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by lanstin 3y ago
They will sell all your printed or scanned documents to train AIs.
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by lanstin 3y ago
We might question the structural facets of the economy or the networking technology that made spam I mean ads a better investment than federated/distributed micropayments and reader-centric products. I would have kept using Facebook i
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by lanstin 3y ago
It's been five years since I expect my email to be read. If I lack another channel to the person, I'll wait some decent period and send a "ping" email. But for people I work with routinely, I'll slack or iMessage or
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by lanstin 3y ago
I have had homework questions (functional analysis and commutative ring theory) that GPT-4 is good enough for but Claude3 has been strikingly better.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I heard for a while Netflix would fail open if auth was unavailable. Like it’s just movies just let em see it. Facebook data is more sensitive. Not so much the data people go there to see, cool memes that their friends liked, but the list o
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by lanstin 3y ago
Come on use a little imagination. DNS lookup for the db holding the shard with the user credentials disappears. Code isn’t expecting this, throws a generic 4xx because security instead of a generic 5xx (plenty of people writing auth code wi
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by lanstin 3y ago
I had in mind the sort of networking/software people that I imagine read hackernews these days, not the overall people in the world, nor the overall population of MBAs/business people. There was a lot of idealism, among the peopl
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by lanstin 3y ago
Also worth keeping in mind the lock in for the big tech firms is due to business decisions not the technology per se. If we had say micropaynents in http1 headers in 1998 we might have a much more decentralized system supported by distribu
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by lanstin 3y ago
It would be exciting if the LLM knew it needed a calculator for certain things and went out and got it. If the human supervisors are pre-screening the input and massaging what the LLM is doing that is a sign we don't understand LLMs en
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by lanstin 3y ago
This statement represents the complete disintegration of the optimism that ruled in the 90s and before when we ardently believed that networking and communication amongst people would increase understanding and improve lives by ensuring no
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by lanstin 3y ago
Wow! These two comments (parent and GP) tie together so many previously unrelated things in my life. (Like Beckett, read with a teacher that I also took a lot of Shakespeare plays from; read Joyce with the book group my bridge club spun of
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by lanstin 3y ago
Maybe because they got bundled into distros soon and as a critical dependency. For a long time as the internet ramped, portability meant you could pretty quickly edit a few header files or Makefile to make it compile for your particular har
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by lanstin 3y ago
Which means it really all just finding hyperplanes that are near the data.
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by lanstin 3y ago
autonomy is a big one for some people. respect. influence/power. As a software engineer I have left jobs because the total traffic was too low, and I was addicted to 10^9 and the like numbers in my counters. Additional salary is ok
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by lanstin 3y ago
OMG. I hope the pay was excellent.
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by lanstin 3y ago
All worth exploring. You forgot low sperm production. We are surrounded by manufactured molecules that mimic hormones from our bodies, an experiment with not much of a control group, and an experiment where the naive materialist model would
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by lanstin 3y ago
I'm pretty sure people have read more perl code than awk code, so they'll roll their eyes but will be able to cover for perl-required tasks, but won't build up the courage to touch the awk. To me, hell is having to debug perl
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by lanstin 3y ago
When I started working in the 1980s (as a teenager but getting paid) there was a sort of battle between the (genuinely cool and impressive) closed technology of IBM and the open world of open standards/interop like TCP/IP and Unix
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by lanstin 3y ago
More proof that physicists are smarter than mathematicians!
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by lanstin 3y ago
Use go for that :)
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by lanstin 3y ago
They aren’t because latex has non local syntax rules - figuring out why it is saying missing $ inserted instead of showing you the equation is rather damning to the free flow of thought. And when you are solving a problem, your thoughts are
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by lanstin 3y ago
Remarkable is great writing experience, very nice friction, but the notes end up being more like paper notes than equation edit notes.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I am chris@disputingtaste.com At some point in life one realizes that there is important stuff in good taste. “I just couldn’t call a bad book good.” To quote Dorothy Sayers.
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by lanstin 3y ago
They both loved word play and enjoyed examples as much as they enjoyed generalities.
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by lanstin 3y ago
Hell is just inherently more interesting to the human mind than paradise or purgatory. I read Ulysses with a book group and a leader that had read it in grad school and a number of books that exist to explain Ulysses. I read GEB as a fourte
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by lanstin 3y ago
Till the team you are handing off the code to just copies the files and commits into a fresh new repo without any of the history. I had this happen once to a server I wrote, and then like 2 years later the new team comes and asks me if I kn
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by lanstin 3y ago
I'd hate to say that laziness makes a person an incompetent developer. Often my problems stem from an excess of sincere hard work and rather than from laziness.
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by lanstin 3y ago
Pgphone was a thing in the nineties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGPfone
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by lanstin 3y ago
Enterprise signal lets you enforce retention times /s
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by lanstin 3y ago
In adversarial environments, this is true. In non-adversarial environments, software of a certain defined scope can at least get very close to perfection.

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