jonahx

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by jonahx 5mo ago
I agree scolding generally isn't effective, especially when the scolding party has no power to enforce rules. At the same time, I see no reason not to make the condemnation. It's not being made to effect change, but reaffirm our
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by jonahx 5mo ago
See garciasn's sibling comment to yours. Degree matters. A lot. Saying "it's universal" because there is some frequency everywhere is misleading. There are many country Xs that absolutely deserve to be called out as
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by jonahx 5mo ago
What did you use for the UI widgets, graphs, etc? Looks like tailwind is being used but is the design bespoke or a CSS/dashboard lib?
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by jonahx 5mo ago
Regardless of your expectations (I'm not criticizing them), that is just not how it works at most American companies. Especially not for your manager.
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by jonahx 5mo ago
From your last paragraph, I am curious which languages / paradigms you advocate for. Sorry it wasn't clear to me except that you like SWANK, which I'm not familiar with.
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by jonahx 5mo ago
The "some reason" isn't mysterious... it's redundancy and avoiding a single point of failure and ownership.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
That's my experience as well. However, I suspect a lot of it is not really understanding the situation, and not wanting to be bothered learning about it. In other words, I think it's possible those preferences could be changed
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by jonahx 6mo ago
> Why wouldn't they? It's an additional income stream. If customers cared, the additional income from being someone who didn't surveil could outstrip the income stream from surveilling.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
Name seems fine. Catchy, and I knew what I did before opening link.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
I share your hate of rent-seeking and subscription culture, but tbf disposable contact lenses are legitimately a nicer product to use. I've done it both ways.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
That's not how it works. First, you have inside traders. Then, among legitimate bettors, you have smart people using multiple data sources (not just the "news") and doing sophisticated analysis that most journalists cannot d
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by jonahx 6mo ago
They're far from facts, but have an important advantage over most other sources: the bettors are motivated to predict truth. News sources are motivated to get clicks, to appeal to certain audiences, and to retain tribal customers. Non
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by jonahx 6mo ago
> There is a subset of people that spend time developing complex setups as a hobby. It's the adult equivalent of the student who had school notes in perfect handwriting with 7 different colors and underlines. This is a perfect analo
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by jonahx 6mo ago
This is the key point. It threatens nearly everything in the limit, not one particular industry. There will be no "leveling up" into higher-order jobs, because the machines will be better at those too.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
This is a good point, but there's usually a long tail on transitions like this.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, but I watched the recommended video in a single riveted sitting. Absolutely amazing.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
I am!
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by jonahx 6mo ago
> usually considered to be "write only" Only by the ignorant and uninitiated.
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by jonahx 6mo ago
That's not irrational at all! Some things are commodities, some are not. The point is only that it's in the interest of commodity businesses to convince you they are not selling commodities. That sleight of hand doesn't pre
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by jonahx 6mo ago
> So? The point of the OP is that the companies would willing cooperate and replace their websites with LLM consumable APIs. It's a different question whether this will happen despite their objections, as a kind of logical conclusio
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by jonahx 6mo ago
To add to this, the OP's vision benefits the user -- reducing a business's value to its actual raw value as a service rather than a brand. For me , it sounds great. But the business's incentives are in the exact opposite
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by jonahx 6mo ago
Fwiw, I think making such non-disparagement clauses illegal is an interesting idea, and could be a net positive. That said, I think the slavery comparison is a stretch. The situation up for debate is: Should you be able to voluntarily acc
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by jonahx 6mo ago
gorgeous!
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by jonahx 6mo ago
Generally speaking, you never truly have "no prior knowledge". Some relevant past experience, or "common sense", or something tips you away from "all probabilities are equally likely". I think this rule is
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by jonahx 6mo ago
> and no other prior knowledge about success probability This phrase is misleading, as Laplace's Rule of Succession is equivalent to assuming a uniform Bayesian prior over all values of p. That is, before any experiments, a 50% c
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by jonahx 7mo ago
desktop test --
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by jonahx 7mo ago
Dashboard looks nice. Was this a Claude creation or did you instruct it to use a certain template or CSS framework?
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by jonahx 7mo ago
> As long as there is a gap between AI and human learning, we do not have AGI. Don't read the statement as a human dunk on LLMs, or even as philosophy. The gap is important because of its special and devastating economic consequence
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by jonahx 7mo ago
Many people also take tarot card reading seriously as a way to predict the future. As an engineer, you are not required to come up with a better way of predicting the future before you can dismiss tarot. You need only show that it doesn&#x
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by jonahx 7mo ago
> Lines of code are meaningful when taken in aggregate The linked article does not demonstrate this. It establishes no causal link. One can obviously bloat LOC to an arbitrary degree while maintaining feature parity. Very generously,

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