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by caconym_ 6y ago
Society itself is trying to make us more machine-like, and it bends the practice of writing to that end. If you want to write well, you have to read a lot of good writing, preferably starting at a young age. But if all you're trying to
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I agree with your moral analysis here, and that the prohibited thing should be the distribution of protected IP, not simply retaining a copy of something you already had rights to view (which I think there is substantial precedent for). Thi
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Discord is privacy-invasive and heavily censored. It is not a viable option for secure communication, but instead tends to be a great place for fluff. Apart from the bit about “secure communication”, which is obvious—Discord is proprie
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by caconym_ 6y ago
In context, statement 1 regards proactively eliminating all bugs and risks. Statement 2 regards understanding the root cause of this particular incident and reactively fixing it so it won’t happen again. Acknowledging statement 1 doesn’t me
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Leviathan Wakes would not be nearly as good if the exact nature of what comes later was broadcast early on, though the prologue does make it quite clear that the central mystery is going to lead somewhere outside of established science fa
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder. I think the context here is the question of what "kinds" of writing GPT-3 and similar technologies can and can't do as well as humans, so when I talk about "usefulness"
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I don't know much about GPT-3, but if you drastically reduce the size of the corpus won't you also drastically reduce the output domain to the point that it's no longer useful? Or is there some way to get it to take whatever
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by caconym_ 6y ago
If the primary goals of your product's design are engagement and ad revenue, of course you're going to chafe at the fact that users don't want to sit comatose in front of screens all day making you money in whichever way you&
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Does SpaceX really have the common man lining up to be fleeced for vaporware Mars tickets? Not really, as far as I can tell. They may have taken money from some very rich people who presumably understand the speculative nature of what they&
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by caconym_ 6y ago
You aren't "holding people accountable to the goals they set" in any useful way—and in return for the "Silicon Valley bubble" comment, which I suppose is meant as a slur against me for saying what I've said her
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by caconym_ 6y ago
SpaceX is an essentially unprecedented success by any reasonable definition of success in the modern space launch services market. If you want to minimize their obvious accomplishments based on Musk's own incredibly ambitious long-term
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Actually, I don't think I missed anything. I'm aware that their argument is very rooted in the status quo, and I agree that current infrastructure is a big roadblock to adoption of new technologies (in fact, you may have missed t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
So you think that no matter how much better technology gets, we're stuck with tube-with-wings _forever_ because that design was the first to be made practical? Nobody's saying we have to make an "overnight" switch, but y
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by caconym_ 6y ago
If you believe this is true in practice, I've got a bridge to sell you.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
The rest of us have a right to set ourselves apart from people who spread hate and ignorance, and if "the right" wants to identify itself with such views then that's a problem it created for itself. Equating racist, misogynis
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Election forecasting is mostly about trying to quantify the current state of play based on imperfect signals. There is theoretically a "right answer" well before the final tally, but without being able to look inside people's
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Sounds like both of us found the same excuse to write some Rust at work. ;)
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Well, this actually seems to be pretty common at smaller companies (that they don't prioritize portability and out-of-the-box usability for internal tools and services), and this wasn't even nominally a software company. I did a l
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Oh yeah? What knowledge have you walked away from my context-free anecdote newly in possession of?
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Something like four years ago I wrote a command-line tool in Rust to interact with a service I wrote (not in Rust). Then I left that company for a new job. At a recent happy hour, I learned that despite nobody there having much of a clue ab
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I absolutely love the vision of software technology in the Fire / Deepness books. The "zones of thought" concept dovetails nicely and lets him expand on those ideas, too. Highly recommended reading (for that and a bunch mor
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by caconym_ 6y ago
If you need to go somewhere with a realistic choice between e.g. driving and flying (which seems quite rare), risk per distance is fine for choosing one or the other via risk per trip. But the implication of it being a realistic choice is t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Most people do, in fact, have specific travel time expectations for specific kinds of trips. Going away for a long weekend? Probably you're thinking 1-5 hours, whether you're driving or flying. A week or two? Maybe 5-10 hours. Goi
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I think it makes a lot more sense to look at risk per time, because it's basically the same thing as risk per trip, and that's what I really care about. If you tell me I can fly to Mars in a few days on a brachistochrone torchship
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by caconym_ 6y ago
All you need to bring a traditional capsule design down to ~sea level terminal velocity safely is a blunt body with offset CG and the kind of circular ablative heat shield that's been shown over decades to be simple, safe and reliable.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
You're not wrong, but I think it's cool how much safer the generic capsule design is than something like the Shuttle. Really the Shuttle got a whole lot wrong—heat-intolerant aluminum structure and critical, sensitive machinery di
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Where do you believe the problem lies?
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I'm not making a value judgment or suggesting that you don't know how to run your website and achieve the results you want, in general, nor am I saying titles aren't impactful (including in the way you're worried about).
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by caconym_ 6y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's not editorializing. It's framing a discussion of a certain part of a web page that is not an article by using a title that is a factual statement about said web page. The obvious "w
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Seems like it's less editorializing and more using the title to draw attention to a fact (not an opinion, it's either true or it isn't) about an existing web page that might not have been obvious to somebody clicking on a lin

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