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by haswell 2y ago
> I think not consuming news is not a reasonable approach in our day and age On the one hand, I agree that it’s necessary to be informed to some degree. On the other, I think this can be done without consuming the news the way most peo
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by haswell 2y ago
And aggressively hijacks the browser preventing page refreshes, reader mode, etc. on iPhone.
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by haswell 2y ago
It sounds like you may have found your niche with existing Slack customers and if that works for you that’s great. I don’t agree that this is a “strength”, because it limits the growth potential of the product while coupling critical functi
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by haswell 2y ago
To be clear, I’m not putting a section literally labeled “BLUF” at the top of every email. This is more about a mindset going into the writing process, and ensuring that I always take time to include the most important information in the fi
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by haswell 2y ago
This is good advice for all types of email; especially work email. When an email really does need lots of detail, I’ve made a habit of always including a BLUF, or “bottom line up front” - kind of like a TL;DR but more focused on identifying
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by haswell 2y ago
This severely limits the usefulness of a product like this. Core aspects of the product like workflows and task management should not be tied to a chat vendor in my opinion, and would make me extremely nervous as a potential buyer due to yo
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by haswell 2y ago
Super useful link. I wouldn't be surprised if it got flagged by folks who feel threatened by the idea, and there are clearly quite a few AI startups represented here, most of which are doing exactly what the research says is turning pe
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by haswell 2y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too. I’ve never had a post with such a growth in upvotes in the first 10-15 minutes. That immediately stopped when it was deranked. Made me think it either triggered some kind of circuit breaker, or the fact that the c
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Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions(news.wsu.edu)
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by haswell 2y ago
Language is just a variable resolution abstraction on top of non-linguistic thinking and information processing. I think it’s a mistake to equate the language ability of these models with general intelligence, even if the language produced
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by haswell 2y ago
Underlying models will get better too, but not likely at the rate they have been thus far until we achieve new hardware breakthroughs. This improvement may not approach AGI for decades, but it’s fair to expect incremental progress in the me
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by haswell 2y ago
Right, and LLMs have just significantly lowered the complexity and barrier to entry for someone who wants to run a bot and significantly expands the potential discussion space to an extent that makes the comparison with prior bots a bit ten
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by haswell 2y ago
I don’t just think this will happen; I think it’s already happening. Harder to pull off here, but already extremely prevalent on Reddit and other popular social spaces. And part of the reason it works is that a significant subset of human
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by haswell 2y ago
We don’t need anything nearing AGI for these bots to become nearly indistinguishable from humans and to have increasing impact on communities. I think it’s utterly fascinating how quickly people have lost sight of current reality, either by
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by haswell 2y ago
> If these incredibly-obvious no-content non-comments are the best that LLMs can do I think our jobs are safe I think we have to look at these as an early iteration. These bots are only going to get better and better.
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by haswell 2y ago
> How are non technical people, like our parents, ... going to install their own router? The way they already are doing this. You’re presenting this as if it’s some mythical impossible thing, but there’s usually someone in the househol
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by haswell 2y ago
> most people are probably better off with equipment managed by their provider so they have someone to whom they can complain about wifi issues, etc I strongly disagree. The degree of troubleshooting ability this grants the often almos
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by haswell 2y ago
> Such a pump has no valves, so a patient using the Bivacor heart in its most basic mode would have no pulse. But we recently adapted our device to give it a pulsatile outflow option. > The pump can run at constant speed, producing
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by haswell 2y ago
This writeup is significantly better than the OP link. Should probably be the article of record. The section on constant flow vs. variable flow to simulate a heartbeat got me thinking about how weird it would feel to have no pulse, or what
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by haswell 2y ago
This is really helpful. I’m doing pour over, and I tend to use lower temperature water, so it sounds like I’ve got some leeway.
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by haswell 2y ago
How quickly is quickly? I literally yesterday bought my first bag of decaf and mixed them with my regular beans. I need to sleep more, and reducing caffeine intake is the low hanging fruit. Decades of habits around buying and using normal b
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by haswell 2y ago
> I don't know why people say SAML is complex or hard This is a position only people with deep knowledge of SAML can take. Once you understand it, it’s not so bad. But most people - including experienced engineers with decent know
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by haswell 2y ago
As someone who has implemented SAML and OIDC at many large companies, I disagree with the general thrust of this comment. Customers usually care most about a specific outcome. If that outcome can be achieved using OIDC instead of SAML, some
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by haswell 2y ago
If they sue, this comment will be used to make their case. I guess I just don’t understand - how are you proceeding as if this is an acceptable starting point? With all respect, I don’t think you’re taking this seriously, and it reflects po
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by haswell 2y ago
Security Now is still going strong and I listen weekly! And Steve recently committed to continuing past 1000 episodes (he was previously planning to wind things down). He’s continuing to do awesome work and I deeply appreciate him for it.
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by haswell 2y ago
For anyone looking for tools that do this, it seems like a good opportunity to mention Steve Gibson’s Validrive tool [0] if anyone out there is trying to help family and friends who might be scared off by a CLI tool, and I believe it’s non-
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by haswell 2y ago
This only makes sense to me in the context of the “all matter is conscious” theory, in which there’s something that it’s like to be say, an electron, just not very much. As the theory goes, the more complexity there is in a system, the more
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by haswell 2y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment. My point was not that the only thing that exists is cold ruthlessness, but that the claim that technology is inherently oppressive does not make sense. Doesn’t make sense for the reasons you state: it b
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by haswell 2y ago
> to leave my people Being single does not equip one to leave behind their friends and family.
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by haswell 2y ago
All "technology" (using the broad definition) is a manifestation of human ideas and the evolution of those ideas over time. Human thought preceded the creation of prisons or the repurposing of existing structures as prisons. And e

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