empath-nirvana

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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
There are pretty clearly cases where non-combatant deaths in war are necessary -- for example if you are in a total war situation as in WWII. People can and do argue about the morality of the Tokyo firebombings and Dresden and Hiroshima and
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
> Can someone explain why people try to make new cars from the ground up, rather than "fork" a base platform from GM/Toyota/KIA/whoever with a different design and little features? That's sort of what Tesla
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
1905, probably: "The oil industry spent 17x more on drilling equipment than it brought in in revenue"
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
2 popular and well tested rust yaml libraries have recently been marked as unmaintained and people are moving away from them to brand new projects in a rush because warnings went out about it.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I don't think "admire" is the right word, but it's a pretty impressive operation.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Songs are a lot more than their lyrics and there are a great many wonderful and popular songs that have _no lyrics at all_. Lyrical complexity isn't really a good measure of the overall complexity of a song. Anyway, a lot of this beca
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
huh? > can a minute ever have 59 seconds ChatGPT Yes, a minute can have 59 seconds in the context of leap seconds. Normally, a minute is defined as having 60 seconds. However, leap seconds are a way to adjust the Coordinated Universal Ti
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
There's so much you can do in rust without messing with any of that, and the only time you have to get deep in the weeds arguing with the compiler is _exactly_ the sort of code that you _should_ be spending a lot of time carefully thin
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
This post shows 3 ways of doing it, including essentially the same way you'd do it in C. And it's exactly as dangerous as doing it in C is, but at least you can isolate that dangerous code to one part of your code base.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
You can have bugs with that style of coding, but they're not going to be bugs of the "remote code execution" type.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
That is incredibly obnoxious and irresponsible and he should turn over the repo to someone else to manage.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I think the right way to think of it is as an _experience_. It doesn't make you smarter or more creative, any more than going on a backpacking trip or reading a good book -- it just gives you a new way of seeing the world and your pla
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I agree with this but I found it to be an extremely valuable experience all the same.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
That is a terrible headline. It implies that the _abilities_ are a mirage, but it's actually the "emergent" part that might be a mirage -- which is to say it's not an unpredictable "phase transition" but gradu
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
There are a lot of 'old school' edm records in online stores that were redigitized from vinyl, and you can tell just looking at the wave forms the difference in how they were mastered, and they sound noticeably _worse_ than modern
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
There is no such thing as a "private" network that is magically more secure than the internet, and if you don't trust it on the internet, you shouldn't trust it on your private network. If you have anything of value, the
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Blackberry chugged along with record profits for a couple of years after the iphone had already made them irrelevant.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I like the app store, I like the restrictions, I don't want apple to change anything about it. I sort of think apple shouldn't try to comply with these sorts of potential lawsuits by making their app store worse, they should just
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
The problem is that chatting with an LLM is extremely disruptive to their business model and it's difficult for them to productize without killing the golden goose.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
it means "learning" https://www.etymonline.com/word/*mendh-
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
It's vanishingly rare that individuals have any liability or are punished for software fuckups. Maybe if someone is completely incompetent, they'll get fired, but I'm not sure that's meaningfully different than cancelli
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
> Infinities are quite different, given that it is by definition impossible to measure whether something in reality is infinite or not unless you have infinite time. It's impossible to count a negative number of things. It's i
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I don't really think that thinking of LLMs and related technologies as "Artificial Humans" is the right way to think about how they're going to be integrated into workflows. What is going to happen is that people are go
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
That math is sometimes practical is nice, but it's not the point.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
No, you haven't. You've seen some symbols that represent the ludicrous physical notion of a negative amount of an object. Look outside, count negative 3 sheep. You can't. It's a _fiction_ which happens to be useful f
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Have you ever seen a negative number of things?
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I think probably the solution here is to stop using publishing in peer reviewed journals as a job requirement for academics. Even before ChatGPT, academic publishing was already falling victim to Goodhart's law. Remove the perverse i
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
If you're playing dungeons and dragons, then unicorns "exist" within the context of that game, and there are rules for interacting with them. If you're reading a fantasy novel, then unicorns exist within the context of
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Hashicorp's prices are not what i'd consider to be 'enterprise prices'. When we looked at buying "enterprise vault" a few years ago it was six figures a year for a relatively small install. It was basically &
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Believe it or not, no. We're using cluster-api. I've got a github actions pipeline that stands up a kind cluster, installs cluster-api on it, uses cluster-api to stand up the control plane cluster and then copies over the cluster

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