gampleman

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by gampleman 10d ago
Jury duty is a bit of an example of that working in practice. Generally speaking (at least in my jurisdiction) in theory you can't refuse jury duty just because you don't want to do it. However, in practice the system does allow a
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by gampleman 10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector - this is actually pretty interesting.
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by gampleman 12d ago
This is clearly written from a western Christian view. It should be noted for completeness that the Eastern Orthodox Church still uses the Septuagint (in Greek speaking churches in the original, in others with suitable translations thereof;
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by gampleman 29d ago
As an aside I've also made a Voronoi puzzle game: https://code.gampleman.eu/equilibrium/equilibrium.html
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by gampleman 1mo ago
An obvious example is if my product has an SDK and I'd like my customers to be able to script my product via their LLMs then I want to make my docs as AI-friendly as possible, since if their LLM picks my product's SDK rather than
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by gampleman 1mo ago
Memorizing stuff is good for understanding. Of course memorizing without understanding doesn't really help, which is what a lot of student last-minute "cramming" boils down to. But without concrete and memorized knowledge, an
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by gampleman 1mo ago
Anyone know where to put the policy file on MacOS? And can you do this even on a corporate machine?
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by gampleman 1mo ago
Cerebras capacity was pretty much entirely bought out at some point. We needed it and couldn't get it.
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by gampleman 1mo ago
Some interesting features here: - sum types/ADTs have been long missing from database data modeling and this is welcome change. It's not entirely clear to me how the migration strategy here will work with things like removing a va
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by gampleman 2mo ago
Probability of success and merit are different things. For instance if you know for a fact that you have been fired due to your race (perhaps you were outright told this is the case), but have no evidence (you weren't recording and the
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by gampleman 3mo ago
I wonder if a very small tax for RTO (perhaps with exemptions for manual jobs) would do the trick? I think it would help with making companies handle that externality.
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by gampleman 3mo ago
As I pointed out elsewhere, the problem is that these parental controls don't work. It's a matter of incentive: at the moment, it's in the interest of providers to help subvert the filters. Device makers also don't have
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by gampleman 3mo ago
The blockers generally don’t work (I’ve tried). A big part of the problem is that it is in the interest of the providers to subvert them. The main benefit of age verification is changing that responsibility by making it the business of prov
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by gampleman 3mo ago
What an exceptionally bad faith way to put this whole thing. A five year old watching hours of the most depraved porn available is harmful to that child. Even if you disagree with that statement, you surely must acknowledge that it is an
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by gampleman 3mo ago
I think this is really the only serious alternative.
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by gampleman 4mo ago
As in: most popular modern board games combine both luck and skill. That would imply that like the parent, most people enjoy games that combine both rather than being purely skill xor luck based.
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by gampleman 4mo ago
We're rather used to the idea of progress in most areas of human endeavor. It's fairly absurd to believe rolling back the last 200 years of progress would lead to measurably better outcomes is absurd in fields like medicine, indus
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by gampleman 4mo ago
Plenty of places have relatively high teacher pay, relative high staffing (for instance 1 teacher + 1 assistant per 25 children is standard here - not quite 1/10 but pretty close). The educational outcomes are bad and getting worse.
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by gampleman 4mo ago
This is basically why the classical education movement exists. The fact that you can have remarkably better results using thousand(s) year old teaching methods/ideas than using 'modern' educational approaches is actually rath
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by gampleman 4mo ago
> But I seem to be in a minority Given the design of nearly all popular modern board games, that seems very unlikely.
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by gampleman 4mo ago
I do agentic Elm development every day (it's my job). I feel like what you describe was a problem with models perhaps two years ago. Today's models don't seem to struggle with it at all and in fact do seem to benefit from wha
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AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome(personfamiliar.com)
2 points by gampleman 4mo ago|0 comments
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by gampleman 4mo ago
No. Large co I work at everyone is like running at least 3 concurrent Claude sessions all day every day. Talking to friends in other companies it seems the same. Big difference between professional deployments and personal ones.
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by gampleman 4mo ago
I don't know if it will help fixing it, but it might help drivers avoid them more easily if they're painted in bright colors, which still sounds like a plus. Nobody wants to drive into a massive pothole at full speed unaware or tr
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by gampleman 7mo ago
Actually I think this is one of the more tragic outcomes of the LLM revolution: it was already hard to get funding for ergonomic advances in programming before. Funding a new PL ecosystem or major library was no mean feat. Despite that, the
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by gampleman 8mo ago
I always thought if Orwell was quite prescient of the eastern block than surely Huxley was even more so about the western.
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by gampleman 8mo ago
I thought so too. But having talked to a few people who are generally afraid of flying, they absolutely do take re-assurance from the security theatre. They are very much not interested in having the ease of subverting this security explain
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by gampleman 8mo ago
In Edinburgh the (small, we often need 2) luggage carts are now £2.
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by gampleman 8mo ago
And also you are seeing serious criticism from the traditional Apple fan crowd, e.g. John Gruber has been panning it mercilessly.
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by gampleman 8mo ago
Hm for me it's been a fairly steady state. The last 5 or so MacOS versions delivered features that got a solid meh from me: - Big Sur did a redesign which wasn't really needed, but it wasn't that much of a downgrade. Wish the

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