ethbr1

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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Because the thread was about how shooting down a civilian airliner has consequences, and the person I replied to insinuated it didn't because Malaysia was ill-equipped to push the issue militarily. Which isn't relevant if the peop
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
I think you're talking about apples and oranges, as parent appeared to be cataloguing recent design defects. Which are pretty common too. That'll influence the average reliability minimally, unless you were unlucky enough to buy
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
I highly doubt the Russians/separatists running the Buk knew the identity of the flight before shooting it down.
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Maybe we could run off-peak load of that nature, when power is cheaper. Call it dreaming. ;)
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
That was the crux of the post for me: the assertion that there are classes of problems for which no amount of expert behavior cloning will result in dynamic expert decision making, because a viable approach to expert deciding isn't tra
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
You're missing the game theory forest unlike-in-type for the trees. There are fundamentally different types of games that map to real world problems. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory#Different_types_o
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Isn't that just RL with extra power-intensive steps? (An entire model chugging away in the goal function)
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
That's missing a big chunk of the post: it's not just about visible / invisible information, but also the game theory dynamics of a specific problem and the information within it. (Adversarial or not? Perfect information or a
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
> these companies have no role in the day-to-day, just introducing the contractor and just sitting back collecting money with no effort at all The company is also responsible for the job getting done if you get hit by a bus or say &quo
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
> making sure their subcontractors know what they're doing and are appropriate fits for the project, keeping work on track, ... I think this is where the reality falls apart. Often agencies are just skimming their percentage witho
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
You think indexing skills in increasingly structured, parameterized formats has nothing to do with documenting REST API endpoints?
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
There are many great developers who are not also SREs. Building and operating/maintaining have their different mindsets.
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
I mean conceptually. Why not just extend the OpenAPI specification to skills? Instead of recreating something that's essentially communicating the same information? T minus a couple years before someone declares that down-mapping skill
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
100 separate political units, each with their own version of an industry, are by their nature less economically efficient than one entity that's 100x as big. Consequently, industry in 1 of those 100 units is always going to be outcompe
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
There would definitely need to be new positions / roles hired internally. I imagine "vibe coder" will eventually coalesce with business requirements analyst, into a sort of "LOB developer-lite." I.e. every low-code
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
In situ iron, titanium, aluminum?
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
> What the system adds is an index of all skills, built from their descriptions, that is passed to the llm in each conversation. The idea is to let the llm read the skill when it is needed and not load it into context upfront. This is
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
> multiple more times RAM, CPU, etc. Part of this (especially the CPU) is teams under-optimizing their Electron apps. See the multi-X speedup examples when they look into it and move hot code to C et al.
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
There are two forms of business software gen AI coding is 100% going to eat: 1. Simple CRUD apps 2. Long-tail / low-TAM apps Because neither of these make economic sense for commercial companies to develop targeted products
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
The issue, and this is a recurring Windows theme, was "replacement without feature parity" Imho, nothing should be allowed to ship in Windows unless it at least covers 100% of previous functionality. If there are functional gaps,
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
The repeated failing of the EU (90s+) was under-appreciation of the economic / political / military pressure that could be brought by constraining key material and energy supplies. If the EU (specifically Germany) had more prescie
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
How do you account for the increased competitiveness of economies of scale in a globalized economy with free international trade in your recommendation?
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Afaik, the bulk of the US' federal centralization of commerce is based on the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution [0], which based on reading (and more so on precedent) grants the US federal legislature the ability to regulate comme
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Esperanto for all! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
The problem with Kia's implementation is that it can't be turned off.
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Afaik, there's a difference between classical philosophy (which opines on the divide between an objective world and the perceived word) and more modern philosophy (which generally does away with that distinction while expanding on the
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
There's no way in hell I'd buy a car nowadays without at least a weekend rental. There's too many random dumb features. (Hyundai/Kia's coffee break notification?)
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
As the unofficial corporate tag line quips: 'Toyota: for when your favorite appliance color is beige' But in all seriousness, I'll give props to Honda, Toyota, and Mazda for amazing engineering cultures. In the sense of being
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
Well said! I'd also add that a critical function of middle management in healthy companies is bidirectional information communication: sharing what their teams are doing up and sharing leadership priorities down. Having worked at some
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by ethbr1 9mo ago
> bad actors quickly realized this is a force multiplication factor for them You'd think we would have learned this lesson in failing to implement email charges that net'd to $0 for balanced send/receive patterns. And th

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