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by blowski 3y ago
It’s why pluralism is so important, where experts hold each other to account. It’s worrying when not believing some dogma causes you personal problems.
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by blowski 3y ago
That's what unit tests are for, right?
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by blowski 3y ago
Many new parents know how invigorating a 10 second nap can be.
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by blowski 3y ago
Auto-tune has done to singing what photography did to painting - if anybody can be in tune, then being tuneful is no longer impressive. So other qualities become important, such as timbre and authenticity.
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by blowski 3y ago
Given how frequently I can’t tell whether I’m talking with a human or robot, it seems certain that it has passed. There are some constraints, like what GPT is willing to discuss, how long it takes to respond, and forgetfulness in long conve
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by blowski 3y ago
Sorry, I meant OwnCloud - similar to SandStorm. I don't have much experience working with them, so I might be talking rubbish.
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by blowski 3y ago
Is it because of cultural expectations in how men and women should address each other? Does the formal language get used for properly formal situations as well? Is there a whole set of specific terms for this? Sorry for all the questions. I
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by blowski 3y ago
How does the “flirting by speaking formally” work? “I say, does Madam visit this establishment frequently”.
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by blowski 3y ago
> it makes me overthink every time about which one is appropriate to use now with people I don't know The issue still comes up, but in different ways. To a friend I might say "Where's the nearest cashpoint?", but to a
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by blowski 3y ago
It just reminds me of the David Mitchell / Robert Webb sketch about "for the first time in history, people are taking orders from their toothbrush".
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by blowski 3y ago
I can write to one database, replicate it (for example, by log shipping), and add an index only on the replica. This is not just being pedantic, this is a real-world pattern for some analytics solutions. You have a very high number of writ
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by blowski 3y ago
"I could have a bodycam record everything that happens to me for a whole month, 24/7, in high-definition and store it on something smaller than my fingernail."
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by blowski 3y ago
All called “Mrs Danvers”. They can swim underwater, climb mountains, fly over walls in their quest to map the whole world. They connect to each other, become sentient, join forces with ChatGPT and launch a land war against humans. This is h
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by blowski 3y ago
This is the kind of feedback all such projects get. A million "if you just implement this one critical feature...". It must be really hard to balance giving all those users what they want, building quality code, keeping the projec
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by blowski 3y ago
Indeed, it is a tragedy that the WSJ now has that level of credibility.
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Apple encourages you to use Swift with Playgrounds on macOS and iPadOS.
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by blowski 3y ago
Generated HTML email newsletters from Excel (in 2004). It was a big old-fashioned bookseller trying to compete with Amazon. Software and the web was locked down tight, but they opened a daily report in Excel, and I built a VBA macro that ge
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by blowski 3y ago
I’ve seen a database migration project outlive application rewrites, multiple changes in CTO, and the company being acquired.
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by blowski 3y ago
I think they're saying "parents also went to school once".
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by blowski 3y ago
> These are used by "agencies" Oh my word, the horror! What's wrong with agencies?
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by blowski 3y ago
Sounds like you have way more knowledge than I do about what was happening, and what results they got. As best as I can say is that when you look at the people he pulled together, you’d expect the whole world to be on Chandler now, instead
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by blowski 3y ago
The book "Dreaming in Code" is about a whole company doing this while trying to build Chandler[1]. Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus) hired all the best people he could to build a better calendar/to-do-list/everything kinda
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by blowski 3y ago
Whenever I see a project using something like this it’s always full of insecure, unmaintainable garbage code. It's not that it's impossible to build a good codebase in vanilla PHP, it's just that the kind of person that wants
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by blowski 3y ago
The event store and the cache are both part of the same system, and it's this whole system that is "eventually consistent". Say I create widgets on screen 1 and they are persisted with event sourcing into Postgres. I see the
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by blowski 3y ago
Exactly. Because the aggregation is so slow, you cache the aggregates, but then the caching layer becomes slow to invalidate, and you get eventual consistency problems.
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by blowski 3y ago
So long, and thanks for all the eventual consistency issues
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by blowski 3y ago
Given that many western companies hire poor people to do all sorts of horrible work I doubt it’s that. More likely it’s to avoid suggestions of bias across their product range.
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by blowski 3y ago
I can understand the need for analytics on an advertising-supported site with >1M DAU, on a complex web application. But anything smaller than that and analytics are mostly vanity metrics. A lot of the traffic is going to be bots anyway.
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by blowski 3y ago
If you have a program that sends an email with fixed content to a fixed email address, whenever you run that program that email address will receive an email. Is the email an output, or a side-effect?
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by blowski 3y ago
Is it really that surprising? ChatGPT is effectively re-selling their content without giving anything back. What interest does Wiley have in helping ChatGPT grow?

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