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by bsoles 1y ago
His theories about quantum consciousness...
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by bsoles 1y ago
Reminds me of Roger Penrose more recently. When Nobel Prize winners start making YouTube rounds, you have a good indicator of someone going of the deep end. Thank God, Eric Weinstein doesn't have a Nobel Prize...
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by bsoles 1y ago
> I've seen across my work experience in different domains; teams defaulting to ML when fundamental engineering would work better. In my current field (predictive maintenance), there are (in)famous examples and papers using multi-la
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by bsoles 1y ago
I donate yearly to KiCAD, Wikipedia, and Libre Office. I will probably also donate to FreeCAD and postgres but I have not checked if they accept donations. I would like to single out KiCAD as the most impressive open source (?) project if y
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Northeastern student demanded tuition refund after professor used ChatGPT(fortune.com)
5 points by bsoles 1y ago|1 comments
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by bsoles 1y ago
Perhaps we shouldn't celebrate a faceless mega-corporation (and their executives) that has the power to block individual people's (or rather their IP addresses') access to the Internet with no recourse to remedy the situation
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by bsoles 1y ago
Does that mean that a point release of Python has breaking changes? If true, that sounds crazy.
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by bsoles 1y ago
> It's funny how lithium ion cell prices have absolutely cratered everywhere else, but the price of tool batteries just keeps going up. Seems like the tool batteries might be the new ink cartridges.
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by bsoles 1y ago
> Justified text is bad on the web. ...so right ragged text is always more readable. I disagree. I like justified text on the web as well as in print. To me, jagged right hand side of the text column is more disturbing than uneven spaces
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by bsoles 2y ago
> ... because they've never done anything other than software engineering, so they don't know any good problems to solve. That is indeed a big problem with software engineering/engineers today. No other expertise other tha
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by bsoles 2y ago
My BS detector went up to 11 as I was reading the article. Then I realized that "Education Report" was written by Anthropic itself. The article is a prime example of AI-washing. > Students primarily use AI systems for creating.
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by bsoles 2y ago
But can it center a div?
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The Case Against Collaboration (2022)(paulitaylor.com)
4 points by bsoles 2y ago|0 comments
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by bsoles 2y ago
I am a DIY electronics enthusiast, but the Internet made me scared of line power applications. If one of those batteries develops a short circuit and the house catches fire, no insurance company on Earth would pay for damages, so they say.
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by bsoles 2y ago
> What bias of moderation exists is that you probably wouldn't migrate to Saudi Arabia unless you were already mostly ok with their values... you'd probably keep your opinions to yourself, but it's unlikely your values wou
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by bsoles 2y ago
> If you starve a wealthy man for 2 weeks he will be ready to cannibalize... People are the same everywhere. > That is absolutely not true. People aren't the same even in adjacent neighborhoods sometimes. Some create great enviro
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by bsoles 2y ago
An engineer is someone who has an engineering degree from a college/university; it is that simple. Having a PE license or not has nothing to do with being an engineer. The PE only brings additional responsibilities, liabilities, and si
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by bsoles 2y ago
Having an engineering diploma is not the same as having an engineering license though. In US, 99% of engineers do not have a professional engineer license.
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by bsoles 2y ago
> I maintain an implementation of the C++ standard library for a living. I have always wondered: does the standard library have a huge test suite? For that matter, how is the language implementation itself tested against regressions, etc
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by bsoles 2y ago
Don't tell us that you built a better LinkedIn. Tell us how you will remain a better one if you ever become successful. LinkedIn was (arguably) a better place too before its unavoidable enshittification. How are you different? How will
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by bsoles 2y ago
I don't know where you are located but Massachusetts has free community college for adults 25 years old and older: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/free-community-college .
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by bsoles 2y ago
I am getting old and I agree.
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by bsoles 2y ago
The color contrast of the site, especially the background color and the font thickness (on android phone at least) is not good. Many visually impaired people would have very difficult time reading the content.
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by bsoles 2y ago
> So, I figure it's not that I hang out with rude people, the problem must be me. No, it's other people, not you. Most people are self-absorbed jerks who only love the sound of their own voice. The only reason they are not list
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by bsoles 2y ago
This is exactly the same file as the original post.
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Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf](pages.cs.wisc.edu)
211 points by bsoles 2y ago|44 comments
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Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf](ieeecs-media.computer.org)
205 points by bsoles 2y ago|163 comments
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by bsoles 2y ago
These documented cases even in the US would like to disagree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_discrimination_in_the_...
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by bsoles 2y ago
> Most software businesses don’t need a bunch of Picassos, they need house painters with spray guns and buckets of off-white. Oh, so the product owner is Picasso here and the software engineers a bunch of painters? What a load of condesc
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by bsoles 2y ago
Most software engineering has become the modern equivalent of assembly line workers, which brings about the concept of alienation from our work products, per Marx. It is all about productivity metrics and nobody actually cares about non-mea

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