cgrealy

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by cgrealy 4y ago
Eh, I’m at the point in my life where a more relevant title would be “your life matters - if some work happens to get done, that’s a bonus”
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Even if you’re available weekdays, the kids are not (they’re in school)
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by cgrealy 4y ago
If you are on-call, you are not on vacation.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> The American system of relying on centuries of tenuous interpretation of a fairly short document just isn't as much of an improvement as you think. False dichotomy. Getting rid of the monarchy does not mean you have to follow the
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Yep, Australia, NZ, Jamaica, PNG and others.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Probably not, but it will almost certainly spark renewed conversation in countries like Australia and NZ about becoming republics (but still Commonwealth members).
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Technically, I believe she can dissolve parliament in NZ and Australia.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
It's probably worthless now. Give it to me, I'll dispose of it responsibly :D
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Two cars are driving from A to B. Ideally they want to get there as quickly and efficiently as possible, without driving dangerous or stressing the cars. Car 1 takes 15 hours to drive from A to B. Car 2 takes 10 hours. Why is that? Well, ca
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Just to play devils advocate, I 100% do not want this. I understand your reasons for making this and I fully support them, but the day Amazon make the Kindle into something other a way to read books is the day I drop the kindle for another
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I am the same, but there are people who don't have that choice. Your job may literally involve entering data at a remote site with sketchy-to-no internet (mines, farms, geological surveys, etc).
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I have previously made an effort to acquire a taste for them, partially because I'm aware how important they will be in the future (at least, if all the sci-fi I've read is to be believed!). But nope, it's not the preparation
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Morally, I am 100% behind this. If we can reduce the carbon footprint of food, we should. However, everyone's morals have a limit, and mine is eating mushrooms. Nothing against people who like them, I just can't stand them.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
If I had a dollar for every time I've done that I'd have... checks screenshots folder $78 dollars!
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Exactly. And you also need to understand your timing requirements. If all you care about is recording a date on an invoice, you really don’t need to worry about leap seconds or smearing or whatever.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
App and website are really interchangeable here. Both are just clients. You can absolutely implement offline in a web application (Google drive does this). Obviously, you need to be online to get the app in the first place, but once it’s ca
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Just because you’re off the grid doesn’t mean you’re not working. You might be at a remote site, or on a plane with no Wi-Fi. But, yeah, if those are common use cases for your app, you should absolutely be designing for offline.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Does anyone actually believe this? Even the most inexperienced developers I’ve worked with are well aware that time, and timezones in particular, are really difficult. I’ve yet to meet anyone that has suggested using anything other than a b
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Again, it really depends on the application. Maintaining multiple sources of truth is hard, especially if multiple people are working on the same data.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
That’s doable, but it’s not without its own issues. Plus, you frequently don’t want to architect your client code the same as your server code (you’re not going to run a bunch of micro services on the client side for example)
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Offline mode adds significant complexity to the service, since you are essentially replicating your entire server side stack (logic, storage, etc) on the client. Offline mode adds a cost to every new feature, even if it's just deciding
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> What makes humans special though? We’re the most intelligent thing we’ve discovered in the universe. Also, I am human, so I have a vested interest in bad stuff not happening to humans. > AI will be born on Earth so we will share t
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Imagine a bunch of chimps capture a human. They put them in a cage surrounded by tigers and spikes and remove all weapons from the human. The human uses their phone to call for rescue. That is us trying to contain an AGI. We probably cannot
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I don’t buy that. The gap between “no AGI” and “AGI but it’s a child” is orders of magnitude greater than the gap between “5 year old” and “smartest human”.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I don’t understand why you would want AGI. Even ignoring Terminator-esque worst case scenarios, AGI means humans are no longer the smartest entities on the planet. The idea that we can control something like that is laughable.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I tend to think Carmack is right in that the “seed” code that generates an AGI will be relatively small, but I think the “operating” code will be enormous.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
There is a story in “Masters of Doom” about Carmack getting rid of his cat because “she was having a net negative effect on my life”. That’s cold.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I’m not sure I get your argument. I’m saying that it’s impossible to distinguish between machine written music and human written music. You could maybe make the argument for distinguishing between a human and a machine playing a piece of
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I highly doubt that’s even theoretically possible, given the vast range of variety and quality of music created by humans.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
.Net Core* is supported > cloud.gov supports applications written in Go, Java, Node.js, .NET Core... .Net framework is tied to Windows, and is now considered legacy tech. Both AWS and Azure support Windows containers if you really need t

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