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by hosh 3y ago
The core thing is exploring just exactly what is subjective and what is objective, and whether quality is subjective or objective. Pirsig came up with an answer, and then goes on to talk about excellence (arete). Thinking back, this discour
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There are several ways to approach the Tao Te Ching, including the mystical, but I think that there's a great book that explains the underlying approach the Chinese have, called, Treatise on Efficacy. Essentially, in Chinese philosoph
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That principle has been stated and developed in other context. For example, there was an earlier HN post about composition of features ( https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/eigensolutions/?latest ) Another example i
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And then there are the people who want to visit family far away from their home and still be able to work. That’s enabled by remote work.
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by hosh 3y ago
The indie authors whose work I read on Royal Road (and similar sites) have been posting about how their work would get scraped and modified by AI before being published on Amazon.
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Boeing got taken over by McDonnell Douglas business types, and engineering excellence is no longer the main thing there. This seems like how the situation would naturally play out. (I hear from the rumor mill, something similar is happening
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… because Siri, predictive text, etc suck because it isn’t using an LLM. Alexa, and the Google Assistants from the same era all suck as well. I don’t see how evidence that Apple sucked with pre-LLM ML is an indicator that they will suck wit
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“Apologists” … this is the domain of strategic analysis, business and products. Apple, Google, et al are not feudal lords or entities owed personal allegiance, nor sporting teams for fans to rally around, nor are we talking about morality a
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Apple doesn’t have to win developer trust or build an AI platform. They just have to build a compelling consumer product that can only function with AI, and they are better equipped to do that than Google or Microsoft. It remains to be seen
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I like the ideas in the article, and they are generalizable beyond user interface design to programming languages, frameworks, and technologies. Some of my thoughts: 1. Christopher Alexander's ideas on pattern languages essentially t
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by hosh 3y ago
Interesting, and I'll keep that in mind. I'm not sure that law keeps people from using other means to express their road rage in a more dangerous manner (for example, cutting in front and then slowing down is something I have enco
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Phoenix also has a lot of jerk drivers. There's a law here against displays of road rage, but it doesn't stop people from doing some really weird and dangerous stuff just to show their displeasure. (In constrast to say, Albuquerqu
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Personal attention matters. You can’t really outsource that. While not scientific, it is a sentiment described in _Diamond Age_.
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That depends on the scale and the state. I doubt the government cared that much 150 years ago; it was more about claims on surface and ground water. These days, past a certain scale, you’d work with an engineer to plan it out and get the pe
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by hosh 3y ago
If I remember correctly, Google’s CAPCHA’s test isn’t in correctly identifying images, but the behavior of the runtime system (mouse jitter, for example) while the capcha is presented to the user. The image identification was not the real t
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If he slowed down the water so that it has a chance to pecolate, it might help. But that only expands the capacity, and there may be days when that overflows. I think Lancaster talks about the perpendicular flow, and also talks about ways t
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For more general design patterns for water management, see Brad Landcaster's book series, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond". In the pictures in the article, the roads form berms, and the fields are basins. It doe
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Is there something similar to this for Google Drive?
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This one is a bit more tangential (but still related to decomposition by ecological systems), but I think really cool. Have you ever checked out Dr John Todd’s work on ecomachines? (The guy who found a method to break down DDT in 40 days an
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I hear a lot of push-back and skepticism here about uncontextualized ideas coming from permaculture design, and I have learned to make it clear about the frame, paradigm, and worldview I am speaking from. A common push-back is about efficie
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The article claims that "Although manure itself can be used as fertilizer, doing so can be costly, logistically challenging and has environmental drawbacks." ... but knowing what I know about permaculture design, this assertion co
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Outside of outliers like gmail, Google didn’t get their success with product. The organization is set up for engineering to carry the day, funded by search. An AI product that makes search irrelevant is an existential threat, but I don’t th
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Now we have 70B LLM models.
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Related to this is Promise Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory Promise Theory goes well beyond trust, by first understanding that promises are not obligations (promises in Promise Theory are intention
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Dist Erlang worked fine in today’s environments for the application we were working on — nothing like real time audio. (Although people are using Elixir for real-time audio and video processing and muxing). I saw an example of something OTP
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Like many other crafts and arts where machines can do better, Go has a deeper role in being transformative for the human learning it -- in the case of Go, developing strategic thinking, being able to make decisions balancing long term and s
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I am increasingly finding myself using ChatGPT powered Bing over Google (or rather, DuckDuckGo) for my daily driver.
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And then, there are the deeper principles, which are broadly applicable across diverse fields. Examples: - Permaculture design principle #1 - "Observe and Interact" - Kanban principles, "Make work visible", "Everyth
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There are the deeper principles that are broadly applicable in many fields, generate new practices, and applicable in creative and versatile ways.
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This is what I thought off about the original story. Yes, the team got things done and was able to provision needed hardware by managing the pain signal. However, upper management was still isolated and didn’t trust or respect the IT team.

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