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by ineptech 4y ago
The purpose of a retro is to identify a process that will keep some bad thing from happening again; a process that keeps the bad thing from happening for any reason is strictly better than a process that keeps the bad thing from happening d
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by ineptech 4y ago
I'm sure they'll make wonderful parens
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by ineptech 4y ago
> It couldn't possibly be actually doing those things. It's a large language model. How would it be provisioning a computer? I agree that it isn't, but it's not like it's impossible, right? We know chatgpt was t
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by ineptech 4y ago
It's a running joke in my circle to describe the taste of any expensive wine, beer or coffee as, "strident, yet insouciant."
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by ineptech 4y ago
I had a similar thought - perhaps Elon was visited by a time traveler from the future who convinced him that the only way to stave off some impending disaster is for someone to drive Twitter into bankruptcy as quickly as possible, and he he
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by ineptech 4y ago
> In the future, instead of everyone sharing the same search engine, you’ll have your completely individual, personalized Mike or Julia or Jarvis - the AI. Instead of being scared to share information with it, you will volunteer your da
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by ineptech 4y ago
Same complaint about the uncloseable, unminimizable Win 11 advert that I woke up to on my Win10 box this morning. Who thinks this is a good way to push upgrades? Do they not understand how much that pisses people off?
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by ineptech 4y ago
Didn't the US intelligence services say they had clear evidence he was involved in exactly what he's confessing to, several years ago?
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by ineptech 4y ago
"Private space" is also a concept. There's such a thing as being too abstract, and specific trumps general.
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by ineptech 4y ago
This is so abstract as to be meaningless, I have no idea what you're arguing or what you think "applied" means in this context. Does the concept of "free speech" mean you ought to be able to scream the n word in a
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Freedom of speech is an ideal that applies to all people and all spaces, public and private Private spaces? Nonsense. You can't go in to a restaurant and start ranting about the Jews or whatever, and then say that they're
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by ineptech 4y ago
This kind of sentiment always shows up in this kind of thread; I think a lot of people don't really grok that being far enough to one side causes an unbiased forum to appear biased against you. If you hate X enough, Reddit and Twitter
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by ineptech 4y ago
$1K was the high end, most of 'em cost less than that new.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Treating this press release like a story problem in 5th grade math, there's something off: > Last year approximately 1,600 catalytic converters were reportedly stolen in California each month, and California accounts for 37% of all
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by ineptech 4y ago
I don't really understand SAFe, but from the outside looking in, it seems like the answer to "How close can we get to agile while still employing an army of Project Managers?" Which is to say, not very.
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by ineptech 4y ago
What I object to, at least, is that GA could ignore incognito mode users, but doesn't. Yes, other ad networks might still get incognito users' data, but they're not the biggest spy company on Earth, Google is. It's mis
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by ineptech 4y ago
It might help to start by getting rid of the ranks and other military trappings.
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by ineptech 4y ago
You can't give them credit for solving a problem they created. If Nvidia made me log in to Facebook to use my graphics card, I wouldn't cheer when they gave me the option to make an Nvidia account instead.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I mean, fair, but does it follow that someone who dislikes utilitarianism or feels it's disprovable must consequently dislike EA? Because that seems to be the thesis of this essay. I guess it comes down to this: when people argue with
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by ineptech 4y ago
That's the thing, I think you can. If everyone who donates to animal shelters felt as confident about it as you described, I don't think anyone would have a problem with EA. Certainly, no one is complaining about the idea of, be
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by ineptech 4y ago
Religious devotion? No offense, but that sounds like more straw. I think there's an awful lot of people who read about EA, visit some charity ranking websites, rethink their giving, and then don't go on to start a blog. I don&
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by ineptech 4y ago
Is EA predicated on moral realism? That seems like a straw man. I don't see any contradiction between abandoning realism (i.e. admitting that there is no objective way to measure goodness or other moral qualities) and EA. We probably
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by ineptech 4y ago
> PS. Please do not say anything about “anyone can start his own instance”. No, average Twitter/Facebook consumer can’t start his own instance. This isn't a law of the universe, it's just software people haven't writ
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by ineptech 4y ago
1) You responded as if I said, "the only purpose of monetary policy is to stimulate the economy as much as possible even if it introduces instability ." Please don't do that. 2) You gotta read the thing I was replying to,
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by ineptech 4y ago
The purpose of monetary policy is to stimulate the economy, i.e. increase the value of dollars that are invested in something. The fact that it decreases the value of dollars that aren't invested is a feature, not a bug.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Notaries already exist. The proof that they are not a good solution to this problem is that they're not currently being used to solve it. All the companies doing hokey things like asking people to take a picture of themselves holding
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by ineptech 4y ago
In my preferred alternate reality, Keybase was (somehow) purchased by the feds instead of Zoom and used for exactly this purpose.
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by ineptech 4y ago
You've misunderstood the problem we're trying to solve. Right now, N companies have N partial records of my identity, with varying ages and accuracy levels. Company A has my name and phone number, company B has my email and name
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by ineptech 4y ago
Sooner or later we're going to need a federal dept of is-this-guy-who-he-says-he-is. No startup can solve this; it's not profitable enough to do right. The last resort for authentication will always be "go to a place and ta
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by ineptech 4y ago
IANAL but that sounds like "If we charge you $2500, and you argue that that's too high, you'll lose."

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