gilbetron

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by gilbetron 10mo ago
Just think of mice as the staging environment for production humans.
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
Just think of mice as the staging environment for production humans.
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
> lean kangaroo mince I first read "mice" which was startling, then realized it was "mince" and then realized it was kangaroo! How would you describe the flavor?
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
1.7x more bugs, not great, not terrible
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
Absolutely. I missed the punch card days, but have been here for the rest, and software quality is way higher (overall) than it used to be.
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
He didn't cause that, he is just riding the wave. The call to ban them has been going on for years, it was just put on pause during the pandemic.
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
A bit taller, but generally not bigger. Most pickups have gotten insanely huge.
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by gilbetron 10mo ago
Well, money is power, so wealth inequality is power inequality. Those 100x wealthy people will have 100x (or more) the power, and people with power like that like to do bad things to those that don't have it. See, it isn't about h
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
My favorite explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vitf8YaVXhc
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
Taco Bell by us has AI order taking and it is amazing. Quick, always has been getting it correct, and easy to understand. Granted, it's probably very abusable, but for someone just wanting to put in a quick order it is way better than
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
I call it the "Persistent Incompetence of Software Development", which is another perspective on estimation, focused more on expertise. A chef that cooks pizzas, cooks the same pizza over and over again and becomes amazing at it.
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
You may know the mechanics, but you don't know how LLMs "work" because no one really understands (yet, hopefully).
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
What simple method would you use instead? It is effective to have such comparisons for quick communication of the relative size of things.
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/features/certificates-public... Lack of health care records interoperability (locks patients into a system). Much of the well-intended regulation around healthcare ends up getting p
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
You assume that there is any meaningful competition. What we are seeing, across industries including education, is a type of indirect collusion that is keeping prices crazy, not competition. Over regulation is a big piece of what enables al
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
> Any conscious agent, textual or physical, has to inhabit a world whose structure is stable, self-consistent, and rich enough to support persistent internal dynamics. Why? How do we know that? Seems like a made up requirement without pr
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
> auto mechanics make double minimum wage if they don't own their tools (so they can go buy some) I think you have that backwards: "Typically, in California, if your employer wants you to provide and maintain your own work tool
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by gilbetron 11mo ago
I've found an anecdotal correlation that the (relatively few) people that have moralized at me about returning shopping carts also tend to dislike self-checkout at the same stores. I guess it is immoral to have someone return your cart
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by gilbetron 1y ago
The pandemic induced the major change. Schools were forced to put everything online, and so screens became the default learning environment. What's the difference between them being on a laptop/chromebook/tablet and a phone?
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by gilbetron 1y ago
The paper is yet another in a long line of, "humans are special, computers can't replicate them". Such thinking has been a part of the fields for decades and decades, I had arguments about them when I was in college with my p
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by gilbetron 1y ago
This is one of the least curious posts I've seen on HN. We have been thinking about thinking for millenia, and no, Buddhists don't have it figure out. Nobody does. LLMs are the most significant advancement in "thinking scienc
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by gilbetron 1y ago
This is Trump, when he says, "test", he wants to see mushroom clouds.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
> I have come to understand that there are two kinds of people, those who do things only if it helps them achieve a goal, and those who do things just because. There are two kinds of people, those that think it is clever to split people
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by gilbetron 1y ago
novice -> informed -> asshole -> seasoned Keep pushing through the asshole stage and you get to another where you learn to enjoy what you enjoy, whether it is a $10 chocolate chip cookie or Chips A'Hoy. A $200 bottle of wine o
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by gilbetron 1y ago
The Mars one is much more interesting and traumatic :)
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Ah yes, the problem of "more people" determining elections. It should be the minority that determines elections!
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by gilbetron 1y ago
No, managers did that years ago.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
I will bet a large amount of money that the world will not detonate in 2026, any takers?
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Unbelievable how someone on this forum can blame "the left" when the US has an administration that is clearly the greatest threat to the 1st amendment, really all of them, the country has probably ever seen.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
What other downside is there besides range anxiety? I've had an EV for 18 months now, and I see nothing but upsides. Environmental concerns were my main purchasing reason, but now that I've experienced an EV, that is at the bottom

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