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by m_fayer 2y ago
I'm tired of the activism too. I would love to have less of that and more complex discussion that acknowledges the myriad takes on political organization, political economy, economics, basic ethics, etc. that are out there. Forcing eve
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I agree that it’s an outlier viewpoint but I’d love it if we moved past categorizing everything along this cartoonish left-right axis. How about: “deep within a humanist paradigm” categorization, or something like that.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I think Avalonia is finally emerging as a partial way out of the morass, a qt-for.net. And why? Because it’s from the ground up, and not from Microsoft.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Also their entire lineup of actual cars is now outdated. The ark is almost Shakespearean. Pioneering renegade builds an empire, lets it go to his head, and leads two thirds of it to ruin. I just hope spacex escapes the same fate.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I think the nullable reference type system in c# is a perfectly workable compromise for languages that had nullability from the very beginning. Once a code base uses them fully, most null-related bugs are gone. And it’s far from an unwieldy
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I attribute this to something else, something that’s operating across many different sectors. Technologically, we’ve exhausted the low hanging fruit of various scientific and engineering disciplines. Energy, transportation, construction, co
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Interestingly, for my elderly Russian-speaking mom’s benefit, I had an English conversation with it and asked it to reply only in Russian. It complied, and spoke and reasoned no worse than usual.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Clever, self-involved, no inner-editor. I find myself concurring with their view despite a writing style that does nothing for the credibility of the author.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I had Zoho set up on the lowest tier for a side-hustle project years ago. It did it's job smoothly and without much intrusion. Then the project ended and I forgot about the Zoho account, changed phone numbers, lost the 2fa keys - all o
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A suite of tools designed to streamline the development cycle of LLM-based apps(microsoft.github.io)
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A Private Equity Lender Helped Precipitate a Nursing-Home Implosion(politico.com)
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by m_fayer 3y ago
As we make parenting harder and harder in lots of creative and sadistic ways, more and more people are taking your advice. That’s got its own problems, it turns out.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
If you think of them as communication platforms, you’re missing a big part of the picture. These systems are the next step in the evolution of media. Media is a complex beast with tentacles into culture and politics and individual society.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Personal anecdata with a decently large sample size of my friend circle: I can introduce you to low double-digit number of promising and passionate scientists who didn't make it 5 years past their phd for the exact reasons that Dr. Hos
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Universal shades-of-capitalism and institutions built around "efficiency" and opaque labor/outsourcing practices are revealing themselves to be as much a weapon of human self-destruction as carbon-emitting energy generation a
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by m_fayer 3y ago
This time there’s a gold rush in both gold AND shovels. It really feels like there’s no break between the bubbles anymore.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
It’s the notepad++ of graphic editors. Another great remnant of Windows-based poweruser culture from a different time.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
You don’t get to a higher market cap than Apple by not rent-seeking under every rock you can find.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Right on. I moved to Berlin 15 years ago in my mid 20s. Back then we didn’t work very much, we constantly had hangovers, we were constantly out, running around Neukölln and Kreuzberg. Whenever I chat to that age group now, while they often
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by m_fayer 3y ago
I wrote medium-to-high density, which means anything between city and "walkable town with a core". This doesn't preclude detached homes. It does preclude sprawling car-centric suburbia, which is similar to rural isolation in
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Our priors are different. We need to not cover all decently accessible land on the planet with either sprawl or agriculture. That's bad for the environment. People need to have affordable access to medium-to-high density housing for re
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Your alternative is more sprawl that will need to be supported by more new infrastructure that we already struggle to build out and maintain? I think we need to keep looking.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
My point was that “private mode” was indeed a mistake on my part, I would just expect a modern llm-driven system to react in some way that’s more productive than “I can’t do that”. Almost anything would be better.
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by m_fayer 3y ago
A/B testing?
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by m_fayer 3y ago
After a day of heavy gpt interaction it’s jarring to tell Siri to turn on “private mode” and be met with a head-scratchy “I can’t do that.” “Turn on do not disturb” worked fine. Apple tried to give Siri a humane sound but the system is rigi
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by m_fayer 3y ago
National pride? What kind of nation allows another nation to spectacularly violate the most fundamental of their laws, deep in the homeland, with laughing impunity?
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Having children has become way more exhausting: the need for advanced degrees and career climbing before reproduction means we do it later in life when we have less energy. The same factors plus mobility means grandparents are unavailable o
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Won't you think of all the technical writers?!
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by m_fayer 3y ago
What will happen to official docs when it becomes clear that the only thing that reads them are llm-training runs?
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by m_fayer 3y ago
Right on. These days my llm-assisted workflow feels very similar to the 20% of my day that I used to devote to code review, just now it’s more like 60% of my day.

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