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by bad_username 3mo ago
> I'm either going to ask the AI how to do it First you have to know that "it" exists and is possible. A cookbook like this introduces readers to concepts and features they didn't know were there in the first place.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Ah yes, CNN, the trusted and unbiased source on capitalism, and especially republicans.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Suicidal empathy...
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by bad_username 3mo ago
"An index is not a horse" is not a phrase I'd expected to read today.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> Microservices solve a real problem too, and it is mostly organisational rather than technical. When you have enough engineers that they are stepping on each other in one codebase, and enough teams that release schedules collide, splitt
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> About four-in-ten (39%) say a major reason they didn’t have children is that it just never happened. This sounds.... circular? The reason they didn't have children is they just didn't? This study is strange.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> Most new product launches are an exercise in figuring out what the product requirements should be through trial and error Sure, but these have to be well-defined trials. In other words, yes, you will test several hypotheses, but your
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Cutoff at 17 kHz is certainly a viable trade-off in lossy audio compression, but calling it an _upgrade_ is pretty controversial, if not dishonest.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> Yes the code (sorta) writes itself, but the human reviewing, directing, and course-correcting feels worse, not better. I noticed the opposite. When reviewing and directing a colleague or subordinate, I spend probably 30% of my brain cy
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Tech companies possess immense resources and huge potential to shape public discourse. Activists (that often includes journalists today) wish to exert power over tech companies for that reason. In the era of social media, weaponized complai
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> In the culture of automation, we wiggle and iterate among four overlapping phases: (1) document the steps; (2) create automation equivalents; (3) create automation; and (4) create self-service and autonomous systems. Notably missing is
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Create a virtual folder (saved search) that includes all messages from sent and inbox. Enable threading, and you will have conversations.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Between the Apple Watch kind of watches on one side, and Pebble kind of watches on another side, there's the whole Garmin ecosystem, a mention of which is notably absent from the article. They are a nice technological middle ground (th
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by bad_username 3mo ago
The debate between these who don't squash and these who do is the debate between these who use the history for bugfixing and those who don't. And I think not using it is throwing away a super valuable tool that can reduce the fix
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by bad_username 3mo ago
I was uncomfortable with git until I read (the first 3 chapters of) the pro git book ( free here : https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 ). It provides a great mental model of how git works under the hood. The UI of git
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by bad_username 3mo ago
I think Anubis is meant to stop dumb automated hyperscale scraping bots, not smart singular human-driven AI agents.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> that support the agenda of the current ruling party and failing to include any counterarguments This is what's going on, with varying intensity, with social media algorithms.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Even with your disposition in mind, of all the ways to die prematurely, cancer seems one of the more drawn out and the least pleasant ways...
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by bad_username 3mo ago
One person states an opinion on the subject of the post. Another digs up comment history and offers pure ad hominems. Which person is the troll?
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by bad_username 3mo ago
It also changes the economics of buy vs build.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
What the hell. I had my last rental just beep at me, and was astonished. But this... sounds literally unsafe.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Moreover, they capture all the smalltalk perfectly, but tend to plausibly mishear the parts that matter most - terminology, abbreviations, names of people. There's no mystery why this happens, of course, but the only transcript I trust
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by bad_username 3mo ago
The surrender of Wikipedia to indoctrinated gatekeepers is one of the saddest chapters of the Internet history. I hope one day Wkikpedia gets back its own soul.
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by bad_username 3mo ago
The speed of air exchange through openings in your room (windows, gaps etc) is proportional to the difference of temperature between your room and outside. The more different the temperatures are, the more intensive convection is, and conve
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by bad_username 3mo ago
Just some recent case studies. 1) A stakeholder voiced a wish 1 year ago that I forgot about because it was far fetched and not my area. It went to die in a transcript. Today the AI found and resurfaced it in a context where it was actionab
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> what are you gonna do with all those notes? Dump them in Obsidian with an LLM agent bolted on. This note may never be consciously re-read, but it will become silent part of the context for conversations with the agent in the future. It
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> maintaining an LLM wiki has been a lot more effort than I thought Same here. Wikis start out good, but either devolve in a journal-y mess after a while and many updates, or require constant expensive rewrites. (I didn't use the so
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by bad_username 3mo ago
> They were never meant to prevent people from getting COVID. "COVID-19 vaccination will help keep you from getting COVID-19" - https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/97780/ You see, this kind of lying
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by bad_username 4mo ago
> Ever wondered what NPR's code of journalistic ethics involves for the newsroom? I have been thinking a lot through the years about the choice between joirnalistic ethics and journalistic activism in the ranks of organizations like
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by bad_username 4mo ago
It is strange which is why it is great. So refreshing to not see another instance of corporate videoslop.

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