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by csours 11mo ago
"The Righteous Mind" by Haidt is interesting to me on the difficulty scale. From any technical analysis (like grammar, sentence structure etc), it's not difficult at all. It wasn't boring to me, and I didn't really
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by csours 11mo ago
> By making implicit knowledge explicit ... I feel like this translation is easier to misunderstand that it is to understand in many cases. I think the effort is still good, but I also feel like people give up after a few tries. I know I
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by csours 11mo ago
It's fine. The biggest actual problem would be in a fire, the PLA will burn and let the fire into the wall cavity, where drywall would maintain a barrier for much longer - that is why we have drywall in the first place, it is a decent
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by csours 11mo ago
Oh, Qwen, buddy, you sure are TRYING
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by csours 11mo ago
LOVE IT! It would be really cool if I could zoom out and have everything scale properly!
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by csours 11mo ago
I feel like the internet/social media has taken over the communication paradigm, and there are conversations that simply cannot and do not take place on social media in any real depth. Deep communication between parties needs those par
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by csours 11mo ago
See also the dark fiber build out before the telecom collapse of ~2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecoms_crash
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by csours 11mo ago
I feel like inferred tokens are a commodity and will be subject to commodity pricing pressure. Which indicates to me that the value add will come from somewhere else , which would seem to be whales and addicts.
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by csours 11mo ago
Classic Paradox of Automation - As automation gets better, two things happen: Cost of goods goes down - think factory automation improving line rate. There is less human intervention, but that intervention requires more expertise.
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by csours 11mo ago
Synthetic quartz growing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFH8_uLzano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzHqhNoyx2o
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by csours 1y ago
I agree with the author that this is important. I do not agree that it is easy. In some cases it is relatively easy, but in many cases it requires some subject area expertise. I do wish it was easier to punish media organizations for slop;
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by csours 1y ago
More concretely, a newspaper (or other media) will use facts like "Police Media Officer Jones stated that ....". It is factually correct that Officer Jones stated "....". Whether Media Officer Jones' statement is co
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by csours 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ - Standards Situation: There are 14 competing ways to set environment variables on Linux We should create a universal way that just works and isn't terminal specific to set environment variab
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by csours 1y ago
Wow this has a lot of replies! Yes, you get a lot of the energy back, BUT there is a huge problem! Large airliners incur a LOT of additional drag to slow down while landing. Some of that is entirely intentional, some is less intentional. It
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by csours 1y ago
The "Real" documentation is the implementation. Prioritize making the source code available and understandable. Examples are very nice. One way to create examples is with test cases. Test cases can also be packaged with source cod
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by csours 1y ago
Dunbar's number and the fractal nature of managing things in the real world. You manage surface area, not volume or area, and the coastline is pretty bumpy.
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by csours 1y ago
Disclosure: I work for General Motors (on software, not as a design engineer), this is solely my own opinion and experience. An automotive assembly line consists of many "footprints" chained together. Each footprint is scheduled t
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by csours 1y ago
"Commodity Tokens"
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by csours 1y ago
Book Recommendation: High Conflict by Amanda Ripley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_MEu7xn8Y https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982128569
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by csours 1y ago
Designed by History vs. Designed by Intent --- Working on a legacy codebase last year I kept repeating to myself: They made it work, they didn't make it sensible.
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by csours 1y ago
Even "simple" books can be surprising. On my first reading of Jurassic Park I had no idea that it was about startup culture - no really! It's not even from the Sci-Fi section of the bookstore!
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by csours 1y ago
If you can design the product and environment to fit automation, then automation can be quick and effective. The less you can change about the product and environment, then automation run slower and less effectively. Air liner operations co
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by csours 1y ago
It's kind of funny how you can both be right.
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by csours 1y ago
Before taking their current conservative role, one of our Supreme Court Justices was briefly associated with the radical left.
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by csours 1y ago
> give the pretense that the duopolistic political parties are backed by ideologies rather than by constantly shifting power dynamics. I feel like it's very easy to get angry about politics, so speaking clearly is difficult. I woul
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by csours 1y ago
MAHA! The US admin is 5 special interest groups in a trench coat. === To be clear, some of the Make America Healthy Again goals are quite reasonable to me. I wish they had started with those.
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by csours 1y ago
I know we're all good little rational kids here, but even rationalists need to learn about emotions. Strong emotional responses are currently holding back human advancement. If you look closely at history, it has been always thus. ** &
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by csours 1y ago
I agree. It's hard to capture 'the vibes' in a history book. For example, I firmly believe that in 70 years, almost no one will be able to explain 'wokeness' or the anti-wokeness backlash.
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by csours 1y ago
I don't like that I'm starting to understand Magical Realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_realism
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by csours 1y ago
History books can tell you facts that happened, but they can never truly tell you how it feels. I feel we're riding a knife's edge and there's a hurricane brewing in the gulf of absurdity. ==== Incidentally, I feel like this

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