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by gtowey 3mo ago
This is a case where "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you" applies.
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Why are databases so hard?(gtowey.blogspot.com)
4 points by gtowey 3mo ago|2 comments
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I think jdnier nailed the phrases that most stuck out for me. I also agree that I would rather hear your own voice, even if you think it's less polished. The problem is when reading something that has those LLM tells, I immediately won
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I'm conflicted with this article. It does pack a lot of good information in there, and it's a useful comparison of the core difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL. But it still contains a lot of LLM-isms which are off putting and
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by gtowey 3mo ago
If I had to guess, it would be because that's exactly the environment and process that consumers will use, so it would capture variables such as "what if the probiotic was out-competed by a bacteria living on your mug?" And t
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Is human writing obsolete in the age of LLMs?(gtowey.blogspot.com)
4 points by gtowey 3mo ago|2 comments
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by gtowey 3mo ago
A lot of sports definitely make the distinction between strength and endurance. I don't agree that the metric of an uninformed person saying they feel stronger is just as valid as what actual sports science says. The former is probably
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by gtowey 3mo ago
Are you saying that things on the moon are less likely to survive because of meteor impacts and radiation? If so I think you misunderstood a few things. The earth is hit by far more meteors than the moon because of its stronger gravity well
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by gtowey 3mo ago
> feels like AI empowering scams and facilitating post-truth is more harm. "There are things worse than automating the murder of innocents" is certainly and interesting take.
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I suppose if you work in the Soylent Green factory it's easier to demonize those who speak out against it than to consider upending your own station.
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by gtowey 3mo ago
Just look at the dot com bust; the Internet and e-commerce were definitely real, but the over leveraged investments into poor business models driven by fomo had to crash before sanity returned.
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I don't think the saying that if you're a bad lawyer, dont represent yourself, it's that their mistake is forgetting what half the point of a lawyer is: to be objective. And that when trying to be a lawyer will usually fail w
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by gtowey 3mo ago
Funny, as I was reading the original article, I was thinking that anything left on the moon would survive being recycled by plate tectonics. It seems like reaching the moon isn't such a stretch for any technological civilization, so th
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by gtowey 3mo ago
The expectations of some bay area landlords when renting space in their own home are bonkers I've seen it all: not allowed to use the kitchen, not allowed to have guests, curfews, some are even contingent on not allowing the tenant to
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I agree with others saying that this doesn't disqualify complaints. In fact, it can be precisely because they can't tell the difference that they would be concerned about consuming AI outputs when they don't know they are.
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by gtowey 3mo ago
There surely is at some point. I'm saying this more from the perspective of an IC though, who is dealing with the next 2-3 levels of management. Perhaps it's a different story in the C-suite, but I'm dubious. IMO it's mo
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I think you misunderstood. I'm not talking about switching to cold contacting companies as a job hunting strategy. I'm saying if you get a suspicious outreach from a rando on linked in on behalf of a company THEN you only continue
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by gtowey 3mo ago
My takeaway from this is that I should use the same defense as when someone calls you "from you bank". When they reach out directly, go to the real company's site to apply and contact a real recruiter. If you can't vali
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by gtowey 3mo ago
It's my understanding that creatine doesn't directly make you stronger, instead it gives your muscles the ability to work a bit longer. This means you can do more strength training per session which is the part which makes you str
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by gtowey 3mo ago
Are we really expecting small town residents to have sophisticated enough prediction powers to know if a bigco company might target their town for a data center build? What's the cost of a false negative vs. a false positive for them?
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by gtowey 3mo ago
> In my work we are constantly giving people chances to take on more responsibility, In my experience, this means one of two things: You're asking people who already have too much to do, to add even more to their plate. Or You'
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by gtowey 3mo ago
> You have alighted onto an interesting topic: “bail out”. I believe a closely related word on the semiotic chain is “retreat”. Huh? That's a different meaning of "bail out". In this context its meaning is closer to "
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by gtowey 3mo ago
You think that building out space infrastructure is a less hard problem to solve than bribing a few local governments to get some building permits?
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by gtowey 3mo ago
Even funnier is that first picture shows the bottom panel overlapping the baseboard in a way that is impossible in real life.
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by gtowey 3mo ago
There is an alternative explanation for this behavior which says that there is a wave and a particle at all times. The wave and particle interact with each other and influence how they move and propogate. It says that we see the interferenc
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by gtowey 3mo ago
I'm not a lawyer either, but what you're referring to is called parallel construction, and it's not legal. Basically it comes down to 4th Amendment protection against unreasonable search. You can't use methods that viol
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by gtowey 3mo ago
Search partition pruning in distributed databases is one concrete application I'm aware of. Hashtables optimized for really large item counts; it can be a useful fast pre-check for item existence.
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by gtowey 3mo ago
It's because those things not only take more time, it's that the number of people who are really good at it are few and far between. That gives those employees leverage. Employers are trying to turn all workers everywhere in every
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by gtowey 3mo ago
We are going to go back to human-only networks for filtering the garbage into a trusted set of recommendations. Maybe where the only music you can trust are local artists you can see live. Or where the books you read are from a friend-of-a-
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by gtowey 3mo ago
That's like saying the addictiveness of heroin has no bearing on its health implications. It is the literally the most important aspect to consider. Without addictiveness, it wouldn't have such a large impact.

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