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by madrox 4y ago
You may enjoy private Discord servers more if you're seeking online community
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by madrox 4y ago
This reads like an autodidact's rediscovery of psychological egoism: https://iep.utm.edu/psychological-egoism/
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by madrox 4y ago
I see we're still deep in the "fuck around" stage and have yet to reach "find out."
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by madrox 4y ago
Indeed. In the end, tax evasion is what brought down Al Capone.
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by madrox 4y ago
This was discovered and explored 25 years ago in The Millionaire Next Door: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door
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by madrox 4y ago
Worth noting that EMIT wasn't funded for this purpose. It was greenlit to measure and track dust (arguably still for climate-related purposes, but still!). This is a relatively minor example of why funding space-based science is so imp
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by madrox 4y ago
I think the ship has sailed on the API. It was a different time, and the people that used Twitter's API to do fun things didn't just give up...they migrated to mastodon and discord. I don't think the golden years of twitter a
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by madrox 4y ago
In my experiences working on voice OS, it's boom or bust depending on the user. Some people use it rarely if ever and some people live by it, and there's little in between. I think it makes sense in most cases to view voice comman
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by madrox 4y ago
This reminds me of the articles attempting to calculate how much we've spent fictionally bringing Matt Damon back from places [1] and a line from the end of The Martian: "But really, they did it because every human being has a bas
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by madrox 4y ago
In the 21st century, statistics has had the odd distinction of being thrust into the spotlight in a way that it never has before in its centuries of existence. Before now, practitioners have mostly been on an island...or more like several i
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by madrox 4y ago
I made a joke on twitter at the beginning of the pandemic that we'd see a baby boom because of quarantine. Someone dryly replied to me that it'd be entirely among families getting their first child. I went looking for this line in
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by madrox 4y ago
Alec Guinness was a master at not overplaying a role
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by madrox 4y ago
FWIW, I've been in your boat most of my life. The only reason I kept revisiting it was because my dad was a huge fan. I really started appreciating the pace and nuance as I got into my late thirties. Nothing in these stories spell anyt
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by madrox 4y ago
I watch Smiley's People with Alec Guinness once a year. You can't make film like that today.
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by madrox 4y ago
While I don't have numbers ready to cite, the steel industry is a superb analogue. It, too, is a hazardous production environment. It, too, has production rate as an OKR. I believe deaths in that industry used to measure in the thousan
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by madrox 4y ago
"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first" can now be amended to "people will be more willing to listen to your ideas if you synthesize a podcast of Joe Rogan and S
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by madrox 4y ago
You're right in that it's pretty unevenly enforced, but I don't want to penalize the times it is enforced even though it would be convenient.
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by madrox 4y ago
Hand me a pitchfork I'm ready to do my part
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by madrox 4y ago
This is a really great summary with a lot of amusing little details. A couple comments: 1. It sounds like there was confusion for a period of time because the developer made a joke. I think there really should be a specification for how to
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the author spent more time writing and tweaking their prompt than it would've taken them to simply draw the graph they wanted. This isn't merely a matter of illustrating prompt engineering in humans vs machine
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by madrox 4y ago
I was as surprised as you. We did not land. I do not have an explanation.
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by madrox 4y ago
I once forgot to put my cell phone in airplane mode during a flight from London to SFO (and didn't use my phone during the flight). I was rather alarmed to see a flood of text messages from my carrier welcoming me to Iceland, Canada, a
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by madrox 4y ago
I recently did a round with several startups that were Series A looking for CTOs or heads of eng. So many of them really were lots of SaaS solutions strung together. When I asked what the core competency of the team was that differentiated
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by madrox 4y ago
Think of it like a product funnel. If the goal is to get people to learn X, making them learn Y as a barrier first is unnecessary. You risk people abandoning the funnel that way. It's still entirely possible to learn these tools some o
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by madrox 4y ago
I enjoyed reading this, but what a strange article that's projecting a lot onto McCartney. Every anecdote has some plausible, other reason for these situations, but the article seems insistent on putting McCartney's memory on a pe
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by madrox 4y ago
I don't think the author is recommending their experience. He's merely talking about what he did and what happened. We've known for millennia that physical work sucks. That's why the lowest echelons of society always end
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by madrox 4y ago
Your games are different from mine, it seems
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by madrox 4y ago
At my previous role at Twitch, attackers were spamming our service with ToS-violating content (mostly porn but also grotesque, violent stuff) to an insane degree. The decision was made to temporarily require a phone number on all accounts i
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by madrox 4y ago
I'd be very interested in reading that research
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by madrox 4y ago
At one point, I was working at a company where attackers were spamming our service with ToS-violating content (moslty porn but many grotesque, violent stuff). The decision was made to require a phone number on the account to disable the att

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