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by csours 9mo ago
Human attention will be the luxury product of the next decade.
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by csours 9mo ago
"It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings" - Something in the way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg5behq8PlM
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by csours 9mo ago
Of all the guns that rural Americans love, the humble foot-gun is the most beloved. --- Someone else can argue the morality, ethics, economics, and politics of it all, but VERY simply, US Federal Government Agencies are machines for redistr
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by csours 9mo ago
Simple and legal are different matters. There's a BYD parked in my neighborhood pretty often (Central Texas) with Mexico plates. I have no idea how "permanent" it is, and yet there it is.
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by csours 9mo ago
It's 50,000+ users to learn from. Chinese companies have gotten pretty good at learning.
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by csours 9mo ago
Forget it Jake, it's engagement bait. - Chinatown (1974) Bad incentives will ruin anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m7hf5WUs8o
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by csours 9mo ago
Two thoughts: 1. Almost every policy of the current US administration is deeply unpopular. 2. The vast majority of social media users do not comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
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by csours 9mo ago
I don't have a full answer, but a couple thoughts: 1. Volunteer. Somewhere, anywhere, for a good cause, for a selfish cause. Somebody will be happy to see you. 2. Stop trolling ourselves. As far as I can tell, all of the mass social me
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by csours 9mo ago
Ah, when I said "find out what the difference is", I meant more of a cultural understanding than technical.
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by csours 9mo ago
I feel like there's a difference between AI used as a tool and AI used to make slop. Also, most AI music has weird noise in it that drives me insane. I have to imagine* that we will figure out what that difference is, but it will be di
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by csours 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge Well, I knew what I meant. I tried to commit documentation to our source repository; I was told to upload it to the documentation site instead. The documentation site that
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by csours 9mo ago
> I don't know how this applies in the context of Toyota, I've never worked for Toyota, but as far as I can tell they take this very seriously. You can look up a history of NUMMI for a case study
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by csours 9mo ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance aka Dead Peasant Insurance.
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by csours 9mo ago
"against the proffer-er" vs "gambler beware"
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by csours 9mo ago
Legacy Code is dead! Long live Zero Day Legacy Code!
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by csours 10mo ago
Anything can be field replaceable if your field has enough tooling. (j/k)
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by csours 10mo ago
> "It’s the performance of ‘care’ from leadership. Saying one thing loudly and proudly, yet doing another quietly, repeatedly." It's the employee engagement survey where you want people to say that the company cares about
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by csours 10mo ago
Retiring Gemini AND IBM buying OpenAI is a hat on a hat
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by csours 10mo ago
Yes, sometimes, but negotiating this can be the whole ballgame.
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by csours 10mo ago
> SEEN as failure emphasis added
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by csours 10mo ago
> I think re-planning is a failure when nothing is learned from previous assumptions not being correct This is the exact problem, and why it is so extremely difficult to communicate about the subject. Another way to say "learn from
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by csours 10mo ago
I largely agree. Another way to say this is that an estimate becomes a commitment to not learn. Re-planning is seen as failure by [management]. Re-planning is what happens when you learn that a previous assumption was not correct. You shoul
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by csours 10mo ago
Very slightly related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb07MT5fcEE A grab bag of edits by 'Craven in Outer Space' on Star Trek TNG Season 1 - some of which are related to the restoration/re-release showing th
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by csours 10mo ago
Disclosure: I work for a car company, not on this. If you want to be prepared for automotive incidents: 1. Check your mood and intoxication level before and while driving. Mood is more important than everything besides drugs and alcohol. 2.
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by csours 10mo ago
Inferred tokens are a commodity. It's crude oil, not an oil painting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837691
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by csours 10mo ago
Bureaucracy is: scar tissue, someone else's moat, someone else's data model
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by csours 10mo ago
There are 2 big problems with large software projects: 1. Connecting pay to work - estimates (replanning is learning, not failure) 2. Connecting work to pay - management (the world is fractal-like, scar tissue and band-aids) I do not pre-su
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by csours 11mo ago
I think the movie 'Civil War' by Alex Garland was too absurd to be understood by a lot of people - to me it was yelling "IT CAN HAPPEN HERE TOO"
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by csours 11mo ago
I really wish we had a (lower case) republican or conservative party in the US. I hope we survive this fear driven over-stimulated era of politics.
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by csours 11mo ago
100 Mile Border Zone - https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone Your rights are limited in interactions with CBP, or to state the inverse: CBP have claimed more powers than traditional law enforcement. This ha

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