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by bena 2y ago
Yes, intelligence is more a multiplier of effects, rather than something useful in and of itself. You still need knowledge, skill, training, etc. Intelligence will allow you to acquire all of that more quickly and make better use of it, but
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by bena 2y ago
It's kind of both ways. Your impulse is controlled by your amygdala. Fight or flight, where "fight" in this instance represents running into a building to save others. However, being able to reflect on your first impulse mean
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by bena 2y ago
Seriously. “I would walk up to people and say ‘give me your money’ and they would clutch it, and I would say that’s what an alcoholic would do if you tried to take away their bottle.” Does that sound stupid? Because it is. Their phone has t
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by bena 2y ago
Because it's easy to do and gives people a sense of creative expression. It gives them an easy "sense of pride and accomplishment".
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by bena 2y ago
I started out in medical software and have worked with a lot of doctors. Humility is not a trait they cultivate in any great quantity. And I've worked with various industries over the course of my career. Doctors, especially surgeons,
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by bena 2y ago
Medical software often sits at a sad intersection. The incentives aren't really there. It's not glamorous, the pay is going to be at best equal to other fields, and you have to deal with medical doctors, who assume that a terminal
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by bena 2y ago
We joke that I'm the emotional support human for one of our cats due to the way he favors and hangs around me.
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by bena 2y ago
Brain is just his Welles impression. They even do a parody of the pea commercial on Pinky and the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs&t=6s
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by bena 2y ago
It’s a 1.5%-ish drop vs a .5%-ish gain. Not nothing. But I do agree that the graph is scaled to make the issue look more pronounced. And it remains to be seen if the trend continues Edit: someone pointed out something I missed. The y-axis i
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by bena 2y ago
Accessibility is a whole other can of worms. I suspect blind people have issues with a lot of software. And I'm not the one appealing to authority. That's the people saying the author is a CS professor so he's obviously right
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by bena 2y ago
I do agree that Blackboard is likely horrible. That's not in debate here. And their UX likely does suck. But knowing something sucks is not the same as knowing why that thing sucks. And "number of clicks to perform action" is
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by bena 2y ago
Intentionally vague so people can be fired at whim. Because the real test is "loyal, loyal, and really loyal". And if any of these people sneeze in Musk's direction, they'll be fired along with the executive for not &quo
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by bena 2y ago
He might know it is important, but if you look at his CV, it's mostly non-user facing issues. And that's not to diminish what he's done. I don't expect everyone to be an expert in all fields. I wouldn't get someone
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by bena 2y ago
Blackboard could be awful, but not for the reason she states. That’s the issue here. Her giving UX advice would be like software developers making education software without input from educators.
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by bena 2y ago
Oh, you’re counting clicks. That tells me all I need to know about the author’s UX knowledge. Some things do need friction. Just like with baby clothes. Something too easy to remove will leave you with a perpetually naked baby. And that’s
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by bena 2y ago
I think people get confused with "the best" rather than "good enough". You'll never find "the best", you will find a number of people who will suffice. Interviewing should be more about avoiding bad candid
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by bena 2y ago
Yeah, but once you get to arbitrary code execution, everything is on the table. It's about as interesting as just creating it from scratch. The "something" stands on its own merits, separate from how it was created.
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by bena 2y ago
Getting to the point of arbitrary code execution is always more interesting than what you do with it after the fact. To be able and take apart the game, find out when and where it does all this, then where you can manipulate things to input
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by bena 2y ago
I hope this is genuine. It’s the kind of low stakes anthropology that I like. Nothing major, nothing to fight over, just “how fucked up were these guys’ stories”
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by bena 2y ago
That's the trick though, they don't own it. They often take a company private and make the company "own itself". Then make it take out exorbitant loans to pay them their consultation fees. Then they fuck around as consul
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by bena 2y ago
You are describing an ideal, not what happens. What really happens is that important information and resources get hoarded because that lets you control things. The only people "held responsible" are those you can convince others
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by bena 2y ago
Yeah, that doesn't exist. Any gathering of people are going to have political institutions whether they are codified or not. Similarly, there's going to be someone or some group of people who the others look to for direction. And
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by bena 2y ago
Because it's a stupid prompt. Especially for humans. Because you're really asking what they think the first response would be. That's left. If I knew a machine would pick left 80% of the time, I would bet left 100% of the tim
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by bena 2y ago
I'd say it just ignores any problems. However, haven't we roughly recreated the process in a lab in the last couple of decades? And we may never have the answer because we simply can't know because no one was there because
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by bena 2y ago
Exactly, panspermia isn't an answer, it's kicking the can down the road. The only thing panspermia can tell us is that it's ok if we can't find evidence for the genesis of life on Earth.
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by bena 2y ago
I guess that's what rainbow LEDs, sweet logos, and edgy branding will get you. And with streaming becoming popular, "functional" didn't really cut it anymore. Having a black MX Master/MX Keys combo doesn't real
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by bena 2y ago
He might have a google alert for sqlite.org
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by bena 3y ago
We have two cats and they exhibit this behavior even with circles made with limbs. Like if I'm sitting at a table with my arms in front of me, one cat in particular will see it as an invitation to plop himself in the circle. Sometimes
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by bena 3y ago
It's C: because A: and B: were already taken by your main drives, your floppy disks.
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by bena 3y ago
The business itself is unsustainable. There isn't any good way to provide delivery of most items to most people at a reasonable cost. Also, the consumer isn't being given the choice, they are provided the cost from the app. The de

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