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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I'm sure my own rituals don't generalize, but are you saying that the alternative to that is mandatory RTO?
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
Ignoring the quagmire of praising/critiquing Musk/Twitter for a second… If you’re an exec who’s taken it upon themselves to evaluate, could use the hatchet, or you take some amount of time to figure out how things work. Whether t
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
The reasons that managers/execs push for RTO are complex, and sometimes disingenuous and nefarious. As someone who’s worked remote (and async) and also in big offices, sometimes I see individual workers celebrating RTO for misguided r
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
unfortunately, if you do anything computational, when you need to explain it to a journalist/public audience/young person you want to hire/investor/trendchasing early user, you are incentivized to call it "AI".
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
Unfortunately whether someone is checked out is a laggy measure. Even good honest motivated people can become checked out without even being aware of it. The alternative is to lay off people as soon as they hit 1.0 (with a severance bonus o
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I'm aware of the dolphins. It's become an in-joke among friends that the Crimean invasion started to get the military dolphins back for the cable attacks. However, dolphins don't have as much depth capacity as other whales. I
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I'm still praying for the future of trained whale-on-whale submarine cable offense/defense action.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
As much as I dislike the idea of individual copyright owners, like visual artists or writers, having their works scraped for AI without compensation… If this does break the stranglehold that copyright has over creative acts, especially in t
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I've used beacons a lot in installations. I found their reliability was a bit over-promised [1]. If you want to know whether a user is within a 4 metre sphere, in a time window of about 5 seconds, then it's fine. But don't ho
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I marked my transition to senior engineer when my net lines of code flipped to negative. Not that I game that obviously, it just occurred naturally for a ~4 month period
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I still yearn for a riff on Ravenholm
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
It's great to have more representation for Big Parasite!
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I want to drop a specific image in, and have a reader that debugs this. Sometimes images don't follow specs exactly, or stretch them in fun ways, and sometimes this leads to inconsistent behaviour across platforms. Sometimes passing an
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I’ve been shopping for something that does a per-byte description of the content of visual media formats (jpeg, png, avi, mp4, etc). Anyone know of one?
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I’m noticing that every single time I wake my (recent) MacBook from sleep, it forgets it’s attached to external monitors for at least 10 seconds. So, a bunch of windows do this confusing jump around and I have to wait for them to settle bef
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
What if I’m a Kaiju, and I want to disrupt the most electrical cables juice up? What path of destruction is best for me?
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
prompt engineering hack: ask the LLM to swear a bit first before it writes a function for you.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
Went to this last year. Had the time of my life.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
What if you converted video essays to flipbooks, by only taking the frames that a new subtitle appeared on?
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
Accountability hacking: https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-tesla-autopilot-invest...
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I was at a talk last week where a guy said “we should backprop into X” to mean “we should learn more about X and take it into account”.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
An equivalent term is "local first", where there seems to be more activity.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
We know that, due to the lack of observable galactic civilizations, if there is a Space War For Democracy, it is a Shadow War [0]. Perhaps with one exception [1]. [0] https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_War_(disambi
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
A lot of people who want to replace most human interactions with LLMs assume that there is some objective set of cultural values true in all contexts, and that it is good and easy to encode these as axioms into an AI.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
It's incredible that in a thousand years there will be one of these to build a computer from scratch, including kneading the silicon wafers by hand.
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
DON'T DO IT should be the generic advice to anyone wanting to found/join a startup. You should only engage with startups if you have a good reason to. Just like you should only become a SoundCloud rapper if you fundamentally enjoy
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
People also believe fall into this trap with political philosophy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
Strongly agree here that there is platform lock-in; all the large platforms are playing subtle games to make it harder to explore new services outside them. To some people this might look like consumers are more conservative, but really it&
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
Please, if you’re looking to denoise a signal for human input, use the 1-Euro filter instead: https://gery.casiez.net/1euro/ Easier to code, easier to tune parameters without a noise model
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by escapecharacter 2y ago
I'm really curious! In hindsight, we can always point to when a pivot should have happened earlier, but on the other hand, we all know orgs that have pivoted too early or to a trend they shouldn't have, and then suffered. Do you r

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