonder why we as engineers aren't protesting AI in the same way that artists and people in film and television are. This post should instill the same terror that visual artists feel. If you're a more senior person in tech, this
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by apical_dendrite 4mo ago
You probably mean USAGM (US Agency for Global Media) and its affiliated programs (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, etc) rather than USAID. USAID was a humanitarian aid agency that focused on programs like famine relief, disaster respons
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by apical_dendrite 5mo ago
There are a number of significant differences. For one thing, physical libraries have to purchase the books that they own.
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by apical_dendrite 5mo ago
The content you're describing is a minuscule fraction of what's available on Anna's Archive.
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by apical_dendrite 5mo ago
This is pretty rich since none of the data belongs to them in the first place.
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by apical_dendrite 5mo ago
I was inspired by technology when I was young, but not anymore. When I was young it felt like the tech industry was about empowering human beings - Steve Jobs liked to say that a computer was like a bicycle for the mind. Today it feels like
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by apical_dendrite 5mo ago
This Inside Climate News article is a little clearer. > TCEQ began its investigation after workers for Nueces County Drainage District No. 2, which presides over the ditch area, found an unfamiliar pipe stretched across the district’s ea
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by apical_dendrite 6mo ago
I don't find it exciting at all. I just feel anxiety about my career and my place in the world. I have a set of skills that I've developed over many years. I care about what I create. I consider it a craft. When I use my skills to
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by apical_dendrite 6mo ago
Just a year ago, Elon Musk was gleefully destroying the US government agency that provides food and medicine for many of the poorest, most desperate people on earth. He was literally tweeting about missing out on great parties to put USAID
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by apical_dendrite 6mo ago
The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today: &
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by apical_dendrite 6mo ago
When I get a message from a co-worker that seems to have been written by an LLM, I am incredibly turned off and instantly think less of the person. It can be easy to spot: key words bolded, acknowledging that I'm right, longer and with
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by apical_dendrite 6mo ago
I have a lot of trouble understanding the mindset of a person who thinks that what they're building is so dangerous that it must be locked away or it will cause untold harm, but also that they must build it as fast as possible. I can u
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
You're missing some key distinctions. The issues are: 1) putting classified information into a non-classified system; 2) putting information that needs to be preserved under laws like the presidential records act into systems where it&
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
You'd be surprised how many doctors still rely on a physical fax machine.
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
We still deal with doctors who handwrite their progress notes. Fax will be around for a very, very long time.
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
Amazingly enough, this is actually not true. Many smaller doctors' offices still have a physical fax machine. I work on automation for certain processes in healthcare and a very large proportion of the faxes we receive come from physic
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
Source?
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
Unfortunately, I think the lesson from recent history seems to be that outside of highly-regulated industries, customers and businesses will accept terrible quality as long as it's cheap.
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
Where are you getting that from the link that you shared (which is one specific school)? The link you shared shows a figure of $34k and doesn't show a clear breakdown of administrative vs non-administrative costs. The closest I can see
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
My understanding is that there are a number of reasons why commercial insurance companies pay more. A big one is that Medicare has enormous pricing power because people on Medicare are a huge segment of the population and also the segment t
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
This isn't really true anymore (if it was ever true). Providers are spending a huge amount of time dealing with prior authorizations and appeals for private insurance. I work in this area and you're right that Medicare can require

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