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by jebarker 1y ago
I remember this episode but not the details. Why was it a non-issue if holding the phone did cause the signal strength to drop? Is it just the case that the drop was too small to affect call quality/stability?
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by jebarker 1y ago
Why does this have to be true? For example, if you have a different LLM that is judging than the one being judged then their biases could at least be different. Also, as their reasoning abilities improve wouldn't LLM judges approach th
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by jebarker 1y ago
This feels right to me, but I wonder what he was thinking of when he said “problem”. For me life is most effortless when I’m working on math or cs problems/puzzles but I sometimes get this guilty feeling that I “should” be working on a
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by jebarker 1y ago
The phenomenon is not just true in coding. I think over time we’ll see that outsourcing thinking isn’t always a good idea if you wish to develop long term knowledge and critical thinking skills. Much like social media has destroyed the abil
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by jebarker 1y ago
This is wonderful. I humbly believe discovering and applying a similar set of ideas is what got me through the slump of mid-life crisis and in a much more peaceful place now in all aspects of life.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I tend to think of (a default state of) happiness as being akin to equanimity. Not indifference, but acceptance of life as it is right now because that tends to diffuse your suffering. Contentment would be another appropriate word for this
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by jebarker 1y ago
> Then there is the issue of food security and virtuous cycle, much of large agriculture depends on fossil fuels and it's questionnable if we should let go of animals provided inputs. My understanding is that the production of anima
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by jebarker 1y ago
I do all my software development in remote clusters/supercomputers. I’d consider myself a power user. My laptop is for running a terminal, vscode, a browser and the various applications my company requires, e.g. Teams, Slack. So I want
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by jebarker 1y ago
> as it comes out of the box This doesn’t seem like a fair way to evaluate MacOS given the effort involved in configuring a Linux installation
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by jebarker 1y ago
> which is a relatively easier problem I hope they don’t believe that…
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by jebarker 1y ago
For sure, but when I was a runner that got me outside for more like 10-15 hours a week.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I’ve been both an ultra runner and a committed weight trainer at different times in my life. For me I believe the weight training is better for overall health (as long as a minimal dose of cardio is also included), but the thing it really l
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by jebarker 1y ago
Yes, I do read books to give me different perspectives on life that help me form my beliefs about what is right, wrong and ethical. The suggestion that’s a bad idea is pretty incredible to me. Where do you think I should go for such things?
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by jebarker 1y ago
> an awful lot of stuff about “national character” that is… questionable. Yes! I recently read this book and was pretty shocked by how much was chalked up to the German character. I came away feeling neither comfort nor increased panic r
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by jebarker 1y ago
What does vice versa mean here? Clerks are turned into mathematicians by using a computer?
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by jebarker 1y ago
This isn't true. There's still plenty of curious developers building things just because they want to using technologies that aren't flavor of the month. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more than ever. What has c
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by jebarker 1y ago
I agree. I usually find his posts illuminating. Sure, they’re verbose and self-aggrandizing, but there are way more writers out there online that are also self-aggrandizing but offer no original content or value. Also the rambling style pre
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by jebarker 1y ago
I believe I'm a slow thinker too and it's always bothered me that in a work context there's an inherent advantage for fast thinkers due to the idea that the optimal way to solve problems is to "just jump on a call/h
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by jebarker 1y ago
This is very encouraging! As I said in another comment, lack of confidence in opinions due to realizing the limits of knowledge feels debilitating. Glad to hear maybe it’s just the start of learning like a beginner again!
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by jebarker 1y ago
As with all things it seems, this has a failure mode too, at least for the person growing up. I’ve become so un-confident in my opinions on most things that I basically don’t have any. For current event type things I just realized that eve
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by jebarker 1y ago
It's not. "The people" is a collective term, so this unambiguously says that collectively the people have the right to keep and bear arms, i.e. as a group. For example, maybe this guarantees that a well regulated militia of t
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by jebarker 1y ago
I was responding to an assertion that the amendment authors must have known the implications of what they were writing. It’s irrelevant what a subsequent Supreme Court interpretation was to that point.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I almost don’t want to respond since this is well trodden ground, but I would say that “a well regulated militia” casts doubt on the individual gun ownership interpretation. You have to decide who the militia exists to fight and therefore w
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by jebarker 1y ago
I think it’s worth posting the actual wording of the 2nd amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” There’s endless legal de
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by jebarker 1y ago
For others that found the website design made it difficult to read the post: there's a "quiet mode" button at the top right.
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And they have nuclear weapons and technology that may be destabilizing the ecosystem that supports their life. It’s wrong to commit to either end of this argument, we don’t know how it’ll play out, but the potential for humans drastically r
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by jebarker 1y ago
I don’t think a payment model can be figured out until the utility of the technology justifies the true cost of training and running the models. As you say, right now it’s all subsidized based on the belief it will become drastically more u
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by jebarker 1y ago
Your worldview seems incredibly harsh to me. You’re equating competence with excellence which maybe only 20% of people reach. So you’re calling 80% of software developers incompetent.
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by jebarker 1y ago
It sounds like you might be setting the bar for competence much higher than the average capability of a tech worker?
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by jebarker 1y ago
And sort out your IBS

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