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by ksenzee 4mo ago
What evidence do you have that it is a cultural shift, rather than, say, a chemical in the environment that wasn't there before, or a difference in the food supply?
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
The word you're looking for is "sterilizing."
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
If you're not vegetarian, I recommend looking into heme iron. It's a lot more bioavailable, even more than iron bisglycinate, and in my experience it's much easier on the GI tract.
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
Yes, exactly. I don't object; it's salutary to find out you don't know anything about topic X. It's just disconcerting after having read and understood an article purporting to explain topic X.
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
Do you mean “simpler” or do you mean “more accurate”? I’m quite willing to accept your explanation as more accurate, but it is not simpler, at least if you don’t know much about modern cryptography. To understand the article, all I needed w
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
I read and understood the article, including the math in it, then came here (I know, that’s the wrong order) and read your comment, and promptly decided I knew less than I did before I started. It was very much like learning to use a monad
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
> just to understand block ciphers I have a decent intuition for what a hash function does after twenty years of encountering them in the wild. I don't even know what a block cipher is. I understand hash functions less after reading
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by ksenzee 4mo ago
I disagree with most of this. I'm kicking and screaming pretty hard, and yet I'm not one of the "I can do it better" folks. My whole career has been in open source. I'm all about choosing the right tool. I'm al
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by ksenzee 5mo ago
Yes, until everyone gets it through their head.
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by ksenzee 5mo ago
There's a reason AI uses things like em dashes and parallel structure and groups of three (catch me doing it here too). It's good writing. (Also varied sentence length.) AI trained on good writing uses the outward structure of goo
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by ksenzee 5mo ago
Have they been removed? I’m mostly seeing comments from established accounts.
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by ksenzee 5mo ago
It sure makes debugging headers a pain. curl -sLIXGET https://… never mind, that won’t work, _fires up browser yet again_
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by ksenzee 6mo ago
Hm. Well, congratulations on being the first man to mansplain menstruation to me. Somebody already knocked out breastfeeding years ago. Pregnancy is still up for grabs, if any men out there want to take a whack at telling me what that'
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by ksenzee 6mo ago
I appreciate that you've educated yourself about these issues, but let me assure you from decades of personal experience and conversations with other women that it is useful to be notified when your period is going to start.
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by ksenzee 6mo ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument. It's important enough that she has it set up to share that data to both of you, but it's so unimportant she doesn't need a notification for it?
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by ksenzee 6mo ago
This is a strawman argument. Nobody is arguing that period apps are a necessity. Women have been tracking our periods without computers since prehistoric times. Women were doing rocket science calculations before computers, for that matter.
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by ksenzee 6mo ago
I've never used Flo specifically, so I don't know what kind of data analysis it has available, but period data is the #1 most useful health data to have an app crunch for you, and "your period starts tomorrow" is a prett
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by ksenzee 6mo ago
There's a big difference between learning to program a calculator, which is deterministic, and "learning" to prompt an LLM-based AI service that is tuned deliberately to be non-deterministic and that changes every few months.
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by ksenzee 7mo ago
That’s not what’s being described here. What OP described is the much more common situation where employees use a personal phone for MFA. Sure, some places issue hardware dongles and disallow authenticator apps on your personal phone, but I
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
> It's not like working with AI is pure Yes-clicking review dread; there is joy to be found in materialising your ideas out of thin air I think that's true for some developers, and not for others. My guess is that one subset of
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
They were teaching us that in the 1980s, yes, but it was an overcorrection. They also taught us not to split our infinitives. That was BS as well. I see no need to maintain standards that were originally imposed by grammarians who undervalu
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
This isn't how I read his conclusion. He's saying English will be different in fifty years, but he's not saying it'll be unrecognizable. Look how little difference there is between the 1900 passage and the 2000 passage.
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
This is true through 1300 or so. If you transliterate the 1200, 1100, and 1000 sections to modern glyphs, it's still a foreign language with the occasional recognizable word (such as "the"). Learning Old English in college wa
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
No, it’s pretty clear to me that people are getting wildly different results from LLMs, depending on how novel their work is.
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
It is! https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9332820/
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by ksenzee 8mo ago
This is tangential to your point, but smallpox vaccine protects against mpox (the virus formerly known as monkeypox) and the CDC still recommends it for people in certain mpox risk groups.
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by ksenzee 9mo ago
Has anyone tried this from the applicant side? Just send in a cover letter and resume, old-school?
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by ksenzee 9mo ago
The problem is that a computer science degree isn't the right training for most software engineering jobs.
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by ksenzee 10mo ago
> We trained users to treat their devices like unruly animals that they can never quite trust. So now the idea of a machine that embodies a more clever (but still unreliable) animal to wrangle sounds like a clear upgrade. I wish I didn&#
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by ksenzee 10mo ago
If you’ve ever spoken to employees of a public company that was sold to private equity, you’ll know how much of a difference there is. It is a significant difference.

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