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by indigochill 3y ago
> even python might be too far from the CPU to be a good introduction to computing IMO Python is useful as a didactic tool not so much for teaching kids how computers work as for giving them an emotional experience of "Wow, I can ma
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by indigochill 3y ago
Maybe some if you get lucky and find someone who's really into the subject, but it certainly wouldn't be a requirement because the people hiring for that position don't think that way. And I imagine the Venn diagram of people
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by indigochill 3y ago
How do you get a CEO with vision to structure the incentives towards achieving the vision (presumably starting with the incentives for his direct reports and maybe coaching them to do the same for their reports, and on down the chain)?
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Personallly, I think an anonymous social media could work better. I'm leaning hard in the opposite direction. In my mind, a social network graph that is extremely personal and reflects and behaves like an _actual social network_ i
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by indigochill 3y ago
> LLMs seem to operate on the principle of "will this pass for a correct answer" rather than "this is how this thing works, so here's a reasonable opinion answering your question". Isn't the hint in the name
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by indigochill 3y ago
I would think it would be more like the problem that colleges face in choosing who to accept. Companies offering apprenticeships obviously have limited resources for managing and running the program, but on the other hand perhaps apprentice
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by indigochill 3y ago
For that matter, even when you're living in a cyberpunk dystopia it's still in a sense a matter of perspective (if you go by the textbook definition of a dystopia as a terrible place to live). This was really driven home to me whe
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by indigochill 3y ago
But suppose we gave HR some other shortcut besides a college degree. Something that still attested to a similar level of work ethic and minimal qualification in a field. If we just set the "college is important for well-rounded life ex
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by indigochill 3y ago
Resources don't equal success, but both startups and incumbents need business plans: how they'll turn success into revenue. I'm too young to remember, but was there a clear business plan supporting search at the time? Obvious
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by indigochill 3y ago
My bet is regardless of any initial good intentions, since BlueSky is a company, market pressures will inevitably force them into dark patterns like we see on every other commercial social network (going back to the early days of the compan
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by indigochill 3y ago
The line is kinda blurry when the land houses people who have no representation in the sale. Sure, you don't own the people, but you now own their land.
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by indigochill 3y ago
I grew up in a family of fantasy nerds and it still took a while for me to get around to LOTR. My main interest was I vaguely remembered a WIRED interview with the creators of Riven (the sequel to Myst) where they said it was an inspiration
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by indigochill 3y ago
> look for an entropy source I think even this is a bit of an assumption. I have a sort of thought experiment that what we call physics and what our ancestors saw as angels or spirits moving the heavenly bodies _could_ actually both be t
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by indigochill 3y ago
I haven't actually got around to finishing it, but I've been enjoying 86: Eighty Six which is more grim military mecha stuff. Not particularly grounded but is definitely about certain real-world themes. It was apparently inspired
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by indigochill 3y ago
Counterpoint: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/ already exists and is a self-hostable FOSS Bandcamp clone. Does it clone every feature? No. And it definitely has taken longer than a weekend to get to where it is. But it&
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by indigochill 3y ago
> At least felling trees to build things serves a purpose. Are those things worth the cost? I spent a little time in Finland a while back and although I didn't look deeply into it, my impression was they had a healthy relationship w
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by indigochill 3y ago
I think about this on a number of levels a lot. I think things have changed a lot less than we tell ourselves (though they have changed a little bit, in that we are no longer bound to each other by feudal oaths - possibly for the worse). Th
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by indigochill 3y ago
Not a problem if they don't say it since then it's not derailing the conversation. It could even be a benefit if it motivates them to look for actual holes.
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by indigochill 3y ago
Yeah, I majored in journalism and this was a constant topic of discussion through the whole program. I do think the traditional business model is probably done-for in a digital environment. Never mind that piracy is technically illegal. New
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Fourth, fewer games will be available because fewer authors will be motivated to write programs when they cannot earn a good return for their efforts. Most of the points are spot on in terms of the AAA response to piracy, but this one
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by indigochill 3y ago
Well, "good" has a few dimensions to it: 1. Speed of output (not very fun to wait multiple seconds for each letter to be output) 2. Coherence of output (how far back does the model remember the context of the conversation?) 3. Var
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by indigochill 3y ago
Here's the wikipedia article about it (to avoid linking to any particular seller, but it's generally easy to find from normal book sellers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)
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by indigochill 3y ago
> We’re the only medium in the history of humankind that can turn every consumer into a creator and, astonishingly, we do that through the power of play. Think about that! I mean, games are an incredible medium, but I think books can blu
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by indigochill 3y ago
> For example, if you ask AI to perform certain editing jobs on a piece of content that may be somehow connected to a political or a religious issue it will refuse to do so. Some AI services (especially those run as services by megacorps
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by indigochill 3y ago
IPFS would be another potential solution. What drew us to Bittorrent for this use case is the (at least original) ethos of clients both downloading and uploading cooperatively such that as long as there's any community that values the
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by indigochill 3y ago
It could just be a lack of understanding on our part, but here's the scenario we're thinking about: Say the Redis team seeds a redis:1.0 image. So far, so good. But what if a nefarious hacker seeds a redis:2.0 image? In a traditio
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by indigochill 3y ago
> "Distributed cloud backup" Relatedly, when Docker started charging open source projects for Dockerhub storage, a friend and I started brainstorming a torrent registry driver (although we didn't find a way around the proj
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by indigochill 3y ago
Yeah, I actually went to school for "strategic communication" which was in large part advertising/marketing/PR. I originally had this very naive perspective that these sorts of communication are important and valuable. W
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by indigochill 3y ago
Nah. Now, I get that you're probably coming at this from "But hosting costs money and advertising is a way to recuperate the cost, so visiting the site but blocking ads is leeching bandwidth from the host without providing value b
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by indigochill 3y ago
This has actually been a common pattern in the industrial revolution: 1. Invent new technology that revolutionizes society (e.g. railroad, telephone, software) 2. Quickly amass a fortune exploiting this new technology. 3. Use a portion of t

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