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by mcculley 4y ago
It also had not occurred to me that serious businesses use GSuite. I cannot imagine depending on Google, given their history. I realize I am out of touch. I remain astounded. Market opportunity!
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by mcculley 4y ago
I do feel bad for the victims. I am still astounded. I run two businesses. It never would have occurred to me that Google Drive is something I would use for operational data. [Edit: I get the impression my original comment was interpreted a
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by mcculley 4y ago
> “We have a business critical operational system in the animal health space which is currently affected by this.” I am astounded that people put anything more important than cat photos on Google Drive.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> I am from France and have no stakes nor interest in the political discussion The impact of U.S. politics goes well beyond its borders.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Maven is not a great example of the strengths of XML, as another comment describes. I use XML a lot in favor of JSON because I can pass around a machine readable schema (yes, I know JSON now has some schema support) and because I can repres
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by mcculley 4y ago
> 3. The GUI is buried in System Settings. Heaven forbid you need search it's only a simple 37 clicks away! I just learned that this GUI exists. I have been using /System/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.ap
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by mcculley 4y ago
Moore's Law makes it a good long term strategy for Apple. The GP is complaining about his battery life today.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am using GPT-4. It is much better. But I still haven’t had it suggest any new algorithms. It just riffs on what it was trained on, as expected.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Yes, and Wolfram/Mathematic is great when I have figured out which algorithm to use. ChatGPT may even soon help me discover the potential algorithms. It is not helpful to me for that today.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I will be happy to provide value higher up instead of dealing with this frustrating problem. I want the answer, not the code that generates the answer. I am writing that code now because it does not exist yet. So far, I have only had ChatGP
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am currently doing some difficult work that involves figuring out the right computational geometry algorithms to apply to my dataset in order to get the answers my users need in a reasonable time. ChatGPT is of no use to me there. When I
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by mcculley 4y ago
It does not take perfect compliance to result in drastically different birth rates in different cultures/communities.
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by mcculley 4y ago
A long time ago, I built a relatively complex program that managed some other systems in awk. It was really a great fit for the problem and I was, at the time, working in an environment with poor developer tooling. The target systems were h
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by mcculley 4y ago
> This is also in-line with historical patterns, cities have always had negative natural population growth (disease/higher real estate costs). I had not heard this before. Do you have citations for this? (I realize cities have lower
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by mcculley 4y ago
I have been saying that we will all be Amish eventually as we are forced to decide what technologies to allow into our communities. Communities which do not will go away (e.g., VR porn and sex dolls will further decrease birth rates; religi
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am less worried about what humans will do and more worried about what corporations, religions, and governments will do. I have been trying to figure out how to put this most succinctly: We already have non-human agentic entities: corporat
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by mcculley 4y ago
Really? I’m in the software industry and the tugboat industry. Do you mean “compared to almost every other desk job industry”?
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by mcculley 4y ago
This is hilariously wrong, but people like to believe it.
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by mcculley 4y ago
As someone who loves walnuts and pecans, I find this tragic. I had no idea that was a possible outcome. Sorry to hear that. I will advise new parents to investigate.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> We still don't have anything scarier than humans and I don't see how AI is ever scarier than human + AI. We already have powerful non-human agents that have legal rights and are unaligned with the interests of humans: corpora
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by mcculley 4y ago
> it's incredibly easy to get hold of regardless of its legal status > At least with legalisation it can be regulated and taxed. If it is so easy to acquire, how will legalization result necessarily in regulation and taxation? I
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by mcculley 4y ago
A synthetic intelligence as smart as a dog or chimp would have enormous value.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Move fast, break things.
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by mcculley 4y ago
What I want is irrelevant. Yes, there are companies (banks) and instruments that I use to help manage cash. I know that every time I have too much cash in one bank account, I am at risk. It appears some companies are learning this only now.
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by mcculley 4y ago
It is standard practice for many businesses. Managing cash is a tedious reality that most have not had to face thanks to zero interest-rate policy.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> kill a bunch of startups I don't see this as a fair statement. There is a difference between killing a startup and letting it die. Zero interest-rate policy allowed for the creation of investors and startups that never had to thin
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by mcculley 4y ago
You are conflating costs with difficulty. I agree that it is difficult to manage growth. This is a way in which some organizations create more value per person and per dollar expended. One approach is for an organization to use open offices
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by mcculley 4y ago
I visited one of these open office spaces recently. It is ridiculous. They have white noise generators in the ceiling. In order to be heard when talking with someone adjacent, one has to speak loud enough to disturb others. Almost everyone
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by mcculley 4y ago
It makes more sense now. Back then we did not have as many good tools for remote collaboration. My business had certain other constraints that made physical space necessary.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> no company can afford private offices for all their workforce Go visit any good law firm or CPA firm. I benefit from my equity holdings in tech companies. They are choosing to give that money to me in valuation instead of building out

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