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by lemmsjid 3y ago
My instinct from your response is that if we chatted on this for a bit in person we'd see eye to eye and we're probably thinking of different use cases, because I can see how thoughtful you are and usually it comes down to thinkin
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
It isn't just the tech illuminati who associate Bitcoin with scams. Everyone in our neighborhood now knows that it's a regular occurrence for older people to get emergency calls from the "gas company" and rush to the co
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
The assumption behind why you'd use the program is that you have access to a proprietary dataset of sufficient size to build a large model around (say, for example, call center transcripts). This almost certainly means OpenAI doesn&#x
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Interesting--perhaps the AI detectors are right, and this will be how we discover that we are in fact in a simulated universe!
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Yep. Mentally it's rather like the unpredictable behavior you'd get if an API server was passing code to the client for it to execute.
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
You can do the same with the approach I described. If you set up the modular DAG as I mentioned above, you can now set up service boundaries between the leaves of the DAG. E.g. parts of the code call other parts of the code as a service.
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Good show for mentioning that. If it becomes commonplace for popular runtimes and languages to be able to load modules and their dependencies at that level, then a lot of arguments for service encapsulation go away. I think in these discus
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Yes, a good point, I think the more dynamic the language, the more one gravitates towards microservices as a problem solving tool, because you'd give up a lot of the value of the dynamic environment by enforcing strict rules. Though I&
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Well now that you mention it I think it does all come down to 'separating data from logic'. I was working backwards from the premise of: "what if we want a monolithic in-process application to have the same cognitive simplic
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
If the monolithic application is written in a language with sufficient encapsulation and good tooling around multi-module projects, then you can indeed have well known and encapsulated interfaces within the monolith. Within the monolith it
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Why do you summarily dismiss (and recommend that other people dismiss) the multiple viewpoints in the article suggesting that the law you’re mentioning was unfairly targeted at immigrant owned establishments? It’s absolutely part of the st
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I think the core of our disagreement lies in your statement here: "You don't understand scientists then. They don't want to be "set for life". They want status within their own bizarre little community." I kno
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I've read a version of this line of thinking many times. You do realize that if a scientist could put up a reputable set of studies that disprove the central climate change theories that they would be set for life under a cavalcade of
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
While I’m a democrat, I don’t believe republicans or democrats are inherently better people, or that their overarching ideologies are inherently better. In fact I am a strong believer that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and neither rep
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I noticed he mentioned asking Bing, so I directly asked ChatGPT “who is Ryan McGreal?” and it wrote, “ Ryan McGreal is a writer, urbanist, and the editor of Raise the Hammer, an online publication that focuses on urban issues, transportatio
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
One of the initial proponents of public education in America, Horace Mann, saw education in a two pronged manner. First, a functional democracy requires that the citizenship be well informed and capable of critical thinking: "A republi
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I think it's important not to lie, but I don't think the above is automatically a lie. Instead, it's a call to evaluate people on multiple dimensions rather than one. When you're giving feedback to someone, it is often
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I don't wholly disagree with you, and in fact think you have a very good and thoughtful perspective (FWIW), but I do have some thoughts. I think there's too much focus on advertising and corporate interests as the thing that under
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Aren't we all a bunch of amateurs hiding our lack of true expertise? Each passing decade I feel that all the more. I think you've described the human condition.
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
The larger news outlets are some of the few remaining places that actually hold their news rooms to some kind of factual standard and facsimile of objective reality. If NYT or the Economist or the BBC tells me the sky is blue, I'm pret
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
What if it is apparent that there are other groups pushing the narrative that the media is untrustworthy so that they themselves can own the narrative? Any given group of humans will have a mixture of deceptive and trustworthy participants.
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
When I first used a modern VR headset, it felt so real to me that I felt like I was truly in the virtual space. It was an amazing and memorable feeling. After several years of using one intermittently, it doesn't feel any more real th
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Thank you, I'm going to give that a try!
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I've taken a throwaway approach to diagramming, where I'll produce them more or less on demand for a meeting or presentation, but not think of them as an enduring artifact. PlantUML is my friend here because I can knock out ugly
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I have had the same experience, interestingly in the same time frame. I felt that when doing Java projects I needed to enter this special telepathic flow-state with my IDE and cut-paste shortcuts and change huge chunks of code every time t
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
Based on the assertions you were making above, I was expecting the study you linked to have to do with cognitive impairment and masks. Its only discussion of masks is a theory that perhaps the fact that test administrators wearing masks mi
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
An excellent point and I agree.
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
There's an oft passed around cartoon where a guy in a tattered business suit is in a cave around a fire talking to children, saying, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I get your cynicism because I've made the same complaint. But I wouldn't universalize it, because I think it's more of a marketing and context issue than an issue fundamental to the whole ecosystem. Startups often prioritize
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by lemmsjid 3y ago
I think it's more of an ideological issue than the journalist or headline being inaccurate. To oversimplify: If you buy into the idea that a corporation is there for its shareholders, then there's little to be outraged about. If

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