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by kbenson 6mo ago
I think maybe how you are conceptualizing design and how the GP meant it are not in agreement, and if you came to agreement on what it meant you wouldn't really disagree about the point either. For example, I think design, as they mean
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by kbenson 6mo ago
If you have a complaint against "scientists" as hsme homogenous group, I think I'm going to have to ask you to explain how these particular scientists did not do that, and why you would think this is a problem of scientists (
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by kbenson 6mo ago
The first time I ever heard The Glitch Mob I had such a clear memory of this games soundtrack come to mind that I mentioned it to my brother soon after (as it was his commodore and his copy of the game I was playing when I was young). I&#x2
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by kbenson 7mo ago
Well, I've taken to describing the best responsible use of AI to help your work as though you have an executive assistant, so I can see why people would come to that conclusion. I don't tend to think of booking flights for that
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by kbenson 8mo ago
It's not quite as straightforward as that though. You're also required to pay a large sum up front to get the worker, have to pay for room and board and health for the worker, including children of workers which while they are in
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by kbenson 8mo ago
Salved are free in neither up front nor ongoing cost, just as industrial equipment is not. It comes down to costs. Industrial equipment that is most costly than slaves seems unlikely to supplant them based on monetary incentives alone, whil
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by kbenson 8mo ago
Identical might be a bit strong. It's only identical if we signed a law that made oil and gas illegal tomorrow. There are definitely parallels, but this is much more of a normal market situation where most things are handled through in
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by kbenson 8mo ago
> After abolition, the South's per capita productivity dropped substantially, and remained 20% lower per capita in 1880 than it had been in 1860. I wonder how much of that was because of economies of scale (Even if it's forced
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by kbenson 8mo ago
Why would we assume an LLM, even one that doesn't appear to have a bias like that built in, doesn't have one? Just because we can't identify it immediately, does not mean it doesn't exist. Groups of people can and do
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by kbenson 8mo ago
From the description given, "The developer hired contractors who didn't know what they were doing and ignored stop work orders when the city learned of the problems" seems like it might have a lot to do with it.
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by kbenson 8mo ago
You say don't use databases, and that we had the option to use something different and did not, and chose this path. I ask you what to use instead, and how to deal with datastore versioning. You say you're talking about how we don
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by kbenson 8mo ago
I would only loosely categorize this as technical writing, depending on how you categorize technical writing. It seems much more a survey of problems and discussion piece, with notes about projects making inroads on the problem. It's d
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by kbenson 8mo ago
> I said monorepo and monodeploys in this thread And that helps when you are dealing with schema changes that need to be rolled out at AWS, your local DB, a Kafka cluster, how? The whole point of this article was how to approach the prob
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by kbenson 8mo ago
> For some reason people frequently suggest that my problem with LLM writing is that it's too good. > I felt as though this article was, through its headers and overuse of specific rhetorical devices, constantly trying to grab my
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by kbenson 8mo ago
Oh, I thought you were speaking more to the topic and content of the article in question, which goes to great lengths to describe the sorts of problems that are much, much harder to catch than simple compiling of queries and checking them a
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by kbenson 8mo ago
Perhaps this is just a form of technical writing you're unfamiliar with? Those titles are pretty standard for what I consider good technical writing section headers. LLM writing tendencies are tendencies LLMs have integrated by encount
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by kbenson 8mo ago
> Second don’t use databases. Databases don’t type check and aren’t compatible with your functional code written on servers. That isn't very useful by itself. What's your suggested alternative that aligns with your advice of &q
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by kbenson 8mo ago
The test is whether you can successfully identify phishing attempts bu approximating what they look like in the wild. Bypassing the test entirely means there's no data on whether you're susceptible to this, and just because someo
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by kbenson 10mo ago
Small nitpick with the title, because I still find it humorous all these years later, but it's not "Mt. Gox" like Mount Gox, it's MTGOX, which stands for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange, as it started out as a tradin
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by kbenson 10mo ago
> For me though Lua is clearly better than JS on many different dimensions and I don't appreciate the needless denigration of Lua, especially from someone as influential as you. Is it needless? It's useful specifically because
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by kbenson 10mo ago
I noticed from reviewing my own entry (which honestly I'm surprised exists) that the idea of what it thinks constitutes a "prediction" is fairly open to interpretation, or at least that adding some nuance to a small aspect in
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by kbenson 10mo ago
This point is driven home by Justin’s insatiable desire to uncover the mystery of his Spirit Stone, and the ancient Angelou civilization. My mind immediately jumped to the idea that this is a play on words for the ancient Maya civilizatio
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by kbenson 10mo ago
That was my immediate thought as well, under the assumption the lazy fsync is for performance. I imagine in some situations, delaying the write until the write confirmation actually happens is okay (depending on delay), but it also occurred
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by kbenson 10mo ago
Choosing your risk level and working within it isn't stupid. Not knowing the risk when it's easy to gather some more info and then acting in ignorance is , which is what GP was describing, and likely why they called their own act
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by kbenson 11mo ago
I think I know what this is, but the description is so much in its own context I'm not sure . It's for web-apps that also want an offline local version that works and deals with syncing the data when online again and either lo
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by kbenson 11mo ago
Incentives trump feelings for publicly traded companies 99 times out of 100. People constantly anthropomorphize them, but they aren't people (regardless of similarities in the law), and they definitely don't act like people, at le
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by kbenson 11mo ago
What? There's obviously 1.25 non-ad videos on the home screen, which might as well be two, so they're right on schedule! /s
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by kbenson 11mo ago
Oh wow, I've been hearing about Nano Banana Pro in random stuff lately, but as a layman the difference is stark. It's the only one that actually looks like a partially eaten burrito at all to me. The others all look like staged m
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by kbenson 11mo ago
> Give a whale, dolphin, or orca some neuralink adapters for arms and dexterous hands, and a fully operational virtual human vocal apparatus, and they'd be able to match humans across a wide range of cognitive capabilities. While I
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by kbenson 11mo ago
Munin was what we used for a while, along with a smattering of smokeping. We're using a combination of Zabbix (alerting) and local Grafana/Prometheus/Loki (observability) at this point, but I've been worried about when G

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