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by chasd00 2mo ago
My reply to that is usually “the inside of an oven is a dry heat too, it’s still incompatible with life” hah.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
Looking forward to Fall rain in North Texas. Summer can’t get over soon enough.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
I haven’t thought of talking to an LLM in the car but I do like chatting. I treat it like a conversational Wikipedia.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> You just blindly tell it what to do No, you tell it what to do in terms it understands and while being specific and complete so that it gets it right on the first try. If it doesn’t then you work with it until you get what you want the
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by chasd00 2mo ago
When article says "..it's actually behind you" that leads me to believe that if you're staring at those signs then you're actually at B45. I'm not sure off the top of my head how you'd put B45 on those sig
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by chasd00 2mo ago
i made this point earlier but in a TSA line do you not just watch the people in front of you and do what they're required to do? That works pretty well for me.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
what i do in tsa lines is just watch the people in front of me and the directions given to them. It's kind of hard to ignore actually.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
maybe this doesn't work in every airport but you can hold up your phone with the camera on, point it down the hallway, and get step by step directions to get to your gate.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
This is currently the #4 story on the home page, an article about someone complaining about not being able to figure out an airport. This must be why the standard recommendation is to get to the airport 2 hours(!) before your flight.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> But if you are managing AI agents you dont' need "soft skills" do you? “Soft skills” in management just means figuring out how to get what you want from the people you have available to you. In that respect those skills
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by chasd00 2mo ago
I consulted on an internal project where the leads literally made one dev control the keyboard and another dev control the mouse! It was the most ridiculous thing I ever saw. I fought for those poor kids, the leads were eventually fired or
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> a emergency leader with an eye towards promotion i've gone this route a few times in my career, it's very stressful and involves angry/panicked people and many all nighters. Also, the glory fades fast. would not recommen
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by chasd00 2mo ago
that's pretty funny and i bet you're exactly right. It will drive high achieving kids crazy to go without a rank or grade and not knowing where they stand relative to their peers. That reminds me of this simpsons clip where the el
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> A pass/fail dynamic would likely maintain student anxiety, if not increase it. it will increase it because in pass/fail classes i have had you do not know if you're passing or failing until the final grade/result. W
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by chasd00 2mo ago
ACT/SAT is still needed for merit based scholarships though so if you fall in the income bracket between homeless and owning your own island those tests are very very important.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> College is a pretty large step up for most people but it's always been this way since forever. Why would it need to change now and not a hundred years ago? What circumstances are different?
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> Our professor assigned us to write a fast fourier transform, and when we had class next week apparently everyone claimed that it was too difficult so he changed the assignment to "find an implementation online and write about it&q
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by chasd00 2mo ago
Would be interesting to read a write up on this in detail. I have a similar use case I’ve been tasked to solve for a consulting client.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
if it helped them fix issues then it helped them fix issues. Good for them. Maybe their problems didn't rise to your bar but at least they were able to get it solved. That's very useful and empowering to people without the direct
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> So, if you've never touched PVC before, LLM sounds plausibly competent well to be fair, it's sounds about as competent as your average homedepot employee. He's wasn't doing something super complicated, cutting and g
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by chasd00 2mo ago
It's a very wide technology, there's going to be use cases where it works well. I think without the "of course it's useful" then you'd just be flooded with examples of where it works well as counterpoints wheth
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by chasd00 2mo ago
I think when people say they miss the web of the 90s what they're really missing from the 90s is themselves.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
Tivo made it very easy and drove the DVR thing IMO. The whole "programming a vcr" was a meme back in the day for something overly confusing.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
there's probably a box to check on the "be attractive to investors" form and then you can also put the ethics department in HR docs as an escalation path to make emo employees feel better. I bet the ethics people get told how
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by chasd00 2mo ago
my sister and two of her friends put together a small company. She asked me to work on a mobile app for them, like a small niche LMS. I was making progress but fell behind, i have a demanding job/family and she doesnt. She asked if she
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by chasd00 2mo ago
> Good problem solvers, in general, are people who are prepared to go in and poke around, to see what happens when you disable this or add that. you have to do all this when dealing with AI too. The syntax is a conversation vs a strict g
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by chasd00 2mo ago
i don't really buy the "loosing skills" line. I'm not old enough to remember but it seems like this would be similar to an expert slide rule operator lamenting the skill loss because of using a calculator. A new tool has
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by chasd00 2mo ago
To be honest I do this too. Nag mode is kind of a pita.
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by chasd00 2mo ago
I had an internal company assessment I needed to pass before end of our fiscal year. The study material consisted of 10 ppt decks about 80 slides each (so around 800 total). I had an AI read all the decks and compose a study guide with quiz
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by chasd00 2mo ago
by this article's argument then government should be second to the power of Internet, telecom, electricity, and even water providers. Government can't do very much if the lights are off, communications don't work and the toil

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