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by bonesss 4mo ago
And Nixon followed through with countless post-WW2 policies, practices, and acted on concerns that stemmed specifically from that conflict. The Cold War and all related funding being an easy example. I’d also be very wary of recency bias wh
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by bonesss 5mo ago
If Giant A-hole at Widget Co opens his wallet because his wife was distracted on one slopes chalet while he & his mistress enjoy the hot tub on another… can we really say the work time business meetings weren’t worth a bunch of money? T
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by bonesss 5mo ago
> What's next? "Claude, rename the function doFoo() to performBar()"? As an engineer: of course not, keyboards are more efficient. Also as an engineer: of course, “ tea, Earl Grey, hot ”, or what are we even working for?
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by bonesss 5mo ago
> Riding a bike is nothing like making friends. Riding a bike is exactly like making friends. Lifestyle is lifestyle. If your aim is to be a regular and obvious “rider” it is not like the parable about skills returning quickly when tr
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by bonesss 5mo ago
How to start riding a bicycle in your 40s, if you never developed bike skills? How to snowboard, if you never developed snowboard skills? … Do it; suck. Do it more; suck less. “How to Make Friends and Influence People” is a great & clas
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by bonesss 5mo ago
A monad library in go can really on have one name… …
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Personally I’m more suspicious of “classic” artists, where the royalty and songwriting picture might be very skewed behind the scenes. The corporate owners of Spotify favouring one catalog of, say, “70s music” versus another could lead to a
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by bonesss 5mo ago
> more subtle, odd, and beautiful than science fiction prepared us for. They are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised I’m not sure I agree with that take, per se. Asimovian robots (I, Robot; The Bicentennial Man), were subtl
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by bonesss 5mo ago
> customers purchasing the API product but lacking the technical ability to implement it Oh, wow, salesdrone. Sell me harder on what a good interface you’re selling. What else, do we have occasional non-reproducible behaviour? Frequent
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Don’t worry, they will provide human review. [Spoiler: ‘human’ is the name of their LLM agent]
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by bonesss 5mo ago
> WTF is Z? Take a person, add a job, you get an Employee or EmployedPerson. Person.add(job). I agree overloading can create footguns, but domain concepts should make a lot of sense in context when basic arithmetic operations are perform
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by bonesss 5mo ago
The US is by leaps and bounds the world’s largest economy. “Charity” is not foreign aide. Foreign aide keeps the refugees from the one chunk of wherever from overwhelming the government of their neighbour which has a knock-on effect on the
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Thanks to information campaigns people who live near nuclear facilities tend to have an above average, positive, view of the safety and threat. A large part of my extended family lives near a large facility. Wind turbines launching ice at
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I’m not sure what’s more silly-fun: the idea of angry separatists sloooowly learning how their actual country is put together, or a bunch of angry separatists trying to pitch to First Nations representatives that, no really bro, this time
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Rationally, and unlike what that dirty old lady in The Holy Grail suggests, binding votes impacting foreign relations should happen on a single 50.01% vote and never ratified or verified. More rationally, if some 25% of the country can’t ex
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by bonesss 5mo ago
The common critique of Googles actions - the organization has profits, therefore there is no problem engaging in less profitable activities — strikes me as superficial. It’s not about investing any given portion of revenues, it’s investing
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by bonesss 5mo ago
And in parallel: a non-trivial number of people in class or at work are asking questions for no reason other to establish their own social credibility as smart and or knowledgeable. Validating their ego and effort and social position can fu
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by bonesss 5mo ago
F# as well, and that tends to exist in parallel with some degree of C# written by the same devs… the indentation enables cleaner, smaller, simpler code function by function. It’s pretty ok in Python, but meaningful indentation is amazing
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Before the internet there were competing regulatory and commercial and cultural forces keeping The News the news. Decentralized uncontrolled flow can also be seen as free rein for select power players who can manipulate the system. It chang
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Really nice, and evenhanded, breakdown. I think OCaml is slept on in the LLM-hype discussion as it allows for very high level human readable abstractions and specifications, and feel all the ML inspired languages might be due for a resurgen
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I understand that Jawohl is still quite popular there, but JawohlScript adoption is sadly lagging.
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by bonesss 5mo ago
There’s an ‘interesting’ dichotomy, echoing the original sentiment: On the one hand environmental issues from oil and coal are creating an existential pressure that requires mass investment and change as a high public priority. On the other
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Step 1: reject and leave the EU to be free of their colonial rulers in Brussels Step 2: harmonize all laws and regulations with EU anyways without voting influence because Single Market access is lucrative and vital Step 3: start harmonizin
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by bonesss 5mo ago
LLMs vs psychedelics are an interesting comparison: psychedelics lower the threshold for the epiphany sensation, arguably LLMs do the same through agreement (‘sycophancy’). With psychedelics you see the upsides in engineers who come to work
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by bonesss 5mo ago
This seems to be the common take, Zuckerberg pissing away money because he wants to and can, and I can’t reconcile it with Metas vulnerable position. Remember ‘adpocalypse’? Metas cash cows all rely on third party devices and hardware they
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by bonesss 5mo ago
As a business transaction: Twitters acquisition is among the worst deals in human history. As means to buy an election an Presidency: highly efficient use of capital with an undeniable short and long-term ROI.
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Anthropology also shows widespread cannibalism. I agree that many traditional cultures engage in egalitarianism, but genocide and mass-rapes, wars and slavery campaigns, are baked into the anthropological history. Economic activity, express
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by bonesss 5mo ago
There is no obligation to maintain, no obligation to merge. Copyright is just that, copy right, it’s not an entitlement. Free as in beer and free as in speech means those ‘contributors’ are also free as in Linus to go fork themselves. Don
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Combusted cannabis doesn’t have the cancer outcomes associated with combusting with nicotine. Same for second hand smoke. Cannabis is not laced with perfumes and additives as a rule, as commercial cigarettes are. Cannabis has properties tha
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I have a grander vision for an ideal Apple “AI”: anti-AI. I’m picturing a combination of on-board facilities and online services from the Apple cloud that Apple product holders could use to flag and filter LLM slop. As a value added prospec

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