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by davesque 4y ago
At present, ChatGPT is very hit or miss. I've definitely used it to do some things that I couldn't have done with Google. But I've also struggled for periods of (wasted) time trying to get it to help with things and having it
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I've always felt that language features like 'unless' in Ruby and also things like 'on' and 'off' in Coffeescript fall squarely into the category of too clever. Simplicity will always win until the end o
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Anecdotal I'm afraid.
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I think this new idea of "public testing" is really just a post hoc recasting of Elon's failed Twitter Blue rollout. Calling it by those words is...creative? But the failure was less an experiment as it was a lesson in humili
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I think the reality is that anyone might engage in these behaviors from time to time. I've seen myself doing some of these things in my weaker moments and I've seen others doing them. And I've seen those same people turn arou
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I think all these modern societies are finding out that you need to make civil life about more than just extracting the maximum effort from people for the least possible compensation. If that's the way things are set up, then it's
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Meditation seems like a fundamentally different thing to me with different benefits. Kinda seems like apples to oranges. I think part of the problem is that the whole mindfulness movement has sometimes sold meditation as a kind of self hypn
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It feels like a pointless exercise to call this out, but Musk himself has admitted that bots on Twitter are a problem. Wouldn't that mean that the results of this poll are bogus? Furthermore, the pool of voters is surely composed prima
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I feel that the likelihood of a discussion about this not devolving into a flame war is low.
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Agree completely. My point was that I feel like it doesn't actually take so much effort to maintain that we have to feel strung out all the time. I imagine we could continue to survive and thrive quite effectively with far less effort
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As bad as I feel for all the Twitter peeps whose lives were upended by this whole mess, it sure does feel satisfying to watch that weasel Musk get his comeuppance.
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Yep, agreed. Didn't mean to blame people necessarily.
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I've always felt a bit like an alien from outer space when trying to understand the work habits of modern humans. It seems we spend enough time doing what we think we have to do to survive that it feels like the only thing we actually
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I always love having an excuse to repost this: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ This is my idea of the personal web.
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Haven't you ever been forced into a situation that turned out to be better in certain ways? For many people, discovering the quality of life improvements afforded by remote work, that were forced on us by COVID, has been a blessing. Ma
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Why can't we just "make fun" of JavaScript classes with "jokes?"
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by davesque 4y ago
And his lifestyle would change...how exactly? And where do I sign up for that kind of accountability?
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Careful, friend. Sounds like karma has its eye on you.
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Yeah, sorry perhaps I shouldn't have made such a specific sounding claim. I'm not an expert on this topic, but was pretty sure I had heard from reputable sources in the past that the Riemann Hypothesis had some bearing on the dis
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I think it's fair to say that this could lead to certain new things becoming known about the distribution of primes. This could have implications for cryptographic algorithms that depend on prime numbers being hard to find.
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Yeah, who could have seen this coming? Will be interesting to see what other innocuous behavior ends up suddenly qualifying as a violation under this regime.
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If part of the fitness criteria involved printing out code written in the last 6 months on paper, it was predictable that they would have accidentally let go of many important contributors in a 50% layoff. Color me not surprised. Turns out
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by davesque 4y ago
I feel like the whole Musk buyout debacle has shown us once again how lacking all of our emperors are in the wardrobe department. So tell me again why we have to make headlines out of their shower thoughts.
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by davesque 4y ago
It's really an ironic saga that's unfolded between Musk and Twitter. I've said many times that I think Twitter facilitates a Jekyll-to-Hyde-like transformation in people that are predisposed to it. I think the fantastically
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by davesque 4y ago
I think Occam's razor applies here. In other words, it seems the more likely explanation is just that Musk is an egomaniacal rich guy. Imagining that Musk is playing 3D chess with the public psyche is overcomplicating things.
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Vaucanson's Mechanical Crapping Duck(alphahistory.com)
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This is a fun book in this genre for anyone who's interested. It has a section on Hallaj: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Land-Sufis-Mojdeh-Bayat/dp/1570... I randomly picked it off the shelf of my university l
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For me, it's the fact that roughly 1 year seems to be the average cutoff point for how long I can tolerate doing something that feels meaningless to me and otherwise doesn't bring me any financial advantage that would allow me to
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by davesque 4y ago
I think you're looking at things backwards. The questions you should be asking are how likely is it that any employee who joins a random new company feels as though they can have an impact on that company and how likely is it that the
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Am I the only one that feels like jobs that are good enough to warrant a 2-3 year tenure are actually rare? I'd say tenures in the 1-2 year range should be considered normal. However, I agree that less than a year feels short. But hone

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