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by d_sem 3y ago
Remarkable, yes. Shocking, no. Exponential growth was something experience in the computer industry for decades, and people where quite normalized to it.
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by d_sem 3y ago
The key is to define the term "large" in this context. Pull requests size is an artifact of a humans brain ability to process changes. Therefore its best to tailor the content of a PR based on how difficult you think it is for the
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by d_sem 3y ago
It's worth knowing the specific reasons why the board fired Sam before assessing the value of this news. Too much rumor and not enough evidence.
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by d_sem 3y ago
This is a reminder that the carrying capacity of a healthy planet is much less than 8 billion people and radical change will be the only solution. We could do with fewer people. In 2000 there was ~6.1 billion and the world was just fine.
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by d_sem 3y ago
According to the US Dept of Education a 4 year Bachelor degree at Western Michigan University will cost at least $110,001. Certainly this is too high.
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by d_sem 3y ago
Welp, looks like I'm out of a job. Perhaps management will suit me well, where I can make massive amounts of questionable decisions.
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by d_sem 3y ago
COVID directly gave me pre-diabetic symptoms that gradually improved over about 12-18 months. It was really a binary healthy, not healthy switch after the most intense day of sickness.
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by d_sem 3y ago
I'm interested in the response from the commenter you replied to. I suspect their premise is missing the point you rightly highlight. To most people Propaganda is only things they don't believe. But if they believe something, its
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by d_sem 3y ago
I would recommends the Youtube rabbit hole of Neil Postman lectures from the early 1990's that outlines this very observation. ( I don't expect you to subscribe to all his opinions, but he does attempt to analyze the impact of dif
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by d_sem 3y ago
To each their own I suppose. In my personal opinion, hourly billing is economically aligned to better product-stakeholder fit. Without economic cost, stakeholders seem to tend toward over requesting / flip flopping resulting in a worse
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by d_sem 3y ago
If you replace "Western" with USA your statement is more accurate. Bag of milk can be found in western countries like Canada, Irreal, and generally in continental Europe.
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by d_sem 3y ago
Assuming your hardware requirements are correct I would gladly buy this hardware for on premise support for always available ChatGPT4.
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by d_sem 3y ago
Isn't it simply a more mature language replacement for VBA scripting?
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by d_sem 3y ago
Whether or not its "better" to host your own, the positive effects from the open source community at trimming down the parts of state-of-the-art LLM that matter and improving efficiency will be good for the community.
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by d_sem 3y ago
That's roughly the price of two original Macintosh computers adjusted for inflation.
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by d_sem 3y ago
People often fail to compare the opportunity cost of alternative methods to nuclear power. At that time the alternative to nuclear was coal power plants. Radioactive carbon isotopes have harmed many times more people than Nuclear.
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by d_sem 3y ago
This is not a devils advocate because in your hypothetical you already defined the gambler was a fully consenting, which is in alignment with the persons comment you replied to. A more accurate devils advocate could be one who suggest that
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by d_sem 3y ago
I hypothesis that this position will be largely debunked as we learn more about how computer algorithms can manipulate people. Hopefully advances in scientific research will allow us to better model and categorize unethical systems. "c
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by d_sem 3y ago
I would say we reinterpret the 18th century definition of "papers". I quite like Alan Kays comment in a talk sometime in the 1980's where he said something of the effect that a blue thought in the 1960's was to realize t
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by d_sem 3y ago
I would make the case that fake data isn't a sustainable model as it spend fuel and energy to support an activity that does not have meaningful contribution to society and the economy. We should base our state of the art on best use of
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by d_sem 3y ago
As discussed in oral arguments in the "STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE" supreme court case, the 14th amendment does not protect against legacy as an admission criteria unless it can b
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by d_sem 3y ago
This is why its important to reverse mentor executive leadership so they better understand best practice usage of LLMs. I obsoletely see benefits of tools like ChatGPT through the entire lifecycle of a product, however not as a replacement
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by d_sem 3y ago
The silver lining of LLMs impact on Stack Overflow may be that the platform focuses on facilitating the deeper type of problem solving you describe. My experience with Stack Overflow over the years has been mixed. Frequently users misunders
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by d_sem 3y ago
Time will tell. Anecdotally, I know several professional who find ChatGPT3.5 & 4 to be valuable and willing to pay for access. I certainly save more than $20 per month for my work by using ChatGPT to accelerate my day to day activities.
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by d_sem 4y ago
I think the comment "The value of a CI/CD Pipeline is inversely proportional to how long the pipeline takes to run." is a good starting position to have, that is then supplanted by expertise in what actually adds value in a g
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by d_sem 4y ago
I think comedian and recent guest-host of The Daily Show, Al Franken summarized it best: "We don't need a Chinese company stealing our data and spying on us. That's a job for American companies. USA! USA! USA!" Source:
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by d_sem 4y ago
Because one wants to have private in person communication. In my experience cubical and closed door office environments maximize communication and collaboration while open concept reduce it. Closed doors are like therapist room - you get to
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by d_sem 4y ago
Randy Pausch, a former Computer Science Professor at University of Virginia who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer, gave a popular lecture on Time Manage in the last few months of his illness. In his lecture he proposed a monitor set up I s
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by d_sem 4y ago
Ok, but its an important distinction to be aware of when interpreting safety statistics. Advocates of ebike adoption are not talking about motorcycles.
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by d_sem 4y ago
Your anecdote mistakes electric motorcycles with e-bikes. In the USA, there are three legal classes of ebikes; with the fastest class having max legal speed of 28mph.

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