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by m_fayer 1y ago
I can imagine it often being the case that if you measure a concise moderately difficult task over half a day or a few days, coding by hand might be faster. But I think, and this is just conjecture, that if you measure over a longer timespa
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by m_fayer 1y ago
It was just ahead of its time. No longer the case with our present tools and techniques.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
The populist wave is global and its causes are complex. But in the case of the US on top of it all, our populists happen to be clowns and morons. I think the reasonable mind struggles to deal with the current obvious stupidity even within a
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by m_fayer 1y ago
It’s yet another place where we know our own capacity as a society is shrinking and hoping that ??? (Ai? Robots? Fusion?) will fix it before it’s too late. I never thought programming would join elder-care in this category though, that came
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by m_fayer 1y ago
HN is low on ad hominem attacks, excessive straw man arguments, there is a good amount of polite disagreement, and people are often amenable to being wrong. Sure there are communal pathologies here, like excessive hair splitting (guilty), b
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Just like in the real world, commercialized social spaces descend into manipulation and hollowness. Social spaces online that aren’t (very) commercial, like this one, can work well enough.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
It sounds like the most vicious possible dilemma to find yourself in. Cancer treatment has a way of doing that. I’m very sorry for your loss.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I’m pretty sure the “what if” in that article was meant in earnest. That article was playing out a scenario, in a nod to the ai maximalists. I don’t think it was making any sort of prediction or actually agreeing with those maximalists.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I feel you. Just like last time eventually many decent people will resist in various ways despite having little hope, because that’s what you do. I hope we don’t get there, I like my life.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Desiring less immigration is legit. I’m sorry that was screamed down by unreasonable people. Corrupting our democracy to get your way is not legit even if you were unfairly screamed down. The corruption will be fought tooth and nail.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
It’s simply that our collective memory fades over a few generations, becomes a ramble of dry facts of little consequence that most people don’t know or care about. Israel had built itself as a veritable temple of memory culture, and even t
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Democracy, Simple-Complex Systems, and "The Cascade"(thebulwark.com)
4 points by m_fayer 1y ago|0 comments
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Long after we are all gone and the scrum masters are a barely remembered historical curiosity, there shall remain, humble and eternal, the waterfall model.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
For me personally: My fitness routines are regular but sloppy. I’m often complaining about soreness here, a lightly pulled there, a big joint that needs to be left alone for a few days. It’s annoying but also even kinda satisfying, and I kn
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Talk to me about agency when it’s the wellbeing of your vulnerable dependent loved ones, young or old or sick, that’s on the line.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Your comment sounds hyperbolic at first blush. But the more I think and observe and read about incoming evidence, it seems correct. And if we take that as fact, that means Zuck's culpability is nigh unprecedented in private enterprise.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Actually, taking someone’s livelihood hostage is a great and time-proven way to rob initially decent people of their moral agency. The case studies are everywhere.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
It’s one of those “the house always wins” setups. For a while if you have success and integrity, you wag the algorithm. Eventually though, the algorithm always ends up wagging you.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
You just wait, when we achieve agi it’ll drive hype cycles at a speed humans have no chance of keeping up with. We will always effectively be in all points of the hype cycle at once. Money will wash randomly through the economy like soap th
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by m_fayer 1y ago
The sad thing about bubbles based on overhyped but nevertheless useful tech is the collateral damage of the pop. Small promising companies that are simply too young to have good fundamentals will go under from the backlash created among inv
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I would go as far as saying that the genius of the web is that it can grow, develop, be hacked, modified, expanded through technical and institutional means to be many things it wasn’t originally envisioned to be. Why is that a bad thing? W
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by m_fayer 1y ago
That same insight applies to regular hybrids, and yet Toyota’s hybrids are legendary for their durability. There’s a reason half the cabs where I live are Prius station wagons, and it’s not their efficiency, judging by how they’re driven.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I have a rock-solid but aging Kia niro phev and I love it. I’m thinking of turning it in for an updated model, but the updated model has displays instead of actual gauges and indicator lights like the older niro, and that just makes my skin
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Because I can never focus on just one thing, I have a philosophy degree. I’ve worked with product teams and spent lots of time with stakeholders. I’ve written tons of docs because I was the only one on the team who enjoyed it. I’ve always b
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I feel like I’m in your camp, to my own surprise. I’ll try my hand at some guidelines: the prime directive would be “use the right ai tool for the right task”. Followed by “use a statically typed language”. Followed by “express yourself pre
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Seriously, thank you. I’m aware of the complexities and injustices and manipulations and repressions perpetrated by the Chinese state. But this isn’t Russia or Iran. They’ve also done so so much good while the west studies its own navel and
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USDA Pomological Watercolors(search.nal.usda.gov)
64 points by m_fayer 1y ago|12 comments
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Totally. I feel like it’s akin to jamming with someone. We both go down our own paths for a bit, then I have a next step for it, and I can review what it last came up with and iterate while it does more of its own thing. Rinse, repeat. Thi
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Given the incredible gap between demand and supply in many places, I think many therapists would welcome a stopgap solution for people on waiting lists or struggling with costs. And they would not feel their livelihoods threatened one bit.
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How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel(nytimes.com)
4 points by m_fayer 1y ago|1 comments

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