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by apothegm 10mo ago
Of children. And deepfake revenge porn.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
With a read only account, with access only to certain safe tables and views, for querying.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Many European cultures do. They all spring from very similar roots. IIRC, in China, white = bad because it’s the color of death. Red (living blood) is good.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by apothegm 10mo ago
This particular set long predates the last couple bubbles. Think original dot-com boom.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
In mice.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Not yet personally, but I’ve seen people who write much like I do be accused of it. And been told I write like AI/AI writes like me. (I don’t use emoji, but apparently my grammar in professional writing is impeccable, and LLMs have abs
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by apothegm 10mo ago
When you grew up with 640x480 monitors, a modern 13” laptop has pretty decent space. I pin one app per virtual desktop, and use cmd-tab and cmd-~ heavily. I also don’t make heavy use of IDE panels. I’m accustomed to having a separate editor
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Happy? No. Unhappy? On occasion when I’m confronted with dystopia or bigotry. Less bored on the toilet or in the waiting room? Absolutely. Mostly I skip the front page and trawl for interesting articles to read under New. And sometimes dip
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Huh? The revised edition doesn’t use ONLY female examples. It uses both.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
The other thing I had to realize before I could get an offer in this market is that there are so many overqualified candidates it’s almost impossible to get a stretch role and very difficult to get one at the same level you were last workin
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by apothegm 10mo ago
The massive rounds of layoffs in the US over the past 3 years mean there are a ridiculous number of software engineers looking for jobs. AI has compounded this by automating applications such that a single opening might get multiple thousan
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by apothegm 10mo ago
It’s a real name (French in origin, but not uncommon in English). It’s pronounced “clawed”.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
For side projects, a TODO.md with Now, Next, Later, Maybe headings is usually perfect. I find that insufficient when there are non-technical tasks involved in a project, tho, and have yet to find a satisfactory solution. For tiny teams, Git
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by apothegm 10mo ago
I’ve gotten good results from BlockBear, fwiw.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
The metaphor would hold up a bit better if Google’s updates had actually improved surfacing of useful content for and users.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Pretty sure they’re talking about graduate degrees and academia as an occupation, not getting a bachelor’s in order to join the white collar workforce.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Ban fast food? No. Regulate it and find a way to re-internalize some of the externalities? Perhaps. The invisible hand is neither benevolent nor infallible.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Failed attempts pollute the context and bias output in undesirable ways, making it more likely for the LLM to get stuck in a loop of uncorrectable bad responses.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Or maybe they’ve been there all along and you just notice them more now because you’re looking for them.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
A hundred bucks says the correlation goes away if you control for factors that are likely a shared root cause for dementia and avoiding high fat dairy. Such as trying to control pre-existing obesity or high cholesterol.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
So much easier to pick up than Perl. Even for an experienced programmer, let alone a new learner. And the rich standard library.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
It’s frustrating that it’s dead. Yeah, AI is just as good at surfacing answers to garden variety “read the docs” questions. But SO was good for finding answers about real under the hood stuff and corner cases that AI doesn’t know exists and
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Most US states do, too. But people will drive without a license because it’s the only way to get to anywhere in most of the country. And I suspect we’re light on enforcement for the same reason.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
This would make a great commoditize-your-complement play for those companies that deliver prepped meal ingredients.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
UGH. The externalities of helicopter noise are already miserable — take it from someone who lives under a designated corridor. Noise pollution is a real thing with real mental and physical health implications. More of that, disrupting hundr
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by apothegm 10mo ago
Clickbait headline, but the article is a fantastic example of one of machine learning’s most common failure modes. This extends to generative models and is another reason to be wary of trusting their output.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
It’s not even about content farms and misinformation. It’s about which of the results even are talking about the same topic at all. You should have seen what came up when I searched info about doses for a medication that comes in multiple f
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by apothegm 10mo ago
That was REALLY weird to read. In reader mode the comparator in the first conditional was >=. But without reader mode it was just >.
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by apothegm 10mo ago
You must use extensions for very different things than I do.

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