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by habitue 4y ago
God, can we just kill the semantic web stuff already? It's like a bizarre religion that won't die. By the time the web is finally "semantic" and everything is marked up appropriately, we'll have AIs that just infer
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by habitue 4y ago
> The bulk of blood transfusions will always rely on people regularly rolling up their sleeve to donate. Who is this line for? It's comically certain about this
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by habitue 4y ago
> The only official "meaning" of the badge was that the user matched the identity of the profile That's what they said, but what happened in actual practice is that you had to have a certain level of fame or notoriety to g
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by habitue 4y ago
Sounds very overdue TBH
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by habitue 4y ago
Sure, maybe if your manager passively mentioned looking at the stat, you wouldn't. If your manager brought it up in performance reviews as a reason you weren't getting a raise or being promoted, or suggested you might be laid off
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by habitue 4y ago
There's a big difference between these and training chopsticks, which is that training chopsticks have an undeserved childish association with them. No need to try to add that association to this entirely different utensil. > If you
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by habitue 4y ago
twitter is pretty great if you use it right. Calling it a toxic cesspool is overly dismissive of its value
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by habitue 4y ago
I think it's very possible that we won't have good explanations for things that are this complicated and that change this quickly. I.e. massive matrices of numbers that are trained and retrained regularly. Humans have a small amou
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by habitue 4y ago
Technically true, but I think the comment you're replying to was thinking of the era when celebrities had to go on late night shows in order for people to hear what they had to say. Like literally, the middle man had limited airtime an
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by habitue 4y ago
A tradeoff can exist without implying that the tradeoff is necessary. In other words, America has A but not B, Europe has B but not A, and there doesn't happen to be a place with both A and B, but it's not impossible in principle.
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by habitue 4y ago
> This is mainly media workers exploiting current events for traffic This is basically what news is. The media "exploits" (reports on) current events, gets traffic and then pays its employees
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by habitue 4y ago
I think this is part of the art of software engineering, but I have some heuristics: - What do you need the framework for? What do you not need the framework for? Heavily weight your decision based on the needs you know you have, and not wh
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by habitue 4y ago
can confirm, this site works fine in Firefox. I can copy the colorful text and paste it as text
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by habitue 4y ago
This is kind of amazing, this is closer than anyone else has gotten to reimplementing typescript
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by habitue 4y ago
Yes!
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by habitue 4y ago
> Create libraries that aim to do one thing and do it well. This is a thing people like to repeat over and over again, but just really isn't actionable. The world is very high dimensional, it's always a judgement call what to c
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by habitue 4y ago
> we are standing on the shoulders of giants, those who have built and battle-tested it, and brought it to its current mature state I would rewrite this maybe to: > we are making Google's internal problems into everyone's pr
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by habitue 4y ago
Yeah, I mean if you don't remember if it's `strlen`, `strnlen` when autocompleting, you can introduce a security vulnerability with intellisense just "tab completing" This is contrived, but in general (programmer + fuzzy
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by habitue 4y ago
Any thread on copilot always seems to get a lot of comments about how it makes dumb mistakes. I guess I'm used to Intellisense etc making dumb suggestions all the time? I don't dwell on it for a second, either the computer makes a
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by habitue 4y ago
Also, you're free to look at his actual statements and evaluate them based on how reasonable they seem to you. Not everything has to be evaluated from the perspective of conflict of interest
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by habitue 4y ago
Yeah, they allude to supporting more than one token for the identifier, which would be nice
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by habitue 4y ago
This attitude is kind of the ios-flavored "computers are appliances I license from the manufacturer at their pleasure" not "computers are general purpose devices I purchase and can then do what I want with"
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by habitue 4y ago
Video games are a similar threat to living a fulfilling life, absolutely. Definitely not the exact same kind of threat, since video games don't make you dumber like pot, but there is a real risk that a person substitutes accomplishing
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by habitue 4y ago
What about the classic story of the AirBnB founders pivoting from selling cereal? It seems like the metric for whether you decide to pivot or shut down depends on how many rounds you've done and how many employees you have. Early on, c
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by habitue 4y ago
They're a public company
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by habitue 4y ago
Recently learned of Hyprland[0] a tiling WM for wayland that's kind of blingy and flashy. Looks interesting, I might install it [0]: https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland
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by habitue 4y ago
I don't have specific knowledge of why it fizzled, but my default guess is that the authors wrote the paper up as a proposal, but then didn't follow up with years of doggedly promoting it in a way that would get it standardized or
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by habitue 4y ago
dev/prod divergence isn't the reason to do dev in the cloud. The reason you do dev in the cloud is dev/other-dev divergence. I'm a big fan of doing dev in the cloud (at least for work, no way I'm doing that for pers
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by habitue 4y ago
This is what companies like Gitpod do, they are the devops team, and you just manage the dockerfile that determines what the dev environment looks like.
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by habitue 4y ago
The thing you're noticing is the usual thing that happens when new labor saving technology is invented: 1. What people expect: less work needs to be done to get what you had before. 2. What people don't expect: more is expected be

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