dexwiz

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by dexwiz 7mo ago
What is wrong with a blunt tool? Almost every other system ends up with a hard cap of retries.
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by dexwiz 7mo ago
I'd all the Southern Reach trilogy (quadrilogy? now) to this list. It's more on the cosmic/eldritch side, but similar sense of unknowable. SPOILER WARNING My interruption is that Area X/The Crawler is a probe built to st
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by dexwiz 7mo ago
Boids are little lovely simulations. This just looks like a boring force directed graph. I wonder if there is any correlation between the blandness of LLMs and weight based models.
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by dexwiz 7mo ago
I've worked in tech support. I get that 25-50% of the cases appear to be "read the docs to me." But the majority of those is because docs are poorly written, are overwhelming for new users, or they don't understand them
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by dexwiz 7mo ago
That question is more likely how do I install, not what to install.
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by dexwiz 7mo ago
It's a job program. And mostly theater to dehumanize you. Most VIPs get to skip it all together.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
Thanks for the follow up. I am always hesitant to believe things that sound too Gladwellian.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
You're right. 8 year olds would call you ancient and 80 year olds would call you a baby. Middle age is relative and unless you're over 45 you don't admit to it, and then hold on to it for too long.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
I once heard a linguistic explanation for this. European languages have a future tense, which means people have different ideas of themselves in the present and future. You can even hear this in phrases like "that's a problem for
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
Something I've never seen in these analyses is drinking. Millennials are heavy drinkers. Both craft brews and cocktails were defining generational traits. Not everyone is a drinker but it appears they are heavy drinkers compared to oth
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
I wonder how many of these companies burned cash to acquire customers, thinking they could jack up rates to improve profit. At the first sign of this, people jumped ship. Also any significantly large client will migrate to a lower layer to
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
Very small, high precision spheres are hard to make. Ball bearings also fall into this category. Many modern machines depend on this. I never see it "recreate society manuals," but they should be.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
I think a lot of Asimov stories fall into the same category. When you shape a genre, looking back it all seems so obvious. I do think Le Guin wrote much better characters than Asimov.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
Growth will be proportional to spend. You can cut waste later and celebrate efficiency. So when growing there isn't much incentive to do it efficiently. You are just robbing yourself of a potential future victory. Also it's legiti
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
DBs are a solved problem for most cases. APIs are a solved problem. UX patterns are a solved problem. Yet I solved problems related to these things every day.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
Requirements for power still don't come close to total or practical surface area. If we get to that point, space collectors with microwave beams to the ground are viable.
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by dexwiz 8mo ago
Every accusation is an admission.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Have you never been screened where they swab your items and stick it in a machine? That is to detect explosives. They can use the first machine to target people for follow up screening.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
If batteries were standardized and replaceable I bet they would force you to not bring your own, and only ones purchasable passed the gate could be used. Maybe that a silver lining to the repairability issues.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Haha, it's just for bragging rights.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Below Deck is our guilty pleasure for reality TV. We make predictions on who is going to get with whom, at what stage in the season certain people implode, who will get fired. I think Aesha from Below Deck was on the Australian Amazing Race
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
I don't even think it's the same across viewers. When my partner and I watch some shows, we make prediction for the plot and evaluations of characters. We even have a bet book where we record and score predictions for some shows.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Hobbies are often personal, or at least self serving. Unless your hobby is volunteering. You can hear this in how people talk about out them. "I do this for me."
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Humans also aren't good swimmers, and we assume all land mammals are as bad as us.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Alcatraz isn't really that far from land, about a mile away. They have events where you can swim to and from it. The currents make it dangerous, but the distance is unremarkable.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
I've never used an LSP plugin half as good as a JetBrains IDE.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Talking to some recent grads (last few years) last summer, parties were pretty much confined to frat parties. The school had a very vibrant house party scene circa 2010, but it sounded dead even pre-Covid. The people I talked to were at a m
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Anecdotally the drinking culture that existed for me in my youth has completely disappeared. House parties, a staple of my college years, are nonexistent. Talking to recent grads from the same school, their social life looks very different.
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
Notice the age range is 65 or older. There is a large cohort of Boomers/GenX/Millenial drinkers who are aging up. The overall downtrend is that younger people are not starting to drink. But those who contributed to the initial ris
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by dexwiz 9mo ago
This would be a true test of can LLMs innovate or just regurgitate. I think part of people's amazement of LLMs is they don't realize how much they don't know. So thinking and recalling look the same to the end user.

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