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Can We Stop Our Digital Selves from Becoming Who We Are?(nytimes.com)
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by falcor84 11mo ago
If we're doing suggestions, I vote for "Maxflix"
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by falcor84 11mo ago
I wish I was as optimistic about the resilience of the open web as you, but I see what the Chinese government achieved and what the Russian government have been doing over the last few years, and I'm very concerned.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
And for a related rabbit hole where people actually went all the to the bottom, there's of course the full implementation of Tetris in GoL which was nerd-sniped by a CodeGolf challenge https://codegolf.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by falcor84 11mo ago
But everyone already calls it JS. I think the transition would have been so much easier if the official name started with "J".
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Their free book "Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction" is a great starting point - https://conwaylife.com/book/conway_life_book.pdf
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Everyone knows that Google can't commit to a product release. The only way it could work is if they spin it off into a separate company.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
What I found most interesting are that: * 39% report EBIT impact at the enterprise level * 36% report that AI use has improved their profitability (vs just 2% who report a decrease) I wonder how this fits with that MIT study about 95% of ge
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Could we just not prohibit lawmakers from investing in particular stocks, but rather to only invest in the market as a whole (e.g. via ETFs) and/or in government bonds?
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Notably all other than Gemini are from a decade or more ago. They used to know how to make products, but then they apparently took an arrow in the knee.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Of course. Obviously a PM who isn't talking to the devs isn't doing their job. But having said that, a PM is the person who owns the roadmap, and after talking to the devs, they may at times choose a course of action that goes aga
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by falcor84 11mo ago
The article claims to use charts to make things clearer, but I've been staring at this circle chart for over a minute now and still can't figure out if the values are in the radius or the area. I now think it's the area, but
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by falcor84 11mo ago
There's a lot you can legitimately blame PMs for, but promising features that don't yet exist is essentially their job definition. A good PM will allow for uncertainty and flexibility, but at the end of the day, to have some sort
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by falcor84 11mo ago
COBOL is used for the longest continuously running systems, particularly in the financial industry, many of which have been in production since the 1960s - mainly on mainframes, but noawadays also increasingly in cloud environments. There&#
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Funny that you mentioned Flask, which literally started as an April Fool's joke [0], but that hasn't stopped it from becoming the 10th [1] or 11th [2] most popular web framework, with over double the number of devs compared to Rai
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Yes, but ... this depends strongly on whether your task is to maintain that production system in its current state indefinitely, or to keep developing it and continuously integrate with new technologies under time constraints. If the former
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Absolutely agreed, and this gives me another opportunity to post the wonderful "Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplet
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by falcor84 11mo ago
The big difference that an Open Source license gives me is that regardless of the tool I use to make the edits, if I rewrite the bytes of the Linux kernel, I can freely release my version with the same license, but if I rewrite the bytes of
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Yes, I 100% agree. Open Source is a lot more about not paying than about liberty. This is exactly the tradeoff that we had made in the industry a couple of decades ago. We could have pushed all-in on Stallman's vision and the FSF'
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by falcor84 11mo ago
What does open sourcing have to do with "reproducing"? Last I checked, open sourcing is about allowing others to modify and to distribute the modified version, which you can do with these. Yes, having the full training data and to
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Well, this is just semantics. I can have a repo that includes a collection of json files that I had generated via a semi-manual build process that depends on everything from the state of my microbiome to my cat's scratching pattern dur
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by falcor84 11mo ago
> rebuild it from scratch That's beyond the definition of Open Source. Doing a bit of license research now, only the GPL has such a requirement - GPLv3: > The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Isn't that a bit like saying that if I open source a tool, but not a full compendium of all the code that I had read, which led me to develop it, then it's not really open source?
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Indeed. The mere fact that we ended up with the anthropomorphic term "hallucination", rather than something purely mechanistic like "glitch", indicates that there's something about this AI pattern that feels familia
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by falcor84 11mo ago
I'm not an Anthropic employee and think that: >AI will improve more rapidly than the education system can adapt. Is entirely obvious, and: > Within a few years it won't make sense for people to learn how to write actual code
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by falcor84 11mo ago
It might be feasible to have an intermediate AI call take the generated image and slice it into individual text and image elements that it would then render into the pdf page
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Yeah, I saw several people who only first tried AI chats on Google's new "AI Mode", which uses Gemini, but doesn't mention it anywhere.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Well, historically "Won't someone think of the children!" has been the most successful, so they're using that here too.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
I love this way English has of swallowing and digesting terms from other languages. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/the-tooter-the-sweeter_phr
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by falcor84 11mo ago
You know, I'm something of a Spider-Man myself

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