m_fayer

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by m_fayer 9mo ago
I live in Berlin but grew up in the US. Yep, Germany has much more train coverage than where I'm from originally. And that's great. But to understand the complaints you really have to spend some years living with the uncertainty c
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by m_fayer 9mo ago
Thanks for your open introspection and wisdom. I learned something from reading it, and wish you well.
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by m_fayer 9mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful clarification. I agree that what you’re saying is wisdom many people could use.
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by m_fayer 9mo ago
I like reframing New Year’s resolutions in a more humane way. It’s an arbitrary day on the calendar, yes. I want to grow as a person, in terms of character and ability. My desire to evolve is a product of curiosity and vitality and ethics,
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by m_fayer 9mo ago
2025 version: write mapping functions by llm.
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by m_fayer 9mo ago
I use it to indicate my derision, and that I refuse to take this person seriously. That's the point. How the reader reacts is beside the point, to me. Diminishing names used for delegitimization are not something reddit invented. Calli
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by m_fayer 9mo ago
Your description of Elmo applies to several other billionaires who have somehow avoided quixotic hyper-destructive rampages through American politics. I’m all for wired funny, but not when it comes with this much carnage.
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by m_fayer 10mo ago
Most people don’t even know what regulatory capture really means. There’s no “brand” to rally around and I don’t know how you’d go about building one. And without the concept spread through the population, where would you find the grass roo
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A mission to redefine super humanity through science, innovation and sports(enhanced.com)
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
It’s a neat quote but it’s not a clean fit. You’d expect the “unreasonable man” of Europe to be behind but stable and decent, whereas these days much of Europe can’t maintain living standards or political stability. There’s also an argument
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
Rocket Lab is also taking a more methodical and less iterative approach with Neutron, which should be ready some time next year. If they make that work well, that will be another point in favor of a methodical approach.
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
But what if the paradox of choice is what’s draining the world of its available love?
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
Part of my self-administered IT education in my early 20s was to feed my film nerdery through exquisite data hoarding. Automation, NASs, media servers, all of it. Curiously, I found that the better I got, the less movies I actually watched.
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
When all the people forget to code for themselves, every LLM will code itself out of existence with that one last bug. One, after another.
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
And if they don't, we'll know who the culprit is.
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
And there goes https://www.microsoft.com/
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
One of my most successful uses of ai is dealing with various obtuse German bureaucracies, private and public. I don’t think the ai is being particularly smart in my case, and its occasionally flat wrong. What it does give me is persistence
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by m_fayer 11mo ago
Maybe they’ll send Taylor Swift to the moon.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
The difference between these generations is that millennials would consume the stranger or more “offensive” stuff sporadically, as a thrill or pleasant provocation. Even among those who wanted this thrill, I think the majority of the media
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by m_fayer 1y ago
“This one is different” floating in through the window, great signal to get out before the pop.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
IME, health care workers (doctors and nurses) often defend many of the habits and attitudes encouraged by the system and hated by patients, because the pressure on them has banded them into an "us vs them" or "soldier vs civi
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by m_fayer 1y ago
> Also many families try to push elderly to hospital for few days. And rightly so. As people age and their health deteriorates, often a few day's monitoring and nursing care can forestall downward spirals, or catch sudden downturns
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by m_fayer 1y ago
You don't exactly go "ER shopping" with a frail elderly person. Also this was one of the better-regarded hospitals in Manhattan.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
As someone who’s worked on EHRs, I can tell you that doctors rely on “carry forward” and templated notes and other entry types. They are fixated on fast and smooth workflow, both because they want the computer out of their face, they want s
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by m_fayer 1y ago
This article brought up the sickening memory of taking my frail elderly mom to the er with similarly severe-but-general symptoms. The er was crowded and the hospital was crowded. The er clearly couldn’t treat her beyond basics, she needed t
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I actually tried this once and it quickly led to hostility. Thanks for your insight and I’m happy your wife is doing well, take care.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Doctors are the only people I’ve encountered who are ready to inform you of their poorly supported contradictory conclusions with full confidence, and are fully ready to meet any pushback with gaslighting or the dreaded “difficult patient”
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by m_fayer 1y ago
In Germany, basic dental is very basic. It basically covers only acute scenarios and one checkup a year. Since so much of dentistry is maintenance and prevention, most people get supplementary insurance or pay out of pocket or do without.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
We’re being accused of false consciousness!
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by m_fayer 1y ago
It seems like the programming world is increasingly dividing into “LLMs for coding are at best marginally useful and produce huge tech debt” vs “LLMs are a game changing productivity boost”. I truly don’t know how to account for the discrep

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